blake burman, president will meet shortly with the prime minister of pakistan amid talk out of pakistan. they took to twitter pushing back on iranian claims that they have detained 17, spies that were recruited by cia. this announcement came via iranian state television, that some of those 17 had already received death sentences. president went to twitter to say not so. he called the iranian claims quote, totally false. he also said there was quote, zero truth to it. now the secretary of state mike pompeo as you know was once cia director before he moved over to foggy bottom. he was interviewed on fox & friends earlier this morning. he pushed back as well against those iranian claims. watch. can t add much to it specifically, having had a chance to lead that great organization the central intelligence agency. i would urge everyone reading that story waking up that the iranian regime has a long history of lying. that is part of the nature of the ayatollah to lie to the w
flooding winds and a dangerous storm surge. we re all over it. how about this? a all-time high for the dow jones industrial average. we re above 27,000 for the first time ever. the market performing so well, thanks to some might say to an underperforming economy that has the federal reserve set to cut interest rates. gerri willis starts it off for us at the new york stock exchange. hey, gerri. connell, that s right. we re up 200 points. 61 points over 27,000 level. therefore i can wear my hat. one is outshining the others. united healthcare is up 5% after the president decided to kill a proposal that would have overhauled rebates collected by the middlemen between insurance plans and drug companies. unh owns optum rx. that is the biggest of these middlemen. dow jones reported that unitedhealthcare was responsible for 200 points of the dow s move. also contributing to gains today, goldman sachs and boeing each up. you can see here nearly 2%. the move to 27,000 took 372 tra
details. they are changing as we speak. it s all piling on as we see what could be another record day for the markets. now, here s why i say that. any gain for the nasdaq will be another record close, but right now, the nasdaq is down 15 points. the dow this morning crossed the magical 27,000 point level for the first time ever. we are still there. we are at 27,027. and the s&p 500 again today topped 3,000 intraday, but you know, we couldn t close there yesterday. will today be the day? got to stay with me. we expect president trump to make remarks at the white house during this hour. he s scheduled to speak at something he put together, a social media summit. our tech panel reading between the tweet lines, which might be a little difficult to have a social media segment here, because guess who s not invited to the social media summit? two of the top social media people. plus, presidential want-to-bes attacking president trump and corporate america but is that what busi
raytheon, chevron and phillips chemical putting pen to paper just a few moments after that meeting with the emir, inking deals with qatari businesses, but do those deals negate the harsh truth that qatar is one of the few countries that will not cut its diplomatic ties with iran? we are about to get an answer to that in just a moment. while the president strikes deals with qatar, china trade talks lurching forward, kind of in fits and starts, but some u.s. companies are still terrified that tariffs could derail profits. jeff flock is live in milwaukee with that company on your screen, one company desperate for an exemption to keep the trains running. there s a new billionaire running for president on the democratic side. tom steyer, best known for his environmental activism and also this push to impeach president trump, but will voters buy into a billionaire who says he s running against corporate greed? how did he become a billionaire? a former adviser to president obama
department through the commerce secretary wilbur ross put out a statement essentially saying that the 2020 census would go forward without the citizenship question, even though they don t agree with it, even though they don t like it, the census is being printed. here is what the commerce secretary said yesterday, quote, the, he said he respect the supreme court but strongly disagree with its ruling regarding my decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 census. the census bureau started process printing the questionnaires without the census. my focus, that of the bureau and entire department is to conduct a complete and accurate census. seems pretty straightforward, right? just a while ago we got the tweet from the president. the news reports about the department of commerce dropping the quest to put the citizenship question on the sin ses is indirect, state differently, fake. we are absolutely moving forward as we must because of the importance of the answer t