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i am jim kelly director of the billy center of global security analysis florida university.rior to be cosponsoring this webinar on lincolnomics with our partners with american finance in the cfa society of new york. this event is part of our centennial series celebrating 100 years of purpose driven business education. it is particularly timely since we are currently offering a course in financial history in conjunction with the museum of american finance. through the presentation please enter your questions by typing them in the q&a section near the bottom of your zoom screen. who will be addressing as many questions as possible after the presentation. lastly, as a participant in today's webinar will be entered into a raffle to win a free e-book of lincolnomics. winners will be notified at the end of the week. now i'd like to turn over to president of the museum of american finance who will introduce our speaker. thank you. >> thank you jim it's always great to back with you. the cappelli school, our friends at cfa. and this is a third time i have had the pleasure to introdu

this morning he is pointing out jim jordan, mike johnson, kelly armstrong from north dakota, congressman jim banks, elise stefanik of new york, kelly armstrong, congressman john rutherford of pennsylvania. they are just some of the names being mentioned on this friday morning. john bresnahan from punch bowl news. we don't need a committee, we will use that in the midterms. republicans had a chance to create the bipartisan commission and they lost it. that is looking like a dumb mistake. we have a call on the independent line, good morning. caller: i just want to say i don't know why any decent republican would not want to be on this committee. their lives were in jeopardy too. just watch the film footage. for them to just want to sweep this under the rug like it never happened, i don't understand. as far as i'm concerned, they have no souls to them. i just don't understand why they would not want to be part of the process of getting to the bottom of this mess and find out just what was going on and hold those people accountable for what they have done, thank you. host: nick is next from

jim banks of indiana and jim jordan and kelly armstrong of north dakota. happened. they voted to basically try to overturn the election. they voted against certifying president biden's win. four of them voted on having the commission they now serve on. >> this is really nancy pelosi playing politics. >> why would she not? >> so there are of course many legitimate reasons why you may not want some of those people in the committee. pelosi created the committee of alliance conservative to justify the left authority agenda. the authoritarian word is protection. many remember jim jordan as a trump's loyalist, the defender of all maga defenses. >> we know what this is about. it is round three of the democrats for five years going after donald trump. >> have you heard from donald trump? >> i talked to the president but i have not talked to him the last couple of days. >> this is who we are talking about. >> this is step one in the democrats' crazy efforts to impeach the president of the united states. i wish everybody can spend some time with our president becaus

serve on the commission they are indiana's jim banks, rodney davis from illinois, ohio's jim jordan, north dakota's kelly armstrong and troy nels from texas all voted to overturn the 2020 election results >> you've got a mix from the entire conference, right, people who objected and who didn't object >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi still has to sign off on the appointments before the committee has its first hearing next week. meantime, a federal judge yesterday sentenced the first felony defendant in the january 6th insurrection he got eight months in prison. images from that day show him clearly carrying a red trump 2020 flag inside the evacuated senate chamber paul hodgkins needed guilty last month to a single count of obstructing an official proceeding, the ongoing congressional proceeding that was happening there when the whole chamber was evacuated. the justice department is pursuing hundreds of these cases. >> yes, here we are the fallout continues six and a half months later. tracie, thank you. >>> a long and difficult road to recovery has begun in germany. almost 200 people were killed in

nancy pelosi announced her appointees and kevin mccarthy announced his and rodney davis and jim jordan and kellys to sign on to the appointments before the first hearing. >>> days before the olympics opening ceremony, two members of the u.s. gymnastics team are in quarantine after one tested positive for covid both are alternates on the team and learned of the status after arriving in tokyo. officials are relies on strict protocols for athletes. >>> and billboard released the top money makers of 2020 number five, bill y eilish earne 14.7 mi$14.7 million. theagles with $16.3 million. celine dion with $17.5 million and then post malone and then taylor swift topping the list at $23.8 million. the eagles, brian, still cashing in over $16 million last year after decades? that is impressive i didn't see that coming >> i get swift at one, no doubt. the eagles a surprise they had the greatest hits i or greatest hits ii post malone coming in at number two is a surprise. i'm old. celine diron >> post malone has a lot of hits out. celine dion, too >> i'm not saying no look at the mix. it is the eagles, who

