Getting it done. That doesnt seem to be a big issue in the house. The bigger battle is in the senate. Theyre scrambling to make it happen. A lot of this got wobbly yesterday, ron johnson, republican senator from wisconsin, is a no vote if they dont make changes to provisions that favor Big Companies rather than smaller companies. The ones fueling todays rally in the markets, not necessarily the small ones are not even publiclytraded. We are on that. Were also awaiting any remarks the president might make when he comes out of those meetings. If he plans to make remarks, hearing from Speaker Paul Ryan. When it comes to the back and forth on individual mandate, the senate lead the way there. So the senate will be keeping that as part of its plan to shelf the mandate, the one that requires you to buy health insurance. That isnt going down well with some republicans. Could be a deal breaker. Way to early to tell. Maybe well get a sense of all of that from the speaker. Reporter neil, get to
Developments and the likely tax package everyone put the proverbial john hancock on this except the man who counts the most, the president of the United States. The companies are putting the money to work before its in their hot little hands, you heard a lot about that. So is connell mcshane, doing reporting on this and from the folks at wells fargo, planning big things. Reporter thats one of the Companies Making a big move. The bill hasnt been signed into law yet and have a number of Companies Looking to share the wealth. A small sample up on the screen, there have been more that announced but you talk about at t, boeing, comcast, southwest and were outside of wells fargo location here in new york. Theyve all made some sort of announcement what they hope do with the savings that they will have. Theyre not all equal, want to talk about the banks, if you looked at industry, especially the banks that have big operations domestically, wells fargo is an example of that. They pay a relative
6. 9 trillion and we will hit the 7 trilliondollar mark. I have been covering money for 40 years and i have never seen a runup like this. They all combine to create this extraordinary rally and it continues today. I hope youre able to follow it from the comfort of your home because the weather along the eastern sea board is just plain terrible, the bomb cyclone, the bombo genesis, carolina, virginia, a blizzard by any other name and brought onethird of a country close to standstill. We offer a unique opportunity, sit back andat w dow 25k and th bombo cyclone, Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart liz peek with bombo cyclone glasses. Look at futures, we are going to go up 100 points in the opening bell. We should cross 25k. If those futures, quote, stand, we will hit 25k in approximately 27 minutes and 40 seconds. By the way, we just learned that 250,000, a quarter million new privatesector jobs were created in november, thats a big number, a very strong economic indicater. Lets take
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Every angle covered some analysis, peter doocy reports with the team and Kristin Fisher has a reaction from the white house. That is where we began on the north lawn with you, kristen, good afternoon. Good afternoon, bill, there is a lot of headlines to come out of the Supreme Court rulings today. When his two justices that President Trump neil gorsuch and brett kavanaugh, they both ruled against President Trump today. And so during this briefing with the White House Press secretary that wrapped up a few moments ago, i asked Kayleigh Mcenany if President Trump had spoken with her about that and if he was not happy with justices because he put out seven tweets into hours after the rulings came down made it very clear he was not happy so here is how the press secretary when i asked her what the president thought about justices for search and Justice Kavanaugh. That justices are entitled to their opinion, but with Justice Kavanaugh who a new York State Court case a unanimous agreement it