[inaudible] good morning everyone. Welcome to the best roundtable discussion in the country this morning. Bright to sunny and dmaryland. Maryland, i would like to give you a warm welcome. To haveecially honored congress men brown here this morning. I also welcome the mayors, the town managers, and the unions to this very important roundtable. I want to thank the congregation for their unwavering support. Andhave been our champions brought funding for Significant Economic Development projects. The fbi andported the gsa would be very proud of how Cost Effective they are. Therefore, i am pleased to inform you that due to your maryland hasrts, job growth. It has led for four consecutive quarters but none of that would have happened without your support. This county leads the entire washington dc region in job growth. Better than fairfax, montgomery, howard, we are ahead of each of them. That is because of this Significant Economic Development project that was bright here and funded here. W
Poverty. Watch sunday night at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. Maryland lawmakers held a town hall meeting with local officials and constituents to discuss the tax reform bill and its potential impact. Steny hoyer, senator Chris Van Hollen and congressman Anthony Brown also responded to the president s recent comments about haitian and african immigrants. The town hall was held by the prince georges counties corporation. It is one hour and 45 minutes. It is one hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible] good morning, everyone. Welcome to the best roundtable discussion in the country this morning. Welcome to sunny and bright Prince Georges County, maryland. Maryland, i would like to give you a warm welcome. To haveecially honored congress men brown here this morning. I also welcome the mayors, the town managers, and the unions to this very important roundtable. I want to thank the congregation for their unwavering support. Andhave been our champions brought funding for Significant Economic
And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,
Up 14 on results this morning twitter a huge gainer this morning, well talk about its 8 pop. And then theres wynn, youve been hearing about that, a huge decline. Around noon eastern when news broke of Sexual Misconduct allegations against founder and Ceo Steve Wynn lets bring Contessa Brewer back in with some of the latest details on that. These allegations date back more than a decade and the wall street journal outlines a pattern of Sexual Misconduct by Ceo Steve Wynn the report details Sexual Assault bins manicurist who was later awards a 7. 5 million lawsuit and other forced sexual encounters with massage therapists and the like. Other sources tell cnbc that steve wynns behavior with employees was an open secret for decades in las vegas but they feared to speak out for fear of their jobs steve wynn said, the idea i assaulted any woman is preposterous then he goes on to blame his exwife, elaine wynn, for instigating the accusations. A statement from the company also blames her for t
Russia probe, it is russia fever, that the country needs to get out of it . Will he address it in anyway. To answer your first question we want full transparency. What weve said all along. Well make a decision when and if that time becomes necessary. In terms of the state of the union, im not going to get ahead of the president s address. It is tomorrow night. I know youre exciting and will eagerly tune in and can see at that time exactly what is going to be included. April . Reporter [inaudible] we addressed it every single day that weve been here. One of the questions you guys ask over and over again. We spend more time on that than any other topic despite fact time and time, poll after poll, frankly no one cares about this issue and certainly not the thing that keeps people up at night. We would love to talk about all the things that do. My guess that will be the focus of the president of the state of the union tomorrow. April . Reporter two topics on state. Union. Specifically when