preponderavice president pence says north korea is getting the message. have they changed their behavior at all? and good morning to all of you. welcome to tax day in america, or as this white house might call it, one more day where we are not going to release anything to you. the trump facing concerns about lack of transparency, white house visitor logs and golfing partners. today the president is going on the road and shifting the focus. cnn joe john at the white house and, joe, donald trump the president going to a county he won by 238 votes. wow. i didn t know that was the number, john. but i know he s going to kenosha, wisconsin today to visit the snap on tools folks. he s expected to sign an executive order that keeps in line with his buy american, hire american initiative. buy american refers to federal procurement laws.
people from the other side fall out. it s a tricky deal. the fact it has to be done through reconciliation with very strict rules, there s only certain things that we can send to the senate that they can pick up with 51 votes. it s a struggle to get it right. i still think we ll get there. is it a tweet for the trump administration? no, no. if it ends up we re not able to do something, it would be but its not. to be fair to the president, it would be more of a defeat of the republican conference. look, we have 238-odd votes with the vacancies. we ought to be able to get 218 to fill a basic promise. this bill has improved tramdyly along the way. i think you could make a pretty good argument it s a lot better than obamacare. it s not going to be finished, whatever this vote is. it has to go to the united states senate. i think it would be a cardinal mistake to kill the baby in the cradle, so to speak.
this latest coming in the wake of white house in which comey confirmed there is an ongoing investigation into the ties to russia. the stock market at a major turning point. unrelenting optimism over president trump s policies colliding with the realities of washington. that has caused fear to creep into the market. look at this, the dow tumbling 238 points. the s&p 500 shedding 1.25%. that marks the first drop of more than 1% in the last 161 days. there hasn t been a drop of more than 1% going all the way back to early october. so really reversing a trend here. the nasdaq was the biggest loser down 1.8%. those losses driven by tech someplace of the hottest names facing losses. facebook down 1%. amazon down 1.6%. netflix, and wall street just a
i m not sure. we could send congress to space? that could be. turns out congress isn t a big fan of congress. it asked nasa to create a plan to send a man to mars. if he doesn t get the health care votes he may load congress on a slulgts. let s get to krn money. big losses. dow dropping 238 points on tuesday. investors nervous about the prospects of tax reform. they re realizing how slow washington moves. it puts a lot of weight on the obamacare repeal bill and neil gorsu gorsuch s supreme court nomination. if those go smoothly, the rally could potentially resume and any hiccups. and alexander acost that will face lawmakers. he s currently the dean of florida international university law school. but he s been through three senate confirmation in the past,
position with the american people because we are going to take away the taxes, mandates, and we are going to move 30 million people to have a chance to have fair health care. that is a strong benefit for us because it s the middle class in this country, the exact same people that voted for donald trump. bret: mr. chairman, we will follow it. we will follow your committee hearings tomorrow and the vote on thursday. stocks today see their worst drop since september. dow dropped 238. s&p 500 lost 29. nasdaq slipped 108. what s the reason behind the slip? what s the consensus on the street about the slide? are they worried about the health care debate? i think they are but i think it s a little bit more than that. you talk to wall street investors, the biggest agenda item has been tax reform. when they look at things today and say maybe health care is in trouble, they start to ask