out that the speaker has veto power over kevin mccarthy's picks and named jim banks of indiana as the ranking republican. it's kelly armstrong, jim pages from indiana, rodney davis from illinois, jim jordan from ohio and troy nells from texas. their first meeting set for a week from today and look for live coverage on the c-span networks if that's available. larry is on our republican line. how do you grade president biden. >> caller: i give joe biden a zero. we vin flakes, gas 40%, stock market dropped 700% and he's like a nazi saying you take the vaccination or else and you've got people going to people's houses. what kind of crap is that? hand this caller that said what joe biden said in june, he'll assemble the greater voter fraud in history. he's a fraud and the country is going to collapse. he's a communist and those democrats think that this man is legitimate and the virus is a biological chinese weapon. >> to jean in yorktown, virginia. >> caller: good morning. interesting comments from everyone and of course as human beings we are entitled to our own opinions. i go independent because i'm an american. even

jim jordan, kelly armstrong, troy neill of texas, they all voted against having this commission, so thees beyond the journalist roots and politicians all acros washington is that mccarthy's goal is to undermine this committee so anything that come out of it is immediately dismissed as political rather than an honest effort to look into an insurrection that threatened the stability of our government here in washington. >> an honest effort would be to allow the justice department to do they're job. this is theater. nancy pelosi knew who he was going to put on there so he rejects them just like the texa democrats take off from texas not to do they're job so they can come to washington and get covid spreader event by them no wanting to vote and come to dc. democrats are all about the politics of all of this. >> listen, the republicans get chance to pick it there going t pick, they're not going to pick someone who is shy who is afrai to go toe to toe with these democrats, and the republicans estimation, they're going to name members who are going to g hard after this. if your going to disqua

selected these members in the republican caucus and they are roddie days of this from illinois, jim jordan of ohio, kelly armstrong from north dakota, troye knows from texas. banks, jordan, and now voted to overturn the 2020 election results. >> you've got a mix from an entire company. >> i never talk to donald trump about this. >> house speaker pelosi still has yet to sign on on these appointments before the committee's first hearing on july 27th. today, a federal judge sentenced the first final in a defendant in the one six insurrection. he got eight months in prison and they wanted florida man paul hodgkin's sentenced to 18 months. images from that day shown clearly carried in trump 2020 played inside the evacuated senate chamber. hodgkin's pleaded guilty last month with a single official proceeding. also tonight, senate majority leader chuck schumer is moving forward with and wednesday vote to start debate at least on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. measures are still being written as we speak. senate democrats are also not giving up on federal voting rights bill. the rules committee led by senat

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kelly o'donnell, jim mason, dr. kavita patel, and some great news. it is gold for american gymnast suni lee an extraordinary performance wing the women's all-around competition. very little notice. the 18-year-old stepping in for simone biles as america's best hope for gold and delivering an epic performance, narrowly edging out her closest competitors including a strong brazilian competitor. kire, our nbc station capturing the moment when her family and friends saw those final scores. [ cheers and applause ] >> nbc's stephanie gosk is covering the summer games for us in tokyo and filed this report. >> andrea, you know, in the buildup to these games all of the headlines were about simone biles and understandably so. no one's dominated the sport of gymnastics like she has in recent years, but what people quite didn't realize that was on that same team was suni lee and suni lee is a fantastic gymnast and tonight because of simone biles pulling out, she had an opportunity to show the world just how good she is, but imagine going into this event with eve

jim jordan, rodney davis, kelly armstrong and troy nails.ese members voted to overturn election results in arizona and pennsylvania. do these pickls say anything to you about how seriously or not seriously the minority leader is taking this investigation, representative? >> yeah, i mean, absolutely. i think kevin mcelderry ka r tho -- mccarthy decided his role is to be chauffeur of the clown car and his job is to champion some of the most ludicrous irresponsible members of his party instead of centering some of the more even keeled and responsible members of his party and that's what he's decided his leadership is and what it means to this country. i think it's shameful but it will not stop democrats and it will not stop people who are actually interested in setting this country on the right track and trying to do their best to do so. >> should the house speaker, should nancy pelosi veto any picks before they officially join this committee? >> well, you know, i leave that decision to her but i think she's well within her right when the minor

