Cheryl im glad that you at the top of report brought the issue of money flows. I know it was last week that european investors were flooding money into u. S. Markets, we are looking at potentially dow 25,000 at this point. Its incredible to see the confidence around the world in u. S. Markets even if theres not political confidence and whats happening in the United States, is that a Fair Assessment . I think theres confidence in world stocks so people are confident in the u. S. But kind of everywhere with the treasury yield so low, stocks good look good in comparison. Lauren thank you for your perspective. We really appreciate it. Have a good weekend. Cheryl thats it for us, thank you for watching fbn am on ugly sweater day, National Ugly sweat er day. Maria thanks for joining us, tgif, it is friday december 15th, top stories right now 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. The race to finish the tax reform. Senator marco rubio says hes a no in the 11th hour. Pushes for lastminute changes to th
Pastorus when shots rang out at 8 30 last night. Kid cannot play on the basketball courts they cant play in the playground because everybody come and they are shooting. Reporter he cast shot in the back and killed, his 13 yearold cousin was grazed in the arm which she bravely showed us but she was still so shaken she didnt say a word while doing it. Two others, an 18 and 19 yearold were also hit. They are both expected to survive. The 19 yearold remains hospitalized. Jais grandmother was home at the time and heard the shots. She spoke with us off camera. They killed my grand some. I want somebody, who did it, i want them to pay for it. Reporter there have been 224 homicide in philadelphia so far this year, most in five years. Germantown has been hit particularly hard with several cases where multiple people were shot on the same day. That includes, the Early Morning hours of july 5th, where three people were gunned down and in that case one man died. It happens, to anybody. We are anot
The july the 5th attempt. One of the difficulties we faced in turkey is explain this event to our international counterparts, its really well complicated and difficult to stress and one of the difficulties and mysteries of this event is also how turkey fighting against the terrorist organization in the aftermath of the coup attempt and how turkey is dealing with both challenges in this new era. Of course, both are very difficult and we have to go off the background to understand this. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy in the aftermath of july the 15th coup attempt. And also, some background about this development. So we will have four speaks, jeffrey, who is the distinguished fellow at Washington Institute for u. S. Policy, our second speaker will be profess or do nae from the university, Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is colonel richard houston, senior u. S. Army advise are and member of planning at u. S
Medical examiners have no training on how to conduct gulf war illness exams. Witnesses included representatives from the Veterans Affairs department, the Government Accountability office and advocates for veterans. Good morning and welcome, everyone. This is joint hearing of the subcommittee on disability assistance and Memorial Affairs and oversight and investigation. Well now come to order. I first want to take a moment to thank my colleagues, sharon burgman, Ranking Member who should be along shortly and Ranking Member custer for hold tinge hearing with me today on the important issue were facing, and thats helping gulf war veterans get the benefits that theyve earned. It should go without saying that we have a duty to take care of the men and women who is been wounded while serving in our military. Unfortunately, too many injured gulf war veterans are not being taken care of. The va estimates 44 of gulf war veterans develop gulf war illness, yet 26 of these veterans are reseefceivi
The house passed the Defense Authorization bill, and as the hill reports it includes 696. 5 billion in programs, far more than president trumps budget request. The final vote was 34481. Eight republicans voted against the legislation, including representatives amash, duncan, garett, gomert, griffith, harris, massey and mclynn okay. On the other side of the capitol the senate is expected the take up the bill after working on health care next week. The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release the projected cost and the number of people covered under the Senate Health care law replacement. Leaders have planned to vote next week. You can find live gaveltogavel coverage of the senate on cspan 2. The National Governors Association Summit meeting Live Saturday on cspan starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Governors talk about computer coding and the importance of Computer Science in schools, with girls who code ceo, former microsoft ceo steve palmer, and Tesla Ceo Elon musk who will spea