Trump card which is the economy. Americansare deeply divided over impeachment showing over half of voters, 51 , believe trump should not be impeached and removed from office compared to 45 that is reverse where the numbers stood before the many hours of hearings. Before they began, more voters voted for impeachment than against it the data on the economy is unequivocal. Showing three quarters of voters have it any time in the past 18 years. For those who believe the economy is on the right track approve. The white house wants to capitalize and that angry letter sent yesterday he wrote that, quote, democrats are desperate. Your party simply cannot compete with our record. Thank you. One of the Big Questions is the proxy for the election a lot of people have said, dont impeach. Lets wait and deal with this election and see where the public stands. If you have a group of candidates arguing that you need to bump up this election because of trump what does that suggest one of the interestin
Part of the afternoon. Between now and then, we do have what the roadway, heres a look at the Golden Gate Bridge. The rain moved in in the overnight hours as expected. Less than that for the central and south day. The radar still picking up on the scattered showers, we will continue with this trend as we roll through the next few hours with the second part of your sunday. We are going to remain dry. Lets take a look at the radar right now, its fairly widespread. Light over areas of the lord me, getting to central bay, picking up on some pockets of light to moderate rain there. We do have snow that continues to fall in this area. For Winter Travel along the west slope, areas i80 as well as highway fifth the. We take a look at how much rainfall has moved through the bay area, so far in what you can expect for the rest of your sunday and beyond. Is rosemarys just saying, there is a rain falling on the area right now. Live in marin county, in an area thats always among the first to see the
Futures up by 253 points this comes after the dow was up yesterday by 230 points. The s p up by 27 points and then the nasdaq up by 92. The gains we saw yesterday were happening even though you continued to see pressure on yields in the treasury market. See how your Energy Prices and that did move stocks in the Energy Sector higher yesterday but again the idea that china is now basically confirming what President Trump was saying, things seem to sound better than they did last week for sure. Hearing both sides come out and make the arguments have been helping the futures this morning. They kind of said were not going to immediately match the new additional tariffs that he was right. So actually we would like existing tariffs to be going down. But both sides are willing to compromise and negotiate and thats a pretty significant deal. But it was their initial matching of the ones that he did. Yeah. Even though they really cant unless they raise the number they cant really match it anymor
So the market likes that part of it. As i said, were waiting for President Trump. He is speaking with reporters right now. We should have play back of the comments any moment as we start the hour with blake burman on the president. Some of the comments, im looking at headlines around the building where youre standing, comments on taxes interesting. President as usual making a lot of news. Bring us up to speed. Reporter the president you remember yesterday, connell, he gave idea, would endorse the idea of indexing Capital Capital gains that would be a tax cut for the wealthy. Were hearing President Trump might not be supportive of it. On the south lawn as the president is leaving right now, he just told reporters quote im not looking to do indexing. It is perceived as somewhat elitist. He want tax cuts for middle class, people who work so hard. Indexing is better for upper income groups. Connell, tough to figure out where the president and this white house lan on tax cuts. Just yesterda
Job. Thats a big if, frankly the fed should be cutting. I would say they should say at a minimum 100 basis points. Over a period of time. Not at one time but over a period of time well, im not talking about doing anything at this moment, but indexing is something that a lot of people have liked for a long time. And its something that would be very easy to do. A lot of people have been talking about indexing for many years. And its something that i am certainly thinking about i can say a majority of people they like indexing its something im thinking about. Payroll taxes ive been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time whether or not we do it now or not is its not being done because of recession were legitimately, if we had a cut in Interest Rates by the fed, if they would do their job properly and do a meaningful cut, because they raised toovz, you would see growth like youve never seen in this country if you go from the election, the great november 8th day, if you go from novembe