from his republican caucus and they are indiana's jim banks, rodney davis from illinois, jim jordan of ohio, kelly armstrong from north dakota, troy nehls from texas. banks, jordan and nehls all voted to overturn the election results. >> you got a mix there the entire conference. >> house speaker pelosi has still yet to sign to these appointments before the committee's first hearing july 27th. today federal judge sentenced the first felony defendant in the 1/6 insurrection. he got eight months in prison. prosecutors have wanted floridaman paul hodgekins sentenced to 18 months. he is clearly seen carrying the 2020 flag. he pleaded guilty last month to a single count of obstructing an official proceeding. also chuck schumer is moving forward with a wednesday vote to start debate at least on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. the measure is still being written as we speak. the senate democrats not giving up on a federal voting rights bill. the rules committee led by senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota, is holding the u.s. senate's first field hearings in two decades to try to bring voting r

jim jordan, rodney davis, kelly armstrong, and freshman troy nehls. three of these members voted to overturn election results in arizona and pennsylvania. do these picks say anything, to you, about how seriously or not seriously the -- the minority leader's taking this investigation, representative? >> yeah. i mean, absolutely. i think, kevin mccarthy has decided that his role, as a minority leader in the house of representative, is to essentially be chauffeur of the clown car. and he believes that his job is to champion some of the most ludicrous, irresponsible, and dangerous members of his party, instead of centering, you know, some of the more even-keeled and responsible members of his party. and that's what he's decided his leadership is and what it means to this country. i think it's shameful. but it will not stop democrats, and it will not stop people who are actually interested in setting this country on the right track. and trying to do their best to do so. >> should -- should the house speaker -- should nancy pelosi veto any of these picks, b

jim banks of indiana. rodney davis of illinois, kelly armstrong, troy nails of texas. ple know who jim jordan is. the probably the most partisan republican members. tell us about the rest of the folks. >> we're going to get to know jim banks pretty well. he'll be the ranking member of the committee. he's an up and comer trying to be within house leadership. and with someone we heard a lot of mention or really wanted this job when very few republicans wanted to be associated with this committee at all. ronny davis is an interesting pick. he voted for the bipartisan commission that thought this should have gotten investigated. i think you see mccarthy throwing a bone to members of his conference who wanted to go that route with davis' pick. i'm interested in what troy nails brings to the table. he's a former sheriff. he is a freshman member from texas. he was in at the chamber on january 6th. there is photos of him up against the chamber door trying to help barricade it, deescalate the situation that day. he could be interesting. >> and the house speaker has veto power ov

this morning he is pointing out jim jordan, mike johnson, kelly armstrong from north dakota, congressmanim banks, elise stefanik of new york, kelly armstrong, congressman john rutherford of pennsylvania. they are just some of the names being mentioned on this friday morning. john bresnahan from punch bowl news. we don't need a committee, we will use that in the midterms. republicans had a chance to create the bipartisan commission and they lost it. that is looking like a dumb mistake. we have a call on the independent line, good morning. caller: i just want to say i don't know why any decent republican would not want to be on this committee. their lives were in jeopardy too. just watch the film footage. for them to just want to sweep this under the rug like it never happened, i don't understand. as far as i'm concerned, they have no souls to them. i just don't understand why they would not want to be part of the process of getting to the bottom of this mess and find out just what was going on and hold those people accountable for what they have done, thank you. host: nick is next from ca

