Price nomination, i wanted to see if i could put a little perspective on the upcoming debate. Focusing on bipartisanship has always been important to me. I know many of my colleagues on the Senate Finance committee on the democratic side share that view. And in 2009, the nominations of democrats tom daschle, tim geithner and ron kirk were all handled in a bipartisan way. Issues came up in the vetting process in each of these cases, and both sides of the committee took the investigation seriously. Unfortunately, mr. President , that has not been the case in 2017. P while congressman price served on the powerful ways and means i committee, he traded in healthcare stock, push policies that help his portfolio, and got special access to a promising stock deal. I asked th the congressman direy in his finance Committee Hearing whether he got a special deal. He said that he did not. I dont think you could be much clearer than the following passage from a recent report by a pulitzer prizewinnin
Price nomination, i wanted to see if i could put a little perspective on the upcoming debate. Focusing on bipartisanship has always been important to me. I know many of my colleagues on the Senate Finance committee on the democratic side share that view. And in 2009, the nominations of democrats tom daschle, tim geithner and ron kirk were all handled in a bipartisan way. Issues came up in the vetting process in each of these cases, and both sides of the committee took the investigation seriously. Unfortunately, mr. President , that has not been the case in 2017. P while congressman price served on the powerful ways and means i committee, he traded in healthcare stock, push policies that help his portfolio, and got special access to a promising stock deal. I asked th the congressman direy in his finance Committee Hearing whether he got a special deal. He said that he did not. I dont think you could be much clearer than the following passage from a recent report by a pulitzer prizewinnin
Federal reserve. Wrong i dont agree. I say to this new mood of expansion and optimism and confidence began with the election of donald trump. He said he would take the shackles off private enterprise and thats what businesses are responding to, and so is the marketment make no mistake, this is the trump rally. Top banker jamie dimon says trump unleashed animal spirits. We are going to open up, what, triple digits when the market opens in about 29 minutes time. Well be getting very, very close to dow 21,000. Its a big day. Action on owl front. And Varney Company is about to begin. Well, the jobs report looks like its going to dominate the mornings trading on wall street. Lets get straight to liz peek who joinus this morning. I say its a solid jobs report. You characterize it, please . Its more than solid because of the mix of jobs added. Strong growth in manufacturing. The only drag, really, is retailing, which is, by way, going to continue for some time as many stores are closing, but
24 million, cbo projects. L. A. Times, millions more would be uninsured under obamacare replacement analysis finds. But, again, these headlines are failing to tell you and these reports the tact that many of these people will lose insurance by choice. Since under the gop plan, you dont have to buy insurance. Youre not going to be forced to buy health care. And you know what else is missing from these headlines . The fact that this is going to reduce o deficit by 337 billion over ten years. This is important. We need to do things like reduce the deficit. Joining he right now for more analysis on what the report actually says, former governor of arkansas, fox news contributor, mike huckabee. Governor, always good to see you. You know, look, i realize you cant get everything you want, right . But weve had obamacare, and that certainly leaves a lot to be desired. Were now looking at an opportunity to reduce our deficit by a pretty meaningful amount of money and not force people into doing
Votes. The fact of the matter is that they arent looking tat entire plan. If you just look at this bill which is what the Congressional Budget Office tid and i think they made a significant error on the coverage amount. We have not got a deal yet. Thats not something that i can say we have yet. Maria weve got all of that coming up plus implications key items on the president s agenda including tax reform package we are expecting. Take a look, mixed markets right now. Futures searching for some direction. Dow industrials flat on the session. In europe this morning markets are hovering near the flat lines as well. The dax index is up a fraction. In asia overnight markets were a little changed as you see here, its all in the plus column. That was the best of it. The others very close to the flat line. Plus evidence bomb shell, House Intelligence Committee chairman devin nunes going straight to the president about new details about intercepted information involving the Trump Transition Tea