Heading towards louisiana. Not pictures we want to see. David and it can really affect oil prices. A lot of facilities are closing, offshore platforms, and it oath course will reflect refineries. Alix we see people taking taking boatspeople down streets. Meanwhile, we have near record highs on u. S. Equities, trying to push higher to get back to those highs for the nasdaq. Euro gaining just a touch versus the dollar. 30 year yields unchanged after yesterdays really violent session, a real increase after a bad option. Crude prices climbing a bit on the storm and geopolitical tension. David it is time now for the mooring brief. Eastern,his morning ford and volkswagen will announce details on their big on electric and on most vehicles. On00 we get u. S. Ppi Autonomous Vehicles. At 11 00 we get u. S. Ppi data. Angela merkel joins Emmanuel Macron in paris. And we get important economic from china, including gdp growth. Now we are joined by rachel evans, who heads bloombergs etf coverage, an
Please we go back many years. Thank you so much jay. I want to say what an honor it is to call my dear friend, our Vice President mike pence. Isnt he doing a great job . [applause] together, we are working on a bold agenda for the country. Regulatory reform. Healthcare reform. Tax reform. Rebuilding our military. After years of talking about these problems we are finally doing something about them. They can withstand any challenge and emerge even stronger. This to me is the great task before us. I have to tell you because these are anxious times and we all feel it. Its not something we think about and the rest of our daily lives but we are being tested. Our capacity to come together and to move forward to a better and stronger nation is being tested. That is what defines us as americans. Its not about our struggles is about how we overcome them and bounce back. This is what drives me every day as a policymaker. How do we build up our countrys antibodies . You know what i mean when i sa
The rug out from under them that isnt really too shocking coming from speakinger ryan. Simple majority votes in the house before taxes go to the senate. To make them permanent in the senate you need 60 votes or more. This would not be done if he had his druthers if he had budget being sill ages. Is he sending a signal in order for Lasting Impact and value, and if he truly wants them to be permanent, then going the budget reconciliation route, will only require simple majority in the United States will not be enough. You will have to go to get a 60vote win, a 6vote margin allows permanent tax reform. Aa to president bushs tax cuts. They sunsetted after about 10 years. Now the question is, is he sending a signal both to the administration and to his colleagues in the senate, we can not afford to do that. Tax cuts are one thing, we have to welcome them, but we have to go for something much bigger that would involve going past budget reconciliation to something getting 60 votes in the sena
The new rules to crack down on smoking in philadelphia. Give me a break. John mccain, who has probably the dirtiest mouth. Donald trump lashes out at fellow republicans as they try to distance themselves from the nominee. The gop has been in crisis mode since donald trump was caught on tape making lewd comments about women, and as more republicans rush to abandon ship, trump slams them as disloyal saying House Speaker paul ryan was a weak and ineffective leader. Trump tweetd, it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. Nbc 10 National Correspondent brian moore with the latest. Reporter campaigning for Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, president obama sounded off for the first time on Donald Trumps caught on tape comments about women. I, too, believe in forgiveness and redemption, but that doesnt mean im going to elect the person president. Reporter minutes after he started speaking the president was interrupted by protester
The Deputy Assistant secretary of state. This is what nbc news has learned from an official working on the impeachment inquiry. Kent is a Deputy Assistant secretary of state, as i said. Who worked on ukraine and five other countries. He told lawmakers he was to told to lay low after raising concerns about Rudy Giulianis involvement in ukraine. George kent is going to be one of the first people to testify in open hearings. He is scheduled to testify before congress on november 13th. Joining me now from capitol hill, msnbcs Garrett Haake. Garrett, i imagine weve just received this in the time that i was walking to the studio. So i dont know what, if anything, youve had a chance to look at yet. But what do we know so far about george kent . Yeah. Ali, this is becoming a regular feature here with me and you these afternoons. Kents testimony, as far as ive been able to skim through the summary here, does a couple things for democrats. Kent is angry. Thats clear. He talks about a Smear Campa