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We don t know where gas prices are going to be. but they are going to be economic pressure points that any opposition party will use against this incumbent. gas prices could be one. unemployment could be one. inflation could be one. that is what the opposition party is there for. neil: now this president will have a unique position saying, i inherited this, and it is surely better now than when we were on the brink of rate trends notwithstanding. will that measure up, because we do remember the melt town. we have a good sense of where we were. guest: well, it may work with some democrats, frankly, i remember president carter saying the same thing about what he inherited from president ford. it don t matter. people assume after four years you have been running the ship of state and you are responsible and they will vote on that basis. neil: interesting stuff. ....
Exchange is now back opened and as you can see it s up a fraction. interesting though that they dropped yesterday by 2.5% at one stage but it came back and closed down by about 1.5% on the back of the news coming out about that explosion. so up again today, so investors certainly showing some resilience there in the moscow investment story. moving on to the u.s. now, stocks there making solid gains for the start of the trading week. more strong profit reports helping encouraging investors there. the oil filled service company, halliburton, turned up a strong result last quarter and this is what the numberses looked like. the dow up almost 1% closing in on the 12,000-point mark. as you see, 11980. the nasdaq up by more than 1%. the s&p. broadest measure up by a little more than a half of 1%. looking forward to the open, futures mostly lower and this is ....
Help at a picnic area. the taliban planning responsibility for a pair of deadly attacks on afghan national army soldiers. four soldiers and five police officers killed during the attack at an army recruiting center. that is in the northwestern part of afghanistan. in the capital city kabul police shot two suicide bombers as they attempted to reach army vehicles. one of the bombs did go off killing five soldiers there. a deal may be close on the 9/11 workers bill been stalled in congress. we expect an announcement that an agreement has been reached to bring the measure up for a vote in the senate possibly tuesday. the bill would provide for medical care payments to 9/11 first responders. president obama expected to sign the repeal of don t ask, don t tell this week. the senate voted by a wide margin yesterday to repeal the military policy that was prohibiting openly gay men and women from serving. ....
Ten more republicans. so this now comes to the senate with some real momentum. and here s the other good news today and i take it to be thrilling as well, olympia snowe, republican of maine, said she will vote on the stand alone of don t ask, don t tell, that means we ve got 61 members of the u.s. senate publicly committed to the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. so all that will stop that repeal is a totally unacceptable refusal to bring our measure up in a timely way. we ve got to get this done. we can get it done. it s an injustice. it s time for it to go. having all those republicans sign measures saying that they re not going to do anything until the tax cut deal is done? yeah. so the tax cut actually, the tax cut is of course passed the senate, now today. the republicans who signed that letter said they wouldn t take anything else up until the appropriations passed. i think that will happen this ....
The house in may, and picked up ten more republicans. so this now comes to the senate with some real momentum. and here s the other good news today and i take it to be thrilling as well, olympia snowe, republican of maine, said she will vote on the stand alone of don t ask, don t tell, that means we ve got 61 members of the u.s. senate publicly committed to the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. so all that will stop that repeal is a totally unacceptable refusal to bring our measure up in a timely way. we ve got to get this done. we can get it done. it s an injustice. it s time for it to go. having all those republicans sign measures saying that they re not going to do anything until the tax cut deal is done? yeah. so the tax cut actually, the tax cut is of course passed the senate, now today. the republicans who signed that letter said they wouldn t take ....