Lets begin with the record run for stocks, wall street eyeing new highs as we cook off the busiest week of the quarter. President trump standing by the 401 k , this is considering contribution caps as i away to ease the tax plan chuck robins will join us live to talk about the deal. Stocks are looking to make more history after the s p closed at a record high every day last week, marking it the first socalled perfect week in almost 20 years. Meantime, nearly 190 members of the s p are out this week, including amazon, microsoft. Thursday night will be a barn burner jim, whats important . I think one thing people have to know, were coming in hot its very rare we come in this hot to the biggest week there is whats going to happen, there are going to be some that do not hold up under close scrutiny this morning, the ones that did come out are setting the tone to make it so theres a way to be able to justify it, whether it be a little thing like or big thing like a tmobile. I come back and
Rules and procedures will not impede lawful trade and commerce. Furthermore, mexico has taken action to secure our own southern border and suspend air travel from europe. The actions we are taking together with our north American Partners will save countless lives. Dana this also comes after the state department issued a level 4 advisory telling all americans they should not travel internationally. And if they are abroad, come home or be prepared to stay where they are for a long time. The president also saying the fdas fast tracking possible treatments for covid19, but members of the task force push back on the idea they are close to approving a malaria drug for that purpose but everyone is working on it. That is as states increase their own measures were fighting the spread. In new york, Governor Andrew Cuomo telling him 100 of nonessential workers they have to work from home. A number of cases in the state tops a 7,000. In california, gavin newsom telling everyone to stay home, only
Mike . Dana, given afternoon. Mitch mcconnell issued a short statement cancelling the august recess, blaming democrats for obstruction. In that statement, mcconnell session senators should expect to remain in session in august to pass legislation and to make additional progress on the president s nominees. Leader mcconnell is expected to speak with reporters after wrapping up lunch with senate colleagues. Mcconnell has beenrustrated for burning time on nominees and theres pressure from President Trump to stay in session to work on Appropriations Bills and nominations. A freshman gop senator said hes willing to work and blame the other side for obstruction. The democrats in the senate have white hot hatred for President Trump. They dont want to see him have any successes. I regret that. He understands need this to work harder. Were going to do it and im glad. Today the Senate Democratic leader disspended reviewing some of the president s picks. This week the senate is number of judges.
Fox coverage. First lets go to brian near the clintons home in Westchester County with brandnew information on the fbis involvement. Brian . Jesse, the fbi said the packages sent to eric holder, the obamas, and the clintons, george soros, and to cnn were all similar. They were all the same type of packaging. The potential explosive devices were packed into heavy manila envelopes with computergenerated headers. Gail had six american postage stamps and all of the packages had the return address of Debbie Wasserman schultz and her name was misspelled. On tuesday night, a package sent to the clintons was intercepted before it reached her home and chappaqua, new york, a screening technician spotted at where they checked all of the clinton mill. Now, president bill clinton was at home at the time. Former secretary Hillary Clinton had been campaigning in florida. In the meantime this morning, this explosive device was mailed to cnns headquarters in new york. It was just a former cia director
About the accusations that have been thrown against them, thats totally off limits and outrageous. Dana chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. Things are heating up, mike. Reporter dana, no question. The fbi is expected to sends a single copy of its report to capitol hill after it sends it to the white house, which im told will be kept in a safe just to show you how tight security concerns are here. All 100 senators and nine staffers will be authorized to read it. Im not worried about a leak. Im confident there will be leaks. Something will say something. Thats not unreasonable. When the fbi information comes out, all of us have a response bltd to read through it and go through it, the same way we have access to the previous fbi investigations that judge kavanaugh went through. Reporter Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has promised a vote on the kavanaugh nomination this week. Heres how it would go down. Day one, senator mcconnell would file closu