i'm kelly evans in nor becky quick. how companies are rewriting the rules for the way america works and why it might pay off for you. saving for retirement, what the trump years may mean for your plan. >>> if you think the best deals are gone with the holidays, think again, why january may be the best time year to start. >>> joining a gym doesn't have to cost an arm and leg. plus, take egg plunge, the border patrol is looking for a few good men and women. kate rogers found out what it takes. >> give to them harder. now throw him. >> "on the money" starts right now. >> this is "on the money", your money, your life, your future. >> we begin with your job, 9:00 to 45:00, 8:00 to 6:00 and commuting to the office are yesterday. more and more are offering flexible schedules and ability to work from home. those new work perks are our cover story. >> 2017 may be the year of the worker. in order to attract employees, 80% of all companies now offer flexible work arrangements. technology is helping that trend, allowing people to w

i'm kelly evans.ieve it or not, even though there's a lot of red on our screens, we have a record close and it's the nasdaq. by bucking the trend was able to move higher by .2 to close at 5531. so that one continues to set new records. we'll get more to the composition of how it happened in just a moment. meanwhile, the dow 30 down 1/3 of a percent. 19891. now we're back below 19,900. the s&p 500 dropping about the same amount. 2269 for the broad index. russell small caps continue to move lower throughout the session today dropping nearly 3/4 to 1357 today. now coming up on the show we have two big interviews. merck ceo kenneth frazier and ginni rometty will join us live from the inaugural fintech ideas festival. let's head uptown to the nasdaq. bertha comes gives us the breakdown. bertha? >> a little bit of a perfect record, in fact, at least for 2017. the young year. up five days in a row for the nasdaq 100, which was really the engine today with those large caps that were moving and also up five da

let's go back to kelly evans and john harwood who are there. >> we're watching the tail end of this and loving the discussion back there as well. don't you think it is a small representation of what's happening around this country? >> no question about it. the basic idea of whether donald trump would be good for american business or bad for american business is unsettled. there are certain things, his regulation, lower taxes, a real potential for a boone. if you have a trade war, if you throw off immigration policies including a wall that seems to have the united states retreat from the rest of the world, that's not so good. >> by the wargs i had maybe personally been hopeful or thinking, even though we got late started on the parade by 20 minutes, we might still finish at 5:00. and people are pointing out that it seems to be taking a while to go along the parade route. in fact it's been two hours. president trump is seated with his wife and son, along with ivanka and the pences. they seem to be taking it all in, looking probably more relaxed than we've seen all day. >> well, they're in

i'm kelly evans. tonight we're cracking open the cnbc archives to take a look at trump in his own words. one of trump's most fascinating appearances on cnbc, it took place almost ten years ago, you will hear some things that sound very recent as well as some things you might find surprising. >> tonight on the big idea, the debut interview in our new series, the american dream. tonight donald trump. he's teaching you to win in any negotiation. >> i want to brainwash them. i want to think that there's so much competition. >> trump candid about his enemies. >> in a way i love my enemies. did you know that rosie went to my wedding? that slob went to my wedding. can you believe it? she ate like a pig. can you believe it? >> answering any question at all. >> is there any chance you'll be a 2008 trump ticket? >> i think we have the worst president in the history. >> the american dream series, tonight on the big idea. >> welcome to big idea. i'm donny deutsch. the first of our series, living the american drea

i am kelly evans. an interesting day today on wall street. the dow couldn't close positive, down about 20 points. doesn't look like a lot of the buy orders came in. we were discussing, it dropped .1% to 19,804. we have been running in place a couple hundred points shy of 20,000. s&p closed at 2271. nasdaq up .33% or thereabouts. and russell 2,000 making up some of the ground it lost yesterday with a .5% gain. dollar up. transports rebounded. they also had underperformed. netflix finished the trading day higher ahead of its earnings. just turned positive. you can see there pretty much right at the close about .25% gain for netflix, trading around $133. we'll bring you their results, of course, as soon as they are out. bill miller, the chairman of lmm, joins us on his take on everything from tech, airlines, treasuries. >>> joining me now me is senior markets commentator and columnist mark santolli. >> acid metal. >> what people do on their own time. danielle hughes from divine capital markets. and steve grasso from the floor joins us in a momen

