mobil and apple. that is something that we expect to hear more about as he heads out on the road to get a little bounce from that state of the union address, not just in places nearby, but some places a little bit further from washington. i'll tell you more about that in the coming weeks. back to you. >> neil: i look forward to that. kevin corke at the white house. now, when i was in that wonderful city with kevin last night, the one thing i discovered talking to prominent democrats, they're not sure how to address the tax cuts and the upph they're having and the pay it forward with the companies and workers. $1,000 bonuses and the like. nancy pelosi calling it chump change or cheap. that got sort of a dial back by steny hoyer, the number 2 democrat that told me, well, i'm still not in favor of these things. they do tilt overwhelmingly to the rich and corporate america. but $1,000 is a lot of money and getting that is not just chump change. so that explains the conundrum there. analysts ask how this i

., chevron, conoco-philips, exxon mobil and royal dutch shell. mayor bill de blasio said the city wants to recoup billions of dollars in costs related to climate change. and on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average lost 16 points to close at 25,369. the nasdaq rose fell ten points, and the s&p 500 slipped three. still to come on the newshour: two leading conservatives react to the fallout of the explosive book, "fire and fury." bipartisan efforts to protect the next election, after last year's russian interference. a vulnerable boston tries to protect itself from additional extreme flooding. and, much more. >> woodruff: we begin tonight with politics. after holding a cabinet meeting this morning, president trump joined norway's prime minister, erna solberg, for a joint press conference in the east room. the president took questions from reporters, but would not say if he would sit for an interview in the russia investigation without condition if special counsel robert mueller asked. >> it's a democrat hoax, that was brought up as an

you see the same at exxon mobil, chevron, etc. i'm encouraged as a former ceo with this new tax bill. it is hardsparking, to deny reality. the market is at 25,000 plus. we see through 2017 and early days of 2018, if you use that as a barometer, people feel confident, they have optimism about the economy going into 2018. julia: what about the regulatory environment? i think sometside, obvious deals, at&t and time warner. then it have the fox-disney, which seems to have the administration's approval. one seems to be horizontal, another is vertical, there is confusion to where this administration, where regulators stand as far as these big deals. are you confused looking at the environment, too? >> i think you have given examples. randall stephenson is very committed to this acquisition, particularly if you look at other examples of what bob iger did a disney and fox. i think randall -- if one is approved, and the other one is in, you have an issue that randall can certainly bring forth as equality and fair treatment. 2017 was a seei

but coca-cola, procter and gamble and exxon mobil, all these companies derive a lot of their revenue outside the u.s. and the weak dollar helps them to sell their products. ahead of those product -- ahead of those comments these stocks had been higher but now we see huge -- not huge losses but presser -- but pressure on these stocks. i'm trying to make sense of what this is with the euro. it is slightly up after being down but it is well off of its highs. i think this is a one-year view. we saw and intraday reversal for gold and the euro and blood coin -- and bitcoin was flat. there is will see if any more currency commentary in the coming days and. bowsprit let's look at tesla because those shares are taking a bit of a turn, in this case downward, almost two and a half percent. this is after a report by cnbc that teslas problems with gallery -- with battery productions in nevada are worse then revealed and could cause more delays for the model three. this report cites unidentified current and former tesla employees. we will track what is going on with tesla. scarlet: let's check in

of exxon mobil became secretary of state and just weeks ago president trump opened up formerly protected waters along the east and west coast for drowning big business for big oil let's take you to wall street right now to un school to standing by for us yes as we're looking back on a bit here of donald trump this first decision about drilling wasn't exactly what the oil industry was waiting for. well i mean first of all rex tillerson the secretary of state he had snow saying and if it comes to the decision to open up the coast here in the u.s. on the pacific and on the atlantic side this is not a final decision yet so we have to wait and see but there is no question about it that this government is doing everything what seems to be good for the industry and this year actually us might pump more oil than saudi arabia so it could be a push for the oil industry over here here in the united states and just please stand by as we're looking at some other business friendly activities donald trump of the trump administration also in trump's team stephen mentioned the treasury secretary who used

mobil so it does seem like there is a little bit of a trend there, trading legs lower. scarlet: we will certainly keep an eye on those names and apple is on our radar with the nasdaq lower. abigail, thank you. coming up, speaking of weakness intel earnings or do after the bell. we have the chart you can't miss after its earnings release. this is bloomberg. ♪ julie: "what'd you miss?" caterpillar, caterpillar equipment used for metals in the mining industry. we are looking at the companies machine sales which have been languishing for several years and have seen a dramatic uptick this year. earnings are out today and the forecast for the year is ahead of estimates. and then you are looking at the shares versus the s&p 500 worried if you look at the shares by themselves you can see the stellar performance, the second-best performer in the dow last year, up some 70% and continuing to record levels this year. but even versus the s&p 500, which we know had a big year as well, we see the stock continuing its run here. so caterpillar shares, continuing even as machinery sale

