The committee will now come to order. Good morning to everyone. The purpose of this hearing is to examine how state policies , like those in missouri, are impacting residents access to comprehensive Reproductive Health care services, including abortion. Without objections, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. For audience purposes, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in todays hearings. With that, i will recognize myself to give an opening statement. I would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the First Full Committee Hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman Elijah Cummings passed away. Chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. And he was a fierce champion for womens access to health care. Across the country, extreme forces and State Governments are taking dracon
How about china trade . Thats a standoff. Lighthizer and mnuchin have been on the phone to their chinese counterparts. The chinese say we called them. President xi and President Trump will meet just within days. Back home, a standoff on money for the border crisis. The democrats cannot agree among themselves on new cash for detention facilities. Children are suffering. A vote on emergency aid which was supposed to take place today might not even make it to the floor of the house. Just wait until you see how gold and bitcoin are reacting to all of this. And wait until you hear about a massive 60 billion buyout in the pharma business. Lets get on with it. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart right. This is a whopping great big merger. Got to tell you about it. Abbvie says it will acquire allergan in a deal valued at 63 billion. Ash, what does allergan have that makes it worth this huge premium offer . Ashley nearly 16 billion a year in revenue from a lot of beauty products. 16 billio
Yes theres still questions to it. How much do you keep . How much can you write off. But coming down pike one, two trillion infrastructure plan and continues to be optimistic to push for prosperity in your wallet Varney Company right here starts right now. Charles i know the frozen tundra is redundant but necessary the east coast and west coast in already a serious e deep freeze and it will helicopter into the new years. Youre looking at windchills check them out negative numbers across the board absolutely phenomenal. On the other end the scale higher oil near 60 last two sessions. But not because lots of people are using heating oil the big spark the last couple of days has been libyan where fallout after that pipeline blast and adam you have nor details on that. A blast they expect to have this pipeline back up and running in about a week but knocking 100,000 barrels off of the market so price was trading above 60. And highest it has been in a long time. West texas take a look at th
Trump is also firing back and hes blaming former president obama tweeted that as well saying obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didnt he do something about russian meddling . Also, all of these pose serious questions of course. Do these indictments in fact vindicate President Trump as he suggests . And how should america effective ly retaliate against russia . Want to bring in my panel daneen borelli, crtv. Com host, Ford O Connell civic forum pack chairman, ned ryan and Washington Examiner commentary emily you write about washington d. C. Everyone is up in arms about this but for a variety of reasons, certainly we know the Mueller Probe has turned up no collusion, has turned up no americans and indicted no one so is this a premature victory lap for President Trump . He may see it that way and i would say the enthusiasm with which he tweeted over the past few days would suggest thats the case. Of course theres still things to be worked out when it comes to pa
Wall without any congressional approval whatsoever. Take a look. Does President Trump have the ability or the authority to declare a National Emergency to have the military build has a wall . Unfortunately the shortcy answer is yes. Theres a provision in law that says the president can declare an emergency. Primarily its been done to build facilities in afghanistan and iraq. In this case i think the president would be wide open to a Court Challenge saying, where is the emergency . Sean where is the emergency . Re we will answer that question. Pay attention to the following statistics, that of course the hate trump democrats are in the past two years alone, not telling you. Criminal aliens have been responsible for approximately, look at this number 235,000 violation of the law, including 4,000 homicides, 30,000 sex crimes and over 100,000 violent assaults. In 2018, 17,000 individuals with criminal records were apprehended at the border and the crisis goes much, much deeper. In towns an