Open, wall street looks to close out a recordsetting week. Peacock joins the streaming wars, how comcasts forthcoming platform looks to separate itself from the streaming flock. Joining the four comma club, alphabet more than 1 trillion all together more than 17 of the s p 500. Stocks looking to hit new record highs upbeat news on the economy as Housing Starts rise in december to their highest level since 06 up 16. The and just to put that into perspective we are looking for an increase of 0. 4 amazing, and of course the commentary from tepper and druckenmiller over the past half hour has done a lot. Its fed in the same direction. Well pick apart if weather was a factor in the Housing Starts and the rest but that is when the equity futures took another leg higher when the numbers were reported comes after we got other good housing data its become very hard to decide that the headlines are going to get in the way of a market thats been on this autopilot higher the guys like david tepper
Partsinevelos and john bernet, we had to baghdad with trey on the latest. Reporter good afternoon. A lot of new tension here in baghdad after 3 rockets were fired into 1 the green zone last night, everyone waiting to see what tonight will bring. Funerals got underway in tehran for soleimani, the man who was killed outside of baghdad initial friday morning Baghdad International airport friday morning, many vowing to respond, calling on government and regime to take Decisive Action again the u. S. We heard from the daughters of soleimani, who made a direct threat against americans. Listen to what she had to say. Families of the american soldiers in western asia have witnessed americas humiliation. And will spend their days waiting for death of their children. Reporter today we saw iraqi Prime Minister meet with the u. S. Ambassador to iraq they were discussing issue of american troops on the ground in iraqi territory, more than 5,000 american servicemembers, mostly helping Iraqi Service
I want to mention a couple of upcoming events. On december 4th we have a news maker with Sheldon White house and on december 9th a headliners coffee and conversation with lonnie bunch. And i would like to present miss abrams with down of the most highly coveted items in washington d. C. A National Press club coffee mug. And finally, before your race, one of the things you were known for was writing romance novels. Is there another novel in the works . Oh im glad you asked. I technically still have to write the third novel in the trilogy that i stopped writing when i became democratic leader. Im going to get that one done, because i dont want to hear from my mom or sister again about this. Im working on a new legal thriller, and that should be coming out sometime in the near future. But its going to be under stacey abrams, because the other name is kind of known. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. And we are adjourned. good morning, everyone. The committee will come t
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here today to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette to be the secretary of energy. He currently is serving as the deputy secretary of energy, and i am certainly one who believes that you have done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would
So we want to thank you all you have done at the department. And at this point for your willingness to step up in a higher capacity. We have our colleagues here this evening texas and louisiana are well represented. Mister deputy secretary you should feel verydu welcome by having these gentlemenmp next to you. We will start with senator cassidy followed by senators cruz and senator kennedy to introduce deputy secretary this morning. Would like to proceed we do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you so the introductions do not consume the full morning but we do welcome all the good comments s comments. What a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. [laughter] its a privilegege to represent my friend Dan Brouillette eminently qualified as United States leads the world in all sorts of energy. He shared a longer showed a commitment to Energy Security and understands the importance of us Energy Exports to lower Greenhouse Gas emissions abroad. Committed to innova