Hey, blake. Reporter neil, full Cabinet Meeting at the white house on going. Several members of media were allowed in. President made very brief comments off the top. Let me tick through some of the items. The president says the iran deal, termination of the iran deal is very real possibility. He went on to hit the cost of Prescription Drug prices saying they are quote, out of control. Saying that the Drug Companies, quote, are frankly getting away with murder. He talked about reducing government spending. Of the wants to look into the possibility of tackling welfare reform as well, saying that is something, quote, we are looking very, very strongly there for at welfare reform. You have the meeting going on right now with the president. All of his cabinet, here at the white house. We expect that tape to come out. Im sure you will play it here momentarily. After that, in about half an hour from now, is the big powwow as well, separate one, between the president , and Vice President mike
Place, would it have this, you know, diagnosis if it was in the wild. Reporter gearhart said orcas are suscept orcas are susceptible to the disease in the wild. If he had shown up with this disease in the wild, theres no doubt he would have been gone a long time ago. Reporter you may tillikum from the documentary black fish. Tillikum has also been associated with the deaths of three trainers. And we also asked seaworld what the life expect as he of a the wild is, which is how old tillikum is. Outside of seaworld orlando. So many people wondering about the fact he was in captivity made it worse. Now, this story has already been shared more than 500 times from our Facebook Page. Let us know what you think by going to facebook. Com wftv. Weve had the perfect beach weather but for those of you starting or already on spring break, chief meteorologist tom terry has rip current warnings for you. This is what it looks like in daytona. Its pristine on the sand but in the surf we have rip curren
Can follow this event live on cspan 2. A discussion on the federal judges ruling that said the nsa collection on phone records violates the constitution. This is 45 minutes. Back with James Andrew Lewis of the center for strategic and International Studies. Here to talk about the judges decision on monday, a District Court judge questioning the legality of nsas phone data records. What did he say . Guest he said it was a tremendous intrusion into privacy. It was unconstitutional that the collection of the metadata, greatbills, by nsa, was a risk to the Fourth Amendment and lot legal and not legal. Host what program by the nsa was he referring to . Guest they have a program essentially the phone bill of american citizens. Call, howt who you long the call lasted, where the call might have been. Possiblehem identify targets for counterterrorism or counterespionage. He objected to the fact that nsa, a foreign intelligence body, is collecting intelligence on american citizens. Host how . Gu
If they are putting something comprehensive, what do you think the must dos art deco are . We want to broaden the base, get rid of as many deductions as we can and get the rates as low as we can. The tricky part is Corporate Tax reform and individual tax reform. The ambitious list that chairman baucus and chairman camp set out is to do both simultaneously. That is difficult, even in the house where they have the votes and the political support. In the senate it was an uphill battle. With chairman baucus leading the charge. Now that we are shifting to a new chairman, the of the climb got a lot steeper. Host if you want to talk to Brandon Arnold and eric toder about tax reform efforts, our phone lines are open. While folks are dialing in, it eric toder of the urban brookings tax policy center. Talk about when the last time such a big list was taken by congress. In the corporate and the individual efforts of taxing . Guest 1986 with the tax reform bill. We had a very different circumstanc
Scheduled News Conference today where he talked about the economic status program. Here is a look. When we began the Asset Purchase Program in december 2012, weve said we would continue purchases until the outlook would improve substantially in a context of price stability. Since then, we have seen me in full cumulative progress. Since we began, the economy has added about 2. 9 million jobs and an employment rate has fallen by more than a percentage point to 7 and for comparison, when we started the program, many forecasters saw the implement rate staying near 8 throughout 2014. Recent indicators have increased our confidence that job gains will continue. Nonfarm payrolls have increasing at a pace of 200,000 jobs per month. Restraint and signs that households than he is picking up, we expect that kind of girl to be Strong Enough to support further job rains and further, fomc participants see moreisks having become balanced than until and that other rather than tilted unfairly. We have