governor herbert: president niederhauser, speaker hughes, members of the legislature, justices of the utah supreme court, utah s first lady, lieutenant governor and mrs. cox, other constitutional officers, and my fellow utahns, it is an honor to address you in this historic state capitol that serves as a symbol of our collective dreams and aspirations. three weeks ago, at our state inauguration, we had the privilege of hearing the mormon tabernacle choir. and i am very pleased to report that in spite of the choir s decision to sing at my inauguration, not one choir member has resigned. [laughter] [applause] you ll remember that the choir performed climb every mountain. as they sang, i reflected on all the mountains that we must climb and conquer in our personal lives, as a people, and as a state. when i first took office, utah was climbing out of the great recession. recognizing that so many of our challenges required a robust economy, we made economic recovery our primary
c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as public service for america s cable television companies and brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. next, a look at another state of the state address. utah governor gary herbert addresses his state in salt lake city and talking about education, the ceconomy and reducing homelessness. this is just under 30 minutes. thank you. president, speaker, members of the ledgislature, justices of te utah supreme court, utah s first lady my wife ginnet, and other constitutional officers and my fellow utahns. it is great to be addressing you in this capitol that serves for our collective dreams and aspirations. at our state inauguration we had the privilege of hearing the mormon tabernacle choir, and in spite of them deciding to sing at my inauguration, not one choir member has decided to resign. [ applause ] you ll aremember that the choir sang climb every mountain and as they were singing, i was reminde
fellow utahns, it s an honor to address you in this state capitol that serves as a symbol of our collective dreams and aspirations. three weeks ago, we had the privilege of hearing the mormon tabernacle choir. i m very pleased to report to you that in spite of the choir s decision to sing at my inauguration, not one choir member has resigned. [ laughter and applause ] you ll remember that the choir performed climb every mountain. as they sang, i reflected on all the mountains we must climb as a people and as a state. when i first took office, utah was climbing out of the great recession. recognizing that so many of our challenges required a robust economy, we made economic recovery our primary objective. the climb has been arduous, but the height utah s economy now occupies is remarkable. i truly could spend all evening simply listing the national accolades that have come our way. i know y all want me to do that, but, let me simply note these meaningful bottom-line facts. l
good monday morning. welcome to squawk alley. with me at post 9, our own sara eisen. jon fortt is at the mobile world congress in barcelona. a lot more from jon in just a moment. it is a busy morning here in the markets, especially in washington. the president wrapping up a meeting with the national governors association this hour, holding a roundtable with health insurance ceos. our eamon javers is at the white house with all the latest. hey, eamon. reporter: yeah, good morning, carl. that meeting with the health insurance ceos is going to right now behind closed doors here at the white house. we expect to see some tape of that and we ll bring you any comments that the president does make. but this morning we saw the president in a separate meeting, meeting with the nation s governors, talking a little bit about where health care is going and the efforts of the republican party to repeal and replace obamacare. the president striking a little bit of a glum note here t
you are the biggest of the big, right? that s very impressive. thank you. we just had a great meeting with the governors. the horrible effects that obamacare has had and we re going to change it and strengthen it out. we have a plan that will be i think fantastic. it will be released fairly soon. we ll talk about it tomorrow night during the speech. i think it will be something special. we ll talk about it right now. think we ll get you on and i think you ll like what you hear. again, thank you for being here. i want to thank also secretary tom price who is with us and is doing a phenomenal job on a very complex subject. a subject of health care. he s an advocate for the patients. tom is all about the patients. that s what he wants. he wants to have a great health care system. obamacare has been a disaster and it s only getting worse. last year alone obamacare premiums increased by double digits. since it has gone into effect, premiums are up by almost 100% in many areas. a