Pashakokis, both cnbc contributors. I start with jared bernstein. Good to see you. Hello, michelle. Yesterday, president obama touts this change by treasuries as a great thing, citing understandably one of the great things about america is its rule of law, but apparently missing the irony that by changing the rules in the middle of the game he has undermined the rule of law. How on earth can this be justified . Laws change all the time when there is a problem. I think the government this is not a law. This is just a regulatory change that has gone around congress. These are new rules on the books that have to be followed. If people dont follow it, they will be in violation and there will be actions. I think the important point here is that there are two very significant problems afoot. One is tax avoidance by industries who just moved their tax mailbox, not the operations, over to foreign markets in order to avoid the tax bill, and the other is a group of a small group of advisers who
Good morning. Its saturday, april 9th, 2016. We begin with a fox news alert. Captured u the accused killer who escaped a washington psychiatric facility found nearly 300 miles away after spending two days on the run. The breaking details on how he got out and where he planned to go next. What a creep. Meanwhile in new york the battle for the big apple. Donald trump is gearing up to take on ted cruz in mr. Trumps home state. He is taking a few days off the campaign trail. Can he hold on to his lead after a rough week . We have the latest. The pope giving marriage advice for folks to no
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First, democrats in wyoming will head to their local caucus locations in just three hours to choose a nominee. 18 delegates are at stake in the cowboy state. And sanders still trails hillary in the overall delegate count, having only 1,068 compared to clintons 1,740. Nbcs Kristen Dahlgren joins me from cheyenne, wyoming. What kind of turnout are we expecting today and what would it mean for senator sanders at this point . Reporter theyre expecting a big turnout. You can see here the volunteers have started showing up. They are getting ready for what could be big crowds. In this county, 680 surrogate ballots in. So it doesnt sound like a huge number, you know, compared to maybe a state like new york. This is the least populus state. But when youre looking at the population of potential democratic voters here in this state, they are expecting really about 20 , maybe. Theres only about 19 of this state that are registered to vote democrat. And its a very red state. And so for the democrat