Good wednesday morning. Welcome back to squawk alley. Kayla tausche and myself at post 9. Jon fortts on assignment and inside. Com founder and ceo Jason Calacanis and greikoff partners ellie wheeler. Guys, good morning to you both. First to our top story. A busy morning on capitol hill. Just moments ago, House Republicans along with Vice President elect mike pence making a joint statement on the future of obamacare. We have Team Coverage this morning. Eamon javers in washington, john harwood outside trump tower. Eamon, lets begin with you. Reporter good morning, carl. You just heard from the Vice President elect, mike pence, saying that repealing and replacing obamacare is going to be priority number one for republicans. He made some news in his remarks here on capitol hill, suggesting that president elect donald trump on the day of his swearingin, january 20th, will head straight to the oval office and remove some of president obamas executive orders and also begin enacting some of hi
Like to see more money spent on education, especially for children of color. Voices from the road on cspan. Announcer washington journal continues. Host joining us now for the first time at our desk is freshman congressman jim banks, republican from indiana. Last week he introduced legislation to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State in iraq and syria. Since we are clearly already using military force against isis, explain what this legislation is and why we ge needed. Guest good morning, john. Great to be with you. This resolution was introduced on the same side with senator tom young also from indiana. Hes a veteran as well. Hes a marine and served. I serve as a navy reserve officer. Just two years ago, i served in afghanistan. What i learned from senator young as i dug into the issue is that the last time we passed an authorization of military force was in 2002 against iraq. Prior to that in 2001, we passed umf naming al qaeda and the perpetrators of 9 11. Si
Forces stop fighting each other first. And it is looking good for newcastle to make it back into the Premier League. These are the polls looking ahead to the second round of the french election. The polls put mr macron well ahead for the second round. They were right for the first round but well you know all the caveats around polling. A short time ago i spoke to professor helen drake shes the chair in European Integration at loughborough university. Shes in paris. I asked her if the latest polls were good news for European Integration. One thing we learned from last night is that the polls were quite accurate. Marine le pen was supposed to win the first round and she came ina quick to win the first round and she came in a quick second so the polls which are putting macron ahead of le pen in the next round, i suppose we can trust them. Macron has expressed a lot of support for the european union, and he has some practical and positive messages for how to strengthen the eu. I suppose th
Forces stop fighting each other first. And it is looking good for newcastle to make it back into the Premier League. These are the polls looking ahead to the second round of the french election. The polls put mr macron well ahead for the second round. They were right for the first round but well you know all the caveats around polling. A short time ago i spoke to professor helen drake shes the chair in European Integration at loughborough university. Shes in paris. I asked her if the latest polls were good news for European Integration. One thing we learned from last night is that the polls were quite accurate. Marine le pen was supposed to win the first round and she came ina quick to win the first round and she came in a quick second so the polls which are putting macron ahead of le pen in the next round, i suppose we can trust them. Macron has expressed a lot of support for the european union, and he has some practical and positive messages for how to strengthen the eu. I suppose th
[applause] mr. Bruno democratic senator al gore. [applause] mr. Bruno and retired vice admiral james stockdale, who is the Vice President ial nominee [applause] mr. Bruno for independent candidate ross perot. [applause] mr. Bruno now, the ground rules for tonights debate. Each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement. I will then present the issues to be discussed. For each topic, the candidates will have a minute and 15 seconds to respond. Then this will be followed by a five minute discussion period in which they can ask questions of each other if they so choose. Now, the order of response has been determined by a drawing and well rotate with each topic. At the end of the debate, each candidate will have two minutes for a closing statement. Our radio and tv audience should know that the candidates were given an equal allocation of auditorium seats for their supporters. So id like to ask the audience here in the theater to please refrain from applause or any partisan d