it's 2017 and i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm bill griffeth. shout out to chattanooga, tennessee. happy new year. donald trump is driving the business news agenda. he's back at trump tower and he's been tweeting up a storm going after general motors, china trade issues and oake. we'll have the details and the potential impact on the market all coming up. >> welcome to trading in the new year. stocks losing steam and a big rally overseas, by the way. is this a sign the bull market could be coming to an end? we'll debate that coming up. >>> also, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren wants to make it easier for marijuana businesses to use u.s. banks. as you know, many of them just refuse to do business because it's illegal federally, marijuana is. we'll have more on the potential hurdles that she faces on that initiative coming up. >>> but we start with big news from the auto sector today. ford announcing it's cancelling plans to build a new plant in exi could e exmexico. trump is going to impose a big tax on them for making chevy cruz in mexico

stay tuned for the second hour of "the closing bell" with kelly evans and company.ee you tomorrow, kell. >>> thank you, bill. welcome to "the closing bell," everybody. i am kelly evans, and we are in another record high on wall street on the nasdaq once again today looking to close higher than 5551 to reach that level. we did it by 12 points. 5563 the new closing high for the nasdaq. a gain of a fifth of a percent. it happens after it was whacked earlier. only turned into positive territory later in the session today after trump's press conference. more than that in a moment. it was one of the weaker performers. s&p 500 up to 2,275. just two points away from its all-time high. the dow, 19,951. 20 points shy of its record close and, of course, 49 points shy of dow 20 k. >>> the mortgage interest rate tax deduction is a perk for homeowners. donald trump's tax plan would cap it or eliminate it outright. we'll debate the potential impact on the housing market coming up. >>> cnbc senior markets commentator michael santoli. paul hickman here as well. rene norse from urban

i'm kelly evans of the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffeth. dow 20,000 is within striking distance. look at that. >> wow. >> blue chip average rallying. we're within 70 points now. well, 60 points. the nasdaq and the s&p are in record territory, kids. russell is pretty strong as well today. a gain of 1.6% right now. we have all the market moves coming up. >> it kind of snuck up on us. another busy day for president trump. meeting with the ceos of the big three automakers. signing orders to continue with the keystone pipeline. >> coincidence or not, that's when the rally took off. after he signed those two executive orders at the white house. >> shares of fluor corporation are up. we will talk to the ceo of that company and get his take of how real the benefit will be for his industry coming up in just a minute here. >>> remember the dimon bottom. could the banks see signs now of a james gorman top. should investors broadly follow suit. >> i'm trying to think what else the dimon bottom could have been? of course it had to be the stock market. >

>> i'm kelly evans with the new york stock exchange. >> record highs today. small business optimism is soaring. is this the making of a sugar high for investors. we're going to talk about that coming up. >> some strong guidance. in a $5 billion buy back sending shares of general motors soaring today. we'll have details on why the automaker is so optimistic. >> what a transition that was. that was great. i don't know who's djing today. you're doing a great job. after being targeted on twitter by president-elect trump, we have more on the business blame game that's coming up. >>> for the first time since that epipen outrage peaked milan ceo heather bresch will join us in an exclusive interview after the bell today. stay tuned for that. >>> let's start with small business confidence surging to a 12-year high. just last month former treasury secretary larry somers sounded this optimism. he was on "squawk box" this morning. take a listen. >> consumer confidence at 12 year highs, market's at record highs right now, how would you characterize this? >> sugar high. >>

