All of this as the political turmoil in the white house over the events surrounding President Trumps firing of fbi director claims just a momenty seem to have reached a fever pitch. Eamon javers is live with more on this story. Reporter hi, melissa. Right now the white house is trying to find a new fbi director. The president behind closed doors to my left in the west wing is interviewing several candidates for that position. Former oklahoma governor Frank Keating emerged from the west wing. He said he is a Public Servant and loves washington, if he had the opportunity to come here, hed like to do that. No indication whether he has been offered the job or not. Here are the other candidates the president is talking to, including the acting director, andrew mccabe, Frank Keating and Richard Mcfeely and joe lieberman, the independent senator is a candidate. Meanwhile, on air force one this afternoon, sean spicer the White House Press secretary was asked about the report that the president
Who should be paying higher personal rates sets up an llc or a pass through to get around the system. But, again, this is the backbone off your economy, is it not . It is. And we are working hard on how we create growth in that part of the economy. I dont know to put you on a calendar right now, but as you flesh this out and you get into the weeds on this, i hope you will be briefing us. I know the finance committee has jurisdiction of this, but we have more than a passing interest in all of it . Absolutely. We will be more than happy to come back and brief you and your staff on this. Thank you very much. Thank you senator shelby. Senator hide camp. Thank you mr. Chairman. Welcome mr. Secretary, your first appearance in front of this committee. I couldnt agree with you more. One of the demands of the American Public and the responsibility of washington, d. C. Is to encourage Economic Growth. That can solve a lot of our problems as we go forward. So i want to talk a little bit about the
Lunch begins right now. Im melissa lee coming to you from miami it is the tech event of the americas with us on the show today forget walking into a bank, this company is completely disrupting the way consumers now get loans, instant loans. The ceo of green sky is with us. Plus our exclusive with the ceo of sprint. Well weigh in on merger speculation with tmobile. And personal final guru suze orman will be along as well. Lets take a look at the markets this hour. The nasdaq continues to be the story today. Right now the techheavy index is down about a full percent doing the worst of all three major averages apple is a big reason why. The biggest, down more than a percent more than the next weakest sfok, united health. The stock getting another downgrade today, the second in a week for unh netflix, microsoft among the big tech laggards on the day ge investors making more than 3. 5 today this, of course, after Ceo Jeff Immelt announced he will be stepping down after 16 years at the helm
Technical difficulties. I feel very oprah. We are seeing Oil Prices Fall back 7 over the past five sessions. Oil has fallen for four of the past five days. The excuse appears to be increased production out of libya. Its the ongoing for a mentals of oil and fundamentals of oil and technical factors and levels helping send oil down. Oil is now down 20 from its highs of the year. Its not just oil that is falling. We are seeing copper also decline for the sixth session in seven. Copper down 1 today. Its pulling down some of the miners as well. Report mac rent this report mac and rioreeportmcmoran down as well. Other sectors mitigating those losses. The s p pulling back. The nasdaq down the most of the three, but by a smaller margin than in recent days. There are groups mitigating the declines. One of them is health care. Health care higher today. Regeneron has been gaining steam in particular. Stocks fell initially today after novartis said a potential blockbuster its developing to treat v
Technical difficulties. I feel very oprah. We are seeing Oil Prices Fall back 7 over the past five sessions. Oil has fallen for four of the past five days. The excuse appears to be increased production out of libya. Its the ongoing for a mentals of oil and fundamentals of oil and technical factors and levels helping send oil down. Oil is now down 20 from its highs of the year. Its not just oil that is falling. We are seeing copper also decline for the sixth session in seven. Copper down 1 today. Its pulling down some of the miners as well. Report mac rent this report mac and rioreeportmcmoran down as well. Other sectors mitigating those losses. The s p pulling back. The nasdaq down the most of the three, but by a smaller margin than in recent days. There are groups mitigating the declines. One of them is health care. Health care higher today. Regeneron has been gaining steam in particular. Stocks fell initially today after novartis said a potential blockbuster its developing to treat v