the country, specifically, gender roles. today in tennessee the republican governor billy see signed two controversial new laws. one bans gender affirming care for minors and the other restricts drag shows in the state. let s bring in former democratic congressman ron derrick jones and patrick is here and doug high. guys, let s start with the decision to ban any sort of doctors medical care for anyone under 18 who is looking who believes they are trans and is looking for any sort of medical treatment be it pharmaceutical, consultation or anything like that. doug, i believe you are comfortable with this new law in tennessee. yeah, i think one we have to treat people with dignity and respect and certainly what we ve learned over not just the past three or four years but 20 years, people that feel this way, are this way and have gone through this process quite often go through a very painful life and process. we don t want that. but there are differences between people who a
happening now, the key ukrainian city of bakhmut amid fears it could all at any time. alex murdaugh is sentenced to life in prison after jurors quickly convicted him of murdering his wife and son and the judge calling him a monster. desantis trump split is on display. this as cnn uncovered comments by a new appointee of governor desantis with an animati-gay conspiracy room. alex marquardt is near the front lines in ukraine. alex, bakhmut is significant. reporter: russian forces are trying to encircle ukrainian forces but holding out. this is a very tough fight for the ukrainians that got tougher with a ukrainian bridge on the main supply route that ukraine uses to get to the front line. essentially the only paved road ukraine can use to back up the forces. we were on that road yesterday. we showed it to our viewers here on this program. we saw all kinds of military vehicles going to and from that front line so now, if ukraine wants to supply its forces, if i wants to
That exclusive cnbc investigation coming up as power lunch starts right now welcome, everybody i am Brian Sullivan. It may not look like stocks are doing much the dow is up 43 points. Modest gains but dont let the numbers fool you. As michelle said, those are all new intraday highs for the major indexes and hopefully for your money as well. This despite the north korean threat oils recovery helping some of the battered energy stocks, which is helping the overall market some big individual stock stories that you should be following, equifax battered again following a downgrade. That stock now down 35 since the data breach was announced a week ago and oracle down 7 , thats on concerns about its current quarter. Ty brian, thank you very much. Welcome, everybody im tyler mathisen, and heres what else is happening at this hour macys ramping up for the holidays, hiring 80,000 seasonal workers. But that is down from last year. Google reportedly considering investing a billion dollars in lyft
During the debate when he started lecturing me on new york values like were no good . Like were no good. And i started talking to him about the world trade center, the bravery, the incredible bravery of everybody, our police, our firemen, our everybody. So i looked at him and started about our incredible police, our incredible firefighters, our incredible people, our unbelievable construction workers. Who could have done that . Who could have rebuilt that hole . There was never anything like it in this country. The worst attack in the history of the United States, the bravery that was shown was incredible. We all lived through it. We all know people that died and ive got this guy standing over there looking at me, talking about new york values with scorn in his face, with hatred, with hatred of new folks, i think you can forget about him. Forget about him. He is lyin ted. The bible held high. He puts it high and then he lies. A few minutes after that, donald trump launched in a kind of
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Lets start with the politics lead. House democrats are right now preparing for a conversation theyre going to have at the end of this hour to discuss whether or not the house of representatives will seek to impeach President Trump. Many democrats on the record are saying they believe special Counsel Robert Mueller laid out a compelling case that President Trump, indeed, obstructed justice. A matter that mueller seemed to kick to congress. Now, on that other matter, conspiracy with russia to interfere in the 2016 election, mueller, of course, said his investigation did not find sufficient evidence of that. But President Trumps attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is telling me, quote, theres nothing wrong with taking information from russians. It depends on where it came from the latest in an evolution or devolution in trump team claims, regarding interactions with the russians. It started with what we were told in november 2016. You might recall, hope hicks tel