Higher today. Nike, a familiar name we all know. A lot of people know the bags, theyre actually selling it off to the Apex Partners 570 million. They raised their quarterly dividend. Back to you. Dagen thank you so much, nicole. Beginning negotiating ways to avoid the fiscal cliff. Time is not on their side, were joined by congressman from both sides of the aisle, from colorado and equally fine wisconsin represented by democrats. Good to see you. To you first, there is discussion of stories in the wall street journal today about change to be sequestered to get rid of it and instead of that, put in place spending cuts and tax increases getting us six months into the middle of next year. I want to hear from both of you. You agree with a temporary measure to avoid the Big Decisions that need to be made. The answer to the fiscal cliff reaching a longterm deficit deal, now we need to let the political dust settle. There is a way to listen together and find some common ground. 80 ceos gave t
Employees today has his to do list. Were talking about a budget deal, movement on the farm bill and finally that long promised Immigration Reform deal. Passing a budget, Immigration Reform, farm bill. Those are three specific things that would make a huge difference in our economy right now. All right. So there we have it. The agenda laid out. Joining me now, democratic congresswoman, joe ezoe lofgren california. Senator ted cruz says he would not rule out the threat of shutting down the government once again in the future. Do you think more moderate republican colleagues of yours in the house would ever let that happen again . Well, i certainly hope not. The remaining moderates did not want this shutdown, but i didnt observe that they were able to stop it. So i really think its up to the Republican Leadership in the house not to go down such a reckless and disastrous course again. We heard the president there come out yesterday saying he wants congress to move on Immigration Reform an
Was telling the truth. Refusing to say there was widespread fraud in the election. Almost simultaneously republicans in wayne county, michigan, which includes detroit, tried to block certification of votes in that county. The Trump Campaigns lead attorney bragged that this would allow michigan to appoint protrump electors. Essentially overthrowing the will of the people. Throwing out the entire election that joe biden won in michigan by 148,000 votes and handing it to donald trump. Now, that board late overnight reversed that decision. It might not be over yet, we will speak with the governor of michigan in just a moment. More states also issuing new coronavirus restrictions, including curfews, mask mandates and business closures. 19 states are dealing with record hospitalizations. But there is some hopeful breaking news this morning, pfizer reporting another round of promising data on its Coronavirus Vaccine. The drug maker will soon seek emergency authorization from the fda. Much mor
Senator rand paul has finally responded to our reporting over the last two nights that he has just been reading whole sections ripped directly out of wikipedia in some speeches. Rand paul has responded, not to us, but publicly in a totally inexplicable way. That is ahead. But we begin with news from boston, in boston, this is a very fancy place. Named for this Handsome Devil who paid to build it in years past. Some of the planning for the revolutionary war happened here. It is a place in boston you choose to make an announcement if your not is big, historical, first time it happened in the history of the nation kind of announcement. And it was in this room on april 12th, 2006, that the then governor of massachusetts, willard mitt romney sat down to sign his first legislation of Health Care Reform law. Nothing like it existed in the country back then. But republican mitt romney and the late democratic senator ted kennedy and a bunch of other folks from the state worked very, very hard t
Us, but publicly in a totally inexplicable way. That is ahead. But we begin with news from boston, in boston, this is a very fancy place. Named for this Handsome Devil who paid to build it in years past. Some of the planning for the revolutionary war happened here. It is a place in boston you choose to make an announcement if your announcement is big, historical, first time it happened in the history of the nation kind of announcement. And it was in this room on april 12th, 2006, that the then governor of massachusetts, willard mitt romney sat down to sign his first legislation of Health Care Reform law. Nothing like it existed in the country back then. But republican mitt romney and the late democratic senator ted kennedy and a bunch of other folks from the state worked very, very hard to craft a law that made universal coverage possible in the great state of massachusetts. Governor romney signed that law publicly with a big grin on his face back in 2006. Well, today, president obama