And going into closed session later for classified information. Live coverage here on cspan 3. Good morning. Its my hab and tradition to open hearingwiings with a praye. We understand that we are in desperate need of your guidance. In particular we pray for the families and those affected by the bombing in manchester last night. A clear reminder of how dangerous this world is. We ask your comfort and healing for those involved in that horrific experience. We ask you be with us this morning, as we try to find the truth, try to find answers our American Public wants. We ask for your guidance and wisdom. Amen. I would like to welcome our witness, john brennan. Thank you, mr. Brennan for agreeing to visit with us this morning. We appreciate that. As youre aware of the horrific attack last night in Manchester Arena in the uk. We offer up our prayers and sympathy to the deceased j injuries. Last nights tragedy reminds us the crucial roles we play in protecting our homeland. Id like to remind
Into the close with the dow finishing at another brand new high. To hell with the torpedoes, full speed ahead. All major averages ending july let in green up 2 or higher for the month. Hi, everybody. What a day. Im david asman. Glad you could be here. Melissa glad you can join us, this is after the bell. On big market movers. What else were covering this very busy hour. Never a dull moment at the white house. Breaking news this afternoon, Controversial Communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been removed from his position after only 10 days on the job were expecting a White House Press briefing to begin at any moment. Well hear more how this came to pass. What role did general john kelly, the new white house chief of staff, play in all of this . More details on kellys first day in the office. Lets not forget there is a lot of chaos going on in venezuela with the countrys president , now assuming near absolute power. The white house is expected to respond to this as well. Were
Irs employees living in the lap of luxury. David oh, great. Melissa perfect. David of all the agencies to waste money. Back to the markets. Well get to those stories in a minute. The dow ending in positive territory but not high enough to score a new record at the close. Were back to 140 points from 20,000. Still pretty high. Gold taking a huge tumble today. Phil flynn has the very latest on that from the cme. Lori rothman on the floor of new york stock exchange. Lori, what was holding the dow back . Couple specific names, david. Breaking earnings news from oracle. If you like i can get with those. These are headline downers if you will. Nike off 1 . United technologies off 1 . Ge also off. Boeing down half a percent. Many names are considered consumer second calls or economically sensitive. Even though we saw gains there was probably a little bit of hesitation here in terms of getting to the key psychological dow 20,000 milestone everybody is so anxious to get to as well. On the other
Should we . Steve forbes joins us with his take on that. Also, fighting to save a new york landmark. Well be speaking with a man who started out as a dishwasher at the famous Carnegie Deli making three bucks an hour. He is offering to pay millions of dollars to keep it open. Well ask him why. Cheryl lets get back to our markets. This is it for 2016, everybody. The dow ending the day down nearly 50 points but the bluechips are seeing the best year since 2013. Oil surging big this year as well. Phil flynn with all details from cme in chicago for his final report for the year. Nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, all the major averages ending in the green after the election. What are the numbers . Financials, energy, telecom, industrials really give us a boost here in this last month 1 2 since the election. The dow finished up over 13 . S p 500 up 9 . More than that the nasdaq 7 and the russell 2000 and the transports up about almost 20 . That is stellar.
Claims this morning that the russians have damaging information on mr. Trump and that his lawyer met with russian officials and said Cash Payments to them. The lawyer says totally untrue. Trump angrily calls it a political witch hunt and fake news. The russians say they have no compromising material, but its all over the media. It will come up at the tillerson hearing and it wil be center stage at the News Conference. So, here is the state of political play. The left continues its full court press to discredit and undermine the trump presidency. They are in attack mode. You will see how trump responds. Varney company is about to begin. Exxonmobil chief Rex Tillersons confirmation is about to be gavelled to order. Youll expect questions, hostile questions from democrats on russia and Climate Change. We have liz peek. Judge andrew napolitano, spokesman rick grinell, Ashley Webster and liz macdonald. Well quote him on a couple tweets. Russia said the unverified report by political opponen