A shadow mike hanna has more from washington d. C. On campaigning efforts starting with donald trump the 3. 00 states hes visiting in the course of the day he talked very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with joe biden by a shrum that gap the lead that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on the states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do with in the white house. Polls of opened in tanzanias president ial and parliamentary elections president john mcafee really is taking a 2nd term as government has been accused of cracking down on the opposition and stifling dissent in the run up to the vote. Police fired tear gas at people protesting against new covert 19 measures bars and restaurants now have to shut much of the normal much of europe is seeing a spike in infections as a 2nd wave hits the continent brazen hong kong of arrested 3 people from the Student Group adv
That converted the selloff into a rally. Then came news that European Manufacturing is recovering rapidly from the virus lockdown. That helped the market. Look at it go. The dow is going to be up close to 300 points at the open. The s p, 31. The nasdaq, very solid gain, 70 points. Now, heres another reason for the rally. Big tech, it continues its run. You are looking at premarket prices for apple, microsoft, facebook and netflix, amongst others, all four hit record highs monday. The big tech surge dominates the market. Big tech is pushing higher. Investors this morning ignoring scenes like this. Chaos in d. C. Last night. Right outside the white house, demonstrators vandalized a church, they tried to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson and they also tried to establish their own seattlelike autonomous zone. This is happening in our Nations Capital right in the center of government. The president s had something to say about this. He obviously doesnt like it. But no word yet from joe
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All that, plus, shocking interview, outrage after Harvey Weinstein casts himself as the victim holiday flipflop, the overnight apology from Hallmark Channel after coming under fire for removing a samesex wedding ad. And tiger roars tiger woods leads the u. S. Team to an emotional comeback win at that was twice as nice for the worlds greatest golfer. It was an honor for me as a player and even more of an honor to be their captain. Today, monday, december 16th, 2019 from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, welcome to today, thank you so much for joining us on this monday morning, savannah recovering from eye surgery were sending her all of our love and our well wishes and we hope to speak to her a little bit later and check in. She is getting better, we should tell you that. She certainly is. Were keeping a close watch on the weather, theres a winter storm spreading snow and ice, bringing travel delays, thi
Reasons. Senator shelby is the chairman of the appropriations committee. Only three committees have a vicechairman and we have met continuously. We met this week along with senator mcconnell and senator schumer. Done. Get it we are having a meeting the first part of next week with our counterparts, congresswoman foley and congresswoman ranger and we will have questions about allocations and all. To the members of congress, republicans and democrats alike, we could get it done before the continuing resolution runs out, and it would be a terrible mistake if we were still in the continuing resolution after the first of the year. For a whole host of reasons. And i would rather just come in and vote for things up or down. It has been difficult with the imouse because what one would say as an understatement they have not always been consistent and what they want. Fundings in past fights, it appears the border wall is Holding Things out. Democratseement with wanting to spend zero dollars on t