Boise, potato ships . No, computer chips welcome to squawk alley. I am jon fortt with me at post nine, Morgan Brennan and david faber. Carl quintanilla hat morning off. Another busy morning in washington the house of representatives has another big vote on the trade front, expecting to pass usmca, the replacement for nafta, on the heels of approving two articles of impeachment against President Trump last night Kayla Tausche joins us with more reporter the vote will be a stark contrast to the Party Line Vote on impeachment. On the house floor on capitol hill, two hours of debate is beginning that will tee up a vote that white house officials expect to be a landslide bipartisan vote, thanks largely because of provisions folded in to win over House Democrats by Bob Lighthizer last hour on cnbc, the treasury secretary said it should be seen as a win for the economy, not a win for House Speaker nancy pelosi were going to get in excess of 50 basis points of additional growth in gdp as a res
You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
Bola crisis where doctors are hoping to have no cases by the end of the year. Thank you for joining us bolivias former president there on what alice is landed in mexico where hes been given asylum 2 days after stepping down touching down in mexico city he was greeted by the countrys foreign minister who thanked along with mexicos president for saving his life but alice resigned on sunday at the militarys request following weeks of widespread protests over his disputed reelection but livias new interim leader is expected to be sworn in in the next few hours but alice says that he will remain in politics this fight before spouting what he describes as a coup it will be lived. I want to tell you im very frank full to the president of mexico who saved my life. I want to say brothers and sisters the while i have life i will stay in politics to struggle continues. Well in a moment well be speaking to Mariana Sanchez who joins us from la paz 1st though lets go to john homan in mexico city who
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