Counsel Robert Muellers investigation. The pair pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges including Money Laundering, conspiracy against the United States. White house chief of staff john kelly said he was not worried following the indictment. Everyone is presumed innocent and staff is very comfortable. The vast majority of the staff would have nothing to do with this kind of thing, so there is no worry about it. We been saying since day one there is no evidence of trump Russia Coalition and nothing in the indictment today changes this at all. Maria Technology Takes executives from google, facebook and twitter set to testify over the thoughtful impact russia had on the election. The latest as they spoke once than 120 Million People may have been exposed to content backed by russia. Earnings of mostert among the top names. Aetna and pfizer earningspershare top expert patients. Take a look at those stocks over the last three up 11 as the deal was announced the cvs as well. In the u. S. , loo
And residents or u. S. Interests, those interests are clearly impacted by the behavior of other countries. And the u. S. Tax base can be eroded not only by the behaviors of multinationals but by behavior of other governments. Thank you and thank you for the opportunity. Good to be here, don, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak about policy and reform. It seems to me ive seen this movie before, however. We all love to sit around and talk about policy. I will get to policy in a second. Let me just say while we talk about policy, our tax system is being slowly eroded at the level of administration. Doesnt matter what the rules are if you dont have people to enforce them. If you just take a wink, a quick look at whats happening to the intern Internal Revenue service, you would realize it doesnt matter what the rules are. Weve lost so many people the enforcement capability is diminished. Unless that gets rectified. Who cares about tax reform if we dont have a tax system. Sayin
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Good morning. Our team is here. The subcommittee on Capital Markets and gics will be hereby called to order. Todays hearing is entitled continued oversight of the secs offices and divisions. Without objection the chair authorizes a recess of the subcommittee at any time and also without objection, members of the Financial Service committee who are not members of the subcommittee may still set and participate in todays hearing. At this point i will now recognize myself for three minutes for an opening statement. So today the Sub Committee will continue efforts to conduct vigorous oversight of the ics sec and the individual offices that make up the sec. The last years are subcommittee has heard testimony from directors of trading and market, corporations by its enforcement and Investment Management division of the sec. These hearings have allowed us to take a thorough look at the agencys operations, rulemaking agenda, enforcement practice
Overdoses in all. The dea says counterfeit drugs are being passed off. They are 50 times more powerful and it can be lethal even in small doses. A man beaten in november, arrested friday by the fbi is due in federal court this week. Kathryn has more on this. The hearing was set for today. Originally it was put off until wednesday. Attorneys may have been there for a short time. The federal case against him rein mas sealed and they are not offering any comment. He was arrested friday by the fbi, released from custody this morning. This was the scene friday as agents took him into custody. This was from a home and visitation valley. Several others were arrested including a woman identified as his girlfriend. His mother said outside the court house since the beating at the hands of deputies, he has become unpredictable. She said he is suffering from paranow wa and posttraumatic stress and he was beaten on streets at the end of a car chase that began an unincorporated november 12th. That b
Would still be meetings at the convention with the leading Party Officials and, you know, the candidate would meet with people and so it was a democratic process in the sense that candidate would meet with people. It was a democratic process in the sense there was consultation, deliberation and so forth, though ultimately the candidates decision. I think as its moved away from the convention beginning 1976, its been a process focused much more on the president ial candidate and the people around the president ial candidate. They still consult with party leaders, talk to capitol hill, talk to governors, solicit input. But ultimately the circle of people in the room when the decision is made tends to be the president ial candidate and a few people close to them. Im going to get our questioners ready, a few more questions and then turn to the audience again. Weve referred to, in terms of the convention, that we might have a different kind of year especially on the republican side. Weve ma