Vote the presiding officer is there anyone in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the yeas are 56, the nays are 42. The nomination of David Ryan Stras is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actions. Mr. Boozman mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Boozman i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Boozman thank you, mr. President. Tonight in the state of the Union Address, President Trump will discuss the importance of Infrastructure Investment. This is an important conversation for the administration to lead because our nations infrastructure is
All in the name of raising money for paid yediatric cancer and research. We have a number of speakers joining us live here throughout the next couple hours. There they are. We have nascar champion jeff gordon and cliff robins of bull harbor group, and a unique way to play streaming media, and, yes, involves teletubbies. Oh, boy, looking forward to that coming up. Green Light Capital statement e einhorn, bringing you all the headlines of what he talks about as soon as we get them, but we begin with apple crossing an important milestone today in terms of value. Bertha is at the nasdaq with that side of the story for us. Reporter yeah. Apples market cap today crossing 800 billion in market cap. It crossed 700 billion after blistering 37 gain the prior year. Already this year, apples up more than 32 notwithstanding iphone sale numbers in the most recent quarter. The stock is up 100 a share since tim cook took over as ceo in 2011. A gain of nearly 200 , and apple is a big catalyst behind th
You can take a look. I will be on the daily show with trevor noah, if all my travel goes okay including the many flights ive been taking just about every single day. Im looki ing forward to being back on trevors show. If youre in the area, it would be great if you could come by. I might see some of you in a little bit in seattle. That is all for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show does not start right now apparently. So she is there. There you are. I am here, sorry. It was actually me and a member of our ground crew both here about to start the show together. Perfect. Go to it, then. Thank you very much. Thanks to everybody who works here who has such patient with me arriving at the set usually four seconds before this camera turns on, tonight, arriving four seconds after the camera turned on. Very sorry about that. As you might imagine, as you might be able to tell from my composure right now we have a big show tonight. We have here tonight live the former Secretary General of nato.
Repeatedly changed their story as to why now, that allimportant question. The president today contradicting himself, his staff, and his Vice President. Here is what trump is saying this evening in an interview with nbcs lester holt. When i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having last an election that they should have won and the reason she should have won it. The Electoral College is almost impossible for a republican to win, very hard, because you start out with such a disadvantage. Everybody was thinking they should have won the election. This is an excuse for having lost the election. Are you angry with mr. Comey because of this . I love the fbi, i love the fbi, i love the people of the fbi. Investigation i think that about the Hillary Clinton investigation . No. About the Russian Investigation and no, i dont and links between let me tell you. As far as im concerne
Complete but its over because it has blown up. In facty the whole House Intelligence Committee seems to have ceased to function entirely even beyond doing that investigation. Theyre apparently no longer meeting as a committee to do business other than the trumprussia investigation. They apparently stopped all together. It appears like the investigation itself is done. Now, i will tell you, congressman schiff disagrees th that assessme he disagrees with that common wisdom. He is, as i mentioned, the top democrat on that committee. He is in a position to know what theyre doing. But honestly, it is starting to feel like the Trump White House has effectively shut down that part of the investigation into what happened between them, the Trump Campaign and russia last year, while russia was mounting its attack on the United States. Its obviously a big political risk. Potentially even a big legal risk for the white house to sabotage or undermine an official congressional investigation into the