Trading day. Former dallas fed advisor Danielle Dimartino booth and alan knuchman out in chicago. Quick word on hong kong. That has been developing throughout the morning, night there, then well talk about the markets. Those are violent scenes we have on our screen danielle. This has been going on, going on for six months. I was there at the very beginning of the protest movement. The protesters with the goal to have the extradition bill delayed and taken off the table all together, had some success. But they have continued. The Police Continue to fight back. You wonder how it all ends. What do you think . You do. People should try to recall on per capita basis hong kong has some of the highest income in the world. It also is the conduit. It is the way that china access es the world financial markets. The fact it is in recession cannot be overlooked. This is something that is clearly not dissipating. It is not going away. I think a lot of people thought by now we would have seen this c
Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Politics is politics, and sadly no one at this point should expect politicians to be anything but what they are, politicians. Democrats are trying to poison Public Opinion against the president of the United States ahead of an election. Its the wrong way to run their business, so to speak. Have a problem with the ceo, publicize it, fine. But leave it to shareholders to do the dirty work. If you have a problem with the president of the United States, before you rush to undo 63 million votes, consider following precedent and fight back the right way at the ballot box. Americans have always had a way to deal with politicians they disapprove of, and thats called voting. It many our strength. Its ou our system. I suspect this has become their insurance policy, if you would, a grand cya insurance policy against the soon to be result of attorney general barrs criminal investigation of fisa abuse during the 2020 election. Dems have employed the best oh defense is a good offense. Adam schiff sa
No one at this point should expect politicians to be anything but what they are, politicians. Democrats are trying to poison Public Opinion against the president of the United States ahead of an election. Its the wrong way to run their business, so to speak. Have a problem with the ceo, publicize it, fine. But leave it to shareholders to do the dirty work. If you have a problem with the president of the United States, before you rush to undo 63 million votes, consider following precedent and fight back the right way at the ballot box. Americans have always had a way to deal with politicians they disapprove of, and thats called voting. It many our strength. Its ou our system. I suspect this has become their insurance policy, if you would, a grand cya insurance policy against the soon to be result of attorney general barrs criminal investigation of fisa abuse during the 2020 election. Dems have employed the best oh defense is a good offense. Adam schiff says stuff like this. There are a
Because of the hong kong elections. Record turnouts sunday, big loss for scombrabeijing. I think its heartening to see the people stand firm. For xi jinping, its a setback. What will he do now . Investors round the world cheered. Its part of our rally on wall street today. No cheering for uber. The authorities in london will not renew ubers license to do business there. Ouch. London was its best European Market. Uber takes the hit because of passenger safety concerns . Gee, i wonder if londons famous black cabs had a hand in this. Ubers stock is down 4 premarket. Seconds from now, frozen 2 big box office, tesla, dare i say a smashing success, and a little blue box, tiffany, now worth 16 billion. Varney company is about to begin. Has elsa seemed weird to you . She seems like elsa. Theres voice. Voice, what does that mean . Head for the cliffs ive got you. Stuart there you have it. Frozen 2 debuted this weekend. 350 Million Worldwide. That was the opening Worldwide Box Office globally, t