Now. We have spent enormous amount of time with democrats and republicans talking about our infrastructure plan. Money in the budget. We have a plan that we are confident will work. The president money in the budg. Will announce it over the course of february. We do think infrastructure is important. Lets get some details. Give me some color. Is that something you would support . Gary we have three key principles. We are going to invest a trillion and a half dollars. The approval process is the most important aspect of our infrastructure plan. We have to shorten the approval process to under two years. We have to take care of overall communities. You get it passed before midterms . Gary we think we have a good chance. We have been meeting with republicans. It has to be a bipartisan plan. We have momentum. Everyone is excited. We know how important it is. It is going to affect every american citizen. It polls at 84 positive. Everyone is excited except for the treasury people. Jon the fi
For healthcare policy. A great day to look at next steps for the nations Healthcare System. Thank you all for coming out so early. Thank you for joining us. Thank you cspan for welcoming the audience here to axios. We want to thank delta dental and jason don for sponsoring the event. Thank you all following online. Please use the axios 360 and we will get the conversation going online. Axios events are like all of the manifestations of axios. We bring information you can trust, information to help you make better decisions using smart gravity so that you can get smarter faster. We see that also with these events. We are honored to have three is at the center of this conversation were going to be here with us one on one. We hope that together we will have a tour of the landscape and also make some news and make you smarter. We can count on how many of those we do im going to welcome to the stage a axios healthcare reporter that has been in the capital at the center of this, all through
Anthony weiner, somehow her emails are forwarded to Anthony Weiner included by her assistant huma abedin. Information. Hich classified charles that statement, as we know was incorrect. And meanwhile, the white house as of russias top diplomate meets with trump. All of this in a possible distraction to health care, and were going to have rand paul join us in a moment. Varney company is about to begin. I simply said to him, mr. President , all due respect, youre making a very big mistake. And he didnt really answer. And i have said from the getgo that i think a special prosecutor is the way to go, but now, with whats happened, its the only way to go. Well, that was senator Chuck Schumer calling for a special prosecutor to investigate ties between Trumps Campaign and russia. This happening after the president fired fbi director james comey and President Trump then tweeted this. Crying Chuck Schumer stated recently i didnt have confidence in them aring referring to james comey, any longer,
First plan. And so far, green arrows on oil and stocks and we have more positive economic signs and thats giving investors more confidence. Were covering it all. Varney company is about to begin. Countries and Government Agencies are bracing for another wave of Cyber Attacks after what happened on friday. Ashley, youve got details. Ashley i do, 200,000 computers at least, the theory, because this happened late friday, as more people come back to work and fire up their computer, if that bug is in there, that ransomware, that starts a whole new wave. So far thats not the case. The u. K. , National Health service was hit hard by the bug on friday and they are reporting they dont see any new waves of attacks today. What does it do . The ransomware basically locks the computer files and a message comes up, i was reading this, saying the files will be locked and eventually destroyed unless the user sends money, via bitcoin. The other part it spreads. Once you open it up on a network, it spre
That is north of the 3 average growth the administration forecast in the budget that was poohpoohed is unrealistic. Charles payne, kennedy, larry, dont ask, dont tell. The media is in the business of showing train wrecks, but they try to create these wrecks themselves. What is reporting in the stock market is phenomenal stuff. Our economy starting to move on so many different fronts and whether it is over 3 gdp this quarter, jobs growth particularly in construction and mining, these things are real. We saw earnings for the First Quarter that were phenomenal. Stock market reflects that and most people hopefully are not dissuaded about whatever their dreams are or hopes are because things are going well. Many in the media this is the same media that has ignored this market runup but didnt waste a second to seize on that day a couple weeks back that we were down 400 points as an indictment of the Trump Administration and their agenda. They pick and choose their battles. It is a false abst