ukraine. cranium. president flora may zalinski calls on the un to label russia a terrorist states. and at washington revelations about how donald trump tried to cling to power. the president said to me, the fact of american president taking up to the capital now a former aid tells a hearing that trump knew protesters were carry or armed when he encouraged them to storm the capital building. ah, i m get had elf as well come to the program. natal member countries are expected to formally invite finland and sweden to join their ranks at the summit, madrid to day took he has dropped its opposition to this nato expansion saying it had got what it wanted in negotiations. turkey had demanded that the nordic countries agreed to arms exports. and the expedition of alleged curtis kurdish militants on day one of what has been described as one of nato s most important summits in years. a major breakthrough in turkey dramatically dropped its opposition to finland and sweden becoming membe
dow still 25 points shy of those levels. six straight days six great sessions with the s&p 500 climbing following last week s plunge of 1%. it has come back, and then some from those levels. one of the things limiting what would be bigger gains is the price of oil, following the opec ,eeting with oil down 4.2% below $50 a barrel once again as opec extended the production cuts but not for a full year, rather nine months. there was optimism that had been percolating that it would be longer. oil shares today, they pulled back with many drillers and oil services companies taking hits, transocean and marathon on this list. stocks are higher today, not lower or being dragged down by these energy shares. consumer discretionary a strong group, best buy is trading at a record, up 22% in today s session after the company comparable sales unexpectedly rose in part because of mario and the sales of the nintendo switch with sears holdings trading higher after the company reported its fi
excluded with russia? that s a question i don t think i should answer in an open setting as i said we didn t when i left we did not have an investigation focused on president trump. the russians interfered in our election during 2016 cycle. they did it with purpose, they did it with sophistication, they did it with overwhelming technical efforts. it s not a close call. that happened. that s about as unfake as you can possibly get. so what does donald trump say about all this today? he was surprisingly quiet on twitter. he didn t send a tweet all day despite reports he might live tweet the event. and here is what happened when reporters asked him at the white house this afternoon about comey s hearing while he was attending a meeting about his infrastructure program. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you. the president simply replied thank you. didn t field any questions from reporters. instead he let his lawyer do the talking for him. that lawyer along wit
truly effective and for citizens to internalize the values and practices. when the rule of law seems intrusive, imposed or oppressive, that social contract falters. and i fear that in many places, america is seeing that process in action. now, researchers have studied the experience of people in communities where contact with the criminal justice system is a regular part of life. and their findings are sobering. they show how wide a net law enforcement and the justice system is casting. in 1980, only 1% of 18 to 23-year-olds who self-reported no criminal behavior had been exposed to parts of the criminal justice system. by 2002, that had grown to 13% and, remember, that s 13 years ago. misdemeanor plea bargains have created a whole generational cohort with a criminal record. many, many people who are not serious criminals are exposed to the controlling effects of the criminal justice system. studies show that these encounters are profound. and they lead to, and this is a quot
i do think it personal issue is part of the problem. a personnel issue is part of the problem. tells you when you got people than you got more demand, you are going to have projects. serious. i also think there is a lot of things that you all are doing right, doing a great job. there are some cases that maybe our little more complicated more controversial, and so the process has slowed down a bit. it s a in, perhaps a lot. in some instances, perhaps a lot. just listening to everything that was said between yesterday and today, that is where i come down on this. in some kind of way we got to get past where we are because i think we could better. it is easy to say we are excellent in everything. that is not true, folks. it is not. so some kind of way we got to close this gap. and the only way we are going to do it is that we have to be frank with each other and we have got to begin to set some goals, whatever you are going to send us back the you should be doing that could he