To the lowest levels this year. Gold straight up. Node dog days of august year. Varney and company is about to begin. To the big story, the president s Approval Rating has hit a new alltime low for the nbc wall street journal poll. Look at that. 40 now approve of the job the president is doing. The other side of the colon is the flip side 54 disapproval. Wall street Journal Editorial Board member mary kissel is here. Lets extrapolate from this, look at i wont speculate but lets look forward. Is it possible we i that kind of low dismal Approval Rating the republicans sweep in november . Republicans and the economy and foreign affairs, if they can sweep in november with 2 growth rates and global discord i dont know when they are going to sweep. I give you the names we are looking at, montana, west virginia, open seats for the gop, excellent chance, red states where mitt romney did well. Arkansas, louisiana, north carolina, two state people may not be looking at, iowa and colorado seem to
That remains a mystery. But it is a mystery that a massive amount of resources are now trying to solve. We will have a live report and tell you what the next steps will be in that investigation. Meanwhile, after a terrible day for equities yesterday, we have seen stabilization today. This morning the action looked pretty negative. You have a lot of people concerned. It might be three days in a row. We have gone out and looked week. We turned positive within the last hour bill. But the dow currently as you can see there, is down about 30 points. The saudi bombing in yemen overnight pushed oil prices sharply higher. They just spiked. Pushed u. S. Crude above 50 dollars a barrel. I think it got to 52. And pulled back. When it got that high thats when other markets started to respond. Overseas markets were down as a result. But that has moderated a little bit as are our markets. Well get to that coming up in a little bit. With an hour to go yesterday we saw a bunch of selling pressure mate
Prevent outbursts or clapping or demonstrations of any kind during these hearings. There was so much interest in todays hearings that we had to expand opportunity for the audience in an adjoining room. The overflow room is 226 of the dirksen building. I will make opening remarks and give Ranking Member cruz the same opportunity and then welcome our first witness. We are here to discuss a critically important issue, maybe a very basic question. We venerate in this country are committed to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of those who live in america. We also guaranteed under our bill of rights the right to bear arms. Can we make these two consistent . Can we protect a persons right to own a firearm and still say to the rest of america we also need to protect your light youre right to life, peace, freedom from violence from those same firearms . According to the centers for disease control, more than 11,000 americans 11,000 are murdered by guns each year. That is more each
Havent seen it before. Look what happened to them, they sabotaged six tankers, and we caught them at it, indisputable evidence. They backed away from that, they shot down an american drone, tactical commander did it without authorization. The president , as opposed to taking a kinetic response, didnt do that. That helped unite the International Community with us. Connell Lucas Tomlinson picks up reporting this evening from the pentagon. Lucas . Reporter secretary of state mike pompeo spoke in ecuador earlier today where he said the u. S. Is willing to speak to iran if it stops its provocations in the persian gulf which has escalated over the past two months. The Iranian Regime has to make a decision that it wants to behave like a normal nation. And if they do that, were prepared to negotiate across a Broad Spectrum of issues with no preconditions. I hope that they will do that, but today we have seen no indication cans that the iranians are prepared to fundamentally change the directio
Havent seen it before. Look what happened to them, they sabotaged six tankers, and we caught them at it, indisputable evidence. They backed away from that, they shot down an american drone, tactical commander did it without authorization. The president , as opposed to taking a kinetic response, didnt do that. That helped unite the International Community with us. Connell Lucas Tomlinson picks up reporting this evening from the pentagon. Lucas . Reporter secretary of state mike pompeo spoke in ecuador earlier today where he said the u. S. Is willing to speak to iran if it stops its provocations in the persian gulf which has escalated over the past two months. The Iranian Regime has to make a decision that it wants to behave like a normal nation. And if they do that, were prepared to negotiate across a Broad Spectrum of issues with no preconditions. I hope that they will do that, but today we have seen no indication cans that the iranians are prepared to fundamentally change the directio