i'm kelly evans. here's how we're finishing up the session on wall street.own day across the board. the dow jumping 56 points on the bell. down much more than that on the final hours. we came back a little bit. still 19,829, well shy of that you know what level. the s&p 500 down about 6 or 7 points at 2267. the nasdaq dropping 2/3 of a percent today, 5538. the russell small caps down almost 1.5%. 1352 is the level for those small caps. now coming up we're going to get earnings from a couple of big caps and a couple of big transport companies. morgan brennan is standing by to cover csx. susan li will bring in results of u nighted continental. thank you both. see you shortly. >>> on the panel we have cnbc markets commentator michael santoli, michael yushicami and mayflower's pm larry glazer could kick things off here. welcome, everybody. markets broadly, i get that. why was morgan stanley down so much when it had its best quarter. >> it's become a favorite position of everybody coming through here it seems. had treasury yields down again. you had the dollar do

i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffeth. they ate chicken chalupas, but we don't have to. >> i do think it looks tasty. >> you do. okay. the dow down toward 21,000, i guess. >> we're already at 21,100, so there's a round number for you. >> the big question is where does this market head next? >> we've got top analysts to tell you whether you should be buying or selling certain dow components, like mcdonald's and visa. how about exxonmobil and coca-cola? >> instant analysis from microsoft, intel, starbuck's and paypal coming your way in the next couple hours here. >> i was trying to go up. >> you learn well. private joke. let's get right to the dow and the stocks that analysts think could be the leaders and the laggers in this next leg, dominic chiu, as we do inch toward 22,000 here. >> as you can see here, names like pfizer and merck, you can see they're tagged in yellow as dow components, because they're some of the names that could have the most analyst up side, and here's what we're talking about. we looked at average ana

i am kelly evans.a rally across wall street put us within distance of dow 20,000, back by 60 points. we are closing with a gain of about 59 on the dow to 19,941. not quite getting there today. the buy orders on the bell certainly didn't bring us that much closer. the dow was actually the worst performer relatively speaking, up .3%. the s&p gained double that, went up to 2270. nasdaq up nearly 1% closing at 5477. small cap russells up 1.6% to 1,387. transports had a strong day. dollar index was notably weaker. we'll come back to all of that in just a bit. >>> joining me on the panel, cnbc market analyst and senior markets commentator, i should say, pro analyst mike san tolli joining us. michael and stephanie from tia global asset management. mike, what do you think about the broad-based rally today. the dollar is much weaker. >> the rally was broad, the two-day action -- you can't extrapolate a lot from the first few trading days of the year. there is a lot of mechanical money entering the market. it's

this is kelly evans. she's getting her voice back here at the new york stock exchange. she'll be talking in just a moment. i'm bill griffeth. we're calling it the trump tower bump. lockheed power shares popping around noon after the ceo met with president-elect trump. i think she went and answered the questions beforehand. we have details. >> and the big banks kicking off earnings this morning. not quite with the bang many expected. more on that. shares still up a little bit in the trading today. plus, we have a first on cnbc with the ceo of wells fargo. >> have a drink there. >> thanks. >> meanwhile, war of words. china state media warning that comments from trump secretary of state designate could put the u.s. at war with china. we're going to tell the market risks of escalates tensions between the u.s. and china coming up. let's start with the comments from lockheed martin ceo right after she met with president-elect trump today. phil lebeau has the story. very different from the last time she met with the president-elect, phil. >> very different, bill. in fact, let'

i'm kelly evans along with scott wapner and steve liesman. becky, joe and andrew are dusting off the snow of the alps and heading to capitol hill. we'll check in with john harwood on that topic in just a couple of minutes. first let's check in on the markets. u.s. equity markets coming off of a six out of seven-day losing streak. four points off the s&p 500 there. seven off the nasdaq. let's look at how we were trading overnight in asia and europe. a lot of news coming out of davos. japan's nikkei up 1% overnight. the shanghai composite down a third. hang seng down 0.2. european equities, here's a look across the board. seeing red, that is bleeding over into our markets. the ftse 100 the worst performer, down three quarters of a percent. the german dax, relative outperformer, down 0.1% there. as we keep an eye on the trading in that session. crude, obviously continuing to be important for the market. kind of hovering around these levels here. 51.52. wti, brent both up a bit. nat gas making a move as well. it has been whipsawed around the last

