French government pension reform has just resigned. That is a very that is the very same reform that has pushed thousands of people into the streets and paralyzed france in a mass transport strike for the last 12 days. Stepped dowown over allegations of conflict of interest. He failed to disclose several positions held since interim government to the state body for transparency in public office. The french constitution for him is numbers of the government from carrying out professional activity in addition to their official functions. Our french politics editor joins me to talk more about this latest development. How much of a surprise is this resignation . Absolutely not a surprise. The writing was on the wall. The problem is those revelations about positions he held have been trickling. It started with one and ended up with 13. Many of them, he was unpaid and some of them he was paid. The fact that he was in the for variousnd paid positions was not something that he could go on with.
Convict it doesnt make it impossible because its all going to rest on how strong that evidence is how powerful the democrats make their public case but you know clearly the democrats and Speaker Pelosi didnt want this to be a purely partisan exercise right now it looks like largely it is laura thanks so much for your analysis on that iran can present at home saddam has addressed the nation in a televised speech promised he will approve of the elections in response to the weeks long protests and he said the Prime Minister is ready to resign if a replacement is agreed the announcement comes as thousands of protesters a back on the streets of baghdad doing that yvonnes form. The kind of place that was that the Prime Minister has announced hes prepared to render his resignation and source an agreement from all the Political Parties will be avoid any constitutional vacuum i want to include civil groups in order to have the aspired reforms within the Legal Framework and in a manner that pres
Were on strike. They were counted out of work. Temporary census workers were laid off. Going to underlying strength ever economy. Look at net revisions for august and september, number of jobs was revised up by 95,000 jobs. You look at wage growth at 3 over the past 12 months. Low enough where the Federal Reserve is not seeing inflation pressures. White house Economic Advisors taking a victory lap on the report playing a little politics. White house Economic Advisor larry kudlow starting to talk about tax cuts 2. 0 to be proposed next year. The president would love to see another round of lower taxes to help middle income workers and wage earners give them as much, disposable income as possible. We are talking, again, informally at this moment. Reporter but nothing formal at this point. Ism manufacturing number. It came in at 48. 3. Anything under 50 is contraction. This may have also been impacted by the gm strike as the bureau of labor statistics wrote in the report, quote, within ma
My name is robert barnes. I cover the Supreme Court for the washington post. Thanks for coming on this crisp, fall day to hear about the Supreme Court. Id like to thank the federalist society, particularly the Facility Division and practice groups for putting together what we think will be an interesting panel on what looks to be a very interesting term at the Supreme Court. After the trauma of last years confirmation hearings, theres been a thought from those who watched the court that it went out of its way not to look partisan last term, to look for ways to bust up the ideological divide on the court in some cases and to slow walk some controversies to keep them off that years docket. Its been welldocumented that each of the conservative justices at least once joined the four liberals to make up a majority in a case. And it went the other way, too. Each of the liberals at least once abandoned his or her usual voting partners and joined the conservatives in a case. Harmony could be h
Right now. And good afternoon im scott wapner live. Over the next two days the Halftime Report is debating the state of tech and where your money will work best in the space. From the latest ipos to the f. A. A. N. G. S. We are joined by jeff richards, Jason Calicanis and dan niles. Lets welcome in our guest host for the hour today. He is raise ing a new fund. They are going to invest in private software companies. Well get into that a little later on. Jeff richards is with us on set. He is invested in slack, square and air bnb. Thanks for having me. Good for us to come back out here. Six months dpoe we were here and taking the temperature of tech. Ill ask you first, the state of the market out here is what . Frothy. Word association. Frothy. Just think late stage private valuations are quite high. And then youve seen a bunch of what you would consider previously Growth Investors, Growth Private account investors moving earlier and earlier to get away from the frothiness and that is ca