has veto power over the kevin mccarthy picks and he named jim banks of indiana as the ranking republican on the special committee. so, it's kellyrmstrong, jim banks, rodney davis, jim jordan, and troy nehls. their first meeting is set for one week for today and look for live coverage on the c-span networks if that's available. larry, maryland, on the republican line. how'd you you grade president biden? caller: i give the biden regime zero. inflation is 40%. stock market is 20%. people going to people's houses, what kind of crap is that? it's the greatest voter fraud in history and the country is going to collapse. the democrats suffer the delusions and the virus is a biological weapon. from china. host: jean, virginia. caller: good morning. interesting conversation from everyone and as human beings we are entitled to our own opinion. i go independent. you know why? i'm in the -- i'm an american. i stay independent because i'm american and i really don't like the two parties, any party. we should just vote how we feel. i have three points i like to make. i would give him an a. he's doing a great job. i think it's a lot to manag

let's bring in our panel to prediscuss what the fed might do and that's jim caron of morgan stanley, jpmorgan's david kellythe fed to say or do today, alicia? >> so i don't think there will be as many fireworks this time as there was last time because last time was really the fed putting in a hawkish dtilt which had been successful. we expect the fed to discuss the fact that they've talked about the taper, so they're talking about talking about. the decision probably doesn't come until jackson hole in september and probably not until the end of the year and acknowledgement the u.s. is making progress with growth and the delta variant. all less exciting than last time >> jim and then david, we have about a minute before the decision will come out and we'll get word jim, let me ask you, does the rise of the delta variant make the fed's taper talk more or less likely, with more or fewer teeth in it? >> it makes it less likely but it makes it less likely because it creates uncertainty around baseline expectations. i think the fed does need to speak about tapering, but i don't think they will make any final dec

they include congressman jim banks of indiana, congressman jim jordan of ohio, rodney davis of illinois, kelly armstrong of north dakota, and troy nehls. mccarthy's choices will need to be approved. >> people who rejected it, who didn't reject it. >> mccarthy's choices will still need to be approved by house speaker nancy pelosi, but she's not signaled plans to turn any of them down. the select committee is scheduled to hold its first hearing next week. witnesses will include officers from the u.s. capitol police department and metropolitan police department. a 38-year-old florida man who breached the area carrying a trump campaign flag was sentenced to eight months in prison. paul hokin pleaded guilty. "the new york times" rogers that mr. hosch kins. in court paper "the times" writes judge moss had a chance to show malice toward none and charity toward all, but the court didn't quite buy it and thought simply it could encourage future attacks and noted hodgkins brought gloves. joining us now, nbc 4's scott macfarlane. scott, great to see you. thanks for getting up so early with us. are prosec

conway points to, is that he turned them all into liars because bill barr and don mcgahn and jim mattis and john kellyvery last cellular particle of their being that he was fundamentally unfit to serve. how does that stain of everybody that was in there, everybody that was around him ever get erased? >> i don't think it ever gets erased. i think history is not going to look back well on anybody who enabled donald trump because he is a damaged man who has damaged the country. he has polluted the civic dialogue. he fomented an insurrection at the capitol. he thumbed his nose at the rule of law, and he continues to propagate obviously the big lie about the election, but also all sorts of damaging untruths about the electoral process, about race and other things, core american values. but what is dangerous about the moment that we're this is most of those people i don't think care about history and how it will look at them. secondarily, the republicans right now are trying to rewrite history before it is even accounted for, and that's why you had this struggle over the january 6th investigation. we are in

jim. >> yeah. that's gary kelly of southwest joining us there dow in the meantime posting an earnings beat for itsd quarter. the chemical company pointed to an increase in demand and tight supply signaled a brighter outlook as the global economic recovery broadens joining us on cnbc, jim fitterling good morning, welcome. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> i'm looking at a couple of analysts' reports, significant beat one says healthy earnings beat says another yet i look at your stock this morning, and it's down by more than 2%. why do you think that is >> well, as you know, sometimes real results and the markets don't line up. but our second quarter was the strongest quarter in the company's history preor post spend, and our third quarter order book is very, very strong, so i think our outlook is that we're going to see a third quarter very much like the second quarter, and that's across many of our segments and driven obviously by demand and backlogs that our customers -- many of our customers now with 45 to 60-day backlogs on their order books. >> you know, i'm looking at at least, i

