I want to stress, right now cooler heads are prevailing. Madrid has been saying, this aint going to fly. If we have to force the issue that catalonia stays, catalonia will stay. Thats that. You know how things go when it comes to these dustups. They do escalate and they do scare investors. Right now theyre scaring them right back into our treasury notes and bonds. For example, a tenyear note where a lot of people park their money, the yield went down on that as the price goes up. Thats the way that goes. Lets take a look at the corner of wall and broad where stocks were racing. The nasdaq up 2 here. A lot of it on the heels of better than expected performance out of Big Technology giants like amazon and Google Alphabet and microsoft. Apple now. You can get those orders in for the iphone. A lot of money here and a lot of it from over there. How long does that last . What are we looking at going into the weekend . Ashley webster, financial analysts here with us. Ashley, how big of a deal
Certain. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist dan headinger, kim strassel. So you saw it pass the house. I was the thing that surprised me is how relatively little drama there was in the sense that they didnt have to break peoples arms. They got only 13 republican defections. Thats right. And they had votes to spare. Were see an entirely different story than we did on healthcare reform. Why do you think that is . Because healthcare reform failed, so republicans understand their very political lives depend on tax reform. So i think were picking up the pace here and the senate really wants to get this done before the alabama special election, when they might lose another republican seat and have a thinner majority. But the defections, 13 detectors, 12 were from hightax states california, new jersey, new york, in particular. And thats because of the state and local Tax Deduction, right . Right. So basically the house did a carveout for property taxes up to a certain
To help us connect them, because this is important. Lets begin before we go through those dots with the president making a really unprecedented move since the nixon era. Its being criticized. Two sources tell cnn President Trump did play a hand in getting this gag order lifted, and its something Chuck Grassley asked the Justice Department to do last week, and when it came out an informant wanted to talk saying he had information on the corruption on the uranium deal in 2010, but the informant disclos signed a disclosure statement with the fbi. By wednesday night the gag order was lifted. Heres where some people, democrats in particular, are crying foul. The Justice Department has strict rules limiting any white house involvement in white house matters when it involves the opponents, in this case, Hillary Clinton. Kellyanne conway defended the president s intervention this morning. He believes, as many others do, frankly, the fbi informant should be free to say what he knows. This was m
And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. This was day 300 of the trump administration. And there were new accusations tonight about Alabama Republican Senate candidate roy moore. Just two four more women have stepped forward. Nine women in all have now publicly shared stories about their interactions with him. Accord to the Washington Post, one woman named gena richerson when she was a senior in high school smee met moore while working at schools. The post writes, quote, a few days later she says she was in trigonometry class at gadsten high when she was summoned to the Principles Office over the intercom in her classroom. She had a telephone call. I said hello, and moore says gena, this is roy moore. They met that night at a Movie Theater in the mall after she got off work, a date with moore driving her to her car in a dark parking lot behind sears and giving her what she called an unwanted forceful kiss that left her scared. The local news spoke to two
Do you support this shush fund as it is being called . I had no idea it existed unlike you. You didnt know the fund existed congressman jordin someone. I didnt. I didnt know that is how it worked. Did not know. Laura last night we played for you the explosive testimony of jackie spooir and barbara come stock. They maintained among other things that they know for a fact there are current members who have engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior. My question tonight is this, why arent they naming names . Why arent others naming names . And im not the only one asking these questions. I think its good to get this stuff out, name them. Lay it out so people can come to work without being harassed and those who do these things need to be held accountable . You want to know who they are . Yes. Laura it is good they are speak out about this. But the refusal to identify these members is enabling. Arent they kind of complicit in the coverup . I know it sounds harsh. But dont they have an obliga