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Otherwise damage national monuments. The president yesterday suggesting as he was going out the door of the white house that there was something that he could do under the Veterans Memorial preservation act. But the president also suggesting in this executive order that he might go beyond that. The president taking action after several high profile cases of monuments that have been damaged. You see there this happened monday night in Lafayette Square across the street from the white house. You can see the people sprayed graffiti on the statue of Andrew Jackson and threw some ropes over it tryi...

Alone control. They are tearing down statues, desecrating monuments and purging dissenters. Its not the behavior of the peaceful political movement. Its the behavior of a totalitarians and tyrants and people that dont love our country. They dont love our country. Dana lets go right to chief White House Correspondent john roberts. John, catch us up. Dana, good afternoon to you. We are told by sources at the white house that the president is expected to sign an executive order dealing with a lot of these protests that we have seen about defacing and trying to pull down monuments. The white house...

>> reporter: anything with a plus sign. what can we expect today after yesterday's sell off? >> reporter: you know, i am surprised that stocks are up a bit, 30 points or so on the dow this morning given that our sell off yesterday made asia and europe panic. i thought for sure asia and europe sell off and panic was going to make us panic today. so far that hasn't happened. stocks are suddenly 15% below where they were at end of april. the sell after has been especially savage this month of august. we are past the 10% decline that marks a correction, right? so the question is is this ...