Leading this hour, a new sign of the clear dysfunction in the republican party, right . Right now. I mean, how bad things have to be to turn down two days. All expenses paid at a Luxury Resort well, thats the reality for many many House Republicans and a source says, fewer than half of them have rsvp. Yes. For the annual event starting today, that is meant to build party unity. Republican Congresswoman Name since he made shes doing a tv or parents instead congressman Kelly Armstrong says hed rather focus on his campaign for governor. And congressman tim burchett remarked, quote, i dont retreat i move forward. I got a farm to run. This comes just one day after republican Lawmakers Said hes quitting congress altogether next week because of the fighting and bickering cnns Melanie Zanona is live for us in white sulfur springs, West Virginia where this retreat is taking place. Melanie, nice gig. What are you hearing . From lawmakers who did show up apparently we lost Melanie Zanona as sound
Youtube star logan paul followed by millions sits down with michael in his first tv interview since posting that alarming video. Was there a point when you said, hmm, maybe this is not a good decision . His apology. What he wants to happen next only on gma this morning. And we do say good morning, america. And a lot of parents interested in what logan paul has to say. Michael is on his way back from that interview. Good to see hes sitting down taking those questions. Wove a lot of other news to get to starting with that high stakes battle over the classified republican memo that criticizes the fbi and the Justice Department over the investigation. President trump wants it released to the public. The fbi has questions about its accuracy and the compromising of classified information. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega has all the latest on the showdown. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter george, good morning to you. That memo this morning is right here at the white house and
Security risks in this memo becomes public. But, judge napolitano, he is not buying that one bit. He is here and he is going to explain why. We need to let the American Public decide for themselves. That is happening in just a few minutes. Bo to adam shapiro, he is in West Virginia there where a short time ago the president delivered what i would call a powerful America First speech. Hi, adam. Reporter he is always America First, trish and this was no different. He spoke to the republicans gathered here in West Virginia, talking about tax reform, talking about Immigration Reform, talking about infrastructure. Specifically his message to democrats saying that the administration and republicans will continue to attempt to pass Bipartisan Legislation but they have to be met in the middle and it doesnt appear according to the president that democrats want to do that he cited the fact he offered a path to citizenship for 1. 8 Million People who have come tonights illegally. He says the demo
At the same time, there was no change to the socalled balance of risk statements, thats the risk for their economic outlook, again described as roughly balanced. Their language and describing Economic Conditions was also slightly upgraded, things like Household Spending and business fixed investments were described as solid this time around. So none of these are really dramatic in and of themselves, but several subtle and important upgrades, perhaps a slightly more hawkish tone in this statement compared to december. Scarlet bloombergs chris condon at the Federal Reserve, thank you. Michael, you heard chris talk about a subtle upgrade in the feds report today, in the feds statement. What stuck out to you . Inflation,talk about and they have increased in recent months and that sort of supports the idea of this word further inserted into it. I dont think that any question the fed is going to be raising rates this your, its only a matter of how many times. So it may not be that dramatic a
Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin delivered the annual stability Oversight Councils report at a hearing at the Senate Banking committee on tuesday. Topics also included russian sanctions, tax reform, the debt ceiling and cryptocurrency. This is two hours and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Today, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin will testify on Financial Stability Oversight Councils 2017 annual report and the operations and actions of this congress. In december of last year, issued the 2017 annual report in which it provided numerous recommendations, insights into the councils key activities and identified potentially merging threats to Financial Stability. One of the rejss urged congress to reform the Housing Finance system and boost the role of private capital in morning finance. Ive repeatedly stated that the status quo is not a viable option and reforming the Housing Finance system is one of my key priorities. Testifying before the Banking Committee last year, secreta