plans to name these representatives, jim banks of indiana as ranking member, jim jordan of ohio, rodney davis of illinois, kelly armstrong of north dakota and troy nehls of texas. the house speaker nancy pelosi technically has the power to veto leader mccarthy's picks but nbc's capitol hill team says they don't see any red flags that would lead her to block them the committee's first hearing is scheduled for a week from tomorrow >>> the state department investigating reports of mysterious illness of 20 officials in spree why he in a, similar to the havana syndrome, brain illness reported in 2018, diplomats in cuba started experiencing dizziness, nausea, vertigo, headaches and neurological problems. u.s. scientists say they're likely caused by microwave radiation attacks. since april, vienna has been hosting talks between iran and the united states to resurrect the nuclear deal about two dozen dip empp diploms and intelligence officials have experienced the symptoms that makes it the second biggest hot spot outside havana. no one's been blamed for at tacks but in the past, u.s. officials have said russia is the

jim banks will serve as the top republican on the panel alongside rodney davis, kelly armstrong, troyan members, bank, jordan and nehls, objected to certifying joe biden's election results on january 6th, while all but davis voted on against the creation of investigating the insurrection. mac kargtie's picks show his full plans toward the committee as greg sargent writes in "the washington post". the appointment of two people whose obvious role is to sabotage like banks, jordan played a big role if sowing doubts about 2020, showing that mccarthy must do all he can to muddy up a full accounting. he cannot reveal what it was, a non--tliflan faction of the gop. we are black with clinton watts and a.b. stoddard. thank you for coming back. i will start with a quote from banks. this is a guy that actually will be on a committee that is supposed to be investigating january 6th. clint, i with like to hear your thoughts when i am done. if democrats were serious about investigating political violence, this committee would be studying not only the january 6th riot at the capitol but also hundred

jim banks. he will be leading it, the ranking republican on the gop side. rodney davis of illinois and kellytexas. two of those members voted to certify the january 6th election that includes kelly armstrong as well as rodney davis. the other three voted to overturn the electoral results and two of those members, jim jordan and jim banks signed onto the texas lawsuit that would have invalidated millions of the votes across several battle ground states but in talking to the members now, talked to some of them as they came down, one of them jim jordan, i asked what do republicans want to establish on this committee? he said this committee is used to attack donald trump. when i asked what republicans want to do. this is setting up for a very partisan clash, democrats say they want to investigate everything and including the former president's actions and the republicans are at least one of them on the panel is making clear he views this as an effort to go after donald trump and you can bet he will defend the president's actions. we'll wait to hear what the others say but next week, kate, the fi

jim mattis. he tried to do it i think with general kelly.he former defense secretary, you're also a former republican senator. >> right. >> does congress need to respond with more guardrails around the presidency, do you think? is this something that should be taken seriously? >> just how close, as you were just saying former president trump came to politicize the military and trying to use the military to suppress protests and all of these other sorts of things that would have been constitutional violations. >> well, i think there's enough that we should do to try to make sure we don't get another president like president trump. it was known from the beginning who he was, what his character was, what his temperament was or lack thereof. so the american people have to look more carefully at the power that we entrust to the president of the united states. it's the most powerful position in our government, maybe the world. but to put a person in that position with potentially his finger on a nuclear weapon or any other type of weapon i think c

jim bank. both met recently with former president trump. she accepted rodney davis, troy nhls and kelly armstrong. mccarthy says he will yank his members and conduct his own probe if pelosi doesn't accept his picks. it's afreej just abuse of power pelosi has broke this institution. house democrats must answer this question: why are you allowing a lame duck speaker to destroy this institution? >> pelosi has already named g.o.p. wyoming representative liz cheney to the committee. >> the rhetoric that we have heard from the minority leader is disingenuous. at every opportunity the minority leader has attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened. >> mccarthy contends pelosi is afraid to answer questions about the riot and security preparations from jim jordan, the committee's first hearing is next week with or without the g.o.p. the committee has a quorum, reporters asked pelosi for her response when mccarthy accused her of playing politics. >> mistake him for somebody that would care about us. >> using pelosi's decision to remove jordan and banks against her. t

