Plus it is round two astrumps cabinet appointees are taking the hot seat on capitol hill. The hearing for interior secretary is currently underway. In just one hour, Senate Democrat are expected to grill betsy devos, trumps choice for education secretary. Fox business will be bringing that hearing from stem to stern live. Coming upjohn stossel will join on after the bell to sound off on all this. Melissa dow plunging as dollar slides to onemonth low as president elect donald trump described the currency as too strong in an interview with the wall street journal. Phil flynn, Price Futures Group is fox business contributor. Watching action on gold from floor of the cme. Lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Lori, start with you. What was driving the trade here. Dollars was a big theme throughout the session. What is wrong with a strong dollar . Multinationals that do a whole lot of business like nike, mcdonalds, makes it more expensive for them to do that business. Si
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the Obama Presidency is ending on a note of forgiveness. Late today, president obama used the power given to him by the constitution and pardoned 64 people and shortened the sentences of 209 others, most notably, private Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier formerly known as bradley manning, was serving 35 years for downloading hundreds of thousands of secret documents and passing them to the online site wikileaks. It was among the largest breaches in u. S. History. More now from Margaret Brennan. Pelley and we have a delay in Margaret Brennans story, but we will come back to that as soon as we can. In the meantime, president elect trumps schedule tonight includes dinner dinner in washington with the head of his inaugural committee. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected at fridays inauguration events, but more than 50 House Democrats are boycotting. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. I do not intend to attend the upcoming
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Today the crews found workers assembling the bleachers and the barricades. The barriers will include concrete trucks to prevent vehicle attacks like those in france and germany. As washington prepares for the president ial inauguration there are signs of a deeply divided nation. More than 50 members of congress all democrats are going to boycott the inauguration. A poll shows trump is entering office with the lowest approval rate the lowest in 40 years. But amidst signs of division there are calls for unity. The abc7 chief Political Correspondent scott thuman joins us with more on that. You talk to a lot of people today. They dont know what is con daneed in the the other may be trying to tampdown whatever unease exist or is reflected reflected in thw survey numbers thoughing that trump will be the least popular incoming president in four decades. He debunked the numbers by proving he saw the same survey result prior to the election, yet he won. This will likely be put under the microsc
Later kidnapped from rhode island. Discovered in texas. And americas golden girl tonight. The interview with betty white. Turning 95 and what she reveals about the golden girls. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and with three days left before he leaves office, president obama has commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning. The former army private who gave hundreds of thousands of military documents to wikileaks. Manning was an Intelligence Analyst serving 35 years. The longest sentence ever given for a leak conviction. Now manning will soon go free. The speaker of the house, republican paul ryan saying, manning put american lives at risk, and that the president has set a very dangerous precedent. We begin with Martha Raddatz. Reporter she is one of the most controversial prisoners in america and tonight president obama has ordered that 29yearold Chelsea Manning be released in may, cutting short her 35year sentence. Manning burst onto the wor