If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call us at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also send us your thoughts on twitter. You can leave a comment on our facebook page. This fight between president elect donald trump and the labor unions started after what appeared to be a victory last week. He had negotiated a deal with a factory in indiana to keep jobs from moving to mexico. That deal became controversial after these comments from a union leader in indiana. Here is the story in the cannotgton. washington post. The story says that chuck jones, the president of united fuel workers, which represents carrier employees have felt optimistic when donald trump announced he had reached a deal until thee 1100 jobs union leader heard that only 730 of the projected jobs wednesday and 550 Union Members would lose their livelihoods after all. Jones hoped donald trump would explain himself. When he got up there, and for whatever reason he
In germany, things are relatively flat there. Lets look at crude oil. Looks like right now wti is down by 8 cents to 53. 96. Couple big stories were watching. A crucial cabinet vote last night in the senate. Wilbur ross was confirmed as commerce secretary after a vote of 2727. Ross is key to the administrations plan to overall trade deals like nafta. The white house will hold a swearing in ceremony for ross today. On the economic agenda. Second estimate on Fourth Quarter gdp at 8 30 a. M. Growth forecast to be revised up from 1. 9 to 2. 1 . 9 00 a. M. , the monthly caseshiller home price index and chicago pmi at 9 45. Consumer confidence numbers at 10 00 a. M. San francisco fed president John Williams and st. Louis fed president James Bullard will speak today. Rob kaplan will be speaking with us at 7 30 a. M. Eastern time. Apple will hold its annual Shareholder Meeting at its cupertino offices. Investors will be asked to vote on nine proposals, including one to rope in a third party on
Absolutely, you go ahead. Whenever you are ready. Thank you to cnn viewers around the world. Its good to see you guys. Thank you and good morning everyone. Appreciate, john roberts factchecking from the sea. Good morning, good afternoon. [laughter] its not my fault, its on the paper. After receiving his daily intelligence briefing this morning the president led a National Economic Council Listening session with ceos of small and Community Banks. Since 2008 the number of small banks has declined 30 . The dramatic increase in regulation following the financial crisis has been a Major Driving force in the decline of these banks. Doddfrank alone has resulted in 22,000 pages of new regulations. While large banks can hire armies of complaints officers whose sole purpose is to ensure they meet the evergrowing number of regulations it increases the cost of doing business for Community Banks leaving some not to engage in some forms of lending were simply due to the time and costs involved. Our
Them live you on cspan2. In fact, there are states, maybe a dozen to 15 states particularly in rural rural areas that have competition problems and too ticket for peoe that oversee subsidies with rate increases. Thats a public title thinking whatever such a just or have suggested that this law doesnt have challenges. The next level of challenge. Dr. Burgess is right, you need a cooperative spirit to fix the things you begin. You can talk about why that is and i talked earlier about some of the things that but after that, including the defendant of some of things that were in the original law. But the fact is where we are now today requires some surgical focus, surgical solutions. So what would i do administratively . First of all, very good news, s p just cannot with a report which said that those rate increases were one time and people are beginning to move back in the market. I think thats very good news. Cbo confirmed that. People filed their 2060 number switch i look at very, very
Mothers hands. A passenger describes what you dont see on the video. We begin with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Democrats say you are holding hostage Health Insurance for lower income americans. Theyre holding hostage national security. A budget battle loo over president obamas border wall. The prede wont sign a bill if it doesnt ilude funding for the wall . We need that wall. It will help us complete the promise that president has made to the american people. Shutting down the government over this outlandish proposal of a border wall, that would be the height of irresponsibility. North korea detained an american and threatened to sink a u. S. Aircraft carrier. They show what an irrational International Player they are. The paris attack that sends any lessons about the u. S. Polls. So many aspects, the homegrown terrorists, i dont know how to stop that or detect that pockets of violence in france following a vote in the countrys president ial election. Americans airline