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Live now to Andrew Wheeler and transportation secretary eland chow talked about the Trump Administration sent it to stop california from setting stricter fuel economy standards. Live coverage. In bringing together all of the components to complete this important step on behalf of the present for the american people. She is understood since this process began in 2017 the enormous benefits for consumers and especially the safety. I know she is in the engagement shortly following this across town so please join me in welcoming secretary chao. Secretary. [applause] hey, good morning. Thank you all so much for being here. Administrator Andrew Wheeler and are so pleased to announce a major step forward in President Trumps plan to help ensure that more americans have access to safer, more affordable, and cleaner new cars that meet their families needs. To what half years ago President Trump focused autoworkers in michigan and said we would review and revise the last administration unattainabl
And what legislative steps could be taken to curb gun violence. This is just over an hour and a half. The forum will come too orde, please. We welcome everyone and thank them for being here. Our speakers, thank you very much for being here. Our fellow members and guests of the committee, thank you. We are here today because 203 days ago the house passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation, and the u. S. Senate has done nothing. After every mass shooting that makes the headlines, leader mcconnell says its too soon to talk about policy. Unfortunately, there have been more Mass Shootings this year than there have been days in the year. If we wait for a day without gun violence, to talk about it, we will be waiting forever. The Senate Leader mcconnell hopes if we wait, if you wait this out, it will just go away. Well, were not going away. Were not going to go away because childrenir are dying, ad the tron is scaring an entire generation. As of this week, i find her children unde
right now on this labor day weekend, it appears president biden and democrats may be riding a guy surprisingly high ahead of midterms. while the opposition is sinking to new lows, both to blunt the joe-mentum and to defend the former president at the center of what some call an espionage investigation. and as this busy summer turns to election autumn, democrats have seized on possibly the largest political opening presented by republicans. the ripple effects of mar-a-lago investigation, and steal january 6th on the midterms. the president has both commander, in chief ahead of november calling the maga stranglehold on the gop nothing less than an existential crisis for our nation. that is why civil rights leaders, including myself as the head of the national action network, traveled to washington yesterday to warn the president about the dangers white supremacy poses to the united states. so yes, i was happy that we had the meeting the day after the president made such a passi
his planned trip to the middle east including saudi arabia. on capitol hill lawmakers are racing to put together a new bill that addresses rising gun violence and pass it all before the july 4th recess. we ll discuss with congressman salud car ba hall. we ll highlight the key races to watch with steve kornacki at the big board. we ll bring you an update on the fight for ukraine s donbas region which ukrainian president zelenskyy says will go down as one of the most brutal battles in and for europe. we begin with the growing unease over the state of the american economy. right now the dow jones industrial average is 141 points 140 points up. you see the index at 30,654. this is one day after it fell nearly 900 points yesterday on worries about inflation and what the federal reserve will do when it comes to interest rates at its next meeting which gets under way today. at the same time the s&p 500 which retirement funds are pegged to entered bear market territory, having