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and republicans quick to publicly defend the twice indicted former president for changing the tune behind closed doors and then defend holding off and raising interest rates, for now. where the economy is and more importantly, where it is headed? as the 11th hour gets underway this wednesday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. donald trump gears up for the legal battle of his life, as the justice department defense its prosecution of the former president. just one da...

mr. smith as a veteran career prosecutor. he has assembled a group of experienced and talented prosecutors and agents, who chers commitment, integrity and the rule of law. any questions about the matter will have to be answered by their filings in court. >> meanwhile, the washington post reports one of trumps attorneys wanted to oppress the department of justice to discuss a possible settlement in the documents case. but trump himself, he was not interested. that is according to three ...

NFP headline beats provides brief USD bid, however, overall reaction is tepid given Fed meeting in the week.

David: and the fine point, truman didnt actually fire them, but how did he get them out? >> by making their lives intolerable. david: which sounds familiar. >> and the presidents always win going back to woodrow wilson, world war i. i think what he would like is a rate cut and i think in the next few weeks there will be a rate cut, but he would like 100 basis points and powell will only give him 25. david: deirdre, guess what? the markets want, too, they would be happy with a full 1% rate drop, ...

>> theres still some missing. >> yeah. >> lets get a check on cnn business. speaking of money, lets take a look at markets around the world. you can see theres some positivity. you have asian markets that closed higher. in london, paris and frank furthfrankfurt opened higher. the fed chief jerome powell strongly hinted at a rate drop later this month. the dow closed up 77 points and the s&p 500 topped 3,000 for the first time in history. but closed just short of there. stocks have been performin...

Governments five-year extension program expires for all of those who have been on unemployment for more than 26 weeks. our guest is the founder of help save my dollars.com and these folks will have fewer dollars for sure, scott, if they lose their benefits. 96 weeks is a long time to be on unemployment. whats the impact overall to the economy if now these folks are taken off the roll? >> twofolds. we could see a drop in consumer spending. a strain on the gdp, which has been recover at an anemic ...

>>shepard: we have signs of improvement in the job markets with millions still out of the work. the national unemployment rate fell from 7.9 percent to 7.7 percent last month. that is the lowest rate in four years. it comes despite the loss linked to super storm sandy. but the government reports the unemployment rate fell largely because so many americans gave up their search. at the same time, the u.s. economy added 146,000 jobs in november above what the analysts predicted. well above. and ger...

His entire first term theres been a reckoning between what a person can actually do in this office versus the supernatural vision of him during the election. this speech is representative, too. i think it was a very good speech. i think there were incredibly solid moments and accomplished what he needed to accomplish, but there was no way he could meet the expectations that people have for him. >> well see if it gets him a bounce at all. much more on the convention later. but now the jobs report...

New jobs numbers is part dux. well start with the numbers and democrats seizing on the rate drop to 8.1% and the republicans seizing on the disappointing fet gain of 96,000 jobs. >> today we learned after losing around 800,000 jobs a month when i took office, business once again added jobs for the 30th month in a row. a total of more than 4.6 million jobs. >> its been 43 straight months before 8%. there are today 23 million americans out of work or stopped looking for work or underemployed. its ...

Wind the president thought would be at his back could be a serious head wind? what do you make of that? >>guest: well, for the good of the american people and eight million people of virginia, i am rooting for the president, and i am rooting for america, we have been if this, now, over 8 percent, for three years every month but for the first month of the presidents term, and we have another $5 trillion in debt diagnosis his term, more than any president in american left, so, some of the policies...