Melissa not that she is bragging or anything. [ laughter ] ashley good for you. Melissa thank you. Ashley good afternoon, everybody. I am ashley webster. Melissa i am melissa francis. The Housing Market kicking into high gear. Ashley zillow economist weighs in on which market is best for buyers. Melissa we will ask the ceo of citi mortgage. Ashley whiteout conditions expected to last well into tomorrow. Time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. Nicole petallides is standing by. Nicole last friday we closed out 14,009. That is our highest close in five years. While we are not too far off from that, about 20 points, we would still have a losing week here on wall street. It certainly feels full force here. People are trying to figure out how they will get home later. The tech heavy nasdaq is the best of the bunch. As you noted, with the snow, many places closing their branches. I want to take a look at a oneyear chartier on the dow jones financials. Inventory of furniture, automotive
Fake talks about now faking and rigging the polls. The direction of and for the sole benefit for his boss. You cant make this stuff up, although according to Michael Cohen, the campaign did try. We begin with the speaker and the president jim acosta starts us off in the white house. Where do things stand tonight between pelosi and the president . I just checked in with a white house official a few moments ago who said at this point the president still plans to deliver his state of the union speech on the 29th up on capitol hill, as was planned before all of this got started. But anderson, its hard to figure out how exactly thats going to take place when you take into consideration this very deeply personal battle that is going on between the president and his new foil here in washington, the House Speaker nancy pelosi. That letter that the president fired off earlier today essentially cancelling, i suppose theyre saying postponing this delegation trip to afghanistan and on the way stop
Delegation to afghanistan. President trump today denied her the use of it so she and the other Congress People are grounded. His answer it seems to her letter asking him to reschedule the state of the Union Address claiming security concerns in light of the shutdown. You could call it the latest in a gym of political hardball, except for so many people around the country, this is no game, whether its a woman in wisconsin rationing her insulin or the fbi actually setting up food banks for unpaid bureau employees. Also tonight, Michael Cohen, the onetime fixer for the president who says the news is fake and pulls a rig talks now about faking the news and rigging polls, and then allegedly stiffing the contractor. The direction was for the sole benefit of his boss. You cant make this up, although the campaign did try. Jim acosta starts us off in the white house. Where do things stand tonight between closesy and the president . Anderson, i just checked in with a white house official a few m
here s paul ryan today on abortion. look, i m proud of my record. i m proud of my record. mitt romney s going to be the president. the president sets policy. his policy is exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. i m comfortable with it because it s a good step in the right direction. here s one thing we know for sure about paul ryan. he is precise, he likes his facts, his figures and his numbers. he has written four budgets totalling hundreds of pages. he thinks before he speaks. and he even bragged about that today. words matter a lot and i m putting a lot of effort into them. on abortion, his record is extremely consistent. he received a score of zero from naral pro-choice america which means he s voted against every piece of pro-choice legislation that group has backed. and he has a 100% rating from the national right to life committee. meaning he has backed every piece of anti-abortion legislation that group has supported. those are pretty good sc
abortion. look, i m proud of my record. i m proud of my record. mitt romney s going to be the president. the president sets policy. his policy is exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. i m comfortable with it because it s a good step in the right direction. here s one thing we know for sure about paul ryan. he is precise, he likes his facts, his figures and his numbers. he has written four budgets totalling hundreds of pages. he thinks before he speaks. and he even bragged about that today. words matter a lot and i m putting a lot of effort into them. on abortion, his record is extremely consistent. he received a score of zero from naral pro-choice america which means he s voted against every piece of pro-choice legislation that group has backed. and he has a 100% rating from the national right to life committee. meaning he has backed every piece of anti-abortion legislation that group has supported. those are pretty good scores. 0 and 100. a man of