In fiveyear notes and well be watching the price of gold today as well. The precious metal dropping 2 yesterday. That was the worst day in six weeks. You can see right now its trading at 1,264. 70 an ounce. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. Welcome back. We have corporate news, tech news, talking about re code. General electric Ceo Jeff Immelt is in france, meeting with president hollande, also with the countrys economic minister to discuss ges bid for alstom. An official in hollandes office says ge has improved its offer for the french train and turbine maker. The comments could suggest a change. This could be a change for the first time for the french government which until now has been critical of ges bid. We will see where all of that heads. In other european news, this morning, the uks fraud office launched a formal criminal investigation into Glaxo Smithkline amid claims of foreign bribery. The Company Faces claims in china and four other countries. Weve talked about this be
Ukraine. Trump said this morning Paul Manafort offered and i accepted his resignation from the campaign um im very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today. Paul is a true professional and i wish him the greatest success. A force tells fox news, trump was fed up with manafort trying to get him to change his tone and pivot to a general election campaign. Under trumps Newest Campaign leadership we are already seeing a difference in the republican nominee. Watch. Sometimes in the heat of debate, and speaking on a multitude of issues, you dont choose the right words. Or you say the wrong thing. I have done that. [applause] and believe it or not, i regret it. From the cheers in thursday the hall to social immediate a ya that was his rally last night in charlotte, getting a lot of attention. He appeared disciplined and on message. Trumps tour of the flood damage in louisiana comes after two feet of rain have fallen there. At least 13 people have died. Some 30,0
This is the top of the hour, monday night massacre, President Donald Trump firing the acting attorney general for refusing to defend the executive order on travel restrictions for immigrants and refugees. And again, i want to get right back to these two yeah, david gergen, you are arguing a point, go on. Well, she sally yates as i understand the story agreed to stay on at the request of the Incoming Trump administration. And they apparently had trust and faith, they won the have asked her to stay on. Shes there, shes doing her job, and along comes this executive order that they dont check out with her, they dont get it vetted through the vuft is department. She like many other americans is it horrified by the result, and she feels it is there are at least parts of it are. Shes unwilling to say, im not willing to follow this through. She knew she would be fired when she did this. It seems to me that was an honorable thing to do. I agreed to stay on. She should have resigned. I have to g
difficult for them to be on it, and continue to complain there and make their case, and serve on it at the same time. i think that s going to be a push me/pull you for the two of them. sergei brent went to one of the marchs? well, he s a refugee. he s an actual refugee, and he said so. today at google protests, it was an symbolic walkout of google. he told the story of being a refugee, and he is, and so a lot of people, the head of microsoft, immigrant. the head of google, immigrant. steve jobs was the son of a syrian migrant. syrian imgrant. this particular issuesome at the heart of these things, net nutrality, it s going to be one