It becomes a thing that all of us connect to on some level. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the republicanled house of representatives pushed through a huge tax cut bill today, costing an estimated 680 billion over 10 years. The vote was 318 to 109 for a package that keeps alive an array of tax breaks for businesses and families. It drew bipartisan support. Speaker paul ryan says theyll vote tomorrow on a separate, trilliondollar spending package to fund the government in 2016. We are where we are, and we have a bipartisan compromise. Where, by the way, i think weve got some good wins. And look, democrats win some things, too. Thats the nature of bipartisan compromises. And so the way i
Money. We have a special valentines day top five. Were kicking it off with what everyone is talking about. Season two of the hit show house of cards. The series has been a huge win for netflix. What is the creator have planned to stay in the Winners Circle . You want to talk what you did with season one. It is releasing all the episodes on one day or releasing it onto the internet is not there. It is just the story itself. It motivated us to expand the scope of the series, to deepen our exploration of characters, and challenge ourselves to do better than we did before. As with the first season, netflix released every episode of the dark Political Drama all at once encouraging binge watchers, including phil mattingly. Here he is for the 3 00 a. M. Premier sitting with his great dane. He spoke with reallife d. C. Lawmakers about how realistic the show is. Capitol hill staffers were up watching. That is how highly anticipated the release was. Government was closed until 10 00 a. M. This m
On retail sales. Janet yellen and more more. Peter cook looks at regulatory issues behind the comcast time warner deal. We look at the stock moves in the 45 billion acquisition. Good afternoon. One thing thats important to note about this acquisition is its a stock transaction. Shareholders will get stock of comcast in return for this deal. They are going to get 2. 875 for every time warner share they old. That values the company at about 17 higher than yesterdays close. If you look at the Time Warner Cable shares today, youll notice theorizing which is what you might expect but they are trading below that offer price. There could be a couple of reasons behind that. First of all, comcast shares are declining so the value of the bid is declining to some extent. Second of all, its going to take a long time for this deal to close. It could be the end of 2014. And third of all, and of course peter is going to get more into this is the Regulatory Risk associated with this deal. Thats why th
Were kicking it off with what everyone is talking about. Season two of the hit show house of cards. The series has been a huge win for netflix. What is the creator have planned to stay in the Winners Circle . You want to talk what you did with season one. All the episodes on one day or releasing it onto the internet is not there. It is just the story itself. It motivated us to expand the scope of the series, to deepen our exploration of characters, and challenge ourselves to do better than we did before. The first season, netflix released every episode of the dark Political Drama all at once encouraging binge watchers, including phil mattingly. Here he is for the 3 00 a. M. Premier sitting with his great dane. He spoke with reallife d. C. Lawmakers about how realistic the show is. Upcapitol hill staffers were watching. That is how highly anticipated the release was. Government was closed until 10 00 a. M. This morning, so a couple more hours to catch up on episodes. The only unrealisti
Dagen i am moving slowly and gingerly. You know what is coming up later . Darius rucker. Connell that will be great. The market is way up. First, Nicole Petallides on not microsoft story. Nicole good morning. Taking a look at microsoft. Some of the details have been put out there. We can see shake up there. Basically, they will be focusing on what they think the consumer needs. Devices will be anything from telephones to tv attachments and, of course, tablets and pcs. Lets take a look at the big board right now. The Dow Jones Industrials up 136 points right now. Moving closer to intraday highs. Back to you. Connell we keep hearing over and over how the fed Stimulus Program is what is keeping our economy afloat. Brian wesbury is a bowl. I apologize for her. It is not the fed. That is what is driving the market. You have been able for a long time. When i go back to 2009, connell, there are lots of people who believe this quantitative easing. People call it a sugar high. It is all just so