all of those issues. but i think if you go to the bottom line of all of them, it gets down to the fact he s changed his mind without a clear explanation to the public why. listen, i think reasonable people will look what he s doing in afghanistan and say okay, if you talk to the generals this is what they recommend. he s going to do it. but to have a different position last week, go into a weekend meeting, change his mind and give a speech tonight and then jump to the next thing illegal immigration tomorrow, that s hard for people to follow along with. people need to know he is committeded to a certain kind of mission and be able to follow through with it, especially when you re talking about american lives. i do have to touch on this one thing in his speech. you re seeing a bigger theme come out about patriotism and loyalty and a lot of people, republicans, democrats, independents everybody wants to be patriotic to this country. but he kind of sets up these preconditions and getting t
out of nato. and repealing, definitely repealing and replacing obamacare. what do you think? there s a lot going on with all of those issues. but i think if you go to the bottom line of all of them, it gets down to the fact he s changed his mind without a clear explanation to the public why. listen, i think reasonable people will look what he s doing in afghanistan and say okay, if you talk to the generals this is what they recommend. he s going to do it. but to have a different position last week, go into a weekend meeting, change his mind and give a speech tonight and then jump to the next thing illegal immigration tomorrow, that s hard for people to follow along with. people need to know he is committeded to a certain kind of mission and be able to follow through with it, especially when you re talking about american lives. i do have to touch on this one thing in his speech. you re seeing a bigger theme come out about patriotism and loyalty and a lot of people, republicans, democr
man talk show. not the cable news king by no means supposed to be the nice guy. this is brutal optics. all i ask is a couple of sugars in my tea. and the salty chips. i provided to you earlier this morning. your job is to get me chips. i like buttered toast. the president wants two scoops of ice cream. we found out that yesterday. 56 minutes past the hour. let s get a check on cnn money stream. u.s. futures lower. global markets mixed. wall street closed down after retail stocks tanked the market. markets are still near all-time highs. investors are looking for a strong earning season. also on the radar, weekend meeting of the finance chiefs from the world top economy in italy. if you are driving this summer, you are getting a break at the pump. gas prices fallen every day for the past three weeks. the average right now for a gallon of regular, $2.34.
expect. 2 to 4 inches locally from philadelphia through new york. eventually into boston as we head into the day on sunday. temperatures today, 66 for detroit. d.c., 59. jacksonville, 93. for the mothers, we cannot forget mother s day this sunday. things will clear out and warming up for much of the deep south. look at the temperatures in new york. 66. back to you. all right. derr derr derek, thank you. wall street closed down after retail stocks tanked the market. investors are looking forward to more earnings in a strong earnings season. also on the radar, weekend meeting of the finance chief from the world top economies in italy. driving this summer. getting a break at the pump. prices have fallen. the average is $2.34 a gallon.
the fledgling trump administration. a newly minted supreme court justice neil gorsuch was sworn in as the 113th person to join the highest court in the land. amid the bright skies, building clouds of division hovered over the trump administration with numerous reports of senior-level staff inviting, notably involving steve bannon and jared kushner, a simmering rivalry that spilled out into public view but cooled following a weekend meeting. a lot of this is overblown. number two, the reason the president brought this team together is to offer a diverse set of opinions but he doesn t want a monolithic thought process. sensational or not, it s not just kushner and bannon. white house s national security counsel has also been in flux. first with bannon leaving the principal s 20 and now with advisor k.t. mcfarland set to depart to become ambassador to singapore. we are not going to get into personnel announcements. for president trump, who campaigned on a vow to fill the