President ial donald trump. Make way for new stock records as well. Stock prices the dow 200point from its alltime highest level of her. Who wouldve thought that donalds will be leading the charge . Health food . And besides, hashbrowns all day long. And then, joe walsh. Great musician but he made a career out of trashing hotel rooms. Hes counseled a concert at the republican convention. He said they are spiteful isolationists. I admire the talent that i dont like the politics and hypocrisy. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart what the top story that day . Donald trump. How he handles himself in the speeches, how he plays the political game at the convention because he has something of a makeover going on. Tried supporter of that sadness with us. Do you think hardcore Trump Supporters are going to like the new look gal down mount mentor president ial trump . I dont think thats what were going to get. Its not going to be a different person. It will be someone of a new version of th
Important and difficult policy decisions the president made early on. Josh, plunging oil prices and raising gas prices for infrastructure. In the past, you said is on the table. Is it on the table . We have put forward our very specific or postal for how we believe we can make the investment needed in infrastructure in this company. That is typically what the gas tax revenue is dedicated to. Closingbelieve loopholes and using the revenue for closing the loopholes and infrastructure upgrades. Some have different ideas, including raising the gas tax. That is something we will take a look at, but is not something we have considered from here. Among those, chris mercy chris murphy planned to raise by . 12 per gallon over two years. Are you ruling a gas tax increase out for something specific on infrastructure . Loopholes and using the i do not have anything about the specific topic. As it relates to specific proposals, we will certainly consider proposals put forward bipartisan proposals l
Legislative agenda. The most Diverse Congress industry poised to take power and a wave of new lawmakers is arriving on capitol hill. Republicans called it the ranks. And that spirit, the hill should look at the quirks of the voting members and the new congress. There is a Record Number of female lawmakers, alongside 430 men following the departure of michael grimm. You taught senator tim scott is part of the largest black republican lass in Congress Since the reconstruction era. There will be 46 black lawmakers and the new congress. Hispanic lawmakers will have 33 in the house and 30 senators. That is Peter Sullivan reporting on that. The 114 Congress Gavels in tomorrow at 9 00. Next, we hear from former white house officials and the obama bush, and Clinton Administrations. This would not happen without pat griffin. He has been a background of being an assistant director and assistant to be president under clinton. He organized this and he came up with the idea several months ago and i
Congress. We will go tumor real to mur iel. Caller happy new year to you both. I just want to say this. I think the president , president obama, i will use his title president , he will be in command in spite of the majorities of the republicans, ok . Because i think the republicans are on the same train to nowhere. If they bring up the repeal of the Health Care Law and also if they dont deal with immigration. When we talk about immigration we should think about people because it involves millions of latinos, asians, from everywhere in the world. It is as though the republicans are saying we dont have to deal with that at the moment in the same manner that they are saying, we are going to repeal the health care act. If you have ever been sick, if you have ever had a chronic illness, cancer diabetes something that the doctors cannot and do not know about you need health care. I think this country needs to look to people like Angela Merkel in germany, who provides a decent minimum wage f
Certain irony that the president and the officials have spoken about ukraine. Yet there has been no official word from Vladimir Putin. Is right. There have been limited comments from him directly. His kerry today spoke with foreign counterpart, his foreign minister counterpart in russia. They had a conversation about this, and again some of that conversation, the russians have said they are planning to intervene here. Something is happening here. We are getting reports on the ground from people in crimea, reporters who claim they have seen russian troops. We will see what the president has to say, how strong the rhetoric is from the president. So far, other members of the administration are speaking out. The fact that the president is speaking out suggests this has moved up a notch. We have not heard from the president since he was in next ago on ukraine. Interesting to see how tough he sounds when he appears in front of the cameras. As we await the president , i benching is the Senior