sophisticated serve-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. in our hearings you will see elements of each element of this plan. donald trump and his advisers knew that he had, in account fa, lost the elections, but despite this, president trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the u.s. population that fraud had stolen the elections from him. on this point, there is no room for debate. those who invaded the capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what president trump had told them, that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful president. president trump, summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. republican congresswoman and committee vice chair liz cheney cutting straight to the heart of the case there that the panel will continue to lay out over the next several weeks, but you don t have to
Treatment and recovery caucus. They discussed what communities are doing and also how congress is addressing the issue. From the National Press club this is just under an hour. I would like to say good morning because we scheduled this but its afternoon. On behalf of the 3,000 members of our press club i want to welcome you here today and welcome our guests. Before we get into introductions of our speakers i havent really done this before. I chaired the Headliners Committee for the past couple of years prior to the news maker committee before we made it the Headliners Committee. We thought it would be important this particular week when we thought congress would be dealing with the budget to talk about this. How can you take on this disaster when there was actually talk maybe the government would shut down. How would this all work . That was our sentence when we started this process. It wasnt that long ago we heard that the administration was making cuts. Little did we expect that this
Note, the hang seng. The hang seng hitting the highest level since june of 2015 during that session. The picture of europe here, inflation data hit the tape moments ago. A mixed bag. Fractional losses in germany and france. Home depot just out with First Quarter results. Earnings of 1. 67 a share, coming in 5 cents above estimates. Global Comp Store Sales were up 5 , that beat the consensus of 4 . U. S. Comps were up 6 . Wae above e home depot raising the fullyear earnings forecast. Market reaction in the currencies from the Washington Post story. I to be honest with you, i didnt buy it because what were seeing across the board is that people are willing to take on a little bit of risk. Euros are turning to levels since before the french election, yen is coming off. We saw the chart. Its been a while that the dollar euro has been strong. You can do just about anything you want in the Financial News reporting, sort of and im sure we didnt make that up. Im sure the person that wrote that
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. With me at post 9, our own sara eisen. Jon fortt is at the mobile World Congress in barcelona. A lot more from jon in just a moment. It is a busy morning here in the markets, especially in washington. The president wrapping up a meeting with the National Governors association this hour, holding a roundtable with Health Insurance ceos. Our eamon javers is at the white house with all the latest. Hey, eamon. Reporter yeah, good morning, carl. That meeting with the Health Insurance ceos is going to right now behind closed doors here at the white house. We expect to see some tape of that and well bring you any comments that the president does make. But this morning we saw the president in a separate meeting, meeting with the nations governors, talking a little bit about where health care is going and the efforts of the Republican Party to repeal and replace obamacare. The president striking a little bit of a glum note here this morning, a slight
Salami slicing. Very small increments advancing interests by building up islands, adding another weapons system, making small moves, none of which is egregious enough tow cause the United States to use massive hard power but would we slowly tip the balance in chinas favor. We dont have a strategy to counter that. Deterre our hard power capability, the weapons you have described, this is a deterrent to world war iii, not to intelligent gradualism. We need a better policy. From florida, independent line, cliff for our guest robert daly, good morning. Good morning. Good conversation. Me e you have alreadystng to taken s steam out of a comment that i was going to make, but i will i make it anyway so we can reiterate. Im not probably going to be as friendly and optimistic as the answer has been given. Ussian im referring to the russian situation when they were doing their thing with georgia, uzbekistan and we were passive and we o watched and they watch how we react or no reaction. I, for o