Breaking right now on Morning News Now, celebration and hope across the Middle East as Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a plan to end the war in Gaza. President Trump receiving the news from Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a meeting with reporters and later speaking by phone to the families of Israeli hostages still in captivity. >> So, the hostages will come back.They're coming all coming back on Monday. That call just a day after the families of hostages marked 2 years since the October ...

All right, we got to talk to you about it. Um, shutdown just in in its ninth day. Uh, we got that data from Moody's that we always bring up.For every week of the government shutdown, quarterly GDP is impacted by a tenth of a percent. What's the impact on the manufacturing sector. Are there certain parts of it that are impacted more than others.Well, I think overall, Frank, the business community in general, but certainly manufacturing depends on certainty and uh having this kind of uncertain time where we d ...

President Trump says that both Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire and hostage release deal. He made that announcement yesterday evening in a post on social media. In it, he says all remaining hostages held by Hamas will be released. He also says Israel will pull its troops back behind an agreed upon line. Israel's ambassador to the United States said last night that a 72-hour clock to release the living hostages will begin once the Israeli cabinet meets later this morning to appr ...

Frank, good morning. Always great to have you with us. So, lawmakers remain deadlocked more than a week into this shutdown now, continuing to point fingers, blame each other, each party saying it's the other's fault.Now, the Senate keeps voting on competing funding bills, doesn't have support in the chamber. Where are we at at this point in terms of ending this shutdown. Any sign that there is going to be some bipartisan agreement.>> Um, no. Is the short answer, Savannah. I mean they they really have not ma ...

The fourth quarter is typically – seasonally – positive for U.S. equities. An ongoing government shutdown is not a strong backdrop for markets, but major indices remain close to record highs, waiting ... ...

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with breaking news for us. Aean, what do we know, >> Scott. President Trump just wrapped up a rather congenial session with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office, took some questions from reporters.Uh they are engaged in bilateral trade talks today. Uh and the rhetoric anyway around all this was relatively positive. Uh both leaders seemingly aware of the tensions between the two countries due to tariffs and trade and the president's comments about Canada becoming the 51st state earlier in t ...

Morning, Mike. Yeah, President Trump said he was open yesterday to making a deal with Democrats on extending those Affordable Care Act tax credits. That opens up a potential off-ramp here for the government shutdown.But Trump did come back caveat his comments with a post on Truth Social, saying that he was happy to work with the Democrats on their failed healthc care policies or anything else, but first they must allow our government to reopen. And that stance from Trump mirrors the stance of a number of Se ...

We are speaking with the Democrats and some very good things could happen with respect to healthcare. >> Will the government shut down, Mr. . President.Uh if the vote today fails in the Senate, will that trigger layoffs. >> It could at some point it will. And you know, the Democrats are the ones that started this.And if you think about it, it's about health care to a large extent. It's about we want great health care for people. We don't want to give the money away to other people that come pouring into our ...

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