Clinton and Bernie Sanders comes the same time this evening as the three remaining republican candidates will be speaking at a new york state Publican Party dinner in death rePublican Party ner in Downtown Manhattan new york state rePublican Party dinner in Downtown Manhattan. We are taking your calls. For republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. If you are an independent, 2027488002. Online. Good thursday morning. Thank you for being with us. A lot to talk about. Front page of the Washington Times dealing with puerto rico. Debt relief for puerto rico is the latest hit for paul ryan. Yet another test for the House Speaker and early signs are not good. There is this story this morning inside the New York Times, a meeting that took place yesterday at cia headquarters in langley, virginia with the president and top cia officials. President obama saying wednesday while Islamic State could still inflict horrific violence on the innocent, the u. S. Has made substantial gains in combating the g
In the takeover. Berkshire hathaway are getting 51 of craft. A solemn minute of science of silence today. They were mourning those lost yesterday when a german plane crashed. We are learning today two americans today a former u. S. Safety investigator says authorities want to know why the pilot made no distress call. Collects that will certainly be the number one item they will look closely to see what is going on around the cockpit. Betty a hong kong conglomerate is no written passes biggest wireless a 53 billion deal. Defense spending will be the point today when the house starts budget debates. Lawmakers are not sure. There are six republican plans. Against lawmakers who want to lower the deficit. Facebook founders reaching out to Software Developers today. Reaching out to the companys conference in San Francisco. We will let out designers reach facebook users even better than now per facebook shares are at an alltime high. Forecasting adding revenue this year just 37 . Those are yo
Hans nichols is in the french alps one mile away from the site of tuesdays crash. That evening. Has there been progress . Hans yes, there has appeared as the sun sets on this ground behind me were the last helicopter appears to be taking off we have three important development. The black box that contains the voice recording recovered last night, Forensic Experts in paris believe they can retrieve the voice recording for that. Progress will be yielded from that voice recording. Francois hollande says they have recovered the casing of the second black box. This is the part of the recorder they used to log every bit of information from every bit of every part of the airplane. Number three the crash site itself while over to have disco hectares is small enough that the plane did not explode before impact. Two hectares. The plane slammed into the side of the mountain here in the french alps and that is where most of the debris is. None of the 150 bodies have been retrieved. The are still i
Made the case, the leadership case for more defense spending in reaction to, i think, a world of rising threats. The pentagons making the case that they need to tread water. Theyre not increasing. Is there anything we can do, the members of the electorate, people in different districts congressional districts, senatorial districts . Can we make any difference or are we just having the conversation so we can educate people for the next administration in is there something we can do right now . I think thats the question every panelist would love to hear, i mean, it really, truly is the right question. Im going the let you guys take the first stab at that. Well, i was going to say that, i mean a little bit of Political Party analysis whats blocking greater defense spending . Obviously, now we have the democrats control the white house, republicans have majority but not a vetoproof, certainly not a vetoproof or a filibusterproof in the senate. And i think if you listen to a lot of Armed S
Priorities. The choices we make about how to invest and spend have an impact on American Families. We must make it easier for hardworking americans to own a home, send their kids to college, have a secure retirement. That is why it is so important that we invest in our american ports. That will provide funding and support they need is a high priority for me. It is supported by 100 members of the congressional caucus. We know that americans must invest in the ports to remain competitive, and prepare for the expansion of the panel mall panama can now. The budget we are considering today, does the opposite. Cutting funding for programs that support american commerce is shortsighted and harmful to the competitiveness of american business. I applaud the congressional progressive caucus has it meets the targets we set for the Harbor Maintenance funding using up of the revenue collected at our ports for its intendant intended purpose. Let me emphasize that the Harbor Maintenance trust fund is