Woodruff and its friday, mark shields and Ramesh Ponnuru analyze a full week of news. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff president obama strongly suggested today that russian president Vladimir Putin was at the heart of the computer hacks on the democratic party. And he defended his administrations restrained response in his yearend News Conference. As expected, the issue of alleged russian hacking of the u. S. Election dominated president obamas last News
Woodruff and its friday, mark shields and Ramesh Ponnuru analyze a full week of news. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial is committed to helping you take charge of your future. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff president obama strongly suggested today that russian president Vladimir Putin was at the heart of the computer hacks on the democratic party. And he defended his administrations restrained response in his yearend News Conference. As expected, the issue of alleged russian hacking of the u. S. Election dominated president obamas last News
I am mark barton in london. And i am Francine Lacqua, right here in rome. We have been in rome the last three days. When you look at the markets, they seem very calm. Be buying some of the bonds to keep that safety blanket in check. We will find out more on thursday, when i am sure mario draghi will be fielding a lot of questions about the political upheaval here. One thing i keep being told over and over is that investors burned by brexit are still burned by trump, but this time took the right positions. Timetable. Talk when will lindsay step down as Prime Minister . Francine at this point, we dont know. We know that the president met with the Prime Minister, matteo renzi. We understand they met twice yesterday, once in the morning and once in the evening, around 6 00, 7 00 p. M. The second meeting was quite long. It lasted an hour. Matteo renzi tendered his resignation, with the president saying, hold on. I need you to first pass this budget law. Means that failing passing of the law
Reuters reporting he was a member of the u. S. Army reserve. Authorities say there was no connection to international terrorism. Dallas police chief david brown says it appeared the shooters plan to injure and kill as many officers as they could. The bloodshed unfolded blocks from where president john f. Kennedy was slain in 1963. We will have more as the situation unfolds. Again, were waiting for the attorney general to take the podium. Now lets send it over to scott wapner for the Halftime Report. Thanks so much. Sue herera. Welcome to the Halftime Report. I am scott wapner. 2 top trade this hour, saving stocks . At the highs of the day. With us for the hour today, jim lebenthal, jim brown, sarat sethi, and Steve Liesman here onset as well. We do begin with the markets. I said, session highs today, a strong rally following that blockbuster jobs number. 287,000 jobs added last month. Way better than expected. A number of class asset, not only stocks. Bonds selling off today. Gold as w
Doesnt seem to influence was going on with the investigation. Maria the controversy coming as clinton and donald trump get back on the campaign trail. Both candidates in North Carolina and president obama will appear later today. A deadly week of terror continues. A string of bombings in saudi arabia yesterday, when taken place in a mosque or thousands of worshipers were about to hold sunset prayers. An event five years in the making. And nasas days back entering jupiters orbit overnight. The goal of the nation and what it means for Space Research coming out. More cool video, too. A center in the nba. Kevin durant announcing he will join the Golden State Warriors. Turning to markets, a selloff around the world. Futures. 393 by bus on the dow futures. Off the lows of the morning so far. And your british pound fall into a newt or the one year low against the dollar at 131 and change. The major indices in europe. Weakness acrosstheboard. A selloff of more than one and a 3 in france and ge