Washington examiner who serves as a political reporter. To both of you, thanks for joining us today. So lets start with state of the union. If you look to the papers this morning just even suggestions from the headlines, the president isat expected to softn theg, tone on the speech as fars tomorrows presentation, and particularly what it does for immigration. Darlene, what do we get a sense as far as tone leading into tomorrows speech . Guest well, the white house has said that he is going to speak in more optimistic tones tomorrow. Contrast that, for example, with the inaugust ration speech that he gave a year ago when he talked about american carnage andam painted this kind of very dark picture of the United States of america. So hes looking to do a little bit of the opposite and be softer, more optimistic, more hopeful in talking about immigration and is only of the other some of the other issues were going the hear him speak about. Host al weaver, particularly those members of cong
The week ahead with arlene super bowl and out weaver. Nina olsonadvocate talks about the new tax law and its implementation at the irs. Host the u. S. Capital, the site of President Trump us first u. S. State of the union, in which he is expected to take credit for the growing u. S. Economy and make a pitch for infrastructure funding. You can watch cspans coverage starting at 8 00 tomorrow night and you can go to www. Cspan. Org for more information. This is the washington journal 29th. Nuary immigration is the topic. Rate your partys efforts on immigration. Could be the debate on daca, dreamers, security policy, or some other aspect. Halfhour, we will hear from republicans only. Dont worry, democrats, we will get you in the second half hour. You support the president s plan on daca, 202 7488000. If you oppose that plan, 202 7488001. If you want to make your thoughts known on twitter, you can do so at cspanwj. Wait to hear from the party cost republicans, with a couple of things to sho
Will propel the coiled spring of the u. S. Economy lets give you a snapshot of this group, which represents about 14,000 u. S. Manufacturers to show you why they are so optimistic first, they are mostly small businesses, who will get passed at the pass through rate their employees are compensated higher than the average u. S. Worker, but they pay nearly 20,000 per employee in order to comply with federal regulations. That is why the president s speech, according to Senior Administration officials, will talk first about deregulation, the various ways that he has and continues to plan to cut red tape for businesses. Then he will discuss lower rates as a springboard for manufacturing and for the u. S. Economy. And also this theme of onshoring, the incentives that they believe the plan provides to bring capital back from overseas to the u. S. By incentives such as repatriation treatment and also more favorable treatment of capital investment, which is so crucial to this group that invests
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Good morning to you from me as well. Welcome back from a long weekend. Long weekend on both sides of the atlantic. Check in on the markets this morning. Hard to remember back to friday. We did have another record close on the s p 500. Futures showing a mixed picture. Dow futures are up 3. S p down a half point. Nasdaq futures are up 3 points for their sake. Nasdaq, the star performer technology. As for the tenyear treasury note yield, seeing low yields across the board. Saw that again in last weeks session. Buying of treasuries sending the tenyear down to 2. 24. The big report is the jobs report on friday. Two weeks to go until the next fed meeting. Lets see what the data shows between now and then. Surprising youre saying hard to remember what happened on friday. Youre suggesting in vegas you were not just studying the market moves of last week . When you go to vegas and a threehour difference and come back, it prolongs the weekend. You were in california, you should know that. But i