French and russian governments lay out their 2015 budget. Moscow cuts Spending Plans as sanctions take their toll. Were on the ground in moscow and paris. Youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. And we just got the final reading of the eurozone september manufacturing pmi. It has come in at 50. 3. The previous month for august, it was 50. 7. It was forecast for september at 50. 5 but came in a at 50. 3, so slightly lower than expected. You can see the euro dollar has moved down. Also, five minutes ago, we got the german reading which came in at 49. 9, below expectations at 50. 3 and below where it came in for august at 50. 4. Again, slightly weaker than expected eurozone data, ahead of the crucial meeting for the ecb. In only a month, weve had two very strong days of positive gains in the stoxx 600 after the last season ended a month ago, yet the stoxx 600 ended the month broadly flat. Obviously, not much confidence there. Growing concerns a
Good evening. Im erin burnett. Welcome to a special edition of out front. Breaking news, president elect donald trump is about to arrive right here in bah washington less than 48 hours before hes sworn in as the next president of the United States. Its a significant night. His final flight aboard his own private jet before being president. Of course we know thats the one with the trump name emblazoned on the side, the t on the tail. The president elect arriving at Washingtons Reagan National Airport soon. Here to kick off a series of lavish inaugural events. Tonight a couple of exclusive dinners, one for mike pence, a second honoring his cabinet picks, some deeppocketed donors at these with donations of up to a million dollars, this as a trump transition official tells cnn trump has wrip his inauguration address draft himself, a draft he began working on maralago. President obama making his final public appearance, the last News Conference with several pointed remarks for donald trump
If the chairman of the appropriations, the third most important job in the house, if hes voting against his speaker on this, then the whole world is, if you record this vote. Im not sure they would have gotten 50 of the vote if they recorded it. People are talking about how bad paul ryan looks now. The one good thing paul ryan might have done as a politician and leader today is not make his members commit themselves one way or the other because they would all be paying for it one way or the other with nobody winning. Tom cotton, other republican senators kept using the phrase, walk the plank. Ryan didnt let his people walk the plank, take a vote they would pay for in the next election and never get it through the Senate Anyway or have it fail in the house today. Thats right. Incredibly dramatic day, but really, your point is so important, it all started with those people. Without those town halls, the video you showed last night, without those people in those town halls telling real st
Numbers. A strong economy, success with isis. So much else. Its Something Else that has critics inciting violence against the media. Live at the white house with more. Despite the frenzy over all of those tweets, the president has spent a good part of this weekend on that agenda you mentioned, such as health care. I was heard that he spoke to one senator wavering about whether to support that Important Senate bill that the republicans are trying to rally around. The senior strategist steve bannon is bouncing around a tax plan that is bold but may be quite controversial on the right. He is pushing for tax hikes on the rich. And that foreign trip you mentioned, france, germany, italy ahead of this weeks g20 summit. Many big challenges will be discussed. The president also spoke to the president of china and japan, trying to keep that pressure on the world nation of north korea. It was the president with all of these pressing issues, who tweeted out that video that showed him pummeling cn
Former chief of staff as c. I. A. And department of defense now an Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash. And washington anchor for bbc world news America Katty Kay who cheers for england who will win the world cup four years from now and host of Andrea Mitchell reports, Andrea Mitchell. Congratulations to france for their victory in the world cup. We are coming up on some big news events the next 15, 20 minutes. Vladimir putin is arriving right now from russia where he was the host of the world cup. And hes arriving in helsinki. Hes going to be meeting with donald trump. We will see him and the president of the United States over the next 15 to 20 minutes. But before we go there, lets try to put into context what exactly has happened this weekend and what the backdrop is for this meeting that has caused him a great deal of concern across washington, d. C. And the world. David ignatius, i want to start with you, how do you put into context weekend where the president of the Un