it comes to presidential politics. on trump s first day in office he started raising money for his reelection campaign, and some of that donor money poured right into his businesses. in 2018, you would say today said washington hotel taken $351,000 during his first year in office. about 60% of that came from the republican national committee to host events at the hotel. trump also has a history of using charitable donations for his own benefit. in 2019 new york times, excuse, me new york judge find trump $2 million after the trump foundation misused donations meant 4chan charity. the npr reported at the time, quote, the case is tied to a televised fund-raiser for veterans held by trump in iowa when he was running for president. trump said the funds raised would beach distributed to charities, but according to two court documents, the trump foundation improperly use nearly $3 million it received from that fund-raiser and now a year and a half after trump s 2020 election defeat
election. specifically, they re looking at the state of georgia where he asked raffensperger, we remember, this to quote, find him enough votes to win, and in that now infamous phone call. we will be hearing from raffensperger and his deputy, gabriel sterling, a name we know well as well. focusing on the pressure trump put on the former vice president, mike pence, to not certify the election. now one member of the january 6th committee praised pence this morning for resisting trump s pressure. in a time of the scandalous betrayal of people in office and crimes being committed all over the place. somebody who does their job will stand out as a hero on the day. i think on that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and the course of efforts to get him to play along with this continuation of the big lie. this big joke that he could somehow call off all the proceedings himself. all the public hearing so far, they ve shown the former president is this re
Its within 80 points of it, in fact. The s p 500 today traded above 2,700 for the fire ever. And the nasdaq solidified its position well above 7,000. So why . Well, the latest readings on the economy were strong. And there is optimism that corporate profits will rise again this year. Now, thats what investors focused on today, brushing off a double dose of drama in washington. First came controversy over president ial tweets about nuclear buttons. Next was a bombshell white house statement in which mr. Trump excoriated and basically excommunicat his former chief strategist steve bannon. Bannon offense . Giving incendiary quotes to the author of an upcoming tellall book about trumps first year in office. But market jitters . Uhuh, no way. The socalled fear gauge on wall street fell to record lows as stocks hit new highs. The dow jones industriae rose 28 points. The s p 500 gained 17. The nasdaq added eight. Whats next for stocks . Bob pisani takes a look. Reporter you might think its ti
Haidi copper is usually a reliable indicator of productivity, but it is painting contradictory pictures. Tohaad finding china hard swallow. Beijings battle with cold. Haidi and, the fastestgrowing economy in asia. Rishaad 30 minutes from the start of the trading day here in hong kong. Looking at the allimportant inflation number. We are looking at 7. 7. Perhaps showing an inventory overhang being dealt with annexes capacity as well. Excess capacity as well. Less than a week to go to find out whether the fed will put the trigger. Pull the trigger. The yen dropped accordingly. Leading gains in asia. Rising, despite geopolitical risk. Gains. Nics leading toshiba falling over 4 . Reporting it could face more losses. We are seeing a drop in oil overnight, weighing in on Energy Producers weighing on Energy Producers. The aussie dollar dropping today. Take a look at the bond space. We have aussie 10 year yield. They have been climbing, catching up with u. S. Treasury. We have 2 insight for th
There has been more fierce fighting in the southern and eastern parts of the town of kobane on the syriaturkey border. Thats what spokes people for kurdish troops told al jazerra. A thursday night the United States hit the embattled syrian town with seven air strikes, activists say the u. S. Led coalition targeted four isil position on his a southern suburb and three in an eastern one. Nine kurdish fighters were reported killed overnight and a number of isil fighters were also killed. Kurdish forces capitalized on the air strikes and managed to stop isil from reaching the townsendetownsender and makeingr advances live now to near the turkishsear request boredder, al jazerras Stefanie Decker is there, stephanopoulos, de stef n see behind and you bring us up to speed on the latest. Reporter we are actually outside a town close to cobane. Its quite hazy. There is a massive plume of black smoke coming from there, also smaller ones in the distance which the camera probably cant pick you fee