When you're talking about the reactions from the region, I think that the region is probably thinking and as you mentioned we're 12 minutes into this, so we don't really know, but the region is probably thinking what everybody is thinking which is that this looks like the third or fourth climb down that President Trump has had off of this ultimatum that he first issued last month. So, this wasn't entirely unpredictable. In fact, this has been the norm especially for this particular threat that Trump has lev ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP. RHETORIC, RHETO TAKE A KNEE AND FIGURE OUT IF TAKE A KNEE AND FIGURE OUT IF THERE'S ACTUALLY A WAY TO AVOID THERE'S ACTUALLY A WAY TO AVOID ALL THIS. AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THIS.AND, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE'VE SEEN THE OBVIOUSLY, WE'VE SEEN THE PRESIDENT USE FIERY RHETORIC PRESIDENT USE FIERY RHETORIC BEFORE TO NEGOTIATE. BUT LIKE BEFORE TO NEGOTIATE. BUT LIKE IN THIS CASE, PROBABLY IT'S IN THIS CASE, PROBABLY IT'S JUST WAS TO, TO KIND OF LIVE UP JUST WAS TO, TO KIND OF LIVE UP TO HIS RHETORIC ...

bring in our business correspondent Brian Chong because you're also seeing this very dramatic movement in the futures markets with investors responding incredibly positively to this news from President Trump. >> Yeah, H these are some big moves that we're watching. Uh we're seeing markets rebounding in terms of futures.Again, the markets are closed here uh state side, but there are futures that are trading that are suggesting that it's going to be a real positive open when things get fired up at 9:30 tomorr ...

We're seeing markets rebounding in terms of futures. Again, the markets are closed here state side, but there are futures that are trading that are suggesting that it's going to be a real positive open when things get fired up at 9:30 tomorrow. The Dow, S&P 500, and the NASDAQ, all three major indexes up about 1 and a.5% if not more.Howie, I think what's more notable here is that oil futures are down. WTI crude oil, that is the commonly used index here state side, uh, for a moment appearing to blip below $1 ...

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We all woke up to this new true social post from the president where he says, and I quote, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will." Garrett, his posts throughout this war have significantly ramped up, right. We had a pretty controversial post over the weekend. Who is the president wanting to address in this post.And how do you read into this escalation that he has put out on on social media, including the ones that we saw ove ...

attacks on civilian infrastructure is against international law but that it is also a sign of uh the hatred the division the destruction that the human being is capable of and we all want to work for peace. People want peace. I would invite the citizens of all the countries involved to contact the authorities, political leaders, congressmen to uh ask them, tell them to work for peace and to reject war always.Thank you very much. Thank you. ...

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