Coming up. The u. S. Secretary of state goes to china high on the agenda what to do about north Koreas Nuclear weapon test. And americas relations with cuba go on sick leave the u. S. Is pulling out how its Embassy Staff off to mysterious attacks that have left some diplomats dead. Welcome to the program tensions in spain are rising ahead of attempts by catalonia to hold a referendum on independence on sunday now madrid says the move is illegal and has actually sent thousands of police to the region but catalan Authorities Say everything is in place for the vote to go ahead in barcelona which is a regions capital people have been rallying to show their support. We will vote. That thousands turned out for the final rally ahead of sundays an authorized referendum on catalog independence from spain. Such as a controversy the campaign has stoked the regional president claimed victory before a single power that had been cast. I were you where you are now today we won. Today we won against t
The section of the bill . The gentleman from hawaii. Mr. Chairman, i have [inaudible] the clerk will distribute the amendment. Without objection the amendment is considered as read. Is the gentlelady having trouble with remarkable . I think the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. What i will be doing is ill be offering the amendment and then withdrawing it because i do not have at the end to come because they do not have the requisite waiver. However come having said that, i would like to present the animate and withdraw it at the conclusion. So 171 seeks basically a specific war memorial at pearl harbor hawaii. Mr. Chair, this is a very unique situation in that there is a rear admiral retired livening of lloyd who served in world war ii as a submarine officer aboard the uss under the command of John S Mccain junior, father of john mccain the third. And he advocated for many years the creation of the pacific war memorial at pearl harbor. In hi
Corvex management having a 400 million stake in the french food company. Good morning it is tuesday. Once again, European Equity markets are heading higher that said we dont have all the equity markets open today. Volumes will be lower than usual given that there is a Public Holiday in the places like india, poland, greece. The xetra dax is what were showing. Its up by 0. 25 so were still benefiting from this return to equities, this return to risk after we are trying to forget about the risk aversion that happened last week given the events between north korea and the u. S. Lets look at the european markets one by one the ftse 100 is up by 0. 1 the cac 40 is up by 0. 2 danone is a factor well get to that story in a bit. First, lets focus in on the big news out of washington and the u. S. Yesterday intels Brian Krzanich and kevin plank are the latest ceos to step down from President Trumps ceo council. This after the president failed to single out white nationalists for violence over t
Good morning. Im the executive director of the center for Immigration Studies. A think tank in washington that examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States. The issue of Immigration Courts and the backlogs and Immigration Courts has broken somewhat into the general news. It seems like the thing that would be inside baseball for immigration experts but the backlog in Immigration Courts has grown dramatically. Discuss a paper that the center for Immigration Studies published on this issue. The causes for the backlog. The first presenter on the panel today is going to be the author of that paper. A former immigration judge now resident fellow in law and policy at the center for Immigration Studies. He has worked as a senior staff member and a couple of congressional committees, so here us seen the immigration issue from almost all sides. Mr. Arthur is finished we will have comments on his paper, outside for those who dont have it, and more general thoughts about t
Daybreak asia coming asia. It is after 7 00 here in new york. We are fresh off of those revised gdp numbers coming out of japan. As sometellar economists would have expected. Up 0. 3 quarter over quarter. Hading what economists expected, 1. 5 for the fourth quarter. It was amiss for that. The biggest driver they were talking about was capital spending. That was just 3. 5 percent. It swung into positive territory. We can see a little less optimism here. That gdp deflator, three straight quarters in negative territory. We continue to see the negative territory. Looks a little murky for japan. Lets go to the market. A final reading, big changes were not expected. When it comes to the Growth Outlook we see the yen strengthening. Those gdp numbers came in below estimate. The surplus narrowed to the smallest in 2. 5 years, a slight concern for trade. Take a look at the reaction in tokyo. Lets look at what is going on with the nikkei 225. Japanese stocks dropping 1 10 of 1 , a drop for a four