stay tuned now for the second hour of the "closing bell" with kelly evans and company. you tomorrow, kel. >>> thank you, bill. welcome to the closing belle, everybody. nasdaq is closing at a record high here on wall street. in fact, it's the only average that even closed positive but a gain of about .2 at 5487 puts it pretty much at a new record close, 5487. it literally beat that by a half a point. we'll continue to see how things settle out here. again, that was bolstered by amazon, apple, some of the bigger cap names along with a few others. we'll come back to that. the other averages, can't say the same. the dow dropping a quarter percent to 19,899. the russell fell to give back some of the big games. 1371 is the top. shares dropping of toyota. the president-elect promised a big border tax if the automaker went through to build new plants. this just a day after ford scrapped its plans for a mexican plant. the toyota shares responding to the negative side. down 2/3 of a percent. we'll have the impact of trump on more corporate leaders coming up. >>> joining me on the

i'm sara eisen in for kelly evans. >> i'm bill griffeth. the president was meeting with various small business ones owners at the white house. we'll be talking to one of the small business owners who was there in the program. energy, financials and technology are among the sectors getting hit hard today. we'll look at whether the pull back is a buying opportunity or a shift in investor sentiment right now. >> the nasdaq is the big under performers. you can see tech ceos in silicon valley speaking out against trump's new immigration rules which sparked protests in airports across the country. someone says immigrants are essential to the tech economy and he'll explain why. >> let's start though, we have full team coverage of the president's moves today and over the weekend and the market reaction to it. eamon javers and deidre has the controversial immigration executive 0rorder. eamon, give us some of the hits, runs and errors. >> you played the sound bite of the president talking about the stock market. i want to underscore for you just how

. >> i'm sara eisen in for kelly evans. the s&p 500 having its worst day. we are well off of our lows for the session. the dow is down 60. the major averages coming back up. let's see what happens in the final hour of trade. we'll discuss whether the trump rally is in danger of coming to an end. >> i mean, the leadership upward is the leadership downward. the financials have been the worst performing sectors as the banks get set to start reporting their earnings tomorrow. a lot of expectations for what those numbers are going to be about. after a red hot run the stocks have become very expensive for some people and they feel there's very little room for error when they report those earnings. we've got two analysts who will be joining us to talk about whether now is the time to maybe sell the bank stocks as a result. >> certainly taking a pause today. president-elect trump vowing to repeal and replace obamacare very quickly. that move would result in a huge under the radar tax cut for wealthy investors. we've got the details on that story coming up. >>> but

i am kelly evans. what a day we have had here on wall street. looks like we are finishing up without hitting dow 20,000 both in the session and on the close here. we thought the closing orders might push us here. we've come off a little bit. the dow which was up 100 points earlier closed with a gain of 67. 19,967. 1/3 of a percent of gain. and the s&p 500. 2277 is a record close for the broad index. now the nasdaq which already hit a record this week up nearly 2/3 of a percent to 5521 closing perhaps 5500 for the first time there. that's a record. the russell 2000, the small caps, they did not participate. they were down 1/3 of a percent to 1367. 20 points high. the dow traded within .37 points of the 20,000 milestone. we will tell you where you should be putting your money to work. two top financial advisors will weigh in on how to position as we flirt with this milestone on this show coming up. let's get a check on today's big movers. bob pasani is tracking the action on the stock exchange. bertha coombs is over on the nasdaq. >> .37. only .37

