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Session. Welcome back, members. Mdm. Clerk, please call the roll thank you madame president supervisor avalos present; pres. Breed here;; compost present; christiansen present cohen, present farrell, present; kimpresent some; mar not present tang present wienerpresent emacpresent you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you madam clerk are there any communications or yes mdm. Pres. This medication is meant to inform the public that the board of supervisors has expanded its existing Language Access Services Program by authorizing the office of the clerk of the board to enter into an abortive partnership with the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs. For an 11 Month Pilot Program beginning september 1, 2015 and lasting through july 31, 2015. During that time, the staff will provide spanish and Chinese Interpretation Services upon request and every regular and special board of supervisors
Is off today. Euro area pmi coming in at 54. 2. Slightly below the estimate. But i think within the plus and minus pmi, rising to 54. 1. I check on the light side. Not too excited about that. Eurodollar is softening a fraction. It is still sub 110. On change. Softening a bit. As the data his of the screen. A fraction negative. As the data hits the screen. Lets get more from hans nichols. He joins us from our land. The number is soft. He joins us from berlin. Hans that is the point. It is expanding. It is lower than what was expected. You look at the spain number and it was 57. 3 up from 56. 2 in february. We may hear about diverted economies. Growth in spain and italy. And people will take a very close look at the numbers in greece and whether you are you can accept these other points and whether or not greece is swept excuse me, slipped into reception recession. Our tax receipts were way down in a january and february. They have seen capital flee the country. 25 billion euros in the f
Of the boy scouts . I go to washington in fact, i said today we ought to change it from the word swamp to the word sess pool or to the word sewer. As the scout word says, a scout is trustworthy, loyal. We could use some more loyalty, ill tell you that. Fake media. Fake news. Did president obama ever come to a jamboree . Good day, everyone. Im an drdrea mitchell. A big day here in washington. The president s soninlaw and closest aide Jared Kushner is now answering questions about russia for the second day. This time on the house side. The house intelligence committee. The vote to Save Health Care is so close, senator john mccain answered the call to fly back from arizona. Hes on his way here. Possibly providing the critical vote Republican Leaders already today got a commitment from senator rand paul to move it to the senate floor. That was a question mark. Weve got it covered with our team. Kasie hunt on capitol hill with the latest on health care. And Peter Alexander at the white hous
The Obama-Trump-Biden numbers The deficit President Trump inherited from President Obama was $0.59 trillion. Trump grew that to $3.13 trillion, an increase of over 400%. The deficit President Biden inherited from Trump was $3.13 trillion. Currently, the deficit is $1.70 trillion, a cut of over 40%. The unemployment rate Trump