Minutes of context, and things i see happening in washington, and then i will turn it over entirely to you. The way we will do that is that there are microphones on either side of the room, and rather than having me picking and choosing within the audience, please line up behind the microphones if you in fact have a question or a comment. I will ask you to be brief in your questions or observations , and i will be brief and my responses because we probably will have lots of people who want to be heard. Another thing i want to say is just so you know, we agreed to , allow cspan to record this town hall meeting. I have no doubt whatsoever that we can show the country the kind of thoughtful and respectful dialogue that we have here in Fairfield County so just be aware that you could get famous on cspan. [laughter] so that you are aware. And as i said, before we get into your questions and comments and observations, i just wanted to take a few minutes to give you some context on some thing
What he says he will tackle next. Why it could be odds with one republican leader in congress. While the president touting new law as largest tax overhaul in decades. Polls showing americans are not quite on board. The Koch Brothers network now spending millions of dollars on ads selling the benefits of the plan. Were speaking up the man heading up this project. Freedom partners, executive Vice President , james davis, among our guests, steve forbes, zane tankel, John Hofmeister, former president of shell oil. We have a full show. Lauren we do. Get back to the down markets. Another down day for stocks despite passage of tax reform and avoiding a government shutdown. Nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. End of the week, nicole, we didnt see a santa clause rally. People are very cheerly. There is a lot of optimism. It got quieter towards end of the week. We had a great day on monday. Were up for the week. In fact five weeks in a row of gains, almost 1400 points. So, up
First Nicole Petallides in the New York Stock Exchange and nicole what was driving the rally today . Nicole certainly we have an opportunity to bounce back after two weeks we certainly had a tough run over 2400 dow points dropping 9 it was fromming to see the back to back gains gaming over 300 on friday and holding on to a decent gain of over 400 points thats 1. 7 the fundamentals are the same. Corporate earnings are on the rise, we have beneficial new americas tax plan, we have the budget in place so these are the things and of course the new infrastructure ideas for the two years ahead also help to give a boost so taking a look at the dow, nasdac and s p and i was looking at the yeartodate numbers because we saw the dow going in and out of positive tear tear tori yeartodate but the nasdac in the green for the year 2018 after a stellar 2017 so there you go right . We werent able to squeeze it out but a couple more days of this action we will see some up arrow and a lot of the folks fe
In politics, the house will vote on the g. O. P. Health care plan. It will be a partisan vote and its just the first step in a lengthy process to ultimately make this bill a law, but we begin with late night politics. Steven colbert he doesnt completely back walk or walk back from his vulgar antitrump monologue. Varney company begins. Folks, if you saw my monologue on monday, you know that i was a little upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. So, at the end of that monologue, i had a few choice insults for the president in return. I dont regret that. I have jokes. He has the launch code. So, a fair fight. Well, that was Stephen Colbert from last night addressing in the comments he made the night before. Want to bring in James Freeman with the wall street journal editorial page. Seems like he did stop short of apologizing. Yeah, i think a lot of people are asking, wouldnt he be fired in many circumstances . What im happening for here is some market discipline. Stuart fr
Its antithetical for the government to decide what speech is acceptable. When the police in charlottesville declined to impose order, they allows the hecklers veto to silence speech. And its unconstitutional. Its the functional equivalent of government taking sides and censoring the speech it hates or fears. The remedy is not to silence or censor it. The remedy is more speech to challenge the hatred, speech to educate the haters. Speech to expose their moral vacuity. The american promise of the right to pursue happiness is only as good as those in government who protect it and in charlottesville the government failed us. Im judge Andrew Napolitano in for kennedy tonight. Attorney general Jeff Sessions viewed to defend protesters against lay tread and bigotry and promised to take vigorous action to defend the rights of americans. But should protecting the First Amendment be the primary goal and lesson after charlottesville . Lets bring in my panel. Jessica tarlov, town hall. Com editor