I have to start. Well break down the Holiday Retail rush as power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Lets take a look at where we stand. Stocks are shrugging off the d. C. Drama as tyler mentioned. As tyler mentioned, its christmas crunch time, six days makes me nervous too lets check out some of the retailers hitting record highs today. Nike, best buy and target, hitting their highest levels ever were going to talk about some of those names as the hour goes on thank you very much wall street focused on washington today at least a little brit as the house begins to debate impeachment. A vote is expected to take place later this evening, and a man javers has more. You. See the action taking place down on capitol hill, on the other end of pennsylvania avenue from here at the white house, where it is all quiet in the west wing. In fact, surprisingly quiet, no indication of any particularly special meetings today no indication that the president is doing much of anything at all
Inside the white house. President trump names north you have cdc and hhs working very closely on a very crafted carolina congressman mark meadows as his new chief of staff replacing Mick Mulvaney message that fits with the who was in that job in an acting president s theme of trying to capacity for more than 400 days. Urge calm, trying not to over the latest from the administration as the president emphasizes risks here, but also spends the weekend in south florida. That has been, you know, really plus, we are on the Campaign Based in the facts that weve trail as the candidates been seeing playing out on the ground, but the president every crisscross the country hoping time he comes out and says to fwan suppogain support from something rusisks undercutting ahead of tuesdays primary that. Shannon pettypiece, thank you contest. What were hearing from the biden and Sanders Campaigns very much for the time. I appreciate it. Today. The facts and figures are no as i just mentioned moments ag
His campaign, his inaugural activities and his presidency itself. These are operating at the federal, state and even local level. And those are just the ones with eknow about. Sometimes the biggest investigations remain confidential in the early stages. Now the Mueller Report revealed more than a dozen active criminal probes that were referred to other offices. Most of those remain secret, totally redacted from public view. And in congress, the New York Times also has the count of 11 separate probes into trump in the administration. Lawmakers want information about secret communications with Vladimir Putin about the tax returns, a battle that is now in court, and also whether donald trump has misrepresented his net worth in potentially criminal ways or ways with National Security implications. This also is a bit of a family affair. Lawmakers investigating vaie ii trump and Jared Kushner for alleged abuses in the security clearances and use of private emails for government business. I w