time for the midterm elections. white house is calling opec s decision short sighted look at alternatives to wall street to reporting the administration is preparing to ease sanctions on venezuela and its dictator nicholas in an effort to increase the supply of oil on the market. let s bring in our panel also journal columnist kempster also, editorial board members kyle peterson. so why did saudi arabia make this a judgment after all the president had gone to the country earlier this year to try to persuade the crown prince there to produce more oil. now they are going in the opposite direction, what happened? from saudi arabia s perspective you have to consider they are looking at two factors. once the long-term alliance with the united states and hopefully try to keep that altogether. but they also have to look at their bottom line. and frankly, if you look at the signal sediment coming from all corners of the economy recently it looks like a 20 a pretty major slowdown la
Between protests and rioting. This looks like rioting to me in portland. So what to make of all of this. Aaron mcknight, amy holmes, and atima, we begin with you. Their woman, their candidate, lost and its frustrating itch understand that. Protesters are an american right. When it veers, as it has, to nasty placardses to say nothing of violence issue is that a step too far . Well, like you said, its definitely the violence should not be condoned. Thats happening in portland. But in d. C. , chicago, new york, the protests have been peaceful. I will say you couldnt yell fire in a crowded Movie Theater and anyone be surprised when people are running in fear and pandemonium, which is what trump is doing right now and a lot of his supporters when you run a campaign essentially insulted peoples disabilities, mexicans, talking bat muslim ban, which he haunt drawn hasnt drown back on so thats what this is coming from. Aaron, he won, his language has been fairly respectable and calming. So, i w
What mayor de blasio told trump in the meeting. Media giant revealing sounded even more flawed measurements, what it means to the relationships and publishers. All eyes on Federal Reserve today. Janet yellen heads to capitol hill. She will face questions over Interest Rates and Central Banks relationship with the Incoming Trump administration. We will watching the testimony. Futures look like this. We are expecting a fractional gain at the opening of trade this morning after weakness yesterday. The dow industrial expected to be up 20 points today. In europe mixed performances. You see the ftse up 25 points. Onethird of 1 . The dax index in germany down a fraction. Japan central bank to buy unlimited amount of government bonds at mixed rates. First time they want to keep a lid on rising yield. Holiday shopping frenzy has begun. Spending expect today rise this year. We have the stories coming up. All the stories and joining me to talk about it National Review reporter cat is here and rep
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Here is the question for this committee, how do we leverage assad leaving when russia is going to fight for him, iran is going to fight for him and hezbollah is going to fight and we are not going to do a thing to take him down and yall both know that, when kerry goes over to geneva he is turning over syria to russians and iranians. Is there any military threat now that russia, iran and hezbollah is on his side . Do you see any military threat to take him down general dunford . Theyre on assads advantage. He is secure as the day is long. So this is what happened, folks, the strategy has completely fallen apart. Russia, iran and hezbollah are going to fight for their guy and we are not going to do a thing to help the people who want to change syria for the better by getting rid of dictator. That we would fight along side people who want to take assad down . Is that possible . Approach to removing assad does it have a military component in. Political effort so the answer is no. Are we go