Tennessee out the escalator. We hope to have them for you live or recorded as well. A long day of hearings on capitol hill tonight. We will have live coverage of a House Veterans Affairs Committee Hearing of whistleblower claims coming from Veterans Affair Department Employees and several of them will testify before the committee. That is coming up on cspan two at 7 30 p. M. Eastern. A lot more talk about immigration headline here on the hill. Ahead of a Texas Fundraising trip, the president will hold fundraisers in dallas and austin , writes the hill, during the twoday trip. No plans tot he has visit the border, where officials have struggled for. Onths president obama is now offering to talkwith rick perry about the influx of children crossing the border according to abcs jonathan karl. On thatkeep you posted story as well. Thursday, the Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson and the health and Human Services secretary will be on capitol hill talking about the administrations new in
Clear. Were going to see more of the same. We are going to continue to see a scaling back of these quantitative purchases. I think that was clear. She didnt back away from any of that even though weve seen some weaker data but she did absolutely reinforce the economy needs to be doing better. Unemployment still need to come down and thats why they continue think were going to see or continue to signal were going to see lower rates for a long time. Melissa what would you put on her list as number one of things to do . What would you like to see her do. Her number one priority is Unemployment Rate to get down, even though they have a dual mandate but i think that is priority. I personally would like to see the fed get out of the markets way which theyre doing as they scale back on the quantitative purchases but eventually i would like to see more focus extricating themself from all this accommodation. I think it is very worrisome were talking about Interest Rates staying so low for so lo
Good morning. Welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. Our headlines today a Healthcare Worker at a hospital in west sussex is one of the eight confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk. Injapan, the number of people infected with the virus on the the diamond princess cruise ship rises to 174 making it the biggest outbreak outside china. We talk to three sporting heroes about the fight of their lives. In a breakfast exclusive, doddie weir, Stephen Darby, and rob burrow talk about life with Motor Neurone Disease and their determination to keep on fighting. Its a bit like a game in some sort of way, we have an amount of time to be mnd. It is a collective effort. I understand the bigger the team the better the result. Good morning. Full steam ahead for the biggest Infrastructure Project in europe but what now . Hs2 costs are spiralling. Dates are being pushed back. Who wins and who loses in the latest high speed twist. Wejoin the swimmer aiming to take a dip every day for a
Welcome back welcome back to squawk. Lets get back to our guest host mark zandi who has the last word. All morning ive been talking about the next couple of quarters and i sound dark, and i dont mean to. I am very optimist being. What happened to the last two hours . You forced me. In the next couple of three quarters we cant look past that that i do think we have issues in the next few months, but ill give you one more last statistic. Every housing start requires five jobs for one year and Housing Construction will double in the next four years. Thats great news. Mark zandi, thank you for being here. Thank you. Steve. Thank you for being here. You dont look like joe kernen. I definitely dont look like joe kernen. Squawk on the street joins us right now. Good monday morning, good monday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee with, and lets see how well open for four Straight Record closes for the dow and it looks like the street may be pointing to a lower open. As for
Years and had three masters degree, one ph. D. Primarily in engineering. He was mostly a logistics guy. It was not unusual that he should be sent to afghanistan at this time because, as the military draws down, and the training continues for the afghans, part of which general green was responsible. Theres also a lot of logistics involved in just how do we assist the Afghan Military, the Afghan Government in sort of rebuilding and billing up their government infrastructure at the same time . And, of course within in the middle of that in the first combat tour he arrived in january. He was tragically shot dead yesterday. And his wife and son, correct me on the details here, if im wrong. His wife served as well at one point in time and his son is currently in the military . Thats right. As a matter of fact, general green met his wife while they were both serving on active duty in the army. Shes now a retired army colonel. His son is an active Duty Army Officer at fort sill, oklahoma. Were