requests for comment to a number of journalism groups and journalists brian mcdonald told us he's not surprised by the b.b.c.'s take on the story. it's quite clear here that you know they've gone for a very very tenuous link between entirely homegrown french protests which have seen nothing to do with russia in a desperate attempt to find some kremlin angle to kind of you know fulfill the agenda that they they feel they must do at the moment which is to get as much money as they can i suppose you know for the idea of fighting some in for war with russia i just off the top of my head i can mention things like you know montenegro's you know nato vote recently was russia was supposed to interfere some idiots is the only word i can use in britain or actually trying to say that russia was responsible for brics that now c'mon you know i mean there's been on the table well i mean your skepticism in england been on the table for them particularly for you know twenty five or thirty years you see now you know in america they've tried to make it look like russia was somehow responsible for electing donald trump so this i

commission to your leader mary mcdonald saying we dramatically differ on the issue of brics it with a life long campaign the civil rights era. meanwhile you will not put your m.p.'s in to support a second referendum even though your leader is calling for a second reverend of the mazy ship brains position it doesn't want a hard border even though our border could arguably mean the good friday agreement kicks in they vote on the irish unity and they want to take a referendum but it's not going to put m.p.'s in westminster of the second reverend let alone store well let me say let me say first of all it's not just that we don't want a hard border let's be upfront and straight about this and nobody beyond any doubt at all we don't want any border that's quite simply the situation that is our position and in relation to standing back in terms of a second referendum on the contrary our m.p.'s in the north and indeed our elected representatives a consolation and our party activists right across the country already will be fully engaged if a second referendum opportunity presents the way to really think about getting a second referendum is what i'm saying because you kno

s&p basically flat. once you get under the surface real interesting stuff going on. look at the leaders an laggards. industrial, consumers leading. mcdonald's, proctor, 3m look at those. laggards, nike, visa, goldman sachs, home depot, travelers, a mix of stocks on these two lists. want to get you to general electric. big headlines on that company today. everybody was paying attention to internet of things company they want to open separately from ge. $1.2 billion software company. interesting stuff, but the thing that really propelled this stock today, it is up 7%, was the fact jpmorgan up graded the stock to just neutral, but took it off the recommended short list. think about that. so general electric giving a boost thanks to jpmorgan. charles, back to you. charles: analyst said it was a sell at 30. thinks the carnage is over. connell: trade tensions between the u.s. and china weighing on investors as edward lawrence continues to talk about that. president trump speaking out. what is the latest, edward. reporter: donald trump says has sights own a fair trade deal for china and protects intellectual property and open market access as well

mcdonald. reporter: a major turnaround for stocks. the dow going as low as 611 points and turning around and ending 254 points higher. they say pension buying ways saved stocks today. the s p ending higher by 21 points. all three major indexes in the green. apple which pulled the dow lower as well. we still have a very long way to go before the indexes are positive for the year. the dow is down 6.3% for the year. only the healthcare sector is positive for the year. up marginally for the year. a major turn for for the stocks. so excited the traders down here cheering the markets. john, back to you. jon: market swings, conflicting economic data. bell:point scat strategist david nelson, the white house economic advisors spoke about the markets. >> we have a heck of a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the up side. i think those are better balanced now that the market moved back toward where it is now. he's trying to paint a rosie picture. to a large extent he's correct. but unfortunately you don't live in a vacuum. economies overseas are slowing and they are our customers. that translates to the top and bottom line here in the united states, especially for large cap mult

s prayer was?n he said yeah. i think god outranks senator mcconnell on the acrimony. yeah, okay, fine. brian: who's elizabeth mcdonaldnd megan pickel? mark: elizabeth mcdonough is the is pollen terror the aid of the -- is the aid of the senate and megan is one of the legislative clerks staff there. they are in the senate chamber. that would be a fascinating interview to talk to the two of them if you get them to talk. we talked to them a little bit about what they do, but to hear what they must have seen, what they watched unfold in front of them and been a part of his fascinating. they're two of the many people who make this place run. brian: this is the last of our video, a minute and seven seconds long. let's watch them chat on the floor. >> we'll refer those appear at the desk, and then they'll get passed over to our senate journal clerk, who will log them into her journals. >> the senate journal is the highest legal authority of the senate. it tracks motions. it's something that's required by the constitution, a housekeeper record of the proceeding. it's a journal we keep of pages on a daily basis used for our a

stocks -- as a matter of fact, as we move over to the s&p and the nasdaq, we see three stocks in the green for the dow. that's coca-cola, mcdonald'sand verizon. it is not all red, but close to it. there we see the nasdaq is actually down about where the dow is percentage wise. the s&p which is a broader index of 500 different stocks, dow has only about 30 in it. that is doing a little bit better. so the broad stock margin is a little bit better than the dow. joining us are brian wesbury who stayed with us. jack hough is here and lauren simonetti here to start with volatility. stock markets were killed last week. jack, what do you think will happen this week? >> you were calling that down 400 number on the dow, a leftover. i hope it stays a leftover because this looks like a weak start. what i look forward from here, there's only two real things that i'm confident about. one is i think we will get about 5% earnings growth from corporate america next year. we have the estimates. they are coming down a little bit. that looks to be where they settle. i think we will get 2% on our stock dividends next year. if stocks rise in line with

s supposed to be a smaller test that went broader than anticipated. they went back to the old version. >> all right. now here's your cnbc morning business report. >> good morning. i'm frank. holla mcdonaldstabli mcdonald's making a big bt on breakfagain. they responded to calls and added all daybreak fast consumers cheered and their sales got a big boos bu that lead to consequences as more customers arekipping morning visits and instead going in the afternoon an evening. ey're blaming slowing sales on weakness in the morning. so the added coffee take and muffin a topss well as $1 sandwich deals. >> muffin top on seinfeld once. where is the restf this muffin. top of the muffin to you. th iskenny. he's available for adoption at the humane rescue alliance. he would eat the stump of the muffin for sure. temperatures in the upper 50s -- that's a thing. i promiseou >>> w are in weather alert mode. a flood watch is in effect. the rain is still coming down hard at this early hour and you can see on the radar that it's going to be a busy, busy day. we can see another inch of rain. the good news is its going to dry o for most of the weekend. the full forecast coming up in a few minutes. today is

s&p 500. let's take a look amount some of those big losers on the dow today. the dow drags. you see walmart down 4%. united health and mcdonalds, those are the big heavyweights on the dow as well. other companies like gopro, snap chat, they hit all-time lows today. technology when many investors are saying overvalued, they're leaving risk. twitter, an example. over 11% today. so what is wrong? many, many factors. you can claim the yield curve is distorted and all about perception. there was talk i saw on notes that some pension funds are rebalancing, a lot of sell-off there. a lot of movement. you can blame high algorithms and high frequency trading. earlier today steve mnuchin was on fox business and he weighed in. >> i think the market reaction is completely overblown. if you look at the u.s. growth versus europe versus the rest of the world, the u.s. is still going to grow significantly higher. >> neil, i want to end on this. i heard you say it earlieearlie. he talked about the machines. he doesn't speak when the markets climb higher which we saw in the summer. >> neil: the high frequency trades that propel us on the down s

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