Democrats and republicans have been in the same room talking about those topics. One of the points many of us made republicans and democrats is that the process in the house is broken. Theres no interaction. And the president made the point that the most significant legislation has to have bipartisan support. We havent had that. So in that perspective, it was quite impressive the president invited both sides. On the tax issue coming up, thats the most dominant right now. The president repeat what had he said in his original address about it being progrowth and promiddle class. Indicated explicitly that this would not be a tax cut pardon me . You could find this cameras by yourself . It wasnt that hard. Thanks. And so in terms of the broad general principles, the president recited what he said before. And basically everybody will be a winner. The question is when the ink is dry, will you be able to do the math and see that, in fact, middle class folks particularly Rural America that ele
While it may not be as wellknown as the dow jones industrials, it is considered more representative of the whole market, since it is made up of 500 companies as compared to the dows 30. Small cap stocks also hit alltime highs today, as did a leading indicator of the economy, that would be the dow transportation average. When all was said and done, the dow industrials gained 40 points, closed at 22,381. Nasdaq was up a fraction. The s p 500 rose three, enough for that new alltime high, sue. Bill, Washington Republicans were out in force selling their tax plan. There was some pushback. Ylan mui is in our nations capital. Reporter the republican tax plan is out. And now the hard work of selling it begins on capitol hill. The house ways and Means Committee will get the first crack at writing a bill. And white house economic adviser gary cohn said theres one number the president is not willing to negotiate. A 20 Corporate Tax rate. We would have liked to start lower and given ourselves some
Administration had sided with employees and the Trump Administration has now switched its position and is supporting the employers. Host tell us more. Implingts this is a case whether guest this is a case whether workers can group together to file class claims against their employer through oshtration agreements they have to sign when they become employees. This has big rep cushions for workers because if companies are allowed to prevent them from making these claims, it would make it hard erd for workers to bring these claims. And with the court being a conservative majority, people believe the court may decide to support the companies and the Trump Administrations change now supporting the companies could help with that. Host thats just to get us started. How many cases will the court take up this term . Guest they usually take up about 70 cases. They havent take b them all up yet but they have taken up some big ones they will be hearing. Host the number nine, theyre back to nine jus
Trump growth agenda. One more number for you, please. This rally has added 4,856,000,000,000 to the nations wealth since the election. Got it. Today the president travels to puerto rico. He will see firsthand the recovery effort. Personal insults coming in from the left. This opinion piece appears in todays New York Times. Quote an unfit president fails puerto rico. The writer, michelle goldberg, calls the president one of the worst people and a nasty show biz huckster. Well, on his trip today the president is not scheduled to meet the mayor of san juan who criticized him as a sexist, but he will be pledging billions more in aid. You want to know how your personal information and that of 145 million other americans was stolen from equifax . Stay tuned. Their guy will take the heat today. Itll be political theater. The lawyers will be watching. Can you say class action suit . Where they get the money and you get nothing. All right, everyone. No, we have not forgotten the outrage in las
Of sorts. I think that gives you a sense of the scope of what we need to do here. Hello. Hows everybody today . Thank you for being here. Its a busy day around the country. Mark and i recognize the tragedy of nevada this week and at this point im glad to say it doesnt seem to have a terrorism nexus. Thats not always the outcome but are howards and prayers go out to all those individuals who are affected both directly and indirectly and i can assure you that from an Intelligence Committee standpoint and the agencies theyre providing as many assets the local Law Enforcement and to those people that are tasked with the investigations of this unbelievable act. So we are here to update you about, you and the American People about the investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election. When we started this investigation on threejanuary of this year, we had a clear focus. We were focused on an evaluation of the ica, the Intelligence Community assessment of russias involvement in our ele