jim jordan of ohio. representative rodney davis of illinois. representative kelly armstrong of north dakota. and representative troy nehls of texas. the speaker pro tempore: the resolution qualifies. for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mr. hoyer of maryland moves that the resolution be laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: the question on the motion is to lay the resolution on the table. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is not adopted. mr. mccarthy: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. mccarthy: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-s of husband reese 8, the yeas and nays are order -- of resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or

i have a feeling kelly's background is legal, recordny has -- rodney has been there a long time. i wasn't surprised about jimely nonpartisan, i do believe there will be phone calls back and forth to marb-a-lago. >> kirstin, you know i -- i think it's really hard to deny what happened on january 6. even with the jim jordans there, it just makes them look bad, it's not a good narrative for them to try to pretend that january 6 didn't happen. even if jim jordan is there and people who tried to not certify the election, i think it just shows them for who they are, i don't know if you agree with that, but that's my thinking. >> to the point you were having with chris earlier about whether or not this is sort of blowing up in democrats' face because you have a jim jordan on the committee, i'm more inclined to think about it the way you do, which is this has to be investigated. of course the ideal would have been to have a 9/11 style commission. that was not an option because of the republicans. so this is what they're left with. i do think they have to try to do the best that they can. this will be heavily weighte

kelly armstrong. >> thanks, rodney. i agree with everything that's been said. i've served for two years with jim jordan on oversight and judiciary. we've been through a lot of tough hearings today, a lot of hearings that were going to be similar to this and we know how to do this. we have credibility with the american people. and to strike them -- strike jim banks and jim jordan from this committee is just unacceptable. i think it's important to recognize that every time speaker pelosi uses the word unprecedented, it happens to consolidate absolute power in the speaker's office. it was unprecedented to build a glass cage in order to make sure she got the gavel. it was unprecedented to put metal detectors on the floor of the house. it's unprecedented to have proxy voting and it's unprecedented for the majority leader to strike members from this committee. i think this is about the speaker's office maintaining an iron grip on her conference in the people's house for the next 18 months. i'm concerned that after 200 years of precedent we are completely altering how things are done in the people's ho

investigating the january 6th attack, including congressman jim banks of indiana, jim jordan of ohio, rodney davis of illinois, kelly armstrong of north dakota and troy neihls. three of them previously voted to overturn the results of the november election. >> you got a mix from the entire group, people who objected, people who didn't object. >> saying he did not speak to donald trump. mccarthy's choices still need to be approved by house speaker nancy pelosi but she has not signalled any plans to turn down those choices. the select committee is scheduled to hold its first hearing next week. witnesses include officers from the u.s. capitol police department and the d.c. metropolitan police department. let's bring in reporter jonathan lemire, associate editor of "the washington post", eugene robinson, and curt bar della, a columnist for "usa today" and "the new york times." good morning to all of you. jonathan let me start with you. kevin mccarthy was going to nod to the base we knew that. but three of the five, majority of his picks, voted to contest the november election. >> three of the picks, willie, did so and t

jim banks and troy nels of texas. all three voted to overturn the election results in arizona and pennsylvania. illinois congressman rodney davis and kellyg of north dakota are also on the list. they voted to certify the election results. and we are joined from the hill now. manu, where do you see pelosi going on this? >> reporter: it's unclear. she said to me there that criteria is not whether they voted to certify the election. the fact that they voted to overturn the e results does not seem to mean they will not get those ultimate picks, but then i asked her what factors are you considering here. and she would not say. she said you'll wait to hear my announcement. i said are you going to make the announcement today. she said i'll make it when i'm ready. the only person who knows what she'll do is the speaker herself. the republicans believe she should move ahead. kevin mccarthy said there's no reason for her not to. when speaking to the republicans, it's clear they want the focus to be largely on the preparations as well as other matters including protests that occurred last summer involving black lives matter and other issues not jus

