Well show you part of that hearing now. The entire hearing errors tonight and just after 10 00 eastern here on cspan. Raise your right hand, please. Testimonyirm the about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god . I thought i was all done with this when i left the government. This is the first of two hearings this week. Understandably, concern about the egregious russian interference in our election process is so critically serious , bipartisanopus focused by the congress and the American People. Pasture the Intelligence Community conducted an exhaustive review into russian interference in our election process, resulting in a special Intelligence Community assessment. Im here today to provide whatever information i can now is a private citizen on how the Intelligence Community conducted its analysis and came up with its findings and communicated them to the obama administration, to the congress and to the American Public. Address forly related
Santoli. Thank you for being here. Wilfred frost off this morning. Well begin with that breaking news out of manchester, england. A suicide bomber struck an Ariana Grande concert overnight killing 22 people and injuring 59 others. A live report from the uk in just a moment. We want to check in on the markets. It did add to cautious mood overnight for stocks. U. S. Equity futures have turned around and bounced higher. Dow futures up 48 points, the nasdaq up 12 and the s p up 4. Lets show you europe and whats happening to stocks there. Also saw some early weakness which has turned around and yielded some strength with the dax up 0. 3 . France up 0. 71 . In germany, Business Confidence surged to a record hire. As for the british pound, thats where you saw the immediate reaction, weaker against the u. S. Dollar. The weakness continues. Some of that Market Reaction wearing off. The pound sits just below 130. Lets get to willem marx live in manchest manchester, england with what we know abou
Sunday night at 8 00 eastern q a. Ans washington journal continues. Host joining us now representative peter welch democratic of vermont. Chief deputy whip. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host coming into the heardstration we President Trump talk quite bit about Prescription Drug prices what he like to see happen with that. Where is he on this conversation, especially what hes talking about with democrats . Guest nowhere right now. First of all, the president talked about two things really promised get strong bipartisan support. Infrastructure was one. The other was Prescription Drug prices that are murdering consumers. Been going upave 15 a year. Theres no bases for it other the Pharma Companies have immense Pricing Power. Budget whog consumer cant afford the copay and deductibles. Creating immense anxieties for family who need these drugs. Ption the president invited Elijah Cummins and me to the white house. Hes been firm in the campaign. To bring these prices down. When he visite
Want and fix obamacare and move onto tax cuts. Its a contentious legislative schedule, but it has begun. Second headline, you might not like the president s style, but you like his handling of the economy, surprise, surprise. Its up sharply in a month. Who knew. Republicans must unite to get it done. Democrats have to be careful about blocking trumps popular economic policies. And for investors, the trump rally is still on hold. Politics and money, thats what we do. Varney company is about to begin. It is obamacare gone because we repeal all of those taxes, those mandates, those subsidies, theres nothing left there. And instead, we give them the same tax break that we give workers at big businesses, its obamacare light, it retains a significant part of obamacare, retains the cadillac tax. Retains a form of the individual mandate, instead of paying the government youre going to pay the Insurance Company, but it also creates a new federal Entitlement Program and gives it permanent increa
Investigation or personal privacy. Becauseas reluctant everyone of his federal agencies thought this was a nightmare. You mean people are going to be rummaging through our files . We cant do that. Thebill moyers helped newspaper editors especially to marshall their argument about how we really are in favor of open government. One of the fascinating things we found was bill moyers had written a nice signing statement where hedent johnson had this ringing language that this registration spring from our most essential principles. Democracy works best when people knows what their government is doing. They must have access to policy and rules. Good government functions best in the full light of day. What is great about that is we now know from l. B. J. s own daily schedule that on the telephone johnson called moyers and said cut that out. Thiss have to x through ringing declaration about freedom of information and puts in the final version that this legislation springs from one of our most