Conversation thats happening across the country. Senator chris murphy, thank you very much. That is all in on this tuesday night. Good evening alex. Liberal democracy, not a foregone conclusion apparently. Woo hoo, these times. And thank you at home for joining me. Today the former Special Council that investigated President Bidens mishandling of classified documents was ruled by house members on capitol hill. Former Special Council has declined to charge President Biden with anything, concluding officially nothing President Biden did was worthy of prosecution. That did not stop republicans in congress are making a four hour circus out of the testimony today. Thats because the hearing wasnt actually about matters of law, it was about political points. The reality is the only reason joe biden accidentally taking some classified documents with him, the only reason that matters at all is because donald trump willfully, purposefully took classified documents with him when he left office an
stands for! plus president biden following through on a core campaign pledge wiping away thousands of dollars in student loan debt. and russia s war on ukraine turns six months old today, still locked in a bloody stalemate. translator: we re holding on for six months. it s difficult for us. we clenched our fists, fighting for our fate. up first, is it momentum or just a moment? democratic lawmakers and strategists hope a win in new york s special election stops a midterm drift 11 weeks before november. the verdict out of hudson valley is that democrat pat ryan will now represent new york s 19th district, that s where president biden won in 2020 by just 1.5 percentage points. democrats see major national political implications in ryan s surprise win because the candidate made abortion the centerpiece of his campaign. the sad truth, mark molinaro and the republicans oppose a woman s right to choose. republicans will allow women and their doctors to be prosecuted for g
Diana will tell from yous snowy washington. Wow. Well tyler, look builders are blaming it all on this. Just like they did last were. Take a look. Homebuilder sentiment slid two points month to month on the monthly nahb survey but at 55 its still in the positive and well above the 46 level it was last year. Last were builders blamed the harsh winter. The slowdown continued into the summer due to the price jumps. Builder prices are still very high with big premiums to existing homes, and that may be why traffic fell dramatically. Down five points while sales expectations were flat and current sales were only slightly lower. Builders still pushed the president s day open houses though. That is the unofficial start to the spring season. Not much action over the weekend, though. Again, builders are still pricing very high and Housing Starts are still well below the current demand. This is going to be a very interesting next few weeks. The real Market Dynamics fight with the urge to blame it
The question. From the whole agreement two years ago the west provided to pay for the afghans but the absence of bilateral security really jeopardize is that. Cars i has gone off on his own strange journey again. And i get the sense that the Obama Administration is almost exasperated by this it is not prepared to make any commitment beyond 2014. From my experience working in afghanistan i dont think that afghan army is yet ready to take complete control of security. They do a lot of good work at the moment because were helping them to provide the helicopters, intelligence but without that public eye can see the whole thing falling apart very quickly just after they withdrew in 89 and i covered that. So long history of involvement with this part of the world. Final question regarding the British Defense counsel what is your view of the handling of the British Defense spending . Do you think it is significantly undercut through this late latest wave over the last couple of years . There
Legend bill miller. Well discuss his long bullish eye on amazon. He recently called the company the best run in the world. And we have david faber on that coming up as well, looking forward to that. Heres how weve done so far today. A bit of volatility here and there, but for the most part, just down 48 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average, now trading at 16,798. 17,000 a mere 110 points away. Weve got the nasdaq up, though, up seven points. The Technology Stocks doing well again today relative to the other blue chips, and the s p is down 2 1 2 points right now, trading at 1,954. Lets get to our Closing Bell Exchange for this friday. Rich peterson from s b capital iq, joe duran from united capital, diane jaffray, mr. Arthur cashin from ubs joins us, and we are always pleased to have Rick Santelli with us as well. Arthur, we talked in this program yesterday around this time about the futility once in a while, trying to assign meaning to days activity in the markets here. But you k