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Meantime, a war of words on cnbc between j. P. Morgan head jaime diamond. Tell you whats behind that controversy thats been brewing for a while. After the bell, wilfred frost has an interview with bank of america ceo, Brian Moynihan. Stay tuned for that. Look forward to that very much. Now, the retail pain. Shares of coal sinking again. The hard times for traditional retailers might not be over anytime soon as amazon continues to outperform. They were out yesterday with a note reiterating the pr...

World demand for gold, despite the fact that people are wary and nervous and skittish about the future, world demand for gold in places like india is slowing down a little bit. They may have bought enough right now. It may just be temporary, but for now its not looking good for the price of gold. Liz allimportant jury season in india not as robust as everybody thought. The drop in gold sending some etf slower. The junior Gold Miners Exchange Traded Fund seeing a big drop, as you can see. More th...

If we make it through december, everything will be all right. I would sing that for you, but i dont wish to offend merle haggard. Feels like the coldest time of winter on capitol hill. There has not been any progress. The president and his allies have taken so many things off the table the only thing left is varnish. Charles, are we going off the cliff . Look, it is almost impossible to predict. The republicans are in such disarray that they may take on december 30. If they dont, we are, because...

Production assistance for inside washington was provided by Allbritton Communications and politico, reporting on the legislative, executive, and political arena. Here we are at the 11th hour, and the president still is in serious about dealing with this. Ssue right here i it is this issue, spending. This week on inside washington, more fiscal cliff notes. Susan rice takes her name off the board. I did not want to see a confirmation process that was very prolonged, very politicized, very distract...

Forgive me if i dont join my democratic colleagues in theiring in their outrage. Four americans lost their lives that night. They deserve justice. The American People deserve the truth. One other lesson i learned in the army is we leave no man behind and we will not leave these four men behind. Well, in a first on fox, arkansas republican congressman on what he calls the democrats double standard. Congressman, wow. That certainly got a lot of folks attention on boat sides. What have you heard fr...

Between russian officials and the Trump Campaign. Plus, highest alert. New arrests this morning as we learn the suspected manchester bomber was known to officials and had ties to al qaeda. An attack remains highly likely, but a further attack may be imminent. We begin this morning with President Trump headed to brussels after spending much of the morning in vatican city. He met with pope francis who urged peace and help for immigrants. The president promising to remember the popes words. We have...

Where would the Trump Presidency where would the Mueller Investigation be today . Would there be a Mueller Investigation today . You know, and it is remarkable given we now with a couple yearss distance we now know more about the interactions between president obama and president elect trump at the time. And it wasnt like obama was giving him a piece of his mind and telling him how he should govern and what he should do in terms of policy and everything. He seemed to have basically come with two...

Investigation today . You know, and it is remarkable given we now with a couple yearss distance we now know more about the interactions between president obama and president elect trump at the time. And it wasnt like obama was giving him a piece of his mind and telling him how he should govern and what he should do in terms of policy and everything. He seemed to have basically come with two things, the north korea thing is bigger than you think it is, and b, dont hire mike flynn. We can debate h...

country, every single dime of it was spent last year on interest on the debt and these mandatory spending, mandatory spending is principally the entitle programs, medicare, medicaid, social security that means every dollar we spent last year on these two wars, on homeland security, on education, on infrastructure. >> rose: money we didnt have. >> yes. it was borrowed. >> rose: we would have to borrow it. >> half was bore red from foreign countries, that is like crazy, so at the end of ...

and the arithmetic is easy to understand. and if you take just last year, charlie you dont have to go back 20 years ago or 20 years hence, 100 percent of the revenue that came into the country, every single dime of it was spent last year on interest on the debt and these mandatory spending, mandatory spending is principally the entitle programs, medicare, medicaid, social security that means every dollar we spent last year on these two wars, on homeland security, on education, on infra...