Im erin burnett. Tonight, sabotage. The president elect joe biden forging ahead with his plans to run the country while the current president is in a, quoteunquote, bunker mentality according to a white house official. Canceling plans to travel to maralago for thanksgiving staying home to do all he can to block biden. Biden again not getting a security update which forced him to go to a panel of experts who dont have classified information. The Trump Administration also announcing today the withdrawal of more than onethird of u. S. Troops in iraq and afghanistan. When are they going to do this . Well, five days before biden is inaugurated president. Weve learned that just before trump fired his defense secretary mark esper by tweet right after the election, esper had said dont do this. Its a bad idea. Conditions on the ground make it the wrong call. Okay. Trump refusing to brief bidens team on the single biggest domestic issue we have, Coronavirus Vaccines blocking bidens team about an
With strikes and replacement workers . I dont think theyre the kind of sustained violence. This is an almost unique record. My understanding is there any Abortion Clinic that has not had a problem . There was a survey submitted when they were considering the statute. That reviewed the experience of the 10 facilities in existence in massachusetts. Six of them said they had certificate problems. Eight said they had at least regular protesters. There were two who did not report there was a significant problem. This is testimony by the clinics themselves. Correct. Thank you your honors. Thank you counsel. Mr. Gershengorn . This is a regulation that does not ban speech but effectively moves it from one part of the public form to another. In this case, away from the small areas. Which precedent governs this case . This is a regulation that does not ban speech but effectively moves it from one part of the public form to another. In this case, away from the small areas. Which precedent governs
Streak. That would be the longest one of the year. The major averages are now on pace for a fourth straight weekly drop. A lot of wild swings in the market, but its continue to go raise questions about the Federal Reserves next move. Comments from st. Louis fed president jim bullard, who we talk to regularly on this program, suggesting the Central Banks should consider its taper. Thats been fueling some stock buying. I heard a guy say that on this show the other day. His initials are j. K. , i think. What about liesman . Liesman would be balder today. But he hes not real slick, but he did not take he was smart enough not to he was thinks like six months from now, a year. Next day. Next day. I wasnt going to say this because weve got headlines to get to, but in the old days, there was this funny cartoon that said the market sold off early in the morning when it was noted that an asteroid would destroy the earth on saturday, but rallied at 10 after the money supply came in lower than spe
Gerri our top story, new momentum to put a kill switch on all cell phones. Its a way to permanently that is disable them so they are useless to thieves. Congress now taking up the issue. Smartphone theft counts for a third of all robberies in the u. S. According to the fcc take a look at these surveillance tapes. Phones snatched, people assaulted, beaten for their phones. Some victims, even killed, with me now, paul whose daughter meagan was shot and killed for the iphone. With us meagans sister. They are behind this new effort to make sure no family goes through what they went through. Welcome to you both. Great to have you here. Youre on set with me. I want you to tell me what happened to your sister. Well, my sister was walking to her car and at the time she was in st. Louis. My family lives in chicago. She was traveling there to the weekend and visit friends and play in alumni volleyball game at st. Louis university where she played volleyball. She was walking to the car calling my
Attention also turns to washington where a showdown loomed over the debt ceiling and whether the u. S. Will be able to pay its bills come mid october. Securing your requirement. Whether youre 25, 35, 45 or 55, well tell you how much you should be saving now to make sure you do not out live your money. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, august the 27th. Good evening everyone. Im susie gharib here with my colleague bill griffith. Investors here in u. S. And around the world dumped stocks worried about the possibility of the u. S. And allies might take military action against syria over its use of chemical weapons, so investors moved money to safe havens like gold, oil and treasuries. Here is a run down of the numbers by the closing bell. The major stock averages fell 1 to 2 and the dow tumbled 170 points and the nasdaq lost almost 80 and the s p down 26 points. Prices on u. S. Treasuries rose with the yield on the tenyear to 2. 72 . While mean, gold jumped shar