Hello, greek media are reporting that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will call a general election on september 20th, just seven months ach after his party first came to power lets take you straight away to athens and speak to john psaropoulos. This is not entirely unexpected, this decision, but why now exactly . Reporter what were hearing from lawmakers is that the government simply couldnt proceed with the implementation of the third bailout loan it negotiated last month. Its original plan was to form a summer session of parliament to get through august bypassing further immeantation laws. But apparently there werent enough syriza loyal mps, not the one third that has now decided to go in the direction of the far left and oppose any government on austerity, but the twothirds who were supposed to be loyal, even they didnt agree, therefore the government was left with no option but to renew its mandate with the greek people. There are positive arguments in favor of doing this as well. Th
Plan, we have been talking about it for a long time. I know you are headed to a meeting pretty soon, so you might have to leave early, but what can you tell us about the details of this tax plan . Guest we are excited that the republican tax plan will simplify the tax code, it will broaden the base of taxpayers, so that we can lower rates of all americans, and really get the economy moving again. We would like to see more robust gdp growth. We think that there are specific features of this tax plan that can make a substantial contribution. First would be bringing back the trillions of dollars in assets that are currently overseas as a consequence of a tax code that seems to disadvantage america to the betterment of other jurisdictions by having one of the highest Corporate Tax rates in the world. Bringing those dollars back will inject some immediate vibrance into our economy. We are also excited about bringing down the Corporate Tax rate. Because we have one of the highest tax rates i
We are asking you to tell us if you think immigration is making america stronger or weaker. Ocrats can call in at republicans at independents a special line for recent immigrants this morning. You can also catch up with us on social media. A very good thursday morning to you. According to the Pew Research Center, 47 Million People living in this country were born in other countries. We are talking about the immigration system in the United States. You can start calling in now. Focusing on the Legal Immigration system. [video clip] what we areump demanding is meritbased immigration. We want people that are going to help our country. We want people that are going to keep our country safe. We dont want lotteries where the wrong people are in the lotteries and, guess what, who are the suckers who get those people . And we want a meritbased system. And we do not want chain migration, or somebody like him ultimately will be able to bring in many members of his family. And we dont want that.
Write down the value of u. S. And uk projects by nearly 800 million swedish crowns good morning happy friday you are looking at live pictures of paris where president macron has just arrived for bastille Day Celebrations he is hosting donald trump for the event which also marks 100 years since the arrival of american troops who fought alongside the french during world war i. In the meantime lets show you also what is happening with european stock markets equally sunny this morning stoxx 600 index up by 5 0. 1 . A quiet i said end to a week ths very strong. Lets look one by one. Ext you can see not a whole lot of action when it comes to the sectors, what were seeing is this Health Care House of goods chemicals outperforming, construction down by a third of 1 and that is a factor that well talk about more in the show. President trump says the u. S. Economy can grow at 3 per year. Janet yellen says that it will be challenging the fed chair was asked about the administrations ambitious gro
Announcer live where you live this is nbc 7 news. Fire danger across the bay area tonight on a day of record setting temperatures. Tonight firefighters have their hand filled with this 30acre grass fire. Trevor harris shared this video with us. Homes more threatened but fortunately none burned and t now contained. Good evening im kate larson in for thomas. The heat today reached triple digits in parts of the bay today. The overnight shows as it gets dark tonight that fire danger is not going to go away. Early this morning in san jose a car fire quickly spread to the brush in seattle road and it took crews more than an hour to get a fire that burned with hopes under control. No one was hurt. Nbc 7 news was in san jose where nine cooling stations was set up to give people to stay. The temperature was over 100 degrees around 5 00 this evening. Lots of people had ice cold drinks to stay duel cool and many people were outside and tell us they are use to it. I was burning up in the sun. Walk