I want to take you live right now to the ups airport hub in atlanta, georgia, where you can see the crowds forming. At any moment, President Trump is expected to announce a new policy that he says will expedite and modernize the approval process for major Infrastructure Projects across the united states. Projects that often take years to complete, they take so long sometimes, Companies Just abandon their effort. We are going to take you straight to atlanta as soon as the president makes what could be a marketmoving remark. The bulls are still humming but they were singing at the top of their lungs earlier in the session. Dow jones industrials had spiked 428 points. Its up 129 right now. In the Early Morning move, there was very encouraging news out of moderna. Modernas experimental Covid Vaccine produced virusfighting antibodies but investors appear right now to say you know what, we still want the buy stocks but they see the rally as an opportunity maybe for a little sector rotation o
To war. The nightmare stage of trumps rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the New York Times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. Democrats lining up to attack the president , Bernie Sanders says hes like putin. Assassinating dissonance. Meanwhile, theres real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and then a stampede. Iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. Overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. Monday the dow made a 200point uturn and actually closed higher. This morning were looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s p, a 10point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the Soleimani Killing the price of oil moved to 63 64 a barrel today its back to 62 and the price of gas, Holding Steady the National Average still right there at 2. 58 per gallon.
He was asking tough questions and he told them, i will sign whatever kind of deal you all can negotiate. Very interesting watching hill to reach across the aisle, looking for a solution to fix the immigration problem. He says we can get daca done and we must secure the borders and end chain migration. That is important thing. He point you had out any democrat can be in favor of chain migration . Why dont we want a meritbased system . Karl rove on significance of all of this. Breaking overnight, republican lawmakers are investigating whether top fbi agents leaked information about the russia probe to the media. Republican congressman matt gaetz has been all over the story since day one. He says there is no way mueller can conduct a fair investigation with his team stacked full of trump folks. Go to blake burman at white house, for the latest on the Immigration Reform meeting. It was a real privilege, blake, to be able to watch that, see both side really working together in a way that fr
House earlier. A unique, fairly civil, can you imagine that . Bipartisan debate before a Live National audience. You see President Trump is exchanging ideas with democrats and republicans alike, steny hoyer, the democrat to his left, standing firm, though, as far as the president is concerned on the wall, say that the u. S. Has no security without a border wall with mexico. Daca dreamers, chain migration, all the Economic Issues that meade to be solve. The president suggesting a plan in two phases, calling it dead in the water. Why . Adam shapiro is live in d. C. , hes going explain. On wall street, well, look at the bottom ticker. Extending a new year rally, as the dow, s p 500 and the nasdaq take aim at new record closes. You see the dow is up 124. The s p is better by 7. Nasdaq powering ahead by a quarter of a percent or 17 . People love to watch the techheavy nasdaq. Financials, industrial stocks are driving the record run. In las vegas, were coming to you live, in the broadcast to
Drain your swamp over producer harvey Sexual Harassment scandal. Many saying he is not the only one. And nfl owner pushing back on their players flag protest. And now ceo based in puerto rico, saying youve got to drain yourself of incompetence and corruption. Thats what he calls it. Weve got all of those stories for you tonight. Welcome to risk and reward. Im elizabeth macdonald. Now first to your moan. The stock market rally still hanging in tight. Powering ahead. It is the strongest market in decades. The dow ending mixed today. But heres whats going on. Investors are enthusiastic as President Trump cuts back on regulatory state. That grew to massive proportions. More than 5 trillion in stock market values added to your 401 k s and stock since President Trump was elected. And today, the regulatory roll back, the draining of the swamp begins. Epa all right. Scott pruitt announcing that the Trump Administration will get rid of a big obama Regulatory Program to curve emissions from coal