Go irish. Good monday morning. The band is back together. Awfully nice to have david back. Im back. We have jim cramer, and david fabe, as they say in france. The single best week for stocks in over a year last week. Europe has lost a little ground this morning despite Investor Confidence numbers coming in at an 18month high. The s p starts the week at fiveyear highs. Even as the lines are drawn in the battle over spending cuts and the debt ceiling. And then there is earning season. Kicks off tomorrow with alcoa. Banks in the spotlight this morning, bank of america settling with fannie mae with mortgages it underwrote during the housing boom. Citi submitting to the feds. Revising up, gdp forecast to 81, saying investing in the mass market stocks is the way to go. Potential cuts at the Magic Kingdom reports disneys got internal costcutting review under way. The question of the day, can the new year rally continue. Last week the s p jumped 4. 6 to a new fiveyear high. Not only is wall st
Inquiry. Kristen welker has details reporter tonight, undercutting the president s denials of a quid pro quo, the acting white house chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, with a remarkable admission one of the reasons President Trump held up military aid to ukraine was mr. Trump wanted them to assist in a Justice Department investigation into the 2016 election. The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the things that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. That is absolutely appropriate. Reporter the president s request was over an unfounded allegation democrats meddled with ukraines help in the election mulvaney was pressed, was all of this a quid pro quo . Which could be illegal. We do that all the time in Foreign Policy i have news for everybody, get over it. Theres going to be political influence in Foreign Policy. Reporter the president has denied there was quid pro quo during his july phone call with ukraines leader. There was no quid pro quo there was n
Here is what weve learned so far. The former top aide on russia, fee oionna hill, told lawmakers sondland and Rudy Giuliani circumvented the National Security process to run a Shadow Campaign in ukraine. She testified that john bolton was so alarmed he told her to go to white house lawyers. Im not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up, he told her. Rudy giuliani is a hand grenade, he added. George kent recalled that he was instructed to lay low after he raised concerns about giuliani. He testified diplomats were sidelined and basically replaced with three political appointees to do the president s bidding in ukraine. He said sondland, perry coined themselves the three amigos. And sondland testified that he was disappointed by the mandate to involve giuliani and that our view was that the men and women of the state department not the president s personal lawyer should take responsibility for all aspects of u. S. 230r7b pofo toward ukraine. And Michael Mckinley
And the survivors speaking out for the first time were warning signs missed . Nbc news investigates one of the nations largest Student Loan Companies taking employees on a luxury hawaii getaway at a time millions of americans are being crushed by student debt. Wed love to talk to you about what you guys are doing here. What the ceo said when we confronted him. The new warning, toxic metals that can damage babies brains found in a Staggering Amount of baby food. What parents need to know. The tributes pouring in for a longtime congressman and civil rights champion. Good evening an embattled President Trump may have gotten no favors from his acting chief of staff today who appeared to contradict one of the president s main impeachment defenses, that there was no quid pro quo. Mick mulvaney telling reporters the president did hold up military aid to ukraine, at least in part for personal political reasons. He addressed reporters at the very same time a witness directly involved in those u
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