[gavel pound] welcome everybody. Good morning. Today our Judiciary Committee considers an important and timely topic. The First Amendment on College Campuses. Senator feinstein and i will give Opening Statements and we will also have Opening Statements from the chairman and Ranking Member of the constitution subcommittee that senator collins and senator senatoror cruz and leventhal. Higher education rests on the free flow of ideas. Education requires that positions be held tentatively tested by opposing arguments that are actually considered and evaluated. All must protect free speech. Public institutions must adhere to the various guarantees over of our First Amendment. Too often all the these fundamental principles have been under assault. Even worse some people who exercise their First Amendment have themselves than assaulted. As a result those who would curtail free speech have been emboldened and those who disagree with the prevailing orthodoxy have been censored or chilled from s
Healthy kelsey snow, she covers congress for the washington post. Also the editor in chief of fox. The bill has had more than one day to soak in on the hill, how is it going . Can mitch question is mcconnell get the 50 votes . They need a majority of 51 votes to pass this. They can callin Vice President mike pence for backup. They have 52 republicans in the senate and they can only lose two. Right now we are looking at for conservatives who have said that they do not support the bill and its current form. They left open a lot of room to get themselves a few yeses. The real question is what will happen with moderate. There are a lot of questions at this point. They dont have 58, but there is a lot of confidence that they will be able to get there. Kospi,s also mark collins, Mitch Mcconnell has to do this dance with everyone. What areion is peoples policy bottom lines. We have to look at the republican divide on health care. You have the moderates who have been saying they need to do mor
Kalanick and we look at whats next for the ride sharing giants. Mike isaac, Derek Thompson and max chafkin. Uber is big but i dont think its as big as it thinks it is. Lyft is comin on. Uber has been pouring money from Venture Capitalists for years, subsidize effing riride we take while pushing its drivers to accept less and less money. The fact theyre still not making money is telling and potentially troubling. Glor we conclude with the president of princeton university, chris eisgruber. He spoke to david lean hart of the New York Times. I find our students inspiring. I find they have an extraordinary commitment to service and a strong set of Democratic Values. Do i think theyre at a time when theyre asking the question, what does it mean to act on those Democratic Values and how do we express them through the electoral system right now. So theyre brogue up at a time so theyre growing up at a time when many believe, a as o i, that Climate Change is an extraordinarily serious problem o
Kalanick and we look at whats next for the ride sharing giants. Mike isaac, Derek Thompson and max chafkin. Uber is big but i dont think its as big as it thinks it is. Lyft is comin on. Uber has been pouring money from Venture Capitalists for years, subsidize effing riride we take while pushing its drivers to accept less and less money. The fact theyre still not making money is telling and potentially troubling. Glor we conclude with the president of princeton university, chris eisgruber. He spoke to david lean hart of the New York Times. I find our students inspiring. I find they have an extraordinary commitment to service and a strong set of Democratic Values. Do i think theyre at a time when theyre asking the question, what does it mean to act on those Democratic Values and how do we express them through the electoral system right now. So theyre brogue up at a time so theyre growing up at a time when many believe, a as o i, that Climate Change is an extraordinarily serious problem o
President s use of his twitter account. 71 believe his tweets hurt his agenda and by the way, this poll was taken before yesterdays tweet. All right, now what . Donald trump is not well, Mika Brzezinski and joe wrote that as well and thats as a result of the president ial tweet. They canceled their vacations and no tweets yet about morning joe from the president. Lets get to the markets, big selloff yesterday. As Interest Rates were rising and concentrated in big tech stocks. Weve got a modest bounce for the overall market first thing this morning. Reality check, investors want the growth agenda. So do voters. But the president s tweets get in the way. Varney company is about to begin. I made a bold prediction, by the end of this month, the price of gas in a half dozen states will be below 2 a gallon. As of now, there are five states averaging below 2 a gallon. That would be South Carolina, oake, alabama, mississippi and missouri. Ashley one more, stu. Stuart one more to go, im saying