kelly armstrong. >> thanks, rodney. i agree with everything that's been said. i've served for two years with jim jordan on oversight and judiciary. we've been through a lot of tough hearings together. a lot of hearings that would have been similar to this. we know how to do this. we have credibility with the american people. and to strike jim banks and jim jordan from this committee just unacceptable. i think it's important to recognize that every time speaker pelosi uses the word "unprecedented," it happens to consolidate absolute power in the speaker's office. it was unprecedented to build a glass cage in order to make sure she got the gavel. it was unprecedented to put metal detectors on the floor of the house. it's unprecedented to have proxy voting. and it's sure unprecedented for the majority leader to strike minority members for a committee. i don't think this committee is about the last election. i don't even think it's about the next election. it's about the speaker's office maintaining an absolute iron grip on her conference and the people's house for the next 18 months. and i'm concer

jim. i have a question this afternoon regarding -- >> i'm sorry >> caller: at&t? >> i'm not a fan, you should go with t-mobile or verizon let's go to kellyou >> caller: i'm doing well. i was wondering about atkor? >> i need to see more. matthew in california? >> caller: i hope you're enjoying the summer. the garden looks amazing i hope my portfolio grows just like it. and how about arrival? >> you know which one i like best ford i like tesla, i spoke to ross gerber today on twitter. we both think that tesla is at the right level. how about jean in california jean >> caller: hello there, dr. cramer how about cerf >> understand, this is a very -- those of us who have had to deal with someone in our lives that needed a blood transfusion, thi is a very niche business, i'm going to say no. >> caller: thank you so much for the education you share. >> thank you. >> caller: i'm calling today for your thoughts on cemex. >> i like these guys i do a lot of business in mexico i like cemex it's an $8 stock, but this is a great play of infrastructure it's also a great play on a country that i think is not nearly -- people say mexico is a failed state,

jim, truly an incredibly exciting time for the entire commercial space industry. >> exciting stuff. thanks, kristin. >>> joining us is retired nasa restaurant scott kelly. scott, great to see you. what an exciting and historic day. you know what it's like to get to space and get back. what's going through your mind right now, and what does this mean for the future of space travel? are we seeing the dawn of this space tourism age in this country and around the world? >> yeah, jim, thanks for having me. of course, like you mentioned, the getting back part is the most important part. and it was great. it was great to see richard branson and the entire crew get back safely. certainly an exciting day for space tourism and commercial space flight. and i do think this kind of puts us on the cusp of a new dawn for human travel and readily accessible or more easily accessible human travel to space than we've had previously. >> and today's test launch comes just nine days before jeff bezos is set to launch. it appears there's a billionaire space race going on here as we've been discussing. is it too soon to think about commercial space travel? is that within the

kelly jane, what's your take here? a lot of different efforts to take big tech down to size, whether it be these anti-trust bills in the house, the judiciary committee, or jim introducing to now this lawsuit from the president. your thoughts? kelly: yeah, i think president trump is going to have a bit of a hard time getting this lawsuit and winning it. because he's trying to say that the companies are doing this at the behest of government so he can use the first amendment defense but of course these companies don't need to be told by the government to do it. they're happy to collude with democrats. they do it purposely and without direction. one thing i think might be interesting, maria, you mentioned there's lots of different tax on this, recently the florida law that governor de santis signed that would make it illegal, would fine companies for banning political candidates, a judge shut that down. i wonder if that has legs. think about the equal time rule. this is a decades long rule that was started because they didn't want media to have too much influence on elections and it says if you give time to one candidate, you must offer the other candidate tim

kelly armstrong. appreciate you coming on today. let me start with this. do you wish you were, had you wished you were on the committee, regardless of the jim jordan, jim banks situation, set that aside. speaker pelosi said they were fine with you and others. what do you think was missing today that you would have added? >> i think one question i would have liked to, listen, start with this. officers deserve to have their stories told. it was compelling, heart wrenching, their heroism is absolutely on display. we appreciate everything they did. they also have decades of tactical experience amongst them. they're very accomplished. some served in riot control, all those things. early on in the hearing when officer dunn mentioned they were unprepared, there's a real question on that. what were we doing, what did we know. did officers on the ground that day have the same information that leadership had or other organizations had because outside of all of the politics of this, listen, political consequences happen at the ballot box, second tuesday of november, there are structural questions about what happened, how it got to that point, what we do moving forward

jim. there you go thank you, everybody that's it for "halftime report." have a great long weekend. happy fourth of july, everybody. "the exchange" with new record highs begins now you're welcome, kelly. >> thank you, brian. i'm kelly evans. hi everybody, and welcome to the exchange 850,000 new jobs and wages on the rise so, why are bond yields falling again on this great jobs report? we will tell you why and look at the stocks that could hurt if wages continue their climb >>> plus it's branson versus bezos in the space race. richard brans son is set to be aboard a flight next sunday. the stock soaring or landing in the stars. is it the best time for bezos to step away as ceo of amazon it's all coming up in rapid fire but we begin with the stock reaction to today's jobs report. christi kristina partsinevelos has those numbers. >> the russell that you're seeing on your screen down almost 1% is the only major index lower for the week we know kelly will get into the bond yields. growth taking charge after trailing slightly over the past two business days. so, tech is the leader on the board, up 1% that's primarily due to software consumer staples led by hbc and grocers. last but not com

jim. there you go thank you, everybody that's it for "halftime report." have a great long weekend. happy fourth of july, everybody. "the exchange" with new record highs begins now you're welcome, kellyome to the exchange 850,000 new jobs and wages on the rise so, why are bond yields falling again on this great jobs report? we will tell you why and look at the stocks that could hurt if wages continue their climb >>> plus it's branson versus bezos in the space

kelly background is legal. rodney is a really smart guy. i think there's a bit of a good faith effort there. i was surprised about that, but i wasn't surprised about jim ord jordan being chosen either. my worry is it won't be completely, i would say, nonpartisan because i do believe there's still going to be phone calls back and forth to mar-a-lago as people make sure the right thing is said at the right time. we'll see what happens, but i was a little bit surprised to see kelly and rodney chosen. >> kirsten, you know i have been saying that bipartisanship for the sake of bipartisanship is really just empty, right? it's really just mechanics. but on this particular thing, i think it's really hard to deny what happened on january 6th. and even with the jim jordans there, it just makes them look bad. it's not a good narrative for them to try to pretend that january 6th didn't happen. even if jim jordan is there and people who tried to not certify the election, i think it just shows them for what they are. i don't know if you agree with that, but that's certainly my thinking on it. >> well, i think to the point of conversation you were having with chris

kelly promoted to senior vice president americas, strategic sales, et cetera so a number of shuffles, but the most important one there, ibm's president, jimo you. >> shares are reacting negatively i think back when they purchased redhat, i think the whole picture is it is platform agnostic and they will run it separately in many ways kind of siloed from the rest of ibm, the fact that he is leaving, is that the strategy or what do you think is happening >> i don't think siloed so much from ibm, but arvin has told me this, it is really about what the customer needs to make their business work and we're open to not just selling them within ibm, but selling them, morgan, what they need in this new hybrid environment i expect that strategy will continue to be the strategy, but jim whitehurst will not be a part of executing it. >> john, thank you for bringing us the news. we'll see you in the next hour the next half hour, i should say. >>> we will take a look at the biggest laggards on the s&p, right now, as we do head to a quick break. it's walgreen's, carnival, norwegian, live nation, and valero, the losses for the week. as you know. even tho

among the names as congressman jim jordan, republican of ohio and congressman mike johnson of louisiana, representative kelly armstrong from north dakota, congressman jim banks of indiana, congressman roger davis of illinois or brian style of virginia and elise stefanik from new york. also in indiana representative. those are some of the names being mentioned on this friday morning. this is a tweet saying we don't need a committee and all we know about this so go for it, we will use that in the midterms. this saying that republicans had the chance to create an independent bipartisan commission but they blocked it and that's now looking like a very dumb mistake. duke is joining us on the independent line from stonington, maine, good morning. caller: good morning. i just want to say that i don't know why any decent republican would not want to be on this committee. their lives were in jeopardy, too. just watch the film footage. for them to just want to sweep this under the rug like it never happened my don't understand it step as far as i'm concerned, they are dead souls and they have no decency and i just don