Are here. This has been a great morning. You heard from the boss here and hes all in and this is a joint venture. We have a great panel here so i want to keep moving. What i heard the president say was a lot of focus on what i call the two ps, promoting access in the retirement space and the president has been taking action on that. He directed us to take more action to help facilitate that. The Treasury Department has already taken action on that and the my ra space is dana grady here by the way . Oh, youre way in the back. She is a Small Business owner who encouraged her employees to participate to help strengthen their retirement securities so she has a lot of participants. Thank you for being a great spokesperson for this. I appreciate your help and im glad that its working. Were going to talk more about Financial Security today and we have a fantastic panel of folks that are going to be talking and giving their views. We have a number of questions and i got a few questions on twit
Can you hear me . Can you hear me in the back okay . Good morning, im tom perez. Its an honor to be here. I see a bunch of serial activists in the audience so i know im in the right place. So thank you again to our members of congress who are here. Thank you to our other leaders who are here. This has been a great morning, and you heard from the boss here. And hes all in. And this is a joint venture. We have a great panel here. So i want to keep moving. You know, when i heard the president say there was a lot of focus on what i call the two ps, promoting access in the retirement space, and the president has been taking action on that. Hes directed us to take more action to facilitate that. The Treasury Department has already taken action on that. And the my ra space kl is diana grady here, by the way . Oh, youre in the way back. Wow. You got the uecker seat there. Okay. Diana is a Small Business owner who encouraged her employees to participate to help strengthen their retirement secur
Four structures burn. Five firefighters injured working in treacherous terrain. The fire only 5 contained. Terry mcsweeney joins us in the mountains tonight. Whats the situation now . Reporter of welsch as of right now, about 225 acres have burned up here in the santa cruz mountains. Thats not big compared to the north bay. You talk to sandra wood. She lost everything. In fact she ran back into her house to save loved ones both living and dead before making a mad dash from the fire. Tonight, the Cal Fire Air Attack has slowed the spread of the fehr fire. But late last night before crews could do battle, sandra wood was driving home, her husband and dog inside the house unaware of the fire fast approaching. The fear is he didnt and he cant get out. So i had the car. Reporter she raced to the house to save her husband and relative whos died long ago. I grabbed my dad and brothers urn and my wedding ring. Its hard. And we lose everything. But not us. Reporter conditions are favorable for
Move to seize political control of the region a de facto cou detat. Mr. President , this is not a bad budget deal, it is an horrific budget bill an extremely cruel bill and the most unfair budget ever presented in the modern history of our country. Amy that was senator sanders. As the Senate Narrowly Passes a budget bill that clears the path for an historic tax reform, well look at how President Trumps proposed tax overhaul would shower billions of dollars in tax cuts upon the wealthiest americans, including President Trumps family and members of his administration. We will speak with james henry of the Tax Justice Network and pulitzer prizewinning journalist David Cay Johnston, whose latest piece is headlined nine reasons trump tax plan will hurt you. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In afghanistan, a suicide bomber ambushed afghan army cadets as they left their base in kabul on saturday, killing 15 o
Governrnment moves to impose direct rule over catalonia following the regions independencece referendum. M. The speaker of the Catalan Parliament has called spains move to seize political control of the region a de facto coup detat. Mr. President , this is not a bad budget deal, it is an horrific budget bill an extremely cruel bill and the most unfair budget ever presented in the modern history of our country. Amy that was senator sanders. As the Senate Narrowly Passes a budget bill that clears the path for anan historic tax reform, wewell l look at how President Trumpps proposed tax overhrhal would shower billions of dollars in tax cuts upon the wealthiest americans, including President Trumps family and members of his administration. We will speak with james h henry of thehe Tax Justice Network and pulitzer prizewinning journalist David Cay Johnston, whose latetest piece is headlind nine reasonsns trump tax plan will hurt you. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now ,