Cochair of the congressional progressive caucus who has led the fight with low wage workers to raise the standard of living for good paying jobs. Congressman keith ellison. I had a constituent call me the other day and he said you know, keith, ive heard some things about this Transpacific Partnership and im concerned about it, you need to send me a copy of that bill. Of course i cannot do that. Because ive never seen it. If they show you the bill at all they show you one little title of it and then you cant have stats, you cant take notes you cant do anything. This is an invisible process. Each one of us represents somewhere in the neighborhood of 700,000 people. So when were standing in front of you whole communities, several cities. I represent 15 cities, minneapolis being the biggest one. And these people who sent me to congress expect that i will make decisions that are going to help them and theyre going to stop bills that are going to hurt them. And there is no quay in the world
Electrifiying stock gained another 5 dollars yesterday. After hours the electric car Company Reported the battery factory its building could employ 65hundred locations under consideration are arizona, nevada, new mexico and texas. Jc penney reported less of a loss than predicted. Shares soard more than 7 . Janet yellen heads to capitol hill today. She will share her thoughts about the economy with the Senate Banking committee. Her appearance earlier this month was cancelled due weather. And theres rain to report in the west. Drought ravaged areas such as Riverside County calfornia are finally getting drenched trader todd horwitz of average joe options joins us now. Hes also watching the situation in the ukraine and russia. Will it have and effect on the stock market or perhaps the oil market. I think when you take a look at the ukraine situation as far as the stock market is concerned, i think it will have no effect. It may effect their market but i think our market it wont bother. How
[ music ] bill hey, good morning, everybody. What do you say . It is wednesday, january 16th. Great to see you today. Welcome to you from fullcourt press all across this great land of ours on thendzwednesday morning. It is now the law of the land in new york state under the leadership of governor and drew cuomo, new york state has become first state to act with tough new gun control laws covering a ban on assault weapons, a ban on those highcapacity magazine clips and a requirement that every purchase of every gun include a criminal background check. New york state has shown the lead. President obama will announce his plan with Vice President biden today. Is Congress Ready to follow the lead of new york state . Boy, that and a whole lot more here this morning on the fullcourt press. But first, we get the latest. Todays current news update, was a fergusons got it out in los angeles. Lisa, good morning. Hey, bill. Good morning, everyone. Thats right. We will here from president obama tod