life. that was a day in which we all congregated, officially, as the u.s. first astronaut group. we have been through a selection process, obviously, previous to that time. but that was the day we first showed up officially as the first astronauts of the united states, back at langley field, virginia. at langley. why langley, i wonder? well, of course, and i ca had become nasa and a great big hurried turnaround as you recall. the program of astronauts selection and training, basically, was run by the people who worked from langley. originally, of course, we all reported into washington. that was where the initiation, in the introduction, the pre selection, all that sort of routine went on. as you know, we had physicals elsewhere in the country. but once this election was made, of course, we reported to those people at langley field. which was kind of neat for me because i was already stationed in norfolk in a job which i didn t like in the first place. i was finally taken
Stuart 10 00 eastern. We check the money for you. The nasdaq is down 77. Modest losses. The important numbers, the yield on the 10 year treasury going up 486, close to 5 . Price of oil, any expansion of the war in the middle east going up now. You are up a point and 1 2, 88 a barrel. Bitcoin, not much, cryptos, wednesday morning, how the markets are doing, now this. 4 00 eastern time President Biden steps out of air force one to begin his brief visit to israel, the trip being derailed by the explosion of a hospital in gaza. The leaders of jordan, egypt and the palestinian authority, he did meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The president s demeanor, he looked tired, was not forceful, was not robust, the two leaders heart leave made eye contact, netanyahu said hamas must be deleted, not the same as saying they must be crushed, lightening up a little there. President biden said israel does not appear to be behind the hospital explosion. Based on what i see, the other team, not
Paul ryan to a strategy session at camp david talking about the 2018 legislative agenda. He spokes with at least one republican lawmaker yesterday david perdue. The president played golf with his yesterday and the president returned to Trump International golf course for more golf today. His priorities for next year. On top of the list is infrastructure. President trump infrastructure is the easiest of all. Were well on our way. People want it, republicans and democrats. Well have tremendous democrat support on infrastructure, as you know. The president has been saying since the 2016 campaign he wants a robust infrastructure package. Democrats are saying theyre willing to work with the president on infrastructure and republicans. It is still unclear what the package will look like. Republicans are going to ask for and whether Congressional Republicans will be willing to spend millions more dollars. Republicans will look at their end of that in the early part of next month, leah. He is
Special coverage with Mollie Hemingway. Mollie, thanks a lot for coming on. What strikes you about what we know now . We really wont know yet whats in their report. There are a lot of calls for people to be transparent about it. One of the interesting things we find out today, there are no newro indictments that are comig from a special counsel. The reason why thats significant, you take a step back and think about what brought us here. Several years ago, there was a political operation that was secretly bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National committee to claim that donald trump was an agent of russia. This was back to the media who largely took it uncritically and accepted it and push it out. Then it was weaponized by some of the highest levels of our federal government and was used to justify wiretaps against Trump Campaign affiliates, the placing of human informants against the campaign, and all sorts of actions that were pretty extreme. Even