Italians have blessed our country with great art and music. Whoonor the italian voyager led a voyage of discovery to the new world, a gentleman known as christopher columbus. To me, it will always be called columbus day. Some people dont like that, i do. Today, the United States and italy draw strength from our cherished heritage as we Work Together to safeguard our people and promote prosperity as nato allies. Our countries cooperate closely on a wide range of critical defense issues, including the protection of our nations against radical islamic terrorism. The problem is, italy is only paying 1. 1 instead of the mandated 2 , which by and of itself is a low number. Only eight of the 28 nato ,ountries are paying the 2 meaning 20 of the countries are delinquent in the payment to nato. Years. Ve been for many germany is 1. 3 at most, spain is that less than 1 , turkey, believe it or not, is almost current and paid up. I want to thank the secretarygeneral because he is going around sayin
President trump thank you very much. Its a great honor to have the president of italy with us. He is a man of great distinction. Hes highly respected in this country. Nice to have you at the white house. Thank you very much. We have had a great relationship with italy for a long time. The italian people have blessed our civilization with victims and works of art, science, philosophy, architecture and music. On monday we pay tribute to the italian exploiter who led a voyage of discovery to the new , a gentleman known as christopher columbus. To me it will always be called columbus day. Some people dont like that. I do. Today the United States and italy drew strength of our cherished heritage as a Work Together to safeguard our people and promote prosperity as nato allies are countries cooperate closely on a wide range of critical defense issues, including the protection of our nations against radical islamic terrorism. The problem is italy is like playing 1. 1 of said of the mandated 2
He joins us from detroit with the latest. Hey, grady. Reporter hey, neil. As you said we dont know the specific details of this contract but the news it has even been agreed upon by the two sides is just trickling down to the workers here. Obviously theyre pretty excited by the news. I want to bring in jessica. You came from the plant you work in at indiana to be here at the Renaissance Center where the negotiations are happening. How do you feel you know there is an agreement . Even though it is cold and rain any were excited to be out here at this critical moment representing the union and good news. Reporter what has been on strike without pay . It has been hard on a lot of people. 2 a 50 week a not as at all. Reporter youre a temporary worker, negotiations are behind closed doors. Were told this created a pathway for somebody like you who has worked three years consecutively, will be able to get fulltime employment f that is the case, if you find that out tomorrow, once the contrac
Its an ugly day on wall street, all major averages are down 2 . The dow wiping down 900 points in just two days we are on track for the worst start to the Fourth Quarter since 2008 and tech, one of the worst performing sectors today, check out some of these moves, microsoft, apple, visa, cisco all under pressure for more, lets get to bob posani a slowdown, not a recession thats a consensus will change the way you look at things a week consumer would second the country down for an Early Warning sign, ive been watching these big consumer stocks that have done well the last few years doubledigit gains here, theres some cracks showing. Starbucks has been weaker in the last month its down about 12 . That may not be surprising given how china is in its portfolio. You see some of the consumer giants here. You can argue, go to the defensive stocks these stocks have had large runups this year. That play has already happened these are very expensive names right now, coke, kimberly clark, Procter
Network, all this is happening with the looming democratic impeachment inquiry push. Blake burman at the white house. He has a preview of the president s remarks. Other things may com up. Reporter clearly one of them weve been following what is going down on the corner of wall and broad. That has caught the attention of President Trump as well. He sort of shifted the blame today what is behind what is going on in the market yesterday. He hit one of his favorite punch ing bags jay powell. Today he was pointing the finger at democrats in a tweet this morning, quote, all this impeachment nonsense going nowhere is driving the stock market and your 401 k s down. That is exactly what the democrats are want to do. They are willing the president says to hurt the country with only the 2020 election in mind. That tweet came as nancy pelosi and top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff were giving a press conference on capitol hill. The president continuing to call for schiffs