[ laughter ] thats right. A protester posing as a journalist threw russian flags at President Trump as he arrived at the capitol today and shouted trump is treason. Then she went back to her book tour. [ laughter and applause ] Arizona Republican senator, jeff flake, announced today that he will not seek reelection in 2018, saying he will no longer be complicit or silent in the face of President Trumps behavior. Take a look. We must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal. Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior. It is dangerous to a democracy. Seth this calls for a late night slow clap. [ laughter ] seth all right jeff flake way to eventually go [ laughter ] it took kind of sort of guts to stand up only 11 months after the election and tell america not to elect donald trump. You said, hey, i dont care if this hurts my 18 approval rating. And, yeah, maybe i voted to confirm Jeff Sessions
Pretty amazing considering everything we got going on, not a lot happening for the major averages. Mixed trading action, similar to yesterday. The nasdaq off of its lows. If it finishes down today, it will be the first today slide in the week. Two day slide in a week. Lets take a look at the big earnings movers and the reason why the nasdaq is down a bit more than the s p 500. We are looking at tesla, facebook and semantic symantic. Tesla down sharply, down 5 on the model three update. Elon musk says they will be making 5000 cars per week in march. That is pushing that out three months, causing questions from investors. Plunging 9. 5 . They cut the fullyear view. They need to move more toward the cloud. Heres one winner, alibaba up 1. 7 . Thes beat by 6 Chinese Consumer is very strong. Lets see how alibaba is performing relative to the u. S. Internet companies. On the bottom, we have all the saying stocks, up between 25 and 50 . Alibaba up there in white, up more than 100 , tencent rig
Four days. The story here, Home Builders and housing. Home builder stocks getting it hard on the proposal to slash the mortgage cap in half were going to give you more on that coming up with somebody angry about it as well three big stocks were watching this hour. Apple, Company Getting set to release its earnings tonight a lot of questions about the iphone 8 and x facebook shares down after Mark Zuckerberg said he is serious about facebooks russia response and he will boost spending to police content thats raising concern about future profit and margins. Time warner taking a hit much more on these three stocks ahead. Lets get straight to this big tax plan we have our oreporters covering every angle for you. Theres going to be four tax wrack ets. For households that earn over a Million Dollars of income. The next tax rate will be 35 . That will apply to income between 260,000 and a Million Dollars. The 25 tax rate will apply for income between 90,000 and 260,000. The 12 rate, the lowes
Elites benefit from global capitalism with former greek finance m minister Yanis Varoufakis. Is due book, adults in the room my battle with europes deep establishment. Is a process. You cut government spending, increased taxes in order to balance the governments books but you fail. Yes, you reduce government expenditure, but on the other tax, the economy shrinks so a reduced and your books dont balance a you cut even more. It shines even further and cut more, so it is a neverending downward spiral. Amy then six weeks after Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico, millions still lack clean Drinking Water and electricity. Just back from puerto rico, we will bring you a report from the interior where the storm has exploded t the fault lines of poverty and austerity. My name is carmen. Everything here was destroyed. It is not t easy to be strugglig like this, doing everything by hand. There are Sick Children and elders. That is how it is here. My father vanished. He died. So that hasnt been easy f
Deep establishment. Is a process. You cut government spending, increased taxes in order to balance the governments books but you fail. Yes, you reduce government expenditure, but on the other tax, the economy shrinks so a reduced and your books dont balance a you cut even more. It shines even further and cut more, so it is a neverending downward spiral. Amy then six weeks after Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico, millions still lack clean Drinking Water and electricity. Just back from puerto rico, we will bring you a report from the interior where the storm has exploded the fault lines of poverty and austerity. My name is carmen. Everything here was destroyed. It is not easy to be struggling like this, doing everything by hand. There are Sick Children and elders. That is how it is here. My father vanished. He died. So that hasnt been easy for us. We are alive. We have to thank god amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im