Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Obviously busy morning as the president meets with top executives in washington this morning including the heads of gm, ibm, blackstone ceo Steve Schwartzman on the agenda trade, infrastructure, budget and education. Our Kayla Tausche is on the ground with all of the latest. Reporter good morning. Just a few moments ago we saw the president leaving the west wing going over to the Eisenhower Executive Office building to meet with those some 20 ceos of some of the largest Multinational Companies based here in the u. S. We are getting some headlines based on the comments that he has made on an introductory basis to this group saying the administration is going to have pleasant surprises on nafta and notified the senate that he negotiated. The nafta headline is one we want to discuss further. This group has been convened to discuss tax reform, to discuss trade, to discuss infrastructure, education, and this whole host of issues that cabinet le
Well, im delighted by my honorable friend managed to slip the point in at the end. I wont urge any i will friends to make their way to support the reelection and the campaign. But the point, the point that he makes is very important, which is we need to look through every aspect of how we welcome people to our country, and make sure why we must to be fair, we must not be a soft touch. So i am making sure we look at our health service, we look at housing, we look at benefits. With that illegally, we look at all other things and make sure proper and tough controls of people who want to come and live here. The treasury was required to [inaudible]. If he believes in openness in the in hs, why has this government allowed the size of its playoff to be kept secret . Well, i will look very closely at this issue that he raises. I know there have been particular issues around Foundation Trusts in the area which he represents, and i will make sure that Health Secretary looks at the issue. Recentl
Hard to imagine anybody surviving Something Like this. 33,000 feet or so, 32,000 feet, the plane was flying at when it was believed to have been shot out of the sky according to ukrainian officials. At least they say a rocket was fired, missile was fired. That hit the aircraft. Questions remain about who fired it, what their intent was, whether it was a mistake, whether they knew it was. A civilian airliner, two Ukrainian Military airlines have been brought planes have been brought down in previous days, one of them a transport plane. So theres still a lot of questions at this hour. Im here with Richard Quest, and fareed zakaria, rick franconia. Also peter gould, aviation analy analyst, miles obrien. Peter, in terms of getting access to the crash site, how important and what sort of a time frame is it crucial that investigators get access to that site in . Well, its critical they get there as soon as possible. For a couple reasons. One is for the investigation. But most importantly, fo
Led by drummer José Medeles (Breeders, 1939 Ensemble, Revival Drum Shop), Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems is a drummer’s tribute to guitarist and DIY iconoclast John Fahey. Joined for a series of guitar and drum duets with M. Ward, experimental guitarist Marisa Anderson, and Chris Funk (Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus), it’s a genuinely honorific project, featuring not Fahey compositions, but rather a series of improvised rendezvous inspired and informed by his looseness and rhythmic idiosyncrasies.