Lets kick it off with blake. On the eve of the impending vote in the house of representatives likely tomorrow night President Trump has just sent this fivepage scathing letter to the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. The president saying he is doing so to put the words on paper, quote, for the purpose of history. The president writing at one point, saying, of democrats, quote, you are the ones interfering in americas elections. You are the ones subverting americas democracy. You are the ones obstructing justice. He also writes of pelosi saying quote, even worse than offending the Founding Fathers you are offending americans of faith by continually saying i pray for the president when you know this statement is not true unless it is meant in a negative sense. Its a terrible thing you are doing but you will have to live with it, not i. That the president to the speak of the house. Speaking of the president , earlier today, here in the oval office he hosted his counterpart from guatemal
Why that might be easier said than done. A growing debate over the next steps the white house may or may not take to avoid a downturn in the economy. Were getting mixed signals on the strength of the economy. So we start in this hour with Jackie Deangelis who is here in the studio to lay it all out for us. Reporter connell as recession fears linger, concern over the trade war keeping a lid on optimism, especially today. This is big week for retail. Home depot earnings were in focus. Home depot numbers beat the street. A reminder of the thorn in the markets side. Home depot is worried that the trade war a new round of tariffs will cause Consumer Spending to slow down. It. J max, positive report was dampened by earnings guidance. Numbers were under wall street expectations. Headwinds to consider here, global slow down, europe, china, parts of europe, bond yields continue falling, continued flight to safety less proannounced than last week, fundamentals pretty strong. Gdp more than 2 . Ju
In the u. S. There is a pileon as well. Stocks are close to records. The president is to have a rally and brag about the records. There is still the tweet fallout that the white house has to dial. We have blake burman. Reporter this will resume this evening in greenville, North Carolina, where President Trump hits the road to later tonight for a Campaign Rally there. The president saying earlier today, he will talk about the economy. He will talk about the stock market. But he also tweeted the following saying i will also talk about the people who love and hate our country, mostly love. Of course the president ing to these four Democratic Congresswoman who have been embroiled in this back and forth feud with the tweets and comments he subsequently made. Democrats call the president s tweets an comment racist. Republicans are trying to turn the attention to the policies and controversial comments that some of these congresswoman have made in the past, coming to the defense of the presid
The last ten minutes or so lets go to the fox news capitol hill senior producer chad pergram with the latest. What are we looking at . I talked to senator jeff flake who indicated they might get to the 60 votes. This is all the math. They need to get this 60 votes. This is vote not to reopen the government. If they get 60 votes the government will reopen. This will be a test vote, signal, indicating later today that the senate will vote on threeweek interim spending bill to open the government through february 8th. It will have to go to the house of representatives, what the house of representatives approved last week is different from this bill. More significant from senator flake is saying, we learned democratic senator from florida bill nelson indicated he is a yes. Let me go through the math here. They need 60 yeas. Senators flake and graham, they are now yeas. There were several republican nos the other night. So that gets you up into the low 50s. Mitch mcconnell had to vote no fo
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