Im Carl Quintanilla post 9, new york stock exchange. What a show. Very busy hour ahead on squawk alley. Exclusive ceos with sanjay mean stitch fix ceo white house preparing for vote on tax reform following yesterdays procedural snag. El ylan mui is on capitol hill. Right now lawmakers are debating and voting on proerm measures the real meat of that vote will not happen until roughly noon. Every republican in the senate overnight did vote to support the tax bill one of the last to get on board was jeff flake of arizona. He put out a statement just recently saying he would have written a different bill, that he does believe lowering the u. S. Corporate rate will help make america more globally competitive. One provision that didnt make it into the bill was president trumps pledge to end the preferential treatment for carried interest that pledge was the victim of the weve been trying to cut carried interest, weve probably tried 25 times. Why not we hit opposition in that big White Buildi
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Baptist Church in the city of new york. Were delighted that you can join us tonight. Were looking forward to a very informative and inspiring night. Tonight youre joining us for a conversation on women and incarceration and im delighted that the new press who has publishing the book becoming this burden, sent me a note suggesting that we tick a look at the book. Now, i will tell you that across a year, i may get from various publishers maybe 20 or 30 new books. Asking me to read them and i have to share my opinion or else share my share my opinion on a cover or share my opinion with members of our congregation. I cant rad them all but fortunately i read this one and i read it because it had a forward by an author, and an activist and a lawyer named Michelle Alexander. I was coming out of a program similar to this at the library one evening and one of the panelists was the late Vincent Harding i knew him from my days at a student at
Uks City Of Culture. And matt has the weather. Good morning. The extended weekend will be a little bit on the cool side, with the clouds they are, and some rain here as well. There will bea some rain here as well. There will be a decent amount of dry and sunny weather to go with it. I will have your full easter forecast in around about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story the us military have dropped the biggest Non Nuclear Weapon ever used in combat, in afghanistan. President trump described the mission, to destroy a series of Underground Caves thought to have been used by so called Islamic State, as a very Successful Mission. 0ur North America editor john sopel has more. This is the gbu as, also known as a moab, a massive 0rdnance air blast, or as it is more commonly known, the mother of all bombs. The largest Non Nuclear Weapon ever deployed. The target so called Islamic State in afghanistan. We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used to move around
Good morning. Its wednesday, may 3. After congress struck a bipartisan deal to fund the government through september, President Trump got defensive yesterday explaining his reasoning for compromise and threatening a standoff when the money runs out in the fall. He tweeted the reason for the plan negotiated is that we need 60 votes in the senate which are not there, we either elect more republican senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51. Our country needs a good shutdown in september to fix the mess. Now, the source of the president s agitation was spelled out later by budget director Mick Mulvaney in an impromptu press briefing. I think the president is frustrated with the fact that he negotiated in good faith with the democrats and they went out tototry to spike the football and make him look bad. I think its a terrible posture to take. If were trying to prove to people that washington is going to be different, that were going to change things and figure out a way to work with
Trump campaigns alleged ties to russia. A leading voice of the intelligencen community telling cnn he feels the government system of checks and balances is eroding. Lets listen. Our institutions are ushd assault internally. Internally from the president . Exactly. Because hes firing the checks and balances. I think the Founding Fathers in their genius created a system of three coequal branches of government and a built in system of checks and balances. I feel as though thats under assault and is eroding. Were waiting now for press Secretary Sean Spicer to head u up there to the podium in the White House Briefing room. As we wait, i want to bring in senior White House Correspondent jim a kcosta. We have senior political reporter nia henderson and dana bash and cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor laura coates. I want to start with you, jim. Youre there in the briefing room. Tell us what were expecting. Theres so many outstanding questions when it comes to comey, when it comes