We will hear from current House Speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Good afternoon, u everyone. As speaker of the house it is my official and personal honor to welcome friends House Speaker john boehner to the u. S. Capitoh on this historic day. The presence of members from both sides ofap the aisle come from both sides of the capital is a testament to the respectes that all have or john, mr. Speaker. We are pleased to welcome two former speakers and we anticipate speaker gingrich was with us and speaker ryan. Both of them are here. [applause] and we warmly welcome and extend our gratitude to debbie, the lindsey and tricia, and the entire banner family for sharing john with this congress and with our country. Now it is my privilege to invite father conroy to deliver the invocation. Im surrounded by quadraphonic speakers. [laughing] dear god [laughing] we
a heavy media focuses on hunter biden trial in the drug addicts tail and even natural suffering his defense was downright awful, so awful that even in delaware where the biden name is golden the federal georgia took three hours to convict him on all three gun felony charges, so awful that nobody was buying it, so awful he had nothing to say afterwards but d.o.j. special counsel david wise did tell the reporters the verdict was not about addiction. s choice to line a government forum when he bought a gun and the choice to possess that gun. it was these choices and accommodation of guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous. to set up a contest for the press after donald trump a former president become a convicted felon in the hush money case the current president s son became a convicted felon in the illegal gun case two extremely different cases. after demanded the hunter must be held accountable because of his last name many conservatives immediately shifted their
Terranova. He plays a great guitar . Its called the mr. Wonderful. Its built by fender i was a shareholder in fender for years and i made no money. Joe, was he actually playing the guitar he was. This wasnt a milli vanilli situation . No. No billy gibbons, the zz top guy, who im in awe of as a rocker tweeted me and said hey, hey, not bad, but youre leaving a little on the e chord. Hes an investor he watches cnbc. This is good. Joe, were excited to have you. Thank you for getting up early on a holiday week. The last day of trading for 2017 lets tell you where u. S. Equity futures are. Theyve been negative throughout the morning. S p is the only average that would open in positive territory if it were to open up now, up by 3 points overnight in asia, final trading night of the year has come and gone largely mixed. The nikkei slightly negative hong kong positive as well as shanghai 2017 finished off with a gain of nearly 20 for the nikkei. Look at that 19 year to date look at crude. Weve
Markets slightly weaker yesterday. A couple of big stories this morning. The big one is hp reportedly planning to sell a majority stake in its chinese data networking operation for about 2. 3 billion. Heres whats going on. The wall street journal saying it comes after revelation that u. S. Spying for demand for tech products. Sis coe and others have had issues about this. Also in Economic News new numbers overnight showing chinese factory activity contracted for a Third Straight month. Chinese output shrinking at the fastest rates in more than a year. This is going to reinforce expectations for more policy stimulus. Geo political headlines this morning, isis saying its in full control of the ancient sere juan city of palmyra. Heres todays squawk planl. Key economic reports. Weekly jobless claims later in the morning. Manufacturing pmi. Existing home sales. Leading Economic Indicators in the Kansas City Fed survey. On the earnings front best buy will report Quarterly Results before the