Welcome to the center for American Progress, i am the executive Vice President of external affairs. Im so delighted that you could join us today. In our recent report reviving antitrust, it highlighted the idea that the economy has grown more consolidated with more power being concentrated in the largest firms in america. This is in no small part of the conservative assault on both government and the middle class. This assault has played out not just in the courts, but in antitrust enforcement practices of the department of justice, the federal trade commission, and at a wid range of deral regulators and in the halls of congress, where the view that big meant more efficient, has dominated for far too long. Since the early 1980s, conservative legal thinking embodied in robert bork and antonin scalia, has sought to dismantle the ability of government to protect consumers, workers, Small Businesses, the environment, people of color, basically all of us ordinary folks, from the abuses of m
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Jon fortt has the morning off. Dow is down almost a hundred. Almost all of that is gold aman and j j. The president expected to sign an order today. Hell tour the factory in wisconsin. The order targets loopholes in rules requiring Government Agencies to buy american. The Administration Says there are too many waivers in those rules tucked inside the free trade. The move is praised as a smart step. Second part of the order deals with immigration directing Government Agencies to root out immigration fraud and the white house also wants to move away from using a lottery to help decide who gets an h1b visa. Tech ceos have pushed back on this issue. Bill gates, elon musk have been discussing this with Jared Kushner and the message to the president on h1b, mend it, dont end it. Back to you, carl. Well come back to you for more. Todays order will have ripple effects across the economy including some of the biggest tech firms in Silicon Valley. P
David it is all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome i am david gura. This is bloomberg best, the most important analysis of Business News from around the world. Two giant Chemical Companies took over the headlines. Scarlet buyer is proposing a blockbuster deal that would create the largest supply of Farm Chemicals and genetically modified seed. They want to buy monsanto for 62 billion in cash. It would be the biggest takeover ever by a german company. Thehey actually reject offer, do you have a capacity to increase the author . We are totally convinced about the effectiveness of our offer. The share price of may 9, that is a big thing for monsanto shareholders. Convinced that it for highly effective thing monsanto. Offer . E is it your best werner we are waiting for the offer from the shareholders of monsanto. 31 , that tells us investors are convinced . No. That hundred 22 a share is 122 a share is not right. David there is potential financing and regulatory accusation
Minister, and to rose hudson wilkins, our wonderful chaplain, for accompanying me to the vigil for jo last friday. At the priestly statute in the center of that lovely town. We, all of us, were moved by the energy and warmth of the crowd brought together in grief and solidarity. Ive been very moved when the public outpourings since her death. The hundreds of letters and emails weve all received in solidarity with joes family in their hour of grief. And by the outpouring of charitable donations to causes close to her heart, hope not hate, and the royal voluntary services. Last night my honorable friend the member for south and myself held a vigil outside our townhall. One of hundreds of vigils attended by tens of thousands of people the right across our land who are so shocked i what happened, and what to express that shock and grief. Also what you think of the parties in this house who offered their sympathy and support at this very difficult time. We united in grief at her loss, and w
We speak with the pediatrician and he found nothing medically wrong with the baby. But importantly, in the physicians examination of the baby 11 00 a. M. Monday morning, he states there was no sign of trauma to the baby. The babys skull was intact and there was no bruising on the babys face. After leaveing the pediatricians office, frankie, the sixyearold, dropped his moms cell phone the screen. They went to a business called cpr Cell Phone Repair in Saint Petersburg and dropped the phone off. After going to a restaurant in saint pete, they returned to the Cell Phone Repair shop at 1 50 p. M. Where steele left baby kathlene, sixyearold frankie, and threeyearold phillip in the vehicle alone. And this was a van type vehicle frankie and phillip could get out of their seats, stand up and move around. Baby kathlene was in the car seat. Steele turned the car off, locked the doors, rolled the windows up, and went inside the business. Steele left the kids unattended while she was in this busin