i'm kelly evans along with scott wapner and steve liesman.ky, joe and andrew are dusting off the snow of the alps and heading to capitol hill. we'll check in with john harwood on that topic in just a couple of minutes. first let's check in on the markets. u.s. equity markets coming off of a six out of seven-day losing streak. four points off the s&p 500 there. seven off the nasdaq. let's look at how we were trading overnight in asia and europe. a lot of news coming out of davos. japan's nikkei up 1% overnight. the shanghai

i'm kelly evans here at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm mike santoli in for bill griffeth. president trump has a full schedule today wrapping up his first week in office. >> yeah, trump welcoming a foreign leader for the first time since taking office. theresa may, of course. the two just wrapped up a news conference. we'll have more on why trump says brexit will be a good thing. >> tensions seem to be cooling between the u.s. and mexico at this hour. trump reportedly spoke to mexico's president this morning. details of their conversation and potential economic impact of the mexico/u.s. relationship. >> hour long call. a closer look at what's behind the drop in shares of ubs down 3.6%. that's coming up. let's begin with president trump. john harwood at the white house covering his meeting with theresa may and michelle caruso-cabrera is there, too. john, first to you. >> reporter: kelly, president trump wrapped up his first full week as president by receiving his first foreign leader in the white house and staging his first news conference at the white house. the two leaders

i'm kelly evans along with bill griffith. we did it. closed above 20,000 on the dow jones industrial average. for the first time today closing up 155 points to 20,068. we punched above it at the open at 9:30 a.m. and never looked back. you can see the chart. basically started high. even moved a little bit higher as we moved through the session today, even though oil moved lower, a number of different reasons you can point to, the dow and the markets took it all in stride to close higher by easter nearly .8%. the s&p 500 up about the same amount in terms of percentage. it was up about 18% to 2298. that should be good enough for a new high for the s&p 500. the broad market index. in case you're wondering if the dow can be corroborated it can by the action in all the other major averages. the nasdaq, a record crossing 600. it closed today 56 points higher than the prior high. the russell 2000 is the laggard. the index, the small caps. led us on the way up and led us on the way down during the pause we took for a few weeks. 1% gain. 3282. s

i'm kelly evans.t we're cracking open the cnbc archives to take a look at trump in his own words. one of trump's most fascinating appearances on cnbc, it took place almost ten years ago, you will hear some things that sound very recent as well as some things you might find surprising. >> tonight on the big idea,

second hour of the "closing bell" with kelly evans and company. u tomorrow, kelly. >>> thank you, bill. welcome to the "closing bell", everybody. i'm still laughing at lindsay's expression. it is much louder after they refurbished the place. here's how we're finishing the bell. s&p 500 down about 8 points on the bell, 1/3% drop. the dow doing the same thing with a 72 point decline leaves it at 19,731 melting away from the you know what mark. nasdaq down 1/4% to 5540 and the russell small caps whacked again. they are underperforming on the way down. dropping nearly 1% today to 1345. so everybody a little bit below their high water marks here as we close out the trading session. we've gotten two big earnings releases on deck. deidre bossa is standing by and susan li is covering amex. >>> joining us for the hour is cnbc michael santoli. also with us, more on today's markets jeff degraf and lindsey bell from cfra research. welcome, one and all. we had if you want to call it animal spirits, the csx deal could be a big deal for the whole market. >> in th

this is kelly evans. she's getting her voice back here at the new york stock exchange. she'll be talking in just a moment.

it's 2017 and i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm bill griffeth.ut to chattanooga, tennessee. happy new year. donald trump is driving the business news agenda. he's back at trump tower and he's been tweeting up a storm going after general motors, china trade issues and oake. we'll have the details and the potential impact on the market all coming up. >> welcome to trading in the new year. stocks losing steam and a big

i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm bill griffeth. busy day.le of hours coming up. the fight over repealing obamacare heating up on capitol hill today. president obama and vice president-elect mike pence both met with congressional leaders today on that topic. we have details coming up. plus, former aetna ceo ron williams will be here at the new york stock exchange to talk about the impact an obamacare repeal would have on insurers. that will be a cnbc exclusive. we're looking forward

after this long weekend i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> happy tuesday for me as wellffeth. four big companies announcing to create jobs here in the u.s. we're wondering is this part of president-elect trump's plan to become, quote, the greatest job

