Bob Mitchell News Today

Tens of billions of dollars of Economic Activity at risk. Contessa brewer downtown houston and jackie deang lose and Morgan Brennan looking at the rising cost of harvey she is up in connecticut and Angie Lassman is tracking the path of the storm. Right now, lets see how the markets and your money are doing in reaction with joe kernen. Yeah, stocks are down the dow, anyway. Steady this hour in a narrow range. Nasdaq is actually up. Apple is among the top leaders announcing a product event septemb...

He hurt those he claimed he was trying to help. What most of sickening about the situation is not the uncertainty and cruelty. But then president obama made the wrong turn at the fork in the road. He went down socialism street and made an illegal uturn with daca in 2012 just in time for his reelection. He newt circumvention and keenly that wand waving was illegal. Here he is in 2011. Sometimes when i talk to immigration advocates, they wish i could just by Pass Congress and change the law myself...

He hurt those he claimed he was trying to help. What most of sickening about the situation is not the uncertainty and cruelty. But then president obama made the wrong turn at the fork in the road. He went down socialism street and made an illegal uturn with daca in 2012 just in time for his reelection. He newt circumvention and keenly that wand waving was illegal. Here he is in 2011. Sometimes when i talk to immigration advocates, they wish i could just by Pass Congress and change the law myself...

Path and what it could mean for the people of houston, the home of the biggest refineries in this country power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im courtney reagan, as tyler mentioned retail flying high but stocks trading in the narrow range. Fed chair yellen and top central bankers meeting in jackson hole. Well head there live. Hormel foods missing earnings estimates and cutting its outlook. J. M. Smuker tanking on its earnings miss. Thanks koscourtney the president taking another...

Several democratic lawmakers are calling for resignation of attorney general Jeff Sessions after a new bomb shell report says the a. G. Had contact with russias ambassador on more than one occasion. It is a fast moving story developing throughout the night. 9 22 eastern time and here we were with preexisting plans to take on this topic for two hours tonight. The Washington Post is out with a headline that reads, sessions, the attorney general, spoke twice with Russian Ambassador during trumps pr...

Several democratic lawmakers are calling for resignation of attorney general Jeff Sessions after a new bomb shell report says the a. G. Had contact with russias ambassador on more than one occasion. It is a fast moving story developing throughout the night. 9 22 eastern time and here we were with preexisting plans to take on this topic for two hours tonight. The Washington Post is out with a headline that reads, sessions, the attorney general, spoke twice with Russian Ambassador during trumps pr...

In a moment. Also if the headlines, chinas anbang withdrawing its 14 billion bid for starwood hotels. That means starwood will be owned by marriott. Well talk about what is next. And an interesting story around the mysterious anbang. Tesla shares higher this morning. Elon musk unveiling the new model 3 in los angeles last flight. He says preorders are already red hot. Welcome. Good to be back with you. Lots to do today. We have to start with the markets, all of the viewers and listeners followin...

In january. Next, we look at the historical role of the Senate Majority leader and its four former leaders, robert byrd, harold baker, and we hear from Donald Richie and mitch mcconnell. Donald richie, thank you for being with us. The Senate Majority leader is not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . We looked at a former speaker of the house, who contacted us and say why is the president pro tem a matter of succession but not the majority leader . That is the functional equi...

Majority leader, the functional equivalent on the senate side. The speaker of the house is written in the constitution. No mention of a majority or minority leader. Thats because the constitution did not anticipate political parties. Parties. We had no majority leader in the history of the senate from 1839 to 1914. There were chairman of committees who would take care of things and the chairman of the Party Conferences that open up and close things the way they do today. But nobody sitting down ...

Of the house, who contacted us and say why is the president pro tem in the order of succession but not the majority leader . That is the functional equivalent. The speaker of the house is written into the constitution, to president pro tem is as well. No mention of a majority or minority leader. The constitution did not anticipate political parties. They thought it was going to happen, but they did not want to encourage political parties. We had no majority leader in the history of the senate fr...