Good evening. It is a small world. No one knows that better than those who watch the value of their savings and retirement accounts take another steep drop today. All because of chinas economic problems. The dows 392point drop today brings losses for the first four trading days of the new year to 911 points or more than 5 . If it has us asking if chinas woes can trigger those kind of losses in this country, what does it say about the health of our economy . Nbcs Anne Thompson finds out. Reporter another bungee jump for the nations stock market. The dow plummeting more than 300 points at the open, bouncing back in the late morning, only to plunge again by early afternoon. What has traders and investors grabbing fistfuls is the slowing growth in china, the worlds second largest economy. Today trading on chinas stock market halted for the second time this week after a major selloff. I think its premature to be overly concerned. Financial markets are fickle. I think in the end, fundamental
Trying to get him to admit, every reporter in washington, that the russians meddled with our elections. Trump. Trump, right. And barack obama comes back and says the russians meddled with our elections and he writes a tweet. The russians meddled with our elections. And he says your Health Care Plan is mean. My Health Care Plan is mean its unbelievable. The force is strong within him. The force is strong with this one. Obama. Strong the force is with his family. The president he was. Lets break this down, mark halperin, how many people have tried to get donald trump to admit the russians meddled with the 2016 elections . Many, many. I have a precise number here. 924,321. And so all obabarack obama h to do is just come back on the scene in his jedi garb, right. He just forces the president to say things about this Health Care Bill that really could hurt it politically. Really hamper its passage. Thats something that president obama really has power. He does have power, and we have a clip
Do, theres never going to be enough that a president can do for the families of those that are killed in action. The point the president was making is that theres a different process. Sometimes they call, sometimes they write letters, sometimes they engage directly. The comments were certainly, i think, taken very far out of context by the media, and if theres any frustration, i think thats where it should be focused. Sarah. Let me ask you about something Steve Mnuchin said since you talk about the stock market a lot and the president does as well. He said, and i quote here, theres no question in my mind that if we dont get it done, meaning tax reform, that youre going to see reversal of these gains. How concerned is the president at this point of that possibility . Were confident that were going to get tax cuts done and so thats what were focused on. Were going to continue pushing forward. On the health care bill. Im going to take one question today. The president tweeted about the ca
Cuomo that donald trump knew nothing in advance of the Clinton Campaign emails leaked by wikileaks and at the same time claiming that if he did, it would not be a problem anyway and claiming against the evidence that President Trump never talked to james comey about michael flynn. Thinks a smart strategy representing the president who just may find himself sitting down across Robert Mueller later. Jennifer rogers, a former prosecutor and attorney bradley moss, good evening to both of you. Tonight Rudy Giuliani was asked about omarosas claim. Omarosa also claims that trump knew about the Campaign Emails before wikileaks released them to the public. Rudy giuliani says this. Watch this. If she has some piece of proof that demonstrates that the president was aware of what emails they had, what would that mean . 100 confident that she does not. I know he did not know. If he did . I know beyond being his lawyer. If he knew, is it a problem . No. No . I am not going to get into the hypothetic
Whipped, a young girl raped in the hospital and aalleged coverup that stretched to the vatican according to the attorney general. And this, diversity wins and so do the president s picks. Democrats rally behind what could be history making candidates and republicans stand behind this administration. What this means for november, we will get to all of it. But heres where we start. The white house cannot guarantee to you, the American Public, that you will not hear in word tape from the president. They cant guarantee that. But in the same breath they say dont call the president s attacks on exwhite house aide Omarosa Manigaultnewman racist. This has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out someones lack of integrity. He fights fire with fire. Credibility questions are mounting so lets to my friend abby phillip. The defense from the white house calling the president a dog, a black woman whom he hired, their defense saying look, he is an equal