clarifying another key detail of what happened that day. a teacher say he did close the door that the killer used to get inside the school but the door was not locked. this contradicts an earlier claim by police that the teacher had left the door propped open. the town of uvalde is also continuing to honor more of the victims today. funerals today for a teacher who died protecting her students and also one of the young students killed. let s begin with cnn s shimon prokupecz who is live in uvalde. shimon, you spoke with the police chief. what more did he say about all of these questions that are swirling? reporter: well, he s not answering the key questions as to why he made the decision not to send officers in to take the gunmen down, right, the dps, head of the dps, the department of public safety who was running this investigation told us on friday that he was the on-site commander, that he was the one making decisions, and he was the one who ultimately decided that the
Joe is back. [deval patrick tolet me bring this hearing order. It might be the only hearing the house of representatives has had for the pending legislation. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us. Todays hearing is the first and likely the only hearing on hr one tax legislation. Lets give some historical perspective. 2000 one, when president bush took over from president clinton, cbo estimated the total Budget Surplus would be 5. 6 joined dollars. 5. 6 trillion. What actually happened was the federal government ran deficits totaling 6. 1 trillion. What happened between president taxtons time and federal cuts was simple. Tax cuts in 2001 followed by a tax cut of 120 in 2003. In 2005, there was a tax holiday that also cut back billions of dollars in terms of federal revenue. Each time, like today, republicans promised job growth. They took us to the casino, we win. Ot you really get. The Treasury Department issued a one page and analysis on monday is an 2. 9 growth that entirely c
House of representatives has had for the pending legislation. I want to thank our witnesses for joining us. Todays hearing is the first and likely the only hearing on hr one tax legislation. Lets give some historical perspective. 2000 one, when president bush took over from president clinton, cbo estimated the total Budget Surplus would be 5. 6 joined dollars. 5. 6 trillion. What actually happened was the federal government ran deficits totaling 6. 1 trillion. What happened between president taxtons time and federal cuts was simple. Tax cuts in 2001 followed by a tax cut of 120 in 2003. In 2005, there was a tax holiday that also cut back billions of dollars in terms of federal revenue. Each time, like today, republicans promised job growth. They took us to the casino, we win. Ot you really get. The Treasury Department issued a one page and analysis on monday is an 2. 9 growth that entirely contrary to what economists have suggested across the board. The reality is tax cuts do not favor
A few days ago it was the nasdaq at 7,000 overnight in asia, the nikkei, if you think these numbers have been good here, up by more than 3 . It had been closed for a bank holiday over the last two days so it had some catching up to do right now you can see the hang seng closed up by a half percentage point as did the shanghai if you look at whats been the early trade in some of those european markets that we watch closely, up across the board gains of almost a percent for the dax in germany and the cac in france. Ftse hanging in there. Still in the green with italy and spain, each up by 1 and look at crude oil prices yesterday a rally in crude oil, up by 2. 1 this morning additional gains of 11cents. 61. 74 a barrel for wti big corporate stories of the morning. Tesla is still struggling with production the carmaker releasing Fourth Quarter delivery numbers that fell short of expectations again, pushing back production targets for the model 3. Tesla delivered 1550 units of the highly an
European markets are well underway and as he has pointed out a number of times they have been of late for our own markets and there they are up across the board. Not bad actually. No, our futures being down is a function of idiocy. Idiocy how about the ten year note yield were right around 210. Yesterday. And also we know if you buy the banks you get some leadership rally and oil goes to 42 they still have no place to put it which is incredible given the fact that at one point we would be in a state of emergency but instead were in a state of glut youre going to pushing and theres not enough people in the refineries they get far earlier than people think. At the same time oil has to come down because its in storage and those that want to ship that oil will get it to the market somehow. The president said to speak on taxes later today. Expected to call the u. S. Economy quote rigged or at least the tax system plus its official warren buffet now the largest shareholder in bank of america