Claims this morning that the russians have damaging information on mr. Trump and that his lawyer met with russian officials and said Cash Payments to them. The lawyer says totally untrue. Trump angrily calls it a political witch hunt and fake news. The russians say they have no compromising material, but its all over the media. It will come up at the tillerson hearing and it wil be center stage at the News Conference. So, here is the state of political play. The left continues its full court press to discredit and undermine the trump presidency. They are in attack mode. You will see how trump responds. Varney company is about to begin. Exxonmobil chief Rex Tillersons confirmation is about to be gavelled to order. Youll expect questions, hostile questions from democrats on russia and Climate Change. We have liz peek. Judge andrew napolitano, spokesman rick grinell, Ashley Webster and liz macdonald. Well quote him on a couple tweets. Russia said the unverified report by political opponen
We will be back. I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safe
I went to see if there are any other Opening Statements and i want to make sure we have plenty of time. Any othe other members Opening Statements introduced in the record without objection will be entered into the record. Let me introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Doctor tim pearson will lea leaf the panel, the scientist in the Government Accountability office in july, 2008 and as such he is a member of the Senior Executive service of the u. S. Federal government and also serves as a director for the center for Science Technology and engineering. Thank you for being with us today and we look forward to your comments. Also would like to welcome from ththe centers of Disease Control and prevention with 30 years of Public Health and science and Emergency Response in medical Training Experience she now serves as the Deputy Director for the office of Public Health preparedness response thank you for being here. Next steve munro for the laboratory of science and Safety Centers for Di
Cutting the number of rate hikes it expects this year in half. What that means for the markets. Shares of fedex are up on earnings and company taking a shot at amazon on its call yesterday. Plus jim cramer spoke to target ceo about competing with amazon. How hes positioning his company against jeff bezos. First up something that would have been nun thinkable. Dow and s p down 1 for the year after the fed reduced the number of rate hikes it expect this year from four to two. Futures moving lower. Caterpillar issues First Quarter estimates in the wake of lower Commodity Prices even though they stayed firm on their guidance for the year, jim. Yeah. I found that two surprising things was one how deep the cut was First Quarter. And two, how they believe that somehow things are going to get better quickly. I think that caterpillar is in a nutshell what fed did. Look these are Great American companies. Not doing well at all. That has to do a lot with oil and gas and mining. Not just all inter
Thats a step that i have worked on every single day. Number two people can succeed. The genius of america is the Free Enterprise and freedom and the fact that people can go out there and start a business, work on an idea, make their own decisions. As Abraham Lincoln understood, there are also some things we do better together. In the middle of the civil war, Abraham Lincoln said, lets help to finance the transcontinental railroad. Lets start the National Academy of sciences. Lets start land grant colleges. We want to give these gateways of opportunities to all americans. If all americans are getting an opportunity, we will all be better off. That does not restrict freedom, that enhances it. What i have tried to do as president is to apply the same principles. When it comes to education, what i have said is we have to reform schools that are not working. We do something called race to the top. We have said states we will give you more money if you initiate reforms. We have had 46 states