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In our money lead, look at those numbers. so much for a, quote, santa claus rally on wall street. the dow diving 653 points, nearly 3%, marking its worst christmas eve ever. this after the dow and nasdaq posted their worst week since 2008. remember 2008? that was a crash year. in what appeared to be a preemptive attempt to calm investors, the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin spoke with major bank ceos yesterday with that message much no need to panic, might have done exactly the opposite. cnn's alison kosik joins me now. alison, a treasury chief calling banks to say, hey, you've still got eno...

♪ there's no place likargh!e ♪ i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ top of the hour. i'm dana bash in washington. and we begin with the worst christmas eve ever for the dow and s&p. the markets closed early for the holiday today with the dow finishing down 653 points. and as markets made this history-making fall, the republicans and democrats, they're deadlocked here in

Markets are supposed to be free, it should be investors and traders, not -- if you notice markets are not taking anything they said kindly. and it was steven mnuchin, the problem was, two days before he said everything was wonderful and all of a sudden, o. i hope they take a step back and let things be. i believe 1000% and the people i'm more optimistic on us and more pessimistic on them. >> connell: the last thought, everybody needs to be quiet? >> i i agree with both monica d carrie. at this point i will take anything off of that long list of things we are worried about. from brexit to paris...

Moment ago after a sell-off on wall street, the dow plunging nearly 3%. not bad compared to last week, anyway. we are looking at the big board, the dow down for the seventh trading day. the market will be closed tomorrow for christmas. i want to bring in christina and i will not say her last name, because i will mispronounce tha that. i just wanted to make sure. the biggest pet peeve is to mispronounce somebody's name. she is live on the trading floor of the new york stock exchange. >> there is so much going on for half a day. he would normally not see this much volume or movement, i was speak...