let's bring in ellen wald who's a senior fellow at the atlantic council and is also the author of saudi inc their arabian kingdom's pursuit of profit and power is joining us via skype from jacksonville that's in florida thanks very much for speaking to us on so if we just look at the tweet for a moment perhaps we can put it up on the screen saudi arabia has now agreed to spend the necessary money needed to help rebuild syria this is what the president of the united states is saying ellen wald is it clear to you though if trump is referring to the hundred million dollars that saudi had sent to the u.s. in october for syria or is this a new commitment from the kingdom because we haven't even heard from the kingdom. well i don't think that that's clear at all i think that it could very well be referring to the one hundred million dollars that they have pledged although it does seem to indicate that more money is expected at least from the trumpet ministration for syria and in this matter i you know it's not clear and i don't expect it to become clear for some time but it does appear that t

ellen wald as a senior fellow at the atlantic council and the author of saudi arabian kingdom's pursuit of profit and power she says president trump is defending u.s. a strategic partnership with the kingdom. here's what i think the trumpet ministration thinks about this they see saudi arabia as a strategic partner in the region and trumpet certainly gone out maybe on the fence to defend that strategic partners ship and now he's saying look we are still committed to you now you've got to step up and do what needs to be done and it it's definitely been clear from tom's policy that they would like saudi arabia to really serve as an effective counterpoint in the region to iran and this is his way of saying look if we are going to be strategic partners then you have to play that role of partner and here's a place where you can step up and do that in the region there are plenty of places that money can go in syria to you know serve rebuilding efforts that aren't necessarily connected to iran or russia or the assad regime or turkey if there's not a dearth of there's plenty to be done in syria

. >> been moved by commissioner wald, seconded by commissioner oyos. any discussion? any questions? all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? and then, we can -- >> we should say based on the conversation that we had during the full -- the full and complete conversation that we had during the closed session, i move that we -- i recommend that she get a raise. >> just maybe at a high level, you can state what your reasoning is that isn't about the closed session. >> okay. for extraordinary performance in the last year. >> second. >> it's been moved by commissioner wald and seconded by commissioner sullivan. >> and just acknowledge that there's no public in the room. >> and there's no public currently present. all those in favor? [voting] >> any opposed? motion carries. >>clerk: all right. the next item is item 16, adjournment. the time is 9:03 p.m. >> we are adjourned. good night. better. san francisco department of environment is a place where climate hits the street. we know that we don't have all the answers. we need to support our local champions, our local community to find c

judge wald's confirmation vote was 77-21 with a majority of republicans supporting the nominee. her nomination. judge mitfa had the closest nomination. still a comfortable margin. after president carter came to president reagan and for a while confirmations continued largely as before. there were close votes here and there, but in the name, nominees were confirmed relatively easily and quickly and with wide support. let's start with senator day o'connor nominated by president reagan to the supreme court in 1981. justice o'connor received criticism from pro-life groups when she was nominated but her confirmation hearings went smoothly and she -- she was ultimately confirmed by a vote of 99-0. president reagan's next supreme court nomination was a twofer. when chief justice warren burger announced his retirement in 1986, president reagan decided to elevate then-associate justice william rehnquist to chief justice and name a new associate justice, antonin scalia, one of the all-time great justices on the court, in my opinion. let's start with justice scalia. scalia was a well-known

but this really was an exceptionally dramatic week on walds and ended with more ofhe same. stocks fell sharply again dogged by the two great concerns, trade and the path of interest rates. early in the day, the government's monthly employment report showed the economy created 155,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate held steady at ve3.7% andge hourly earnings rose slightly as expected. now many called it alo gols report, not too oohot, not t cold. about but it wasn't enough to draw in the buyers today. by t close, the dow plummeted another 558 pointso 24388. the nasdaq dropped by 219 th s&p fell by 62. for the week, the dow lotbout 1,100 points. about 4%. in fact all tee majorverages down more than 4% making this the wort week for stocks since march. bob pisani has more on the rocky trading on wall street. >> reporter: stocks slid into the red on friday. jolieted by trade related tremendousers. the dow fell more than 600 at lows. but the the november jobs report showed softer but not cessarily weak trends on the labor market giving some investors some relief on the

ellen wald a senior fellow at the atlantic council and the author of saudi inc the arabian kingdom's pursuit of profit and power she says president trump is the offending us a strategic partnership with the kingdom here's what i think the trumpet ministration thinks about this they see saudi arabia as a strategic partner in the region and trumpet certainly gone out maybe on the fence to defend that strategic partners ship and now he's saying look we are still committed to you now you've got to step up and do what needs to be done and it it's definitely been clear from tom's policy that they would like saudi arabia to really serve as an effective counterpoint in the region to iran and this is his way of saying look if we are going to be strategic partners then you have to play that role of partner and here's a place where you can step up and do that in the region there are plenty of places that money can go in syria to you know serve rebuilding efforts that aren't necessarily connected to iran or russia or the assad regime or turkey if there's not a dearth of there's there's plenty to

cause an escalation and my first question was what can israel do to avoid escalation israel first wald supplies all the humanitarian needs of the palestinian population fortunately we suffer from terror. reply is really popular should first of all to stalk in the perpetrator who wants to kill civilians and this kind of reply or for. some reason or some region story that unfortunately tourists are hiding in its force proper reply in spur east to provide proper protection is really arab civilian population. the terrorist who killed three people in strasburg christmas market has reportedly been shot dead by police on the outskirts of the city according to french media you can see live pictures on your screen right now of strasbourg where so far there's been no official confirmation ceri venture cats had been on the run since the shooting on choose day evening. according to witness is the shooter shouted god is great in arabic as he opened fire just outside the market authorities say he was a struggle berg local and may have been radicalized in prison he had a criminal record in both franc

