Talking about teenage vaping. Interest from congress. What is driving this . Guest interest started a year ago last summer when numbers showed teenage vaping rose significantly between 2017 and 2018, 78 jump in the number of High Schoolers using ecigarettes and congress was concerned because there is a playbook from big tobacco that they think looks very similar and they are concerned we could lose all the gains we have made in getting people off of cigarettes. Host focus on the company juul, why is that and what is the company . Guest juul is in san francisco, they have an ecigarette that is very discrete and really appealing to teens. A live talk at schools that you can hide it in your sweatshirt, people may not know when you are using it. There were some really great flavors that teens like that were able to be sold in Convenience Stores. Now those are just online except nthol that aree still in the stores, but that has been the ecigarette of choice for kids from the evidence from d
Katie welcome to Bloomberg Markets. You take a look at these markets and you can see there is green on the screen. The s p 500 is up by about 0. 5 . Compared to what we been seeing, its exciting. The nasdaq 100 is seeing a bigger game, up about 0. 8 . Weve been talking that inflation data coming in as expected with a bit of a relief there and you can see that in the bond market as well. Not huge moves that its the direction of travel. You have yields moving lower right now to the tune of four basis points on your 10 year treasury yield after the feds preferred gauge of underlying inflation, the pce rose in january as expected, supporting the feds patient approach. For more, were joined by mike mckee. After what we saw in cpi, this is probably good news for the fed . Mike its good news for wall street. You probably heard that big whoosh at 8 30 a. M. In the pc was a little higher than its been in recent months but it is not too high and a yearoveryear basis, inflation is still going dow
Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. Through what felt at times like A Meandering Cross Examination Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016 that cohen testified earlier in the week he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday cohen admitted that he was having trouble
3880, and for2585 3882. Endents, 202585 our twitter handle is cspanwj. You can drop us an email at journal cspan. Org. Here is how the story is playing out. We mentioned a sunday session in the senate today and the front page of the website of politico. Com. Writing about yesterdays action this isrichmond times, courtesy of the museum we are joined on the phone by kaitlin burns, who covers capitol hill for real clear politics. Com. Thank you for being with us. Icaller thank you for having me. Int the senate is coming for a sunday session, why is that necessary . We are getting closer to the october 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Things really fell apart over the weekend with the house negotiations. The house was fairly optimistic heading into the weekend, congressional meeting that congressional leaders having met with the president. Congressional leaders having met with the president. The white house was not supportive of what republicans wanted to do on the debt ceiling and H
Ahead. A packed two hours for you. New york mayor cory booker will join us. And poet journalist, angela davis will join us as well. Gold medal olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas has written a new book. And judy chu is with us, and the macks join us, and singer adam lambert. Monday, december 10th. And starting point begins right now. Wow, thats an ominous little graphic right there. Yes that is because the fiscal cliff is what were talking about this morning. Thats the starting point. President obama and the House Speaker speaking face to face for the first time in more than three weeks. The two men who stand between millions of americans and the fiscal cliff sat down, had a conversation. A Critical Development 22 days away from the cliff, which means severe tax hikes and spending cuts unless the two can find a way to compromise. Nobody is saying much. But spokesperson says the lines of communication remain open Erskin Bowles said this. You know, they have started to tango now and any time h