Chance of winning. We have the expense of millions worth of dollars worth of discovery. The news press is out there covering this. Depending on a law firm, you get to know, good friends in the press, and they will start this drumbeat and they will make it harder and harder for you not to say, this is stupid. I have had contentious cases. They said, wait until you see what will happen, i will tell you we have talked to these consumer advocate groups and this is what you will see next month and tell your friends. It is a very implicit threat of blackmail. When we come after them, they should find a way to resist. In the case of my management, they were savvy about this game and were not going to be bullied. My colleague and i oversaw this. Steve gets credit. He is not here. We wrote an article in the journal of ethics saying we would not take settlements. We did that in part to make a chess move publicly that says, do not come to us with the settlements because we are not interested and
Thats what Ameriprise Financial does. Thats what they can do with you. Lets get to work. Ameriprise financial. More within reach. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me today. Cnn newsroom continues right now with ashleigh banfield. Thank you very much, carol. Hello, everyone. Good to have you with us. Im ashleigh banfield. The vatican fighting off rumors of unholy scandals behind the popes resignation as a cardinal quits under a cloud. Cannibalism in the courtroom. An officer, a police officer, accused of plotting to cook and eat women, and he goes on trial today. And a mega trial over millions of gallons of oil spilled in the gulf. It could mean billions and billions more in fines for bp. So leave it to 85 billion in spending cuts to remind people just how much the federal government matters. Moments from now, president obama and Vice President biden are due to meet with the nations governors who do not need reminding that theyre able to meet their payrolls, employ their
Inappropriate contact. More than 10,000 people have also signed a petition asking that los angeles former archbishop mahoney recuse himself from conclave. The demands after thousands of documents released last month reveal that he was directly involved in covering up priests who abused children. All of this comes after last weeks bombshell report by the italian newspaper that says an internal 300page report uncovered an underground gay network at the vatican. Claudio lavagna is live for us in rome. So far the vatican attempted to dismiss much of whats developing and breaking today. Reporter well, and tamron, this morning, people sense and feel the anticipation. There in the Vatican Press room, they had a big announcement to make and packed with hundreds of journalists from all over the world. He said one big news, we got two. As you mentioned, the pope decided to change the cannon law that sets the rules for the conclave to move up the conclave set to start sometime between march 15th
Lanes of i5. That locomotive scheduled to be loaded up today and driven off. They found the bridge itself from which the train cars fell is structurally sound. They hope to have interstate 5 opened later today. And fox news alert as President Trump is on the verge of his biggest legislative victory to date with the house set to take a final vote on the gop tax bill. It should happen any minute now. Im heather childress. Anything could happen as was proven yesterday. Were live on capitol hill awaiting action on the house floor after the Senate Narrowly Passed the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades. They voted along party lines as expected but it was the version passed in the house was tweaked to satisfy procedural rules and house will take a final vote on the bill with a tax cut. House Speaker Paul Ryan says it will help hard working families. All tax rates go down. The top rate and every rate in between are lowered. We double the standard deduction. You can see our postcard. I like
We probably have to go on food stamps just to pay so we can pay for our medical bills. We begin with a huge day for republicans, tax reform on the brink of passage again. Congress should have been done with this yesterday except for a couple of socalled glitches that will force the house vote a second time on what essentially is the same bill. We have a lot to talk about and i have a great team to break it down. Before i get to the team, i want to show you a little of what happened over the last 18 hours or so. As it turns out, the house vote was just the beginning of a very interesting day on capitol hill. Watch. The yeas are 227 and the nays are 203. The conference report is adopted. Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Were following breaking news from the house of representatives where theyre being forced into a redo on their tax bill. This is a functional equivalent of them scoring, dancing in the end zone, and then having a fiveyard penalty called an