wald mort was working the register, so it did not go well. oh, yeah. there was some language there.ter. topic number five. finally, we shrewd a jedi knight who did not use the force although he did try to run from it. meet 21-year-old luke sky walker. yes, that's his real name! he was busted in tennessee for a parole violation. he tried to get his sister to bail him out, but she won't go anywhere near jail because she thinks she's a princess. oddly enough, mark hamill caught wind of the story and tweeted that the kid's parents gave him a terrible name. but it's better than his chubbier twin brother jaba the hutt. the cops seized his landspeeder, so he's been biking it back and forth to court. oh, that must be their family dog. chewbacca. i've never been good at that. oh, well, don't do it. we saved hundreds on our car insurance when we switched to geico. this is how it made me feel. it was like that feeling when you're mowing the lawn on a sunny day... ...and without even trying, you end up with one last strip that's exactly the width of your mower. when you're done, it looks so goo

it is so funfy that commission wald was thinking about lettuce. when i was typing and when you were talking, ashley, i used lettuce as my example, too. i can understand if you have a container of lettuce -- let's say we want to track the province of organic. [please stand by] >> you would -- you would -- you could trace it to a specific container and then know where that container has been. >> oh, right. right. >> and so with the -- with the e. coli outbreak with romaine, so certain heads of the romaine had e. coli, you could see which containers that they were in and then see where those containers came from, and that's the source. >> and it's because -- >> and then, you throw out all the associated -- >> the packaging that's around that individual head of lettuce

exclusive interview at the los angeles they went on to say the president still says wald often timesor a good healthy barrier or fencing. we left the solid concrete wall early on in the administration when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it. white house officials say democrats know exactly what the president is asking for an accused them of playing word games and silly semantics. although this back-and-forth continues, the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani is speaking out about the special counsel's russia probe telling robert mueller it is time to put up or shut up. >> is that donald trump that donald trump dig in and day out the last for months at the campaign. he was as surprised as i was about the wiki week disclosure. sometimes the price to the extent of did they really say that. >> it's led to nearly 3000 dozen indictments. by former trump advisors and 26 russian nationals. president trump longtime adviser michael: what sentence for campaign finance violations, tax evasion in line to congress. in a sentencing memo, providing information that is

joining me now, alex sykes wald and david lit. welcome to you both this afternoon.start with you on this one. you wrote this morning that this all is going to come down to the money chase. what do you mean? >> well, unfortunately, money is very important in politics and from my reporting in this potential 2020 primary more than ever. there's what you spend the money on and that's going to be more expensive in this primary because big states like california and texas have moved up to right after iowa and new hampshire, south carolina, nevada, that means that candidates have to start investing in the states and very expensive places to run campaigns and a signal that raising money sends n. a crowded field like what we expect for democrats in 2020, a lot of both insiders and voters and donors will be looking at the first fund raising reports that campaigns put out. they want to see who's up, down and who to invest in to make it for the long haul and no one wants to invest in a loser and want to invest in somebody who can beat donald trump and raised $100 million. he wi

earnings would be based on like i said economic drivers and separately we take all the analysts across walds not just credit suisse but all the analysts and what are they doing, revising numbers? and right now the revisions are normal it's not like they're splashing numbers. if they are it's because they see the market going down and feel no different than me, i got to cut something here, maybe i'm too optimistic but we are not seating analysts wholesale cutting numbers. >> you cut 4 and 25 s&p finds relative to 25. >> 12% something like that which is basically. >> because of volatility largely. >> yeah and here is i think -- here is i think happens. i think the vix will be in the three, four, five months now will be below 15 i think that that causes equities to rerate i think the fed is going to tell you they are done. i think that causes things to rerate i think you have an okay but good enough earnings back drop and i think that that gives you a double digit -- double digit number. >> when you look at the -- the cost of capital is going up. talked about at the top of the show burning 52 b

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a clark griz wald decoration causing a real life scare in texas.e video capturing him frantically trying to save it with a ladder. look at this guy. brian: he is great. that's the ladder. look at that. the homeowners say they called that vet and thanked him for his concern with a gift card. they also put the sign saying the decoration is not real. yeah, i would say that sign is probably a good idea. ainsley: that guy. what a hero. steve: very realistic. ainsley: he got a little closer. realized. steve: meanwhile, janice dean is outside. she is not on a ladder. she is on street level with the folks. janice: i'm very grateful for the ground today. how are you guys doing? [cheers] janice: this is great crowd for a monday. we have a. anna: anniversary.have.e have. living each day like it's your last day. >> take a look at the awesome maps and give everybody a wave. we had bad weather this past weekend. several reports of tornadoes across the midwest and the south. thankfully, things are starting to calm down. we still have that frontal boundary going t

and one family is decorating their home for christmas just like the griz walds.se. just like national lampoon's christmas vacation, this is their sixth year decorating their home like their favorite movie. wow. their electricity bill is going to be through the roof of that home. >> literally. >> did you see what happened in new jersey. i think it was in new jersey where they were actually charging the home money to have so many christmas lights because it was costing so much. carley: penalizing the home. that's not very christmassy. not the holiday spirit. pete: do they really go on the roof and do all those rows like clark w. griswold, that is commitment. carley: commitment to christmas, i like it. pete: sean spicer here to react next to the memos. ed: dr. nicole saphier is on the couch answering your questions. come up. ♪ this one's for the girl ♪ who has ever had a broken heart ♪ (client's voice) oww, it hurts... (danny) ...that you're not using smarter tools to manage your business. you work too hard to work this hard! collecting receipts? is it the 80s? does