Reopen after a weekend shutdown that moved into a third day. Welcome to washington today on cspan radio. It is monday january 22. Thanks for being with us. We have a new countdown clock. 17 days until the government funding runs out. The c. R. Expires on february 8. In exchange for ending the stalemate, republicans have promised to take up the daca immigration issue. Here are some of your other headlines. Steve scalise returned to the capitol after surgery that was part of his recovery from a gunshot suffered at a congressional baseball game ractice. The Court Ordered pennsylvania lawmakers to redraw their congressional map ahead of the 2018 Midterm Elections. In israel, Vice President pence announced the u. S. Embassy will open in jerusalem before the end of the next year and he said the door is open for palestinians to enter negotiations. We begin with this headline. Heres how this transpired earlier today. Senator schumer i expect the majority leader to abide by this agreement. If h
Sexual harassment complaints seriously. Veronica de la cruz, kpix5. Two bay area giants going head to head in San Francisco federal court. Uber is accused of stealing trade secrets from googles selfdriving car company waymo. Former uber Ceo Travis Kalanick took the stand today and denied the allegations. At the heart of the trial is waymos former engineer levindowski who took trade secrets. The point is for lack of a better word green is good. Green is right. Green works. The jury was shown this famous scene from the 1987 Michael Douglas movie wall street. Levindowski sent the movie clip to a text to kalanick and in a Text Exchange between kalanick and levindowski, he wrote i just see this as a race and we need to win. Second place is the worst loser. Kalanick responded with the word agreed. Waymo is trying to say kalanick was a conspirator. Rob porter serves as white house staff secretary. His two exwise say he was verbally, emotionally ex wise say he was verbally, ex wives say he was
Schumer calling it, quote, an agreement that is very good for the american people, and a, quote, genuine breakthrough. Mcconnell and schumer coming together, putting together this deal, which by the way, pours money into the military and into domestic programs like opioid addiction and support, but wait till you hear whats not even mentioned. It is possible the markets are back to business as usual after three sessions of intense gyrations, stomach churning falls and dramatic climbs . The s p is calm as a cucumber, nasdaq down 41. We here at the claman countdown, its not over. Today has endured a 500 point pluspoint swing. You cant say all quiet on the western front. There is zero guarantee at the moment. As we thought things are settling down, we start swinging like a pendulum. Whats going on . We point to this. With the dow up 94. Volatility woke up from month long hibernation last friday when Rising Interest Rates sounded the alarm and the dow plummeted 665 friday. Down 1175 monday,
Down for the first day in five after rising to the highest level since august of 2015 yesterday. I love this chart, showing you euros june midcap eurozone midcap. Twice the returns than larger caps in 2017. They can repeated in 2018 according to bnp paribas. Midsized firms stand to benefit more because they are not as sensitive to sharp moves in the euro. Bnp paribas says the air performance by some outperformance has tracked the currency more closely in recent months. A fascinating chart. As is this, sticking to the euro theme, highyield Corporate Bonds in europe are lagging behind a credit rally as crisis have reminded investors of the potential for companies to produce slightly of welcome surprises. In other credit markets, including u. S. Highyield and european junk bonds, rebounding from the november and december selloffs. Highyield euro debt is being squeezed by pickup in issuance and fund outflows. Euro Investment Grade has been affected by slow sales and european sit european b
Thursday at 10 00 a. M. On cspan3. Before that conversation, we start with politics and your view of donald trump. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. You can send us a tweet cspanwj facebook. Com cspan or email journal cspan. Org. I went to show you what donald trump had to say yesterday and South Carolina. He took on his gop rivals starting with the Texas Governor rick perry. He also called Lindsey Graham a stiff and an idiot. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] mr. Trump so they say they did not like the way, i am a little loud. I am a little too strong. They do not like it. Then i watch this idiot Lindsey Graham on television and he calls me a jackass. They all said id never run. Well, he will never file his form papers. Filed my papers. Well he will never file his financials. My financials, well, it is like 98 pages. A lot of these politicians have not filed them and they are like half a page. I am the only one that has filed, practically.