mobil and royal dutch shell , to protect residents from the effects of climate change. more than 300 people were arrested in tunisia during a third night of anti—government protests. there were violent clashes between police and demonstrators in several cities, including the capital, tunis. the south korean justice ministry is preparing a law to ban the trading of digital currencies like bitcoin. the announcement comes just days after the country's largest virtual currency exchanges were raided for alleged tax evasion. south korea is a hub for crypto—currencies and shares in bitcoin have dropped sharply. the new us ambassador to the netherlands has refused to explain comments he made in 2015 that muslims had brought chaos to the country by "burning cars and politicians". ambassador peter hoekstra was asked repeatedly by dutch reporters whether he still stood by the remarks, in which he said there were ‘no—go areas' in the netherlands. but he refused to engage, only expressing regret at the comments. police in france are hunting for two men who stole millions of

america and hire another 20,000 workers. ( cheers and applause ) ( applause ) and just a little while ago exxon-mobil announced a $50 billion investment in the united states, just a little while ago. ( applause ) this, in fact, is our new american moment. there has never been a better time to start living the american dream. so to every citizen watching at home tonight, no matter where you've been or where you've come from, this is your time. if you work hard, if you believe in yourself, if you believe in america, then you can dream anything, you can be anything, and together we can achieve absolutely anything. ( cheers and applause ) ( applause ) tonight i want to talk about what kind of future we're going to have and what kind of a nation we're going to be. all of us together as one team, one people, and one american family can do anything. we all share the same home, the same heart, the same destiny, and the same great american flag. ( cheers and applause ) ( applause ) together we are rediscovering the american way. in america we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the

mobil announced a $50 billion investment in the united states. just a little while. [ applause ] this, in fact, is our new american moment. there has never been a better time to start living the american dream. so to every citizen watching at home tonight, no matter where you've been or where you've come from, this is your time. if you work hard, if you believe in yourself, if you believe in america, then you can dream anything. you can be anything. and together we can achieve absolutely anything. [ applause ] tonight i want to talk about what kind of future we're going to have and what kind of a nation we're going to be. all of us together as one team, one people and one american family can do anything. we all share the same home, the same heart, the same destiny, and the same great american flag. [ applause ] together we are rediscovering the american way. in america, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of american life. the motto is "in god we trust." [ applause ] and we celebrate our police, our milit

businesses join our meeting at least part of it, several ceos from the united states join us, ceo of exxon mobil, general electric, ceo of dow chemicals another ceos shared across the world and we had a wonderful ministry the meeting with a very good discussion. i will not reflect some of the discussions today. before going to some of our coats and funny i would like to just very briefly, madam chair, if i may tell you what iea is all about. we were founded in 1974, in the wake of oil crisis. basically by mr. henry kissinger himself, and several other statesmen across the world. and we are now 43 years old. the motivation was the oil security, , to look after the ol security issues, fighting at oil security mechanism across the world. but throughout these years a mandate has evolved as madame chair mention. look at the oil, gas, renewables and energy efficiency in alignment to issues of investment and look at all the technologies, i.e. a unique organization which looks all the technologies and the implications for the markets and our well-being. we have several member governments in all th

, shell, mobile, any of these people -- yes, they think they're people. [laughter] and secondly, i want it say that my colleague here, mr. martin said, we think energy is bad. no. we believe in clean energy and that clean energy needs our investments to go there so we can have a future. thank you. >> thank you, mrs. grossman. jean peters, is jean peters in the room? seeing none. up next, sharon wilinski, followed by maria guillen, anita klein and lynn agerri. mrs. who? >> guillen. >> thank you. if i called your name, please step up. >> i'm sharon wilinski, retired, also sierra club member. i urge you to vote to divest as soon as possible. >> thank you. up next, we have anita klein followed by lynn agerri. followed by michael donaldson, followed by dr. bruce colville. >> i'm anita klein. i'm a retiree. and i urge you, please, divest now. we can't wait any longer. the world is waiting. >> michael donaldson. i decline. >> bruce colville? >> i decline. i encourage others to as well so we can get to the vote. >> ed kinchler. >> where's ed? >> melanie louis? >>

the actually exxon mobil. more more companies are doing exactly the opposite of what people said they were going to do. the practical reality of what is happening is good for this country and the american worker. they are moving at the jobs back to the united states from mexico. that is a good thing. that was planned for a long time. you're saying all of this is a coincidence he can't take credit for all of this in his policies and we haven't seen yet what effect affect the tax policy well have an out sourcing. i can build a factory in mexico or canada. and pay zero taxes. let's talk about that. under president obama the federal registry was up to 95,000 pages. there were so many rules and regulations that companies sat on cash you've only seen companies recently over the last year start listening to the pursestrings. they are obviously looking at growth because of the rollback and regulation. some of the rollback was good. some of it that affects the workers health and safety were bad and so you have to match

you've seen it with exxon mobil, 50 billion apple at 350 billion this is all part of the growing economy and infrastructure is a key part in it it is the next step. we've done tax reform. we've done regulatory reform we've gotten judges in place now we need to go on to infrastructure. >> senator, what is your expectations in terms of just how divided it feels like it is in washington these days, whether democrats who have historically been supportive at least theoretically of the idea of an infrastructure plan, whether they're going to join you hand in hand on this already we are hearing push back from senators in blue states and congress people in blue states saying, look, you know, we don't like the tax plan. we don't want maybe our roads to be private advertisized you might call that being obstinate. is there a chance to do that and for this to happen in a bipartisan way >> the reason i'm optimistic about it is as chairman of this committee i went and visited with all the republicans and democrats on this committee. we all know there are critical needs around the country for our infra