Cspans q and a. The house ways and means subcommittee has been examining limits but on the deductions of state and local taxes under the 2017 republican tax bill. Fromearlier today we show you the first part of this hearing while the senate is in recess. Farming communities, schools, First Responders and housing values. Before i begin my Opening Statement id like to yield to the chairman of the full ways and Means Committee for his opening remarks. Thank you chairman thompson and i want to acknowledge you and the other members of the subcommittee for indulging me with time to speak in this important hearing. The leadership of this committee and the working group is invaluable to congress. I want to take a couple minutes of time to express my appreciation to the witnesses who come to share their testimony today. Its a rare occasion that we can hear from hardworking folks make up our state and local governments. As former mayor of springfield until your firsthand of my experience as to h
This that sort of optimism helping things out the dow futures implied to open up about 118 points higher this comes after a decline for the markets yesterday. The dow was down about 180 points yesterday you saw bigger declines in percentage terms from the s p and the nasdaq with the s p down 1 , and the nasdaq down by 1. 5 . This morning green arrows across the board. Nasdaq indicated up by 67 points the s p indicated up by 14 if you want to look at the overseas markets in asia, you will see the nikkei was actually in a situation where we have green arrows this morning in europe, but the nikkei down by a half percentage point. Shanghai down by 0. 2 . Hang seng ended higher by just over a tenth of a percent. In europe there are green arrows across the board look and youll see right now the dax is up by 0. 6 . Its the biggest advancer of the major averages there everyone looking better this morning after though comments from mnuchin look at the treasury market. Tenyear note yielding just
Now cnn Breaking News yann, welcome to the lean. Im ticked tapper. Were following Breaking News out of new york where Donald Trumps hush money coverup trial its currently underway right now. Attorney Keith Davidson is on the stand. He is the lawyer who represented both 1998 Playboy Playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal, who alleged an affair with down from and horn actress and director Stormy Daniels, who alleged to a Brief Dalliance with trump. Trump denies both. This afternoon, davidson and as testified about his negotiations with National Enquirer editorinchief, dylan howard to sell the womens stories to that august to publication and how interest in buying Stormy Daniels accounts spiked after the access Hollywood Tape was released in early october 2016, before todays testimony gotten underway, judge juan merchan ruled that donald trump had violated the gag order against attacking members of the jury and witnesses with nine distinct posts on his truth social page, as well as his webs
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Event with native american code talkers from world war ii. They were brought into use their native language in order that the nazis would not be able to crack codes that had important military information during world war ii that america needed to get to the brushes and other allies. During that News Conference the president has reportedly referred to them as pocahontas. We are not quite sure of the action of the actions there. The slur to some people is not going unnoticed. We are going to take you alive to the white house. We are very interested in whats going on with the tax reform plan we need to quickly check on the markets. The three major indices touching alltime highs earlier. You can see the tao is still up there. And it is standing at a brandnew record close and it is standing at a brandnew record close we need to see a close of 23,000 the s p flat just barely turned positive. The nasdaq has been higher. Now its been down seven and threequarter points. They are shopping for s