good evening, trace. a real surprise to be sure. just four years ago, lori lightfoot win every word in the runoff and made history becoming the first black and openly gay female mayor and the city s history. he s on her way to becoming the first windy city mayor to his reelection in about 40 years. paul vallas, with more than 30 percentage points. he will advance the runoff. he was billed as a tough on crime candidate, and he also has the backing of the city police union. he s expected to face brandon johnson, the current county commissioner, former schoolteacher has the endorsement of the chicago teachers union, and as you see, just about 20% of the vote going his way. lori lightfoot, meanwhile, who famously tingled with the teachers union, came in third with just more than 16% of the vote. we will have a safe chicago. we will make chicago the safest city in america. [cheers and applause] no matter where you live, no matter what you look like, you deserve to have a bet
it is up 200 plus points because being cheered on by the reserve requirements in china. this is an internationally lyly oriented market right now. is that the idea? i apologize if i m repeating anything. bill pointed out the dow is up 217. let s skip straight ahead to the closing bell exchange and introduce our guests. joining us at the top of the hour to kick things off. we have price heedley, kate warren from edward jones. and our very own rick santelli. a welcome one and all. anthony chan the big news this weekend, we have to talk about a china rate cut. the u.s. central bank the japanese, what s the message to investors. central banks all over the world are coddling financial markets, coddling the overall economy. that s one of the reasons we don t get big corrections anymore. we get mini corrections. right after the chinese announcement on friday that they were going to go ahead and restrict margin trading. the analysts warned and said the financial markets would m
precedent that will echo well into the future. dana: speaker pelosi answered with this. our founders when they re with the constitution they suspected there would be a rogue president. i don t think they suspected we would have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the senate at the same time. dana: we have john brothel who is standing by with his thoughts but let s begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel to catch us up on the news. good afternoon. and they are where the minority in the senate, speaker nancy pelosi. they are meeting to try to see if they can get some of what they want in a senate trial. pelosi and schumer met today to talk about their strategy and he also made this appeal on the senate floor. we want a fair trial. message from leader mcconnell at the moment is that he has no intention of conducting a fair trial, no intention of acting impartially, no intention of getting the facts. republicans have pounced today after pelosi de