Taking his name out of consideration to become the next House Speaker. Some republicans reportedly ok with working with democrats to get the winning votes. Outside of d. C. The defense secretary and the secretary of state in israel to show u. S. Support for the country as the war with hamas continues. You can comment on these events on republicans 202 7488000, democrats 202 7488000, and independents 202 7488002. If you want to text us do that at 202 7488003. You can post on facebook and on x and also follow the show on twitter. Republicans were set to meet going into that meeting and coming out of that meeting a distinct change at Steve Scalise announcing he would no longer be in the race to be the next House Speaker. After that meeting he went before cameras and gave an explanation. I just shared with my colleagues i am withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designee. If you look over the last few weeks, if you look at where our conference is, there is still work to be don
Conflicts, not like this. In the middle east, you have these fights, conflicts, bombing campaigns, and such. We have done them, israel, other countries, but they usually return to the status quo. Only a few times do you see a few big ones. The yom kippur war 50 years ago. The iraqi invasion of kuwait. This is one of the big ones, because it puts israels existence at stake. It cannot deal with a hamas capable of attacking much of the population of israel at the same time as facing hezbollah in the north by the lebanese border, syria, and iran. That is why israel feels it has to act. Host how is the u. S. Are fonts and we have seen the last couple of weeks how do you rate that . Guest that has been an a so f ar. President biden is committed to israel, and he is very shocked, as we saw yesterday, tony blinken reacting to what happened yesterday. There support diplomatically their support will magically is 100 . More importantly, they deployed forces, including two aircraft carriers, to de
Jonathan lets get your morning started. Live from new york city this morning, good morning, good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance. The s p 500, bouncing back from a strange day of losses, positive by zero point 6 . We said this yesterday after chairman powell spoke, the presser ended almost as soon as it started. The top line headline, restrictive with nothing else seemed to matter. Lisa taking off the prospect of rate hikes took away the tail risk of them becoming even more restrictive and repeating that they are on the right path. That was the entirety of what was accomplished. It seems like this puts it back to where it was before. It is in the hands of earnings and it raises the question of on the long end, how much will this reaccelerate . Jonathan the fed will cut as soon as the data allows. Bank of america, hes in a wait and see mode. Deutsche bank, hard to say it was a dovish meeting, but given the recent inflation print, it could have been more hawkish and its difficult
Healthy aging. The Senate Special committee is chaired by Susan Collins of maine. The morning. Thgood morning. The committee wio order. For the next 12 years, 10,000 americans will turn 65 each day. Last month i officially joined that club. By the median age, maine is the oldest stage in the nation. They save 65 or older accounted for 19. 4 of the population of the state in 2016. That is an increase from 2010. No matter where in the country you live, when americans think of turning 65, we think of medicare and Social Security as well as we should. Theres also an opportunity to plan for a brandnew chapter as more start living longer. More than one out of four who lived tlive to age 65 can expeco live into their 90s. Americans to 85 or older are the fastestgrowing segment of the population. For many the long jeopardy means an additional three decades following what was once considered the time to retire. We need to plan to aid successfully and achieve the new chapter of continued growth
Supervisor wiener. Thank you very much madam chair the towing contract expires at the end of this month so the mta has asked us to extend the contract by 8 months until mark of next year before the at a time theyll come to us with a long Term Contract i ask for your support on that extension one change that is an important one in this contract is one that ive cabin furnishing for for quite a few times and i know colleagues you support that is to take a much more fair approach to owners of towed vehicles that have been stolen right now when someone has their car stolen and it is dumped in San Francisco the person has 20 minutes to retrieve the vehicle from the police on site if they dont get there within 20 minutes it is a challenge the vehicle is towed and then the person has a lot of 4 hour window to retrieve the vehicle and after twentyfour hours the storage fees accrues and other fees so as someone that is has been victimized is then effectively victimized again by having to pay hun