>> i'm kelly evans with the new york stock exchange. >> record highs today.mall business optimism is soaring. is this the making of a sugar high for investors. we're going to talk about that coming up. >> some strong guidance. in a $5 billion buy back sending shares of general motors soaring today. we'll have details on why the automaker is so optimistic. >> what a transition that was.

i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> which makes me bill griffeth.over dow 20,000. the nags dak taking center stage. the tech heavy index hitting a record high as it did on friday. we'll tell you what's behind that move coming up here. >>> and president-elect trump meeting with business leaders. we have his discussions with the founder of alibaba and ldmh. >> we have the heads of bb&t,

. >> i'm sara eisen in for kelly evans. the s&p 500 having its worst day. are well off of our lows for the session. the dow is down 60. the major averages coming back up. let's see what happens in the final hour of trade. we'll discuss whether the trump rally is in danger of coming to an end. >> i mean, the leadership upward is the lears

welcome to the "closing bell", i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm bill griffeth.'s toyota's turn, i guess. the japanese automaker the target of president-elect trump's tweets. we'll have details on what this trend means for the entire automotive section here. >> retail wreckage. the holidays didn't turn out for so many apparel makers. we first brought you the news on macy's and kohl's.

i'm sara eisen in again for kelly evans today.ere's how we're finishing up the down day on wall street. down but certainly off the lows. stocks struggling again with the dow closing lower by half a percentage point. that's about 106 points lower. s&p coming up near the flat line in the final half hour or so of trade. real come back from an earlier slide of about half a percent. look at the nasdaq managed to close in positive territory. just barely. it's actually the best performer of all three of the major averages for the month of january and it does look like we are going to get gains for stocks broadly on the month. third month in a row that stocks are higher. >> that was that -- that was that fmoc drift that bob was just talking about. we experienced in the last few minutes. >> apple set to report earnings in just a few moments. we'll bring you those numbers as soon as they're out. we'll talk about what to watch in just a moment here as well and a few other big names reporting results including electronic arts and arconic. it

i'm kelly evans here at the new york stock exchange. >> i'm mike santoli in for bill griffeth. has a full schedule today wrapping up his first week in office. >> yeah, trump welcoming a foreign leader for the first time since taking office. theresa may, of course. the two just wrapped up a news

i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffeth.ate chicken chalupas, but we don't have to. >> i do think it looks tasty. >> you do. okay. the dow down toward 21,000, i guess. >> we're already at 21,100, so there's a round number for you. >> the big question is where does this market head next? >> we've got top analy

i'm kelly evans of the new york stock exchange. >> and i'm bill griffeth. dow 20,000 is within striking distance. look at that. >> wow. >> blue chip average rallying. we're within 70 points now. well, 60 points. the nasdaq and the s&p are in record territory, kids. russell is pretty strong as well today. a gain of 1.6% right now. we have all the market moves coming up. >> it kind of snuck up on us. another busy day for president

i'm kelly evans in washington. and there we can see the president's son making his way among others out of there. and then they will -- trump and the official party, anyway, will be leading the ceremony. we'll show you all of that in just a moment. we also as we bring you in here and up to date want to know that the market, it's a little bit higher as we enter the last hour of the trading day. the dow has been a pretty interesting tell about how the day has unfolded. it started up about 90 points when there was a lot of anticipation about this inaugural address. it dropped. the nasdaq 100 went lower. tax policy, for example, wasn't mentioned but, again, there's probably a time and a place for that. markets then making up some of those losses today. dow up about .4 of a percent now. the nasdaq composite up a quarter. the small cap russell broadly up about a quarter of a percent as well. i'm here with john and carl and andrew russ sortkin joins us. >> it's been a remarkable day. it's been a remarkable day to see this

