senior advisor may have exposed classified state passwords to her very hackable private yahoo account this as president trump said if navy sailor had to go to jail for taking pictures of his classified submarine so should a bedin, and christian is here with us to might to call out that double standard. we ve got an all-star guest line up for you, economist ben stein on that big risk to your money, now sitting right there hiding in plain sight and retired lieutenant colonel on the explosive iran protest and how they are now blaming the u.s. for iran s riots politics, money we ve got you covered welcome to risk & reward i m elizabeth macdonald. we are on the dow closing in the green in its fir trading day of the new year the s & p 500 and nasdac clenching fresh record highs. could the markets rise continue under president trump s new year agenda. the work starts this week. the president is expected to meet with season at majority leader mitch mcconnell, house speaker paul ryan
they want to hurt trump before he comes overseas for the historic series of meetings that no president has tried to undertake. that s what s going on here, pulling the curtain back and seeing what s happening in d.c. u.s. markets seeing through the d.c. fog. the dow closing slightly lower, nasdaq having second straight record close and s&p 500 hitting all-time high along with tech stocks, google and amazon. this, as the white house is fiercely discounting another report that president trump revealed classified information about an impending isis terror threat to russian officials. welcome to risk & reward, i m elizabeth macdonald in for deirdre bolton. cia director mike pompeo is briefing the house intelligence committee. we re monitoring that to speak to the press afterwards. we ll bring you that. the senate intelligence committee held a closed-door meeting and senators spoke to the press with more questions than answers coming up. staying on that story, too. this, as
plus the deal-maker-in-chief making good on another campaign promise. the president s next move to help the economy rand put americans back to work. this hour we re joined by former reagan economist, art laffer, linda mcmahon from the small business administration, john bolton and tom mcinerney and former house committee chairman pete hoekstra. melissa: dow snapping record streak failing to end the day with a record close. phil flynn is watching the action in oil and gold from the cme. nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. nicole, first to you what was moving the trade today? reporter: we saw apple weigh on all three major averages no doubt. apple was down. they had a downgrade from pacific crest this morning despite the excitement surrounding the conference that was one area of whackness. overall markets sold off slightly, down .1 of a percent. don t forget we closed on records friday. stocks have been up two weeks in a row. stocks are up 400 points
cnn staffers who talked about russia, russia, russia have resigned. and the tweet to bring already republican no votes. vice-president pence has a dinner to pile on the pressure and telling the republicans you may never have a better chance to improve health care, get it done. you add it up and the president s standing seems to be improving. the left, oh, dear, looking increasingly deficit. the granny over the cliff ad goes way over the top bringing violent imagery to the health care debate and nancy pelosi says the health care bill will kill hundreds of thousands of people. senator al franken says it s 2000. trump will being up, the left in disarray. varney & company about to begin. all right, big corporate news out of europe. google fined $2.7 billion, the european commission, they re the finers, so to speak, ruling against google saying it abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the expense of at the top of its search results. the stock wi
rather thinks it s worse than watergate. the presidency is clearly under attack from its own bureaucrats and big tech companies, from the courts, academics, the left and media allies, this is intense. of course, investors are watching all of this, but they don t yet believe that politics stops tax cuts and growth and profits. for now they are ignoring politics. will you please look at this. the dow closed yesterday 20,600, up since the election and no significant retreat today. we will be down maybe 30 points at the opening bell, but on a 20,000 dow, that s nothing. . president has weighed in via an early morning tweet. part of this reads like this. great level of confidence and optimism even before the tax plan rollout. as we often say, you have a front row seat, so, sit back, watch history unfold. varney & company is about to begin. we begin today with this, today is a so-called day without immigrants. ashley, you better explain this, as a fellow immigrant, explain this