Move this up a little bit. Appreciate your flexibility today. So the pool has enough time to cover the Vice President and secretary shulkin as they welcome honor flight veterans to washington on the anniversary of veday. The Vice President hosting more than 120 veterans of world war ii, the korean warp and vietnam wore as part of National Military Appreciation Month and Public Service recognition week, highlighting the trump administrations commitment to our military and Public Service. Also today, the Vice President and secretary price, secretary shulkin, all attended an event on the scientific continues in biomedicine. Key leaders from government, the private sector and academia excused the United States comprehensive biomedical landscape and further educated white house staff, including assistant to president , ivanka trump, and reed cordish on the topic. The readings organized by the National Institute of health and left by the director, dr. Francis collins. A company are were prov
Coming up later on the program, how would brexit be different if the u. K. s labour party won this election . We speak to the shadow home secretary, diane abbott, at 9 30 london time. Lets check on your markets. I want to start with crude. A slump weighing on Energy Shares as Global Equity markets seem to the heading for a lower finish. Crude below 50. It is a little bit higher than it was a couple minutes ago. However, theres a lot of speculation on whether opec stuck to the most predictable outcome in its plans, and what that means for the future. The onshore yuan heading for its strongest weekly gain against the dollar in four months and pound falling as polls show theresa may may be losing ground. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra lets start with the u. S. The Justice Department has vowed to challenge a freeze of a travel ban against six muslim majority nations. The judge says the directive trips with intolerance and discrimination. Attorn
Use the ranking democratic member of the Senate Appropriations committee, and a member and onetime chair of the Senate Judiciary committee. He is the dean of the senate which means he is the longestserving in this summit in the fifth longestserving senator in u. S. History. Thank you for being with us. Senator leahy thank you very much. Let me introduce our reporters, the chief Congressional Correspondent and for the Washington Examiner and the congressional reporter for the Los Angeles Times and chicago tribune. Both returning to our set today. Thanks her being here. As we start this thursday afternoon, we have just heard the trump travel ban has had another downturn in the federal court. Im wondering what your reaction is to this and is this headed for the Supreme Court . Sen. Leahy its interesting. The ninth circuit already knocked it down. Now the Fourth Circuit has knocked it down. This next one is a more liberal circuit and knocked it down. A more conservative one knocked it down
Use the ranking democratic member of the Senate Appropriations committee, and a member and onetime chair of the Senate Judiciary committee. He is the dean of the senate which means he is the longestserving in this summit in the fifth longestserving senator in u. S. History. Thank you for being with us. Senator leahy thank you very much. Let me introduce our reporters, the chief Congressional Correspondent and for the Washington Examiner and the congressional reporter for the Los Angeles Times and chicago tribune. Both returning to our set today. Thanks her being here. As we start this thursday afternoon, we have just heard the trump travel ban has had another downturn in the federal court. Im wondering what your reaction is to this and is this headed for the Supreme Court . Sen. Leahy its interesting. The ninth circuit already knocked it down. Now the Fourth Circuit has knocked it down. This next one is a more liberal circuit and knocked it down. A more conservative one knocked it down
Tell, the president s as well as the rest of the administration have a very busy week and agenda moving forward. Meetings, events both inside an outside of washington and with that id like to bring up secretary shauken to talk with you all about the big announcement he made this morning about a historic modernization of the vas medical records and as always, as a reminder, i would encourage you to please be respectful and keep your questions on the topic at hand and ill be happy to answer questions on other topics afterwards. Thank you, secretary. Thank you. Thank you, sarah. As sa raid said earlier today i made an announcement about the department of veteran afarrells decision on Electronic Health record and normally thats not too exciting a decision about a product but i have to tell you im very excited about this because i think it makes a big difference for veterans everywhere and its going to make a big difference for the department of Veterans Affairs. I wanted to say from the ou