Committee is meeting within the hour. What we know now and what happens next. Showdown in the senate. Democrats now have the votes to block neil gorsuch from joining the Supreme Court. Leaving republicans no choice but to go nuclear. More on this unprecedented move that may backfire on democrats. Conservatives could be coming closer to backing a republican healthcare bill. Well ask a member of the Freedom Caucus and housewares and means where we stand now. David the markets ending with the dow staging a major rebound, closing shy of positive territory. Here with a recap of the first day of the new quarter, phil flynn watching oil and gold from the cme. Lori rothmans, on floor of new york stock exchange. Lori, how Many Political events affected those situations on wall street. Reporter you can bet, david, this Trading Floor has the ear glued to everything coming out of washington, d. C. I think that has probably somewhat to do with the dow made up 100 points. It was looking good last co
An endorsement of her and her agenda and she has to work to bring people together. As opposed to this country is getting behind in major numbers the way they did with the two obama elections, behind obamas agenda. I think dan makes a really interesting point. I take another another chop at that, charlie. Is that so the question is, if there is a clinton administration, do they say a the mandate is one question, but the other is do they press the case that the Republican Party created donald trump . In other words, that this is and Hillary Clinton has been pushing this a little bit on the stump, in order to help democratic candidates. But if she really grinds this in afterward, okay, and tries to delegitimize republicans by saying well, here say bad candidate but it really grew out of a party that really allowed this to fester inside of it, that would be a really that would be real hardball. The alternative is that she doesnt do that. That she reaches out, that she allows people like pa
Ukraine and russia. Escalating tensions between the u. S. And russia over the incident had a big impact on the markets. Wall streets socalled fear index had its biggest gain in more than a year. There was a definite flight to safety. Treasury bond rallied and stocks fell sharply. The dow was down 161 points. The nasdaq down 62. Oil up over 2 bucks a barrel. For more on this, Fox News National security analyst, kt mcfarland. Thanks for being with us. A real pleasure to have you here. I said before we really dont know where this missile was fired from, the ukraine or russia, that took this plane down. Does it really matter . What is important about it is that it rips the veil off of putin phony war in eastern ukraine. I was in ukraine about five weeks ago. I met with the head of the Intelligence Services and the military and they talked about putins phony war. Look, weve been invaded in eastern ukraine. But putin has very cleverly used special forces where theyre not wearing russian insi
To speed up play and get a new generation to watch. One thing i can say for sure their Attention Span seems to be shorter than the rest of ours. Gerri eyeopening report on real estate and what you get for your money in various parts of the country. 95 grand in san diego. That one actually surprised me. Gerri all that and more coming up on the willis report where consumers are our business gerri a Supreme Court ruling that could have a very big impact on your 401 k . The high court is hearing a classaction suit filed against a california based Utility Company called Edison International. Now the suit claims companies didnt act in their employee best interests by picking 401 k funds with excessive fees. Here to weigh in, ric edelman of edelman financial. Welcome, rick. I want to start with different topic and well get to edison in a second. We talked yesterday about the effort by the administration to give brokers a higher standard for client portfolios. They call it fiduciary, but nobod
Gerri welcome to the willis report. You are show them your money and your voice. Tonight, the savings. Major banks are warning that they may charge you to have a checking or savings account. This is according to the Financial Times and you heard me right. The banks are charging you to keep your money and not the other way around. Two out of five banks because the Federal Reserve said it may Interest Rates it pays the banks on some of the 2. 4 trillion in reserve that they have. The banks are making up for it by hitting us in the pocket. Its always great to have you on the show. Let me tell you why this incenses me. Already on my cds and earning nothing. 0. 23 . On my savings account, my money markets are not earning anything at all either. 0. 12 . And that his paltry earnings. Now they are going to charge us more. Why is that . The economy is not strong. The banks dont have a lot of demand for those loans. So if they put it in the Federal Reserve in the make almost nothing, they are no