Even how many hamburgers you can eat. They want to defund the police and take away Second Amendment rights. They want Free Health Care for illegal immigrants. Yet they offer no protection for unborn americans. They want to pack the Supreme Court with liberals. Thiswant to codify all of by making the swamp itself, washington, d. C. Americas 51st state. With two more liberal senators, we cannot undo the damage they have done. Democratsderstand why spent an entire week telling us about who joe biden is, not what he intends to do. I am immensely proud of the work the Republican Senate has done. We are the firewall against nest Nancy Pelosis agenda. We will not be bullied by a liberal media intent on destroying americas institutions. We will stand our post on behalf of millions of americans whose stories are told in americas newspapers whose struggles are just as real. We will continue to support American Families as we defeat the coronavirus and return our economy to the envy of the world.
Also weighing on investors, continued protests in hong kong. All remaining flights today out of hong kong have been canceled, as demonstrators are occupying the airport there. It follows a violent weekend of protests, including clashes between demonstrators and police, beijing officials condemn the violence and linked violent protesters to terrorism. A bad sign. Also, low Interest Rates affecting the market. Check the tenyear yield. Its 1. 69 now. The other big story of the day, the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Were learning that epstein was not checked on for several hours leading up to his apparent suicide in his prison cell. Attorney general william barr is furious and says there will be a federal investigation. Theres a lot of news to go at today. You dont want to miss a moment of it. Varney company starting right now. David a quick look at stock futures and they have improved a little bit from where they were. Lets go right to susan li at the stock exchange. Whats the buzz, susan . S
04 . The trade the stock of the day the morning, the week is bitcoin. Bitcoin futures trading there. What are we at . 17,000. Friday we were at 10,000. David that was huge. Now time for the morning brief. A big week is ahead of us. Today nafta talks begin in washington and later this week we have three Key Central Bank decisions, the fed and e. C. B. And bank of england. Russian president Vladimir Putin will hold an annual presser and an e. U. Summit following the brexit breakthrough. There was a brexit breakthrough when you were away. Alix were hearing the rollbacks, is the deal binding, is it not . Is it legal . We have opinions on that. And bidding overed the weekend were worried about a labor party and snap election. Dave the labor party is taking over, jeremy corbyn. He said if they do take over theyll move the bank of england to birmingham. Alix that makes accepts. David that will be different, for sure. Alix to bloomberg first news word, heres emma chandra. Emma russian presiden
The bottom of the list. Also, antitrump publication, now under pressure from democrats. Vanity fair apologizing for a video posting mocking Hillary Clinton. Now the president is weighing in on this. Wait until you hear what he has to say. Winter weather walloping midwest and the east with arctic weather. It will get a lot worse before it gets any better. The latest on this, a lot more coming up this hour. Lea the dow hitting new highs, led my shares of United Health and caterpillar and travelers. The ninth month in the green, the longest monthly winning streak since 1959. Lets go straight to gerri willis on floor of new york stock exchange. For more what is driving markets today. Hey, gerri. The dow up wow, you heard cheer behind me at the close. That is a record close, the 71st for this year. Also the 71st for trumps administration. Behind these gains unitedhealth, caterpillar. Were keeping eye on banking stocks. Look at this. Goldman sachs, bank of america, all these banks doing much
And the spy who compiled the dossier had a personal vendetta against President Trump. The president dmiensd the leadership of the fbi and Justice Department. President trump i think it a disgrace. A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. David congressman jim jordan and matt gaetz joins. Also gregg jearr jarett Gregg Jarrett and tom fit o fitton of judicious you watch. Joining me, congressman devin nunes explaining why it was so important to release the memo. I have an obligation to the American People when we see fisa abuse. These are secret courts that exist to target foreigner for catching terrorists and people who might be bad actors. And the americans citizens represented before this court have to be protected. The only place that can protect them is the u. S. Congress when the abuses do occur. Its not a place we wanted to go, by the where we had to go. Bret did you read the actual fisa applications . No, i didnt. David House Oversight chair trey g