Aside from a lingering flurry towards the east this evening, counts on it to be mostly cloudy and cold. Good news when it comes to the weekend, big changes in a more favorable direction if you want to say be outside, ill join you back in the studio in a little bit. Well have that full sevenday forecast still coming up. Back to you guys. All right, thank you, caitlin. Within the past hour, the sentence came down for a formerden in our area, convicted of sexual assaulting several of his patient krysten leon live with whats been an emotional afternoon for the victims. Kri kristen. Reporter the sentencing wrapping up not too long ago, two hours of emotional testimony both sides. The prosecution and the defense. And essentially here, ahmed, used his power in this case to lure his victims, used his power for sexual pleasure at his practice in georgetown. Five victims ended up testifying in court again very, very emotional. You could hear the shaky ness in their voice, one of the victims, a f
Stuart we will start with the markets because the Dow Jones Industrial average hit 18,000 for the first time in calendar year. Look at it now. 18,019. By the way, there are five dow stocks making lifetime highs. Look at them go. Travelers, visa, disney, home depot boeing. Early this morning lifetime highs. S p 500 hitting a record earlier today. 2,092 is where it is now. So look at that. Wall street on a tear as the world its certainly blowing up. Your money is looking good. Our Foreign Policy, that is another story. Here is your daily terror update. Alqaeda fighters have overrun an army base in yemen freeing 60 captured soldiers and government officials. Isis has seized most of a western iraqi town. Thats a 13 minute drive from an air base where 300 us marines are training iraqis. Fox news reports an attack by isis on that alassad base it was repulsed. Editorial board mary, is right here. Now then, Foreign Policy. Ill call that in absolute shambles. I think president obama is taking a
Own problems before telling society how to fix theirs . Varney company is about to begin. Charles lets check the big board. Meandering. Nasdaq is the index well all watch. Will it match the alltime high . Good chance it will match it this week. Oil is trying to find something of a bottom. 49 held. May be tested today. Right now 49. 55. National average for gallon of regular, up two cents over the weekend. Prices go up a lot faster than they go down dont they . Here the big story. Big story from the associated press, lefts tax the rich mantra is working. Wealthy households pay too little while 60 say middle class households pay too much in taxes. Heritage Foundation Stephen moore joins us. Stephen, this was a shocker to me. Felt like americans in general felt everyone was overtaxed. Maybe like the left is winning the pr war. Well maybe in the very short term. First of all i agree the middle class is overtaxed in this country. There is no question about that. Government spends too much a
Compared hitler to Bashar Al Assad. Is that enough to stop calls for him being fired . In the drivers seat. My one on one sit down with fords ceo mark fields. His message to the president and his vision for the future of the auto industry. Good morning, everybody. Im ali velshi at Msnbc Headquarters in new york. Rex tillerson and Sergey Lavrov have ended a high stakes meeting in moscow. The two are scheduled to emerge at the top of the next hour and hold a News Conference. We know that there has been tense talk over syria. Todays meeting comes on the heels of a newly declassified white house Intelligence Report that accuses russia of helping cover up that chemical attack in syria last week. President Vladimir Putin saying in an interview today, quote, wheres the proof of Syrian Forces using Chemical Weapons . There is none. End quote. Putin also says relations with the u. S. Have, quote, degraded since President Trump took office. President trump had his own criticisms of Vladimir Puti
President mike pence there this weekend for the beginning of what is a tenday trip for the Vice President through asia. A lot going on in that corpner f the world, a lot of it has to do with the decisions made in the building behind Kristen Welker at the white house right now where she joins us. Kristen, obviously a very tense situation. The history of the u. S. Relationship with north korea, we have reached moments like this before, i think, where there was talk of an imminent u. S. Action. How serious is it this time . Reporter well, i think that the administration is keeping all of its options on the table. Thats the official line. I pressed the spokesperson for the Vice President about that earlier today, what would the reaction be if there were a strike and the response is just that, that the president wants to keep all of his optio for military to sanctions on the table. This is a situation they are watching very closely, steve, as you know, the president right now in maralago. H