what does the president get out of this? he got a lot out of this. when he stopped at the headquarters of the u.s. air force in europe, he was able to talk to the situation in russia, africa and other subjects, and be sure he touched base with our commanders, he s coming back with a very fresh perspective on the situation in iraq and syria and perspective on what is going on in europe and russia so he will come back and energized and ready to tackle those international and defense policy issues, very much worth his time. heather: i m curious about your opinion on pulling troops out of afghanistan. this has been discussed, that is no secret. it has been 18 years. would you do that right now? that is a question on the table.
heather: will talk about this all morning. a lot of talk that the president had not visited the war zone and just yesterday a number of the media were saying he needs to go. and in a few minutes, two hours later they realized the president s plane over england is going somewhere. iraq, germany was the destination. rebecca grant is national military analyst and international relations expert. while we look at this image on the screen right now, why was this trip so important? number one, he made the great gesture of being with our armed forces overseas and that will energize him as well to meet with soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines and going to iraq is a big symbol for the defeat isis coalition. and encouraged them going forward as we wrap up the last
the market likes certainty rather. when you have a split government that is okay because there is certainty in gridlock but when you make a statement like that where it is going to be 100% that jerome powell is the fed chair that is as certain as we can get and that is a good thing. heather: we will see what happens today, thanks for wearing those shoes again. they are helping the nation move forward. todd: it is 53 minutes after the hour. math can sometimes be hard. the little boy tried to cheat his way through homework by using alexa. a patriotic moment during donald trump s visit with our troops, the video you don t want to miss.
by virtue of a bargain between a home state senator and the president. hard to label that person republican or democratic judge because of the way they came to the bench. todd: my prediction is we learn a lot more about the confirmation process for federal and circuit court judges. we learned a lot with brett kavanaugh. jillian: appreciate it. heather: stock surge, markets open indiana, a record-setting day for the dow, a roller coaster year for wall street wall street. how does trading factoring? jillian: we break it in next. start listening today to the world s largest selection of audiobooks on audible. and now, get more. for just $14.95 a month, you ll get a credit a month good for any audiobook, plus two audible originals
doing? at the same time, i defend the right of general motors to defend its financial assets. ainsley: why do you think the g.m. ceo is not at the auto show? is she worried about getting questions and then her stock will go down. i think. so you don t want to show up where you will get nasty questions. steve: stocks went through the roof yesterday over 600 points all based on what the fed head kind of said. the head of the federal reserve, jerome powell, is he in charge of america s money. yesterday he said maybe he would go a little slower on raising the cost of borrowing money. that is music to wall street s ears. that makes stocks much more attractive. and we took off 600 points straight up yesterday. brian: other way to make the stock surge if they make progress when china and president xi and president trump sit down at the g-20. two big problems for the stock market, in the past month or so, have been, number one, the federal reserve jerome powell, is he going to stick it t