Missile launch there the last hour or so lets get to eamon javers at the white house to sort this out for us eamon . Reporter were expecting to hear from the president in the roosevelt room at the white house. We dont know what topic hes going to be speaking on. This is a moment where theyre allowing the press pool to come in to a previously scheduled meeting. That meeting was going to be with democratic and republican congressional leaders, but after the president tweeted about the Democratic Leaders earlier this morning and said he saw no hope for a deal with them, the democrats backed out of this meeting. The republicans are still tae attending. The white house says the invitation is still open for the democrats to come to the meeting. You can expect well see a few empty chairs in the meeting where nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer would have been sitting. The president might address that in his remarks to the press pool which is waiting to go in as we speak. He might also talk about t
Last night incredibly smart man, david rubenstein, the coceo of the Carlyle Group said what hes worried about for the next two years is an unanticipated geopolitical event call me a worrywart, but i have a list of things that dog me really not much happened dow dipped 40 points, closed badly at the end of the day. I think its worth going over my top ten worries as we head into 2018 before i give you the list, though, let me just say im not a big fan of the term, black swan the idea that something terrible and unexpected could be on the horizon. We have to be ready for anything a black swan is something you dont see coming but weve got lots of things that can be anticipated. So let me tell you what i look at when i wake up. First, im very concerned about whats going to happen with the tax bill for the longest time i didnt really focus on the details because i didnt really think congress was capable of passing such a Sweeping Change in tax code well, im completely wrong instead is looks
[applause]. [applause]. [applause]. [applause]. [applause] as you were downstairs getting ready to start the ceremony, captain yellin was asking me, do i stand for the army or do i stand for the air force . Because he was in the Army Air Forces. And i said, sir, youre 93 years old, you can stand for anybody you want to. [applause] captain jerry yellin is an Army Air Forces veteran who served in world war ii between 1941 and 1945. He enlisted on his 18th birthday just two months after the bombing of pearl harbor. After graduating from Luke Army Airfield as a Fighter Pilot in august of 1943, at the ripe old age of 19. He spent the remainder of the war flying p40s, p51 combat missions in the pacific with the 78th fighter squadron. He participated in the first landbased fighter mission in japan in 1945 and has the unique distinction of having flown the final combat mission of world war ii on 14 august of 1945, the day combat ended. On that mission, his wing man phillip slomberg was the las
Force in eastern ukraine. She said putin would never tell me because i was the minister msn not. Unfortunately it happened. The violence in the conciliation and the story of the book is the story of an invisible line across the prairie landscape, and its creation and its contested meanings during the civil war era and the difficulty of the people along that line to move on with their lives in the late 19th century. The violent dispossession of group after Group Beginning with the ice age indians continuing through the mormons who had moved to western missouri under joseph smith entered the civil war era freedom and the question of whether kansas territory would be free and so the violence of the 1850s is really about the question but it becomes wrapped in so much more. Typical to other frontier locations of water and access to raising millions the magnifying credibly. Bleeding kansas is what will make a territory and inflates date from spreading into kansas. It is mostly missouri settl
Meeting. Policy announcement coming up at 2 00. In global news chinese stocks rallying overnight. This morning snapping the threeday losing streak. The shanghai composite closing up 3. 5 . Big growth. In europe greeces stock market will not be reopened today as some had expected. The exchange is waiting for an okay from the ecb and government decree. Thats 6 or 700 points. Huge. Stocks to watch this morning, twitter earnings and revenue are both above estimates but it was the Monthly Average user number and it grew at its slowest pace since it was public and that is accounting for a pretty substantial selloff today. 32. I dont know the last time it was there. Jack dorsey this weird beard, calls this unacceptable. Have you seen the beard hes sporting . I have. Its like does the not pass by mirrors . People dont talk. He has a lot of yes people. Yeah it looks good. Yeah, it looks good. I like that egg yolk. Right here. More of his comments and reaction from analysts in just a few minutes