An extraordinary phone call the fact that it was an unsecure line as you mention is also extraordinary. Dr hill also said she she didnt speak of. Russias goals as something that was there in the past she basically frame this is something that they were still currently trying to do their goals being to deal with the u. S. Presidency regardless of who the president was as i said to blame ukraine the goal of that being she says to basically drive a wedge between the west and the u. S. And the west and their allies the fact that shes described this is something that is still currently happening is that a challenge to congress and maybe specifically to the republicans to do something about it. Of course it should be as your coverage pointed out before were seeing in israel a Prime Minister whos been being held accountable to law the question will be whether our system of United States is capable of doing that and it will depend on Congress Congress needs to stand up for the National Interes
Pieces together. It is truly a privilege to introduce our first speaker, who is a fellow wisconsinite like myself. Our first speaker would be jonathan pliska, and author of the awardwinning White House Historical association publication, a garden for the president a history of the white house grounds. Jonathan will be signing copies of this book later in the day during the reception in the gift shop. You will have an opportunity to meet with him, and talk about how great his presentation was. No pressure. [laughter] please join me in welcoming jonathan pliska. [applause] jonathan yes, hello, i am in fact jonathan pliska. I am absolutely honored to be speaking at this wonderful garden symposium. I would like to thank the White House Historical association, oak spring, and all the other sponsors for having me here today for hosting the event. As well as that splendid reception last evening at the u. S. Botanical garden. Of course, thank you all for attending. I am going to give you the o
Who would have thought we would be looking at nearly five million new jobs, record low unemployment for minorities, rapidly rising wages and no inflation . Thats what weve got. I think theyre all blinded by their contempt for all things trump. So look at this. The market rally continues this friday morning. Now we have no idea how this market closes but i can tell you that at the opening bell, we will almost certainly hit a series of new highs. The dow at the opening, up about 70. S p, up about six. Nasdaq, up about 14 points. All right. I promised a big day. We are going to deliver. At 10 00 this morning, the young radicals defend their statements about the border in congress. Are those detention facilities really concentration camps . You are going to see it. And you will see history being made on wall street. Varney company is about to begin and were going right at it. The alert. I was missing that. Okay. We ran it. All right. Whos with me now . Market watcher jonathan hoenig. Big s
World war ii victory parade next week. The u. S. Rally may not last. S p futures indicate u. S. Stocks will open lower today. The s p 500 is coming off its biggest twoday rally since 2009. Oil heading for its biggest weekly game since april. Wti up around 43 a barrel. Yesterday after reports the u. S. Economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter. Puerto rico being drenched by Tropical Storm erika. The storm is moving west after flooding the island of dominica. 4 people were killed and several more are missing. Erika could become a hurricane if it reaches south florida early next week. Thee has confirmed architects of its online radio strategy has quit. Ian rogers joined apple and has led the development of apple beats one. One is ae beats gateway to apples paid subscription. Apple is holding an event in San Francisco september 9. Central bankers have made their annual trek to jackson hole, wyoming. Taking part in the Kansas City Feds annual symposium. Randy greeley is there.
Happen again. Lower taxes. We need lower taxes. We need better jobs. New jobs that are impacted in missouri, 97 of all our businesses are Small Business. And most of the new job creation is created by Small Business. So we have to be sure that no matter what else we do in the tax code, we do it in a way that allows Small Business to compete with big business in an effective way. Competitiveness between the last 15 years, i think were not as competitive as we used to be. Our taxes that used to be sort of right in the middle, our taxes on corporations that are competing around the world were right in the middle. The middle in 2003 was 30 fpblgt our tax rate was 35 . The middle in 2015 was 22 . Our tax rate was 35 . If youre going to compete, if youre going to create jobs, youre going to have to be sure you know how to compete. And we saw, mr. President you and i were able to see, at least i was able to see for the first time, not being on the finance committee, the page that is generally