Buckle in, Varney Company is about to begin. Lets get right to it, the Supreme Court ruling on hobby lobby. The wall street journal, former reagan Economic Advisor r is here, and we have judge Andrew Napolitano with us as well. Talk about the legal aspects of this, what does it all mean . Hobby lobby. The significance of hobby lobby is without getting into the constitutionality of freedom of religion, the court found a federal statute enacted by the congress, the religious freedom act, it basically said in order for the congress to interfere with the religious views of someone, a very High Standard for which they call the strict scrutiny interest by the least restrictive alternative in congress didnt do that here, what does that mean . If you are a Sole Proprietor or a shareholder of an S Corporation or a shareholder in a nonprofit, your religious views cannot be trumped by the government instruction that you provide contraceptive services for your employees. It also means as Justice K
We begin tonight with General Motors and its widening safety crisis. The automaker stunned consumers and investors today announcing another huge recall and this one involves more fatalities. Gm is recalling over eight million vehicles, all in the u. S. , after defective parts linked to another three crashrelated fatalities. Now this brings the total number of recalls to 28 million vehicles worldwide. Just for this year. Now on top of that, gm also said it would increase the Second Quarter charge to earnings to 1. 2 billion to help pay for all those recalls. The surprising news came on the same day that gm laid out the plans to compensate survivors and the families of another 13 people who were killed in crashes related to those faulty switches. Investors sold on the news. Gm shares fell nearly 1 . Joining us now to talk about all of this, phil lebeau who is covering the gm crossice fris day one. And also with us, Collin Langdon from ubs. So, phil, let me begin with you. You are just a
Im in tofor Tyler Mathisen aga. We begin tonight with General Motors and its widening safety crisis. The automaker stunned consumers and investors today announcing another huge recall and this one involves more fatalities. Gm is recalling over eight million vehicles, all in the u. S. , after defective parts linked to another three crashrelated fatalities. Now this brings the total number of recalls to 28 million vehicles worldwide. Just for this year. Now on top of that, gm also said it would increase the Second Quarter charge to earnings to 1. 2 billion to help pay for all those recalls. The surprising news came on the same day that gm laid out the plans to compensate survivors and the families of another 13 people who were killed in crashes related to those faulty switches. Investors sold on the news. Gm shares fell nearly 1 . Joining us now to talk about all of this, phil lebeau who is covering the gm crossice fris day one. And also with us, Collin Langdon from ubs. So, phil, let me
Motors and its widening safety crisis. The automaker stunned consumers and investors today announcing another huge recall and this one involves more fatalities. Gm is recalling over eight million vehicles, all in the u. S. , after defective parts linked to another three crashrelated fatalities. Now this brings the total number of recalls to 28 million vehicles worldwide. Just for this year. Now on top of that, gm also said it would increase the Second Quarter charge to earnings to 1. 2 billion to help pay for all those recalls. The surprising news came on the same day that gm laid out the plans to compensate survivors and the families of another 13 people who were killed in crashes related to those faulty switches. Investors sold on the news. Gm shares fell nearly 1 . Joining us now to talk about all of this, phil lebeau who is covering the gm crossice fris day one. And also with us, Collin Langdon from ubs. So, phil, let me begin with you. You are just a few weeks ago the ceo of gm wa
Who are losing their jobs and hours. Now, as lawmakers keep squabbling about the economic response, the World Health Organization says the pandemic is accelerating and the certainly had this stark warning during an appearance on the today show this morning. I want america to understand, this week, its going to get bad. And we really need to come together as a nation and every single day counts. Every single second counts. And right now, there are not enough people out there who are taking this seriously. And you just see it looking in california, people on the beaches. You see it in washington, d. C. , the people out looking at the cherry blossoms. We need to take this seriously. The number of reported cases in the United States has now passed the 40,000 mark. And there have been more than 440 deaths. In michigan and indiana and delaware, they have joined the growing list of states that are implementing stayathome orders in an effort to stop the virus from spreading. These orders now a