A united on the economic front and we increasingly on the stand that we have to do so also on the defense front. Greetings and salyut ations a short while ago in the winter of 2016 just a few short weeks before donald trump would assume the presidency the new speeds were awash with apocalyptic headlines declaring that russia had attempted to hack into the vermont power grid upon hearing the news of the congressman and hearing that news vermont congressman peter welch declared its systemic relentless predatory they will hack everywhere even vermont in pursuit of opportunities to disrupt our country for months senator Patrick Leahy also joined him exclaiming this is beyond hackers having electronic joyrides this is now about trying to access utilities to potentially manipulate the grid and shut it down in the middle of winter that is a direct threat. Soon after it was discovered the Performance Power grid was not in any real danger in the russia actually had made no attempt to hack it wh
Times reports that american strategy has shifted more toward offense Officials Say with the placement of potentially crippling malware inside the russian system at a depth and with an aggressiveness that have never been tried before so hard watchers it appears that essentially the u. S. Government is now freely admitting to doing to the russians exactly what we accused them of doing to us in 2016 but unlike 2016 this isnt some madcap russia good Conspiracy Theory courtesy of rachel just left of Alex Jones Maddow this is a very real cold war 2. 0 escalation with very dangerous implications and potential real world catastrophe on the line which means its time we start watching honks. The. Rails and its like. As if they were to do. What they like you know that i got. With. This. Because i. Welcome everyone to watch in the hearts i am tyrrel ventura and im top of the lot so one of the things i find most interesting is the times also reports that the that you know President Donald Trump was
Things come to mind i mean one obviously like it or not trump is the commander in chief is the head 8 of the u. S. Military. You cant just decide what he is or isnt allowed to see and then if youre so concerned that hes going to tell 7 the russians why do you tell the New York Times. Critic point seriously thats a loser and i dont know what started out there every day its absolutely ridiculous in my mind but if they were we dont want to tell the president who as like you said his commander in chief hes the top guy like he runs the military but were going to do ops without him that plays up huge in those people who are you know concerned about the state of the military you know doing things under the nose of the president but not telling and that raises a lot of red flags put it turned out to tell the New York Times that is a larry oh yeah its the i dont know that works so well i dont know if it works well and im not sure that it you know we were supposed to have this great deep state t
The blue chips index saw it is biggest intraday reversal since. Gust of 20 for the s p 500 it was the biggest flip since 2016. If any one thing pressured stocks today it was the bond market. A weakur tre auction and a bumming deal in washington sent them on a fewer year high. That rise in terms triggered concerns that the Federal Reserve might raise rates. The dow was down to 25693. And with volatilitck are some are calling this a new phase in the market. But is there more selling ahead . Bob pisani takes a look. Reporter it was another wild and whacky day of trading. He dow swung this a 500 rai and went from negative to up 200 points in 30 seconds but closed lower. We know a large part of the blood bath thiseek was perhaps due to obscure trading products tied to volatility. For the past year traders have been short the volatility betting it would drop and long on the stock market. This blew up on monday. Trade hers toould have their short positions on volatility and had to lighten up
Saying early elections would just make the matter worse. We will go to bucharest later in the program. First, a u. S. Appeals court is set to rule on the legality of Donald Trumps travel ban. Lawyers for the president have been arguing that the ban on travel from seven mainly muslim unlawful is an exercise of the president s authority and the restrictions are aimed at muslims. The ban was temporarily halted after a judge in washington deemed it unconstitutional. I washington correspondent has just stepped out of a White House Briefing with more on that now. Philip, what is the view from the white house as we await that ruling . The white house still sounds pretty confident it will prevail. In a few hours time the oral arguments will be heard at the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. A career attorney will be there for the justice department, the essentiallyrtment representing the presidency here and the executive order that was signed by President Trump just over a week ago at the pentago