Next a look at President Trumps priorities for congress with White House Legislative Affairs director marc short. He talked reported at the Christian Science monitor breakfast. He says tax reform and a legislative fix for the daca program or deferred action for child arrivals, are high on the list. My friend, good morning. Im dave cook from the Christian Science monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest today is marc short. Assistant to the president and director of the office of legislative affairs. This is his first visit with our low cal Breakfast Club come home to what steve bannon called the pearl clutching mainstream media. Thanks for making time for us in your busy schedule. Marc short, a virginia native graduated from washington and lee university. He got his start in politics serving as finance director for Oliver North Senate campaign picky when on to become executive director of the Young Americas Foundation where his role included stewardship of Ronald Reagans ranch. After runn
He went on to become the executive director of Young America foundation, including stewardship of Ronald Reagans ranch. We are on the record. Please note tweeting and filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what our guest says. It will end promptly at 9 00. Curb the selfie urge we will you not several pictures to all of the reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. If you like to ask a question please do the traditional thing and send me eight nonthreatening signal. Please try to confine yourself to one question until others have had a chance. We start off by offering the guest to make opening comments. For doing this. The floor is yours. I will be brief because im anxious to get to your questions. Thank you for hosting. I know that Christian Science monitor has been a leader in helping to not just cover the news but drive the news and we appreciate it. I am honored that you included me. The Trump Administration has been remained focused on t
Start. Not going to get ahead of the dinner tonight, but it shows a great indicator that we have a big agenda and a very ambitious agenda legislatively this fall. Maria tax reform not the only thing on the president s play. The commanderinchief will survey the devastation left by hurricane her mother. Latest on the Recovery Efforts this morning. Features indicate a lower opening for broader averages today after another record set yesterday. Dow jones industrial polling 12 points, non sequitur by 11. Look at the European Industries for the ft 100 is down half of 1 in london. In asia overnight, markets close this way amid the nikkei average in japan up one half of 1 . Shanghai also hired petition higher cost below are appeared from the 1000 2027488001 awash with cellular service, weve got all the factors from apples big event yesterday. Theres the stock all that down two thirds of a percent. Espn host under fire this morning. Jamal hill sparked outrage after a controversial treat calling
Im dave cook from the Christian Science monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest today is marc short. Assistant to the president and director of the office of legislative affairs. This is his first visit with our low cal Breakfast Club come home to what steve bannon called the pearl clutching mainstream media. Thanks for making time for us in your busy schedule. Marc short, a virginia native graduated from washington and lee university. He got his start in politics serving as finance director for Oliver North Senate campaign and went on to become executive director of the Young Americas Foundation where his role included stewardship of Ronald Reagans ranch. After running the ranch he earned an mba from university of virginia. He worked in the Homeland Security department during the bush administration, served as senator hatch and since chief of staff and later was chief of staff with the House Republican conference under then conference chair mike pence. He was later hired by freedom part
How about life in london with the top stories on aljazeera the u. S. Secretary of state is warning that saudi arabia is not yet ready to begin direct talks with doha to resolve the gulf crisis Rex Tillerson was speaking hours after meeting the saudi leaders he said it wasnt for the u. S. To impose a solution gulf countries had to find one themselves with respect to the talks getting underway yes i did in my meetings with the crown Prince Mohammed bin samana i asked him to please engage the police and gauge in dialogue. There is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. And so we cannot force talks about people who are not ready to talk so there has been no invitation to the white house because its not clear that parties are ready to engage but were going to continue to work towards that dialogue and towards that engagement. This is it is quite important for the collective security and we feel sort of that this is it would be the victim of this crisis again this is the