Screeria nigeria. PasAspen Institute this is an hour. Were Live Streaming this event so tweet at hash tag communities that work. If youre here in the room, please quiet your phone. Third, following the event today well have the application materials for the regions on our web site, thats as. Pm communities that work. Thats going to be going live today. And that is all i need to say from my announcements. But its all my pleasure and thrill to introduce to you jay williams assistant secretary of commerce and he is going to provide a word of welcome and some thoughts about the importance of this work to the Commerce Department. [applause] thank you. Im exceptionally excited to pleased to be with you here today. As we publicly launch the communes that work partnership. This an Important Initiative that will help build the critical Public Private partnerships needed to accelerate Job Skills Development across the nation. I want to thank you as spend institute, for the hospitality and hostin
Until the fiscal cliff. And i know you know that already, but guess what, folks . The deadline for congress and the white house to act, to stop the tax increase and punishing spending cuts, that deadline is coming up quicker than you may realize because did you know, Congress Plans to end its current session on december 21st . Check your calendar as we did today. Thats two weeks from friday. That means that under congressional rules any agreement, any legislation to fix this whole mess would have to be filed here by december 28th. Heres the kicker. The president currently plans to leave town the day before that, on the 17th of this month. So the yearly obama trip to hawaii is set to start a week from next monday. You feel me here . See where im going . The window closing faster than folks think. What are our decisionmakers doing right now . Among other things they are apparently sending signals through the media. Republicans saying time to get moving. The president saying there is a de
Republicans who range from dick durbin of illinois, great progressive democrat, and coburn of oklahoma, a progressive conservative, and five dems, five republicans, one independent, thats a super majority. And for gods sake, the reason we were so successful is we effectively pissed off everybody in america. Congratulations, sir. Kudos. Kudos to you. Good morning. Its thursday, december 6th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, msnbc political analyst, former democratic congressman, harold ford jr. Mr. Professor. Good morning. Professor. And we have former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner. Financier. Rattner is here. I like and we have to go back to that. Its the truth. It is money is money. In washington, msnbc and time senior political analyst, Mark Halperin. We saw him on the streets of d. C. Yesterday, and he was very cagey. The mean streets of d. C. Yes. He was so cagey. He was. Yes. Yes. You cant ever ask those guys what theyre doing, wherever t
Realtors and builders are building up for the spring home buying season. Will warmer weather offset the recent drop in sales . We will find out. I amme to Market Makers, Stephanie Ruhle. I am matt miller in for Erik Schatzker. He is in a much drier place. There is a lot going on today. Top business stories, another turn in the crisis in the ukraine. In day after 25 people died violence, the western ukrainian region has declared independence from the central government. They want closer ties to the west. The president has been meshing the country closer to Vladimir Putin and russia. The leader of poland says we could see the opening days of the civil war. The owner of jerod and kay and kay jared andlers to buy zale, 3500will operate retailers, all of the jewelers in the whole world may be owned by them. May cost 500,000 people their jobs, but raising the minimum wage will raise people out of poverty. The of obama and the democrats want to raise the rage wage by . 10 per hour and republi
Just before the fourth of july. Our road map begins with jpmorgan this morning. The banks set to pay pay recordbreaking 13 billion Justice Department fine to settle lawsuits at the height of the financial crisis. The markets pointing to a mixed open after the s p closes to an alltime record high as they wave some better than expected earnings against some budget uncertainty. The stock falling in the premarket as global sales fall in sim september. Starbucks in hot water after being accused of charging china markets higher than others. Jpmorgan close to reaching a tentative settlement. Kate kelly caught up with jamie dimon as he arrived at work this morning. Good morning. Reporter this 13 billion settlement na jp organ more beg hammering out with justice. What happens in light of the settlement . I asked mr. Dimon about this just momenting as as he came into work. Here is what he said. Were going to try to resolve everything we can and then were going to move on and serve our clients. I