yesterday evening with pelosi, had conversations with individuals on the republican side as well to talk about tax relief, how are the islands going to be included? how sit virgin islands going to be included in tax relief and any additional fema support. and then discussions with even larger groups. i had reach outs from people if louisiana new york city here to support as well. and even foreign governments. we have been owned by seven different countries before we were purchased by the united states. right. so speaking with them as well. i m glad for global response. there is, however, the simple issue of logistics, right? i just talked with halle jackson about the fact in a the president might be making a trip in there which i m sure will be heartening but i m sure they are considering they don t want logistical efforts drawn away by the president s viv. at the same time we have got the army coming in, the marine troops coming in, all of those things you listed from gasoline
ownership, that s what the financial times says. they have she will companies in multiple industries. since they re able to get their goods to china, false labels like made in china are slapped on them and shipped out to the rest of the world. many of these items are clothing, textiles, t-shirts, trousers and jackets and ski guard. i want to talk to the former spokesperson for both counter-terror and financial intelligence at the treasury department s, former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the u.n. knows sanctions better than anyone. i don t know what the president was talking about, but i will say this. we do seem to be incrementalist in our sanctions approach. we re happy that there were 15 votes and everybody was involved and the chinese and russians don t seem to be working against the united states on north korean sanctions, but am i really supposed to think that limiting textile flows out of
the last time mnuchin went on the hill he was more or less engine jeered out of the room. when i have dinners, it can only be one republican and one democratic in my apartment. i am going to be talking to a congressman from the u.s. virgin islands. was there talk of relief about the virgin islands. we know a lot about what has been going none florida but the islands have had remarkable devastation. it s amazing when you look at the images. we know that the team is considering here maybe getting president trump out to the u.s. virgin islands to see some of the impact of irma firsthand. it is not clear ho how far along those plans are or whether it will come to fruition. we do know as was confirmed in this briefing that the president will visit florida on thursday. we will be looking ahead to that as well. halle, you and i are friends. we have a great relationship. i m going to and you a question you weren t expecting but i want to ask you who is the guy on your left?
six their framework. i think we are in the beginning of those conversations. hopefully again a lot of those people will come on board. ayman. let s drill down on the idea of democrats coming across the aisle to support the president s tax reform. the question is whether there is enough of a shared vision between democrats and republicans of what tax reform ought to look like. can you give us examples of elements of the deal that the president could put into the deal that would attract the democratic votes but not alienate republicans. these conversations are just starting with the democrats coming to the table. as those take place we will certainly provide more information on that front. but this is just the very beginning, the first step in this process. thanks, guys we will be around the rest of the day to answer other questions if you have them. sarah huckabee sanders saying good-bye to the press corps after a press briefing at the white house. i m going to talk to halle j
this is really important because finally nine years after the recession we have started to see wages go up, families earning more, poverty going down. that s how bad that recession was, that it took us until 2015 to see meaningful gains and then a good gain in 2016. these are numbers for 2016. it s the most recent one that we have. let me take a quick look at what the markets are looking like right now. the dow is up about 50 points as trading is wrapping up, very strong day on the markets yesterday. a good week to check your 401(k). breaking this hour the state department weighed on the latest sanctions against north korea saying that it shows the world is acting together and worried about the nuclear threat or the threat of nuclear tests. this comes after the president seemed to downplay the sanctions earlier today. we had a vote yesterday on sanctions. we think it s just another very