No word yet on their conditions or exactly what lead to that crash. We plan to have a live report coming up in our next half hour. People all over the world, of course, celebrating Christmas Holiday this morning, pope francis delivered his holiday message at the vatican. President trump spending his first christmas in office at his estate in florida. John lawrence shows us how the first family and others are marking this holiday. Christmas celebrations you are under way around the world from bethlehem, to the vatican where pope francis held midnight mass. The Christmas Spirit is live and i cant well in the united states. President and mrs. Trump spent part of sunday tracking sunday on norad and talking to kid bus what they hope to find underneath the christmas tree. What would you like to find more than anything else . What . Good Building Blocks that is what i always like, too. Now they make them better. Mr. Trump also sent seasons greetings to Service Members deployed abroad. I wante
Senator mark warner from virginia. From 200222006 senator warner served as governor of the great state of virginia and when he left Office Estate was right that the best day for business the best managed state in the best state in which to receive a public education. In the senate he has distinguished himself as a leader works with colleagues from both parties on behalf of the state and every one in our country. He serves on the finance banking budget and rules committee and is vice chairman of the select committee on intelligence. Senator warner is with us today. He has been a great leader for our country and please help me welcome him to speak to us as well. Senator warner. [applause] thank you mitch, thank you for that introduction and thank you for the great work you are doing in new orleans. Thank you for your familys longterm contribution. I started in politics indirectly working for moon landrieu. Its a real honor to be here with you and let me also give a shoutout to the remain
Passage of the plan as the end of the world, armageddon, the economy is responding incredibly well to the changes that we made in the tax code. I phropbg believed our economy struggled under the weight of an outdated tax system. Now businesses are beginning to do the math and are realizing that the tax cuts and jobs act will mean more savings. As a result, many have announced that they are passing some of these savings on to their employees who will now be seeking to grow and expand operations. As of today more than 350 companies have announced pay raises, bonuses, and or 401 k increases benefiting over four million americans. According to a recent National Federation of independent business survey, 32 of Small Businesses believe now is a good time to expand, the highest level ever recorded by this survey. This is happening across the country and in arkansas. Here are just a few examples of the companies headquartered in the in arkansas with a sizable presence in the state passing alon
Kristol. This is just over an hour. Thank you all so much. Welcome back. Our final session will speak on the current state of politics and i am pleased to begin with senator mark warner from virginia. From 200222006 senator warner served as governor of the great state of virginia and when he left Office Estate was right that the best day for business the best managed state in the best state in which to receive a public education. In the senate he has distinguished himself as a leader works with colleagues from both parties on behalf of the state and every one in our country. He serves on the finance banking budget and rules committee and is vice chairman of the select committee on intelligence. Senator warner is with us today. He has been a great leader for our country and please help me welcome him to speak to us as well. Senator warner. [applause] thank you mitch, thank you for that introduction and thank you for the great work you are doing in new orleans. Thank you for your familys
Were joined by the coexecutive director of the indivisible project here to talk about the shutdown last week, resolution of that and the involvement of the immigration proposal, and whats ahead for andDemocratic Party in 2018 more near term whats ahead in the immigration discussions. About your us project, the indivisible project, what is that all about . Election in r the 2016, my wife and i were going through the stages of grief lake lot of progressives trying to figure out what we could do in this brave new world and we were former congressional staffers who worked on capitol hill. Thenrk as things were back we saw this bright light of coming around throughout the country. We can tell folks how congress works. Fy on their two senators and one representative in their on e communities and then suddenly these individual chapters forming. In every single district. Its an organization that we just to dly set up support those groups on the ground. How have you been active in weve seen tha