Tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Andith the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributis to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. For the first time, investigators in the house of representives have heard a direct account of the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry. It came today from a veteran of 20 years in the u. S. Military. Our White House Correspondent begins our coverage. He arrived at the capitol in uniform, wearing his metals. An army lt. Col. Works for the National Security council. On tuesday, he became the First White House official who was in the call between President Trump and president ukraine to testify in the impeachment inquiry. That call sits at the heartf o the democratic investigations. He said he was concerned about what he heard. Some republicans, like congressman jim jordan, dismissed the tes
What stocks staen to benefit from tax reform . Goldman sachs has a basket of names set to outperform. Elon musk is trolling his haters on twitter after the companys stock surge pushed its market cap above ford for the first time. The president scheduled to hold a town hall meeting with 50 Business Leaders. Among those slated the ceo of citigroup, blackstone, mast ecard and jetblue, it he will focus on improving the Business Climate discussions about infrastructure and jobs. Beth comstock from ge, tom farley from the nyse, john paulson, steve roth, largely new yorkbased. Jim . Got some wall people there and private equity, mike corbett obviously someone who would be able to talk about deregulation. Yesterday theres full scale assault halftime i think the deregulation is so important. Please, with enit comes to the banks, its pretty much everything. Maybe this is back on track. Maybe this is what was doing well. Now there are a lot of people who feel that what happened with health care w
Ivanka, deena and wilbur. Its a great privilege to welcome you to the white house. Thank you so much. I want to thank everyone involved in the partnership for new york city, michael core bit, stephen schwartzman. It is an honor to have the leaders who are gathered in the room here with us today. I know the president is on his way over and its my great privilege this morning to share a few thoughts in the midst of this important conversation in the topics youre covering before i introduce my friend and the 45th president of the United States. But let me say first and foremost, the company represented in the partnership for new york city are all american success stories. You have our admiration and appreciation. Your businesses account for more than 7 million jobs and you add over 1 trillion to our economy each and every year. Whats more important is the people behind the numbers and the topics that youve covered today are all about creating more jobs and more opportunities for americans
From the highest levels of the obama team. This bombshell is not on the front of the washington post, or new york times. And ignored on the nbc newscast and cbs defended susan rice. Same old same old. And it was susan rice that went on television to blame benghazi on a video and told pbs last month she knew nothing about surveillance of the Trump Campaign. Bottom line, the obama team detested donald trump and went to Great Lengths to undermine them and the media detests donald trump and goes to Great Lengths to cover up the wrongdoings of the left. We need clarity. About Varney Company is about to begin. And this year, the confetti is going to fall for north carolina. Carolina. There you are, the champions, university of north carolina, the tarheels, beating gonzaga to win the ncaa tournament, 7165. This is north carolinas sixth championship in school history. They avenged their heartbreaking loss in the game last year and by the way, i dont know whether you stayed up for it, but it wa
But i am watching over everybody, jerry. Youre in good hands, okay . Thank you. Youre in good hands, believe me. You can tell the people of new york. Even though i didnt win new york state. I should have won new york state, but i didnt. Mr. President , cathy. I want to return to a conversation we had with ivanka, dean and wilbur on jobs, the work force of the future. As we think about that and think about our skillsets, in new york city alone, our Public High School Graduation Rate is at 70 . But the readiness of our students for college and careers is only assessed at 37 . As we look at the pace of change, we look at the Digital Transformation we all see in business in the marketplace, and look at the skills, this disconnect between what employers need and what our students are coming into our work forces are prepared to deliver. It would be great to get your
thoughts on the priorities of the administration around education, around, again, what i like to call not the future of work bu