evan smith, she's a veteran print and broadcast journalist, who co-hosts national public radio's best-in-class afternoon news magazine, all things considered, and hosts npr's deep dive news podcast, embedded. she's kelly mcevers, this is overheard. - [evan voiceover] let's be honest, is this about the ability to learn, or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa? you could say that he had made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you know, you saw a problem and over time took it on. let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you gonna run for president? i think i just got an f from you, actually. this is overheard. - kelly mcevers, welcome. - thanks for having me. - nice to have you, now i'm going to violate the no high fives on pbs rule. (kelly laughs) - what? - and give you a high five over what a wonderful time this is to be in the news business. is this not the greatest moment to be doing what we do? - this is a great time to be in the news business - every day, something you couldn't have ever believed. - that's true, right. you're talking about the election i would imagine. - oh, an

evan smith, she's a veteran print and broadcast journalist, who co-hosts national public radio's best-in-class afternoon news magazine, all things considered, and hosts npr's deep dive news podcast, embedded. she's kellymcevers, this is overheard. - [evan voiceover] let's be honest, is this about the ability to learn, or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa? you could say that he had made his own bed, but you caused him to sleep in it. you know, you saw a problem and over time took it on. let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak.

kelly evans will be carrying the torch for us for the rest of the hour or the day. >> just in case people fbi. it will pass the new trump international hotel. then it take ace hard, right turn on to 15th street before proceeding to the white house. all of these, of course, is where people are lining up. all the action we're witnessing being a couple of blocks away. >> you mentioned the hotel is on pennsylvania avenue. during the campaign, of course, he said i am building a hotel on pennsylvania avenue. i am getting there one way or the other, either be it the presidency or through the hotel. >> i believe it was also a big point -- wasn't iv nachlt ka in charge of a lot of it? but trying to delivert on time and under budget. anyone who saw our recent special on donald trump is well aware of what he did in new york city in the '80s, six years trying to build the rink in central park, came in and built it in three months and a couple million dollars. >> forget the politics for a second, delivering for the working class or whatever. what a business triumph that hotel was. >> as politico point

kelly, illinois. senator cory booker, new jersey. mr. allentive, adams, adams.d -- alma representative mia love. of the virgin island. representative dwight evanssylvania. senator kamala harris, california. representative lisa blunt rochester, delaware. anthony brown, maryland. val demings, florida. lawson, florida. donald mceachin, virginia. ladies and gentlemen, the congressional black caucus of the 115th congress. given a resounding round of applause. [applause] >> give them a resounding round of applause. give them yet still another round of applause. when you understand what these people stand for and you understand what they do for us and you understand how they fight for us tirelessly day and day out, you will give them another round of applause. [applause] give them yet still, another round of applause. pleasure to introduce the director of the naacp who will lead you along with the incomparable soloist stephanie jordan. reverend green. reverend green: let us pray. we are gathered today from across the states of the united states of america to say thank you for the congressional black caucus of the 115th congress. thank you for the comm

i'm bill griffeth along with kelly evans. the dow is down 35 points. busy day in washington. president trump having plenty of meetings. eam eamon javers stepping in. >> reporter: that's one of the ways they reach out to the press core. that's what the reporters in that room want to do. that was a much different sean spicer today than we saw over the weekend when he came back out in the press briefing room in a statement and just lambasted the press today and much more of a buncular version of sean spicer but still making the point that the trump white house wants to be covered fairly. they want some positive news out of the press core, not just a negative narrative all the time. he also laid out some of the details what happened in the ceo meeting earlier today. we saw a host of top executives including elon musk, mark fields of ford motor company, other executives here at the white house meeting with druchbl early this morning. spicer explained earlier what donald trump asked of each of them and the time line going forward. here's a bit of that. >> the meeting was only suppo