Good morning, everybody. Youre watching the pulse. Im guy johnson. Im francine lacqua. We begin with the show checking out what the oil is doing. It is hovering around 45. Were hearing about this standoff between shale producers in the u. S. And of course opec producers. I guess the question is everybody is asking themselves how low does it go . What is the ultimate end game in terms of where prices stabilize . A critical question, i think it is going to be one of those questions that is going to run through every single conversation. In davos. Everybody is going to be talking about this. This is affecting every business. It is also affecting the data. To be infected. I would say infected. That is a more accurate description. The bank of england looked through the higher level of oil. Will it look through the lower level . Oil prices very difficult to predict. It will be the biggest game changer for airlines and companies around the world. In an exclusive interview ahead of greeces gen
Higher hurdle on such germany to give its support to anchor his bid for eu membership but hes getting a very cool response from the german chancellor and burleigh turkeys membership talks had been repeatedly delaying overt new concerns over the countrys human rights record. Gemini is also worried about the crackdown on protests and a corruption investigation involving the ones government everyones first port of call was a Foreign Policy think tank in berlin. He delivered a speech where he argued the European Union needs turkey more than the other way around. He sidestepped a dramatic fall in the value of the turkeys leroy. And brushed off alleged corruption in his government and called an investigation into graft a judicial coup. It caught on yet. Cic see conan night structures of the indian against democracy and stability of the mass attack has been boarded on it due to a steadfast pasta. It will witness a diet that nice next stop was the chancellor rhee where are the one dollars and
Ryans Budget Proposal unveiled yesterday. We will of live coverage on cspan 3. We want you to weigh in on the budget blueprint. Republicans, 202 5853881. Democrats, 202 5853880. Independents, 202 5853882. Send this a tweet or post your comments on facebook. You can also email us. To give us more details about the budget unveiled by house budget chairman paul ryan, lauren french is joining us. She is the congressional reporter with politico. 5 trillion over the next decade. How does he propose saving that much money . It is kind of a hodgepodge of savings. Interests that the government will not save. We missed that little bit we have an audio hick up. Hiccup. The budget does call for a full repeal of the healthcare law. That will bring in about 1. 2 trillion of savings. There will be savings from medicare changes. He is counting interest the government will not pay on the debt. There is a hodgepodge, but the big bulk of it does come from repealing the healthcare law. How does that save
Ukraine should start negotiations on eu membership lets say in a couple of years could be extremely so i have been fighting now for the european perspective. For the political recognition for ukraine, for the political right for ukraine to become a member, and membership perspective will definitely come in the course of implementation of the agreement. And it will come sooner rather than late r. After yanukovych refused to sign the agreement, i held a speech in berlin about that, and i was asked, you know, look, what is your take . When are you going to able to sign the agreement, and my point was it would be rather sooner than later and my german friends told me, look, its probably 2016 or later. Now we have the agreement signed. And my point, you probably dont believe me, but the membership perspective will come far sooner than many of you believe here. Thank you, mr. Minister. Quite a statement. Let me turn to steve. Im steve sustanovich. I think its on. Columbia university. Mr. Min
Relationship with the polish government, one of our greatest supporters in the nato alliance. We recall that 70 years ago people were willing to fight back against the not subsidies, rise the nazis, rising out of the sewers of a warsaw ghetto, to be able to fight them off with sticks and stones and outofdate weapons, to be able to liberate, to liberate poland from nazi oppression and miles away in places like dacau, auschwitz and others, there were the death camp. Were one year away from commemorating commemorating the liberation of the death camps. We know that as those people marched out of those death camps, they made their way into palestine, which became the state of israel. We were the first nation to recognize the necessary and rightful place for israel to exist as an independent government, and forever and a day the homeland for the jewish people so that they would be safe from terrorism and what occurred. So i am for this whole iron dome supplemental, and we need to do it. But