As soon as they come in for that swearingin. Shortly after the ceremony President Trump is expected to sign up to three new executive actions. A white house official telling fox news that one of those orders will limit the flow of refugees into the United States, resulting in what the president calls, the extreme vetting of immigrant. Later this hour Lieutenant Colonel oliver north will be here to respond to all of this. Cheryl we have a busy show. Get back to the markets. You have a new record close for the nasdaq but the dow snapping that twoday record streak at the close. A down day for the dow. Still settling above that historic 20,000 mark we hit earlier this week. Phil flynn, price futures and fox business contributor watching action in oil and gold from the cme for us. Adam shapiro, on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Adam, lets first start with you. Big movers today. There were very big movers today lets talk about some winners on the dow and s p 500. Boeing up 5 . Wal
Glad you could join us on this obamacare with key governors and americas Largest Health insurers today. The new plan will be a great plan for the patients, for the people, and hopefully for the companies. Be a very competitive plan. David the president slamming past government squandering of taxpayer dollars, unveiling his new plans for his budget including an historic increase for defense. Where all of that money will be coming from. Melissa the trump rally rolls on. Another record close for the dow and s p 500, but we didnt start the day that way. Adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Adam, who were the biggest winners today . The biggest winners are those that liked what they heard from President Trump talking about the big infrastructure spending. Caterpillar is up today. Theyre driving the dow closer to 21,000. Caterpillar, chevron was up. Unitedhealthcare group hit alltime high as of boeing. Boeing is alltime high what is it, four of the last trading sessions
But now we know he spoke to the Russian Ambassador twice. Democrats are saying he lied to congress under oath and calling for him to resign. Sessions said he will recuse himself from any investigation related to the campaign. He said that when he testified his answer was honest and correct as he understood the question baits related to the trump president ial campaign and not to his role as a senator and senators meet with diplomats all the time. So he said he did not testify falsely. Let me be clear. I never had meetings with russian opera tifs or intermediaries about the Trump Campaign. The idea i was part of a quote continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government is totally false. That is the question that senator franken asked me. Reporter earlier today the president said he had total confidence in sessions. He said he did not think sessions should recuse himself. That he was not aware of sessions meeting
Of Angela Merkel in germany and theresa may in britain who praised the move and said it was right an humanitarian thing to do. We have the meeting the president is talking with his chinese counterpart talking about thorny economic issues. He left open the possibility that could include the north korean issue. Blake burman is there keeping track of breaking developments. Reporter neil, actually a couple things. He stuck to the script as it relates to china. Of course the president is here at maralago for his meeting with the chinese president , xi xinping. They will, afterc wrapping up e bilateral a little while ago, have a working lunch. It will be the end of a visit between the two leaders. No mention from that message with the president about syria. No mention about north korea. The president somewhat sticking to the script there, essentially trying to declare Mission Accomplished as it relates to this chinese visit. Going in Administration Officials were telling us, dont expect any
Moscow. Cracking down on illegal immigration, attorney general Jeff Sessions talking tough from the mexican border, talking this a new era under president trump. What he is asking of all federal prosecutors, that is now. Among our guests this hour, bret baier, dan henninger, Texas Attorney general ken paxton, chris harmer and mercedes colwin. A lot of good ones. David a packedded hour of good stuff. Meanwhile the dow ending down just 6 , 6 , six points. It actually came well off its lows during the day and, in the last couple of minutes, ended almost in the flat line. Lets go straight to gerri willis at the new york stock exchange. Gerri, it was way down, and then kicking its way back today. We did have a bit of a turnaround here david, thats right. The words are on the lips of all traders down here, geopolitical risk. If it is not syria, it is russia, it is north korea. One headline traders said they were trading on today, one from donald trump. This is his quote. North korea is looki