Mcconnell. Do you have anything what the republicans would support. Youd have to ask them. 90 of the American People support common sense background legislation. And thats 200 days ago, earliest days of the democratic majority and we passed the legislation thats been sitting over there for just about 200 days. 100 people a day die from gun violence, 40 of them children or teenagers. Every single day for 200 days, some many of those deaths could have been prevented with background checks. From your standpoint, are background checks a starting point or an end point when it comes to Gun Legislation . Background checks are a critical point because they save the most lives. People talk about other initiatives which are important, but what saves most lives are the background checks and what this legislation does is just expands on the background check laws that are there now. When the law was passed and i was here and on the floor as a new, relatively new member of congress, we didnt have on
We are seeing green on the screen in terms of equities and u. S. Futures. We finished unchanged on the s p 500, so the markets are a little bit risk on. We are seeing that reflected in the bond market. The 10 year has backed up. We have a number of regional president s pushing back against further rate cuts. The dollar is on the front foot as well. Coming up, we are live from jackson hole as investors take positions on how fast and how far the fed will ease. We have a host of stellar interviews first up, James Bullard. And then watch out for robert m Robert Kaplan and patrick harker. , that iser it takes what new Zealands Central Bank governors says he will do to support the economy. Thef says he will evaluate impacts of this month on expensively large rate cuts before considering further easing. Forward, we were saying everyone is telling us we needed to be lower. Everyone is telling us Global Growth is slowing, so lets get ahead of this. Lets move and reduce the probability of having
Happening . G happy 5 00 on a tuesday morning, everybody. Starting off on a great note. A little warm out there. We have got temperat es that are on their way up along with the humiatty. Is the main thing youll notice out there today. The heat and o humidity isut there. Not the bl skies we had yesterday. 77 degrees is our temperature ttght now. We will slip a bit as we continue through the 6 00 a. M. Hour and start moving back in the right direction. 8by 10 00 a. M. Its going to feel like 90 degrees by that time. Mix of sun andl cd out there. More humid today. Afternoon, we could have a chance for storms and same with the commute soim we will t those out coming up. Good morning, melissa. Good morning. Taking a look at northbound 395 near king street brandnew crash blocking the ride of the road here. They are getting by on theleft so be careful. You might a little bit of a delay. Beltway overall right now i would say no major issues. For the first time, neighborsh are sing their concern
Branch officials from engaging in political activity. Mr. Cummings the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. The full Committee Hearing is convening regarding violations of the hatch act under the Trump Administration. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give my Opening Statement. Today are holding a hearing on a very troubling on a very troubling report issued by the office of special counsel on june 13, of this year. This report finds that Kellyanne Conway, counselor to president donald trump, violated the hatch act dozens of times. And it recommes that the president fire her immediately for her violations. There are rarely issues that come befe our c committee that are so clear cut, but this is one of them. This is about right and wrong. This is about the core principle of our precious democracy, that nobody, not one person, nobody in this country is above the law. Contrary to claims from misco
Dramatic new video shows forces boarding a british oil tanker. Latest on heightened tensions between iran and the west. One million in the streets demanding resignation of puerto ricos governor. That is about 1 3 of the islands population. Well take you there live. First it was the Dominican Republic. There are new concerns over another popular vacation spot. At least 19 people are dead. Well tell you where and what you need to know. Connell fox Business Team coverage today. All the top stories with blake burman at the white house. Kristina partsinevelos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and phil flynn watching oil and iran out at the cme. Blake as usual, a lot going on at the white house. Well start with you. Reporter well start with a pretty remarkable headline came to us from the Washington Post which is that huawei helped north korea buildout its Wireless Network at one point in time. The post even cited internal documents in that report today which said back in 2018 a Ch