Happy friday. Here with me at post nine. Carl has the day off. We start with the markets. What a wild week it has been after suffering the worst day of the year on wednesday, major averages are recovering a fraction of their losses. In fact, theyre having the best day today in about a month. Lets bring in david kelly and mark kessler good morning to you, david. Were looking at all 11 s p sectors higher right now. Clearly theres been a lot of turmoil out of washington. I think the appointment of the special prosecutor may actually help calm things down because rob miller will work away in the background. But meantime as long as the administration maintains some discipline and focuses on its agenda, it may find it easier to do that with a special prosecutor working in the background rather than this constant back and forth with the media and the senate and house committees. I think thing also quiet down in washington. So, mark, still after the swings weve seen and sentiment in the market
Major auto dealer. Energy is one of the biggest losers with oil falling again. Its entering bear market territory. Well talk what impact this could have on the broad market coming up. Plus this is very interesting, the ceo of one of the hottest and most anticipated biotech ipos of the year, the company is looking to take on genetic diseases with its so called Gene Editing Technology. Well talk with the ceo coming up. After the bell its all those earnings you mentioned, alphabet, amazon, well bring you instant analysis as soon as they cross, especially after facebook and ford. Theres so much riding on how these companies do. Lets start with the earnings season hitting the halfway mark. Bob looks at the highlights of the first half and what we can look for in the second half. Important thing, bill, is we are Getting Better. The bad news is were not Getting Better very fast. Lets look at the score card. 55 of the s p 500 reporting were down 2. 8 . Earnings on average down 2. 8 . Thats bet
If you count the legal votes, i easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. The president s allegations of largescale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantiated. The president s allies launching lawsuits to overturn the results. My guests this morning, republican senator mitt romney of utah, democratic congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina and Deputy Campaign manager kate bedingfield. Plus, race for the senate this is not the night democrats dreamed of. Disappointed democrats fail to seize the senate and lose seats in the house. We had a good day. Most pundits thought we would lose the senate. Two runoffs in january will decide control of the senate. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news senior washington correspondent andrea mitchell, democratic pollster cornell belcher, wall street columnist peggy noonan and David Wasserman with the cook political report. Welcome to sunday and a special election edition of m
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And caught on camera. Look at this incredible video. A landslide sends a gigantic boulder down the side of a mountain, rolling to a stop just inches away from a car. The video you have to see this morning. Good morning on this extremely busy sunday with big stories developing here at home and all over the world. Lets start with president obama. And his stunning decision to put what appeared to be an imminent attack against syria on hold. Now looking to congress to approve military action, after britain, a key u. S. Ally backed out. Now this delays any action against the assad regime for using chemical weapons by more than a week, because congress is out of session until september 9th. We begin with Jonathan Karl from the white house. Quite a surprising turn of events. Reporter absolutely. While the president has told the world he believes the United States should launch a military attack against syria, he also made it clear he is not ready to act alone. The president made an impassione