Awaiting janet yellen at 2 00. Plus, trump versus the house gop or not, two days until the inauguration and the president elect now suggesting that the border tax could be back. Trouble at target, Retail Stocks moving lower after target cuts its outlook on weak holiday sales. But stocks are looking to rebound one day after the dow and nasdaq each posted their lowest closes of the new year. Wall street digesting Bank Earnings today, citi beats on bottom line but misses on revenue, goldman exceeds consensus estimates. Stay tuned for exclusives with Goldman Lloyd blankfein and j. P. Morgan jamie dimon. Thats coming up later today on squawk on the street. Jim, you tweeted earlier today nothing is good enough mode on the fins. Yeah, look, these stocks ran a great deal and i thought the goldman quarter was exceptional. My travel strus owns this next one, if you adjust revenue for citi for international because they have a Huge International business, if you adjust for the dollar turns out th
Nomination of tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. You know, the decisions made at h. H. S. Touch the lives of every family in america. The secretary who runs this agency makes decisions about everything from the safety of the food we eat to the drugs we take to the Health Insurance we buy and the quality of the Nursing Homes that we live in. This is an extremely important job, and we should not hand over the keys to this agency unless we are certain that the person will put the American People first every minute of every day. President trump has nominated congressman tom price to serve in this job. Unlike many of the president s other nominees who are stunningly inexperienced in areas whether they will be where they will be setting policy, congressman price has a lot of experience in health care policy. Yes, he has experience, but it is the kind of experience that should horrify you if you care about medicare, if you care about medicaid, or if
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from Around The World. No hint of their conditions or demands. Hes got all honestly he has all of the information that he needs. The interview will Pronide Nothing in addition to what he already has. Reporter he said the probe should be finished by September 1st but the time line is up to mueller and not giuliani. For months they have sought to limit facetoface questions about obstruction of justice. A Key Point Of Mueller Inquiry the president repeatedly rails against. That is a total witch hunt. Reporter the president out of public view again at his new jersey golf club. But keeping a close eye on the fraud trial of his former Campaign Chairman paul manafort. But tension inside of the virginia courtroom with judge ellis telling a Government Prosecutor to hurry things along. As a concession to the shortness of life, we need to get it done. Also today the Senate Intelligence committee calling on wikileaks founder Julian Assange to make hims
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Night that he found out some Bad Information about the company. And then proceeded to tip off his son who also invested in the company. So take a look at this timeline. This was on june 22nd of 2017, summer of last year. At 6 55 p. M. , the indictment says he received an email from the ceo of the company saying that a drug trial had been a failure. Now 16 minutes later, at 7 11 p. M. , he starts calling his son. He tries to make that call four times before he is successful. And at 7 16, he speaks to his son and informs him about this information that he had learned. And it is the next day, 7 42 a. M. , in the morning, that his son starts putting in orders to sell off his shares of his stock in this company. N ultimately, the indictment says that he was able to avoid some 570,000 in losses. Now a lot of congressional reporters are actually already familiar with this company Innate Immunotherapeutics
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Fiance and her father. All told, the congressman and his family avoided over 768,000 in losses according to the document. And the big question we are asking today is, what does the arrest of Congressman Collins mean for the midterms . Joining me nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. Nbc news investigations reporter tom winter, New York Times chief metro Political Correspondent shane gold macher and former s. E. C. Enforcement attorney seth waxman. Tom, you have been following this. You were downtown a little bit earlier today. Here is a statement from collins lawyer saying we will answer the charges filed in court and will mount a defense to clear his good name. It is notable the government does not allege that Congressman Collins traded a single chair of Innate Immunotherapeuticss stock. We are confident he will be
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