Martinez valle sat down with the Senior Vice President of Las Vegas Sands corp to ask him to break down the funding numbers. Well theres been a lot of progress on all this stadium talk. The future home of this potential stadium has been narrowed down to two sites. The bali hai golf course or an undeveloped lot near the i15 and russell. But thats only if the stadium, and its funding proposal approved. If they get the raiders or whatever they will get everybody to come down here. Ive seen the pictures of the stadium, it looks amