It is contingent upon how many people vote to a candidate by name. The number goes up and down depending on how many people are on the floor. During the weekend you have people go away. So maybe there would be a path for jim jordan to be elected if just the right number of people go away on the democratic side of the aisle. Hakeem jeffries said well have all our people here. The flip side of that. There is a danger for jim jordan if he forces these votes and just enough republicans disappear on that side of the aisle or people who support him because then you could be in a scenario where they do, in fact, elect Hakeem Jeffries if just the right mixture of people goes away. If they do that, as they say in the movies, they play a very dangerous game, mr. Bond. So this is kind of where we are right now. Republicans right now who are trying to figure out which is the direction to go. They dont know if they want to maybe put a resolution on the floor to empower Patrick Mchenry. Right now ji
Although this was the biggest one here for him, uchimura still has another event remaining in rio, thats the floor exercise, but it wont end for him here as his final olympic bow will likely come four years from now in his home nation when tokyo hosts the 2020 olympics. As we say good night, the medal ceremony for uchimura, ukraines Oleg Verniaiev who had gold in his sights until the final restation winds up with the silver and britains max whitlock wears bronze. [ cheers and applause ] and that does it for us. Matt and hoda have the today show from copacabana beach bright and early and well see you tomorrow night from rio. Nascars infield is a place of pride, glory, cultural expressions, it has more flags than the opening ceremony, only here its all stars and stripes. And ledecky has her third gold of these rio games. Shes heading for stanford next month. Before that shes dominating in rio. Katie ledecky remains perfect in the pool. Our complete olympics coverage starts right now. Tha
Become the first swimmer to win the same event in four straight olympics. Things ive done in my career have started to set in over the last two years, i would say, i think more than they ever have. Reporter two days after helping her team win a gold, simone biles returns for the all around in individual final. Her closest competition . None other than friend and teammate aly raisman. We have been close. Of course, were all competitive. Its in a healthy way. We feed off each others energy. I personallyxpectation. We just cheer for each other and do what we do in practice. Reporter tonight its another opportunity for all of these olympic stars to shimmer like gold. They will be shimmering. Its going to be a historic night. For all the viewers out there, this is my advice. Scramble in a little bit, get everything you need to survive for the next four hours. Your drinks, anything you want to snack on, a blanket, sit on the sofa, because i can tell you, you are not going to want to move for
Profit that Beat Estimates. The world passes largest retailer in the u. S. Raised its fullyear forecast. We will talk about what this means for housing and the u. S. Economy later in the program. And Standard Chartered is settling claims of new york regulators over failure to flag potential Money Laundering of its clients. It may have to pay 300 million and will likely once again get a stern talking to. Lets get back to bhps spinoff announcement. We are joined with details. Tell us about the biggest spinoff in mining history. Why now . Question. A key this could represent the end of the commodities super cycle. That is the first sign of it. Capital bhps return on two years later, 13 in just two years. The reason why you can now argue the assets are finally cash flow positive, they are expecting prices to rise somewhat, metal could also rise, you could argue they are valued about 15,000. Not the worst time to do it. What this winds up reflecting is how horrible the Mining Industry then
This is something that we simply have got to move forward on. I was happy in 2012, i was able to get language in their that put a cap on this Publicprivate Partnerships. And there are folks around this country where theyre moving forward on that. Its really critical. And mr. Bishop rod of foreign manufacturing possibly taking place possibly take the place of domestic manufacturing. Thats something we havent talked about here but thats really critical. 40 balance in trade, for our economy, for a number of reasons. I guess what i would like to ask all of you, but mr. Jones if he would start out, how are Publicprivate Partnerships going to be affected by sequestration and the c. R. . What kind of longterm effects are we talking about . I agree with you, Publicprivate Partnerships are absolutely critical, protect the critical capabilities in both the public and private sector now more than ever as we are seeing significant downsizing. Capacity within the national sustained and daschle base