active and retired military, call at 202-748-8000. if you are a navy seal and want to talk about this situation from your perspective, 202-748-8001. all others can call us at 202-748-8002. you can text us at 202-748-8003. and on twitter at @cspanwj our facebook page available to you, too, at facebook.com/cspan. the wall street journal reports it was yesterday that the defense secretary, mark esper, fired the navy secretary richard spencer sunday after mr. spencer attempted to cut a deal with the white house over the case of a disgraced navy seal. mr. spencer told the wall street journal he tried to make a deal in which president trump would conduct anavy to review of chief edward gallagher who would then be allowed to retire with his trident pin. mr. esper only learned of these efforts after the fact and thus .ost confidence in mr. spencer that is the wall street journal s accounting. if you go to the pages of usa today, some back and forth over the specific case of the navy
we are seeing the dow and is picked s&p 500 in negative territory. let s get the latest from julie hyman. julie: we have stocks pausing as at these levels and going sideways at this point after the dow and s&p earlier touched records. it seems as though there is a drag from the bit from the material stocks. that is the group that is doing the worst. as we have had stocks continue their rally, we have also seen bond yields creep up a little bit. dividendmeant the yields of stocks is no longer as competitive with the dividend yield of the s&p 500. that is the whitehall i m. it is looking at the ratio between the two. you are seeing what it is looking like for japanese stocks. this is the first time we have seen that yield for the s&p 500 ,elow that of the bond yields the first time since 2011. interesting phenomenon. those taking a look at telecom stocks as we await the verdict from the sec on net neutrality. as we heard shery talking about, that meeting has been adjourne