store you are watching our live continuing special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict. in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow, i m here with my colleague, stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes, in a courtroom in downtown manhattan, just after 5:00 eastern time this evening, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight, it is official a criminal scheme, he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions, we enter uncharted territory as a country, for the first time, a president has criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to
For you on that. And rolling out the red carpet, denver one of a dozen u. S. Cities now battling to be amazons hq2 were going to go live to the mile high city with the governor of colorado. Power lunch starts right now Rocky Mountain high colorado Rocky Mountain high welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Tech leading todays record breaking chart the s p 500 topping 2,700 for the First Time Ever. Commodities on the move as well. Crude above 61 for the First Time Since june 2015 platinum by the way highest level in more than five weeks. And gold is trying for nine Straight Days of gains nat gas taking a hit today with prices up 10 in the past week as tyler mentioned this record breaking cold really causing people to stay inside. Shares of scana up South Carolina residential customers will get an average of 1,000 within 90 days of the deal being completed, brian. Melissa, thank you im Brian Sullivan as much as the world focuses on trumps tweets, lets stay focused on your money. And can
We are printing, following higher euro markets as well. You have killer pmi data coming out across the board. Services are stronger in europe. That leads to a selloff in all the major developed markets, and courtonds developed bonds in europe as well. The curve is moderately steeper, and crude, only 4 10 of 1 , but almost 52 a barrel. What does that mean for production . David the saudis do not mind. Alix and at the top of Global Growth is copper, up 1. 3 , at 7,200 a ton, a big move for copper. We will discuss that Global Growth story. David lets find out what is going on outside of the Business World with emma chandra. Scott it has emma it has been a dramatic split between President Trump and one of the former architects of his campaign. He says steve bannon has lost bannond, after insulted his family in his book. Congressional leaders have signaled progress on a budget agreement needed to avert a Government Shutdown this month. There is no deal yet. Among the deals being discussed,
Is now on notice the world will be watching what you do the u. S. Is accused of interfering in irans internal Affairs Officer request for a meeting of the u. N. Security council to discuss the recent protests. The u. N. Says it will investigate an attack in the democratic republic of congo that killed fifteen if its peacekeepers last month. U. S. President donald trump takes to twitter to refute speculation about his mental. Hello we begin in the occupied west bank where there have been scuffles in bethlehem thats where the patriarch of jerusalem had been holding mass to mark orthodox christmas but as the office the third attempted to leave manger square protesters blocked his car and threw some eggs hes at the center of growing. Public anger after being accused in israeli media of selling off large parts of church land to is really private businesses other protests are planned against the u. S. Decision to recognize the roots of them as israels capital mohamed june following this stor
Thousands rally in support of irans government as the foreign minister mocks the u. S. For its emergency meeting at the United Nations. Angry scenes in bethlehem as palestinians protest against the Greek Orthodox patriarch accusing him of selling church land to his ratings. And good news from nasa the hole in the ozone layer is getting smaller thanks to the global ban on c. F. C. Chemicals. President trump has rejected accusations that he is mentally unfit for office describing himself in a tweet as a stable genius it follows the publication of a book that questions his ability to do his job and claims his staff view him as a child Michael Wolff book went on sale on friday four days early despite threats of legal action from trumps law is the president has described fire and fury inside the white house as full of lies misrepresentations and sources that dont exist he insists he never even spoke to wolf the author to nice president meanwhile is telling his focus to keep pharmacies as hu