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Action. the question is was it enough? did he get to the heart and soul of the french people tonight? we will find out this weekend. certainly another european leader fighting for his political life. >> alright. outstanding reporting, my friend. across the fox news all day long, thank you, very much. lets get a gauge of what happened cross currents. for a while wurp down 500 points. up about 40 and a third points. there is no gauging where the stocks are going. maybe technology stocks particular...

Bought into this kind of discredited idea now, discredited by history, that you can cut taxes, raise defense spending and balance the budget. this was this mythology and there was a tax cutting fever that took over the republican party and he got caught in the cross currents and wasnt strong enough politically to resist it, starting when he was vice president. he should have stood up more strongly, i think that hurt him. his domestic record just wasnt good enough for a country that was in some e...

He has the background and the judgment to fulfill this job. >> the white house is in no hurry to replace whitaker. he can be there under statute for at least 200 days and they like him running the justice department. on an interim basis. >> shepard: they may the choice. john roberts, thanks very much. the read from joe manchin from these ross currents. he carried his state and won comfortably. the question is how does he get along with both parties after this? i just got my ancestrydna results: ...

So the cross currents on this are fascinating. democrats who dont think it goes far enough and you have big divisions within the republican party. you have a libertarian wing that supports it. >> the koch brothers, as well. >> theyre in favor of it. >> yeah. >> you also have the traditional tough on crime republicans, which trump has also -- >> everyone, stick around. we have some breaking news in the money lead now with huge consequences for the worlds economy. british prime minister theresa ma...

So there are all these cross currents in the market. and it has created this volatility that has really chipped away, as you said it best, at the long-term investor and their portfolio. october as you well know, ali is one of the most volatile months for the market and traditionally, not a really great one and it certainly is living up to its name in todays trading session. >> yeah, no kidding. all right. sue herera, thanks very much, from cnbc, helping understand whats going on on these markets...

Losses from the beginning of the hour but a far cry from where they were at 10:30 this morning. lets go to cnbcs sue herrera for her analysis on this. sue, it chips away, you and i dont concern ourselves typically with a half a point loss on major markets. >> right. >> it chips away to the point that people who invested at the beginning of the year are now seeing zero return on the s&p 500 and the dow, basically zero. >> absolutely, ali. what we saw today was the extreme volatility that weve sta...

Preexisting conditions can, prekindergarten. friends blocked on facebook. what did not, horseface, pocahontas and justice brett kavanaugh and a blue wave. its our job to cover the democrats and what they are saying, but people who have busy lives in real america to your point, its like most elections. how am i doing? am i better off or not? its a broader conversation. >> thats why the health care and issues are probably the two most important cross currents aside from the presidents personality....

Seeing big losses today. cnbcs dominik chu joins us with more. we talked about three major causes for the drop today. would you say one is the overriding concern here? >> you hit the nail on the has. there are many cross currents at play right now. the one a lot of traders and investors are focused on is likely going to be that slowing momentum, that downside move in technology stocks. and the reason why is because technology, internet, media related stocks make up a huge portion of the u.s. sto...

To talk about what is going on with republicans. >> and here we are. found a time of cross currents in american politics. and steve kornacki, it seems right now -- and i do mean right now because in a week the polls are sure to change. so right now, it seems to be a tale of two elections. youve got the senate race thats have tightened up. republicans have taken the lead in places like tennessee and texas comfortably. but then you had house members who didnt talk that much about kavanaugh in comp...

Million. am i supposed to dislike them? i like them very much. >> so there are a lot of cross currents with saudi arabia. you have jared working with mbs on middle east pa peace and creating a cozy relationship with him. bob corker said something yesterday that kind of got buried. he said hes picked up as the chair of the foreign relations committee a, quote, sense of arrogance from saudi leaders and the way they deal with lawmakers as if to say all we have to do is go to donald trump. >> by the...