Moved and we do not know about bob corker and jeff flake. They are not really needed. If sin if Susan Collins comes on, it is a 5050 split and mike pence will be the tiebreaker. Shery we have heard from ron johnson who was a guest. Towho is a yes, he wants expand tax credits for pastor businesses and James Lankford, he had concerns about the size of the deficit. He is on board and says he will vote yes. If senator bob corker and jeff flake and Susan Collins announce a decision expected to announce a decision in a few hours. Vonnie amazing it comes down to Susan Collins. On the health care debate. It was down to her and john mccain who was the ultimate decider. The second time for Susan Collins. That is not the only news. Doolittleto abigail for the sharp Market Reaction this past 1. 5 hours. A risk off reaction to the news that Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty, greed to cooperate in the pressure probe pressure probe russia probe. Abc news says he may be willing to testify against donal
Lying to the fbi, prepared to testify against President Trump, nbc something nice has yet to verify at any rate, down sharply. Now weve come back. There was a lot of talk about tax reform, stocks recovering the early losses, tax reform appears to gain no men tucmomenm the latest from washington on where this bill stands coming up in fact, lets get straight to the big news in d. C. Hitting the markets today. It is the fall yout from the guilty plea of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn eamon javers joins us with the latest at this hour. Reporter kelly, we got news in the past couple minutes here reported by nbc news that two officials tell them that Jared Kushner is the official who is listed in the criminal information surrounding Michael Flynn guilty plea today as being a very senior transition official who advised mike flynn to get on the phone with officials from various countries around the world to talk about a u. N. Sanctions problem that they had back during the pres
Department of health and Human Services. While we hold a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National In
Secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National Institutes of health, where, with francish collins excellent leadership, the leading efforts to disco
The executive director of the arms control with north korea making headlines again this week. How concerned are you . Im increasingly concerned about the situation. What we just saw was a test of a more powerful missile. North koreans have achieved what President Trump said they could not achieve. They have a powerful liquid mobile icbm that can hit any target in the United States. They have also conducted a nuclear test explosion, the largest was back in september. Far moreons which is powerful than the weapons that destroyed hiroshima and nagasaki. Threat,not an imminent but it is an increasingly dangerous capability. It means that the North Koreans not only have the capability to strike south korea and japan with a small number of Nuclear Weapons, but probably within the year they will have the ability to hit the United States with a capable missile armed with a Nuclear Weapon. We are in a difficult relationship with north korea that requires an adjustment of the u. S. Strategy. Pre