strong. give him you know, put up 67 votes. put up put up a veto number in the house and then you will have drawn that line in the sand with the president. but today, the president was gloating, as he typically does at these things. he s not weakened, at all. he s strengthened by this. and that s pretty much what he was you know, doing. short of dancing around the desk, this was his moment but, you know, norm ornstein, two michael steele s point, only one of the republicans who are actually up for re-election in 2020 bucked the president, and that would be susan collins, who s so endangered, she went ahead and voteded with the 12. but 19 voted with him. i guess the question i would ask you is, how do you have a constitutional republic with checks and balances if one-half of the first branch of government is too afraid to use its checks and balances? so, i let me first start by pointing out a stunning poll result.
didn t have a favorable view of either candidate. and if voters had dividedç evey between them, mrs. clinton would have won. they are overlooking something they didn t like in donald trump to vote for. they were porportionately white males. a swath of voters that voteded for donald trump. why? he was the vote against the status kwoechlt the democratic party was closer to the roots then perhaps hillary clinton would not have been in this positionç nor the democratic party. and the introinspection catalyzed from the outcome is not seen in the democratic party. obviously republicans were hugely disappointed when mitt
well, good evening, everyone, outfront that dow crossing 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and we are short of the all-time high which was 14,164, but we have come a long way, baby. a long way from the bottom, like we have doubled. that is ip credible and also the incredible surge since president obama took off. the dow is up 53% since inaugural day, and that ranks him fifth after 1,153 days in office, franklin roosevelt, and calvin coolidge and bill clinton and dwight eisenhower have only exceeded that. and this is important, because a lot of the americans are invested in the stock market. according to gallop, 54% of americans own stock through the pensions and the 401(k)s, and the market is not for the very few. the question is will the largess last? i went to the stock market exchange today, and traders clapped half heartedly, and i had to confirm that the clapping was for the rally. i was told it lacked enthusiasm and drifting upward without conviction and in a word
for the wall street journal and david gergen. what was behind the selloff, er? i was talking to a few investors today what ben bernanke said yesterday, anderson what is the market expected him to same we know things are weak we know europe is a very severe issue but him saying it, even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried, people are kind of looking for nothing hold on to, maybe for a little bit of hope, why you see this people are saying this is a rather dramatic selloff and might see stablization that isn t the same thing as saying we aren t in a real economic problem. we know that we are. and steven, seems like the markets were also underwhelmeded by the fed s latest moves to kick start the economisome there anything at this point that policymakers can do to raise expectations? certainly not the fed. anderson, certainly not the fed. the fed has been deluging the economy with money for the last three years and the idea of more purchases