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One of the moms in that picture saying, quote, my baby would have died if she had stayed in venezuela. Important reminder of the struggles that country is still facing. The photographer here, nachos doche from reuters. You can send me a snapchat or instagram. More news nor from ali vels who only has good things to say. Good afternoon. Ill probably catch you later this afternoon. Thursday august 23rd, lets get smarter. Michael cohen, tell me about your relationship with him. He was a lawyer for m...

Basis for president trump to say the markets would crash if he were impeached. >> if the president actually believes that, and he might because his self-absorption is so complete that he seems to think that everything revolves around him. if he actually believes that, hes completely out of touch with reality. were in, ali, as you know, a nine-year bull market, most of which occurred under president obama. if you take the totality of president obamas eight years in office, the dow is up 149% duri...

Coverage on msnbc. up next, barney frank joins us to defend part of his legacy. first heres josh lipton with the market wrap. >> thanks. stocks on wall street ending higher. the nasdaq and s&p notching record closes ahead of the french election sunday, the dow ending up 55 points. the s&p 500 closing up 9 points. the nasdaq closing up 25 points. aprils positive jobs report giving the market boost. employers added 211,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate dipping on 4.4%. a ten-year low. app...

Credit rating down a notch. if anything the market res acted inversely. that didnt really hurt our credit outlook at all. in a way i just view these agency downgrades as kind of a commentary on a fiscal path that does look tough. look, in terms of the qe stuff, what my point was this. what these measures by the federal reserve do is they lower the rate of interest. the cost of borrowing in the economy. thats going to help a little bit. but interest rates were already pretty low. many of our firm...

"early start," im ashleigh banfield. >> and im zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from "a" to "z." its 5:00 a.m. in the east. lets get started here. >> this was a good one, guys, if you missed it. the tarmac in arizona got hot. it wasnt about the weather. it was about the president and the governor. jan brewer and barack obama getting testy on the tarmac and brewer even pointed her finger, shaking it, wagging it at the president. what was this all about? why did they have a...

Would have paid for cut by taxing the rich. then democrats with republican votes killed a gop proposal to renew an existing payroll tax cut. >> paychecks of 160 million americans in the balance with the vote. >> reporter: todays unemployment report on the minds of wall street investors after a big market boost this week. latest prediction from the labor department estimates about 100,000 new jobs were reported in november, but of the number of people filing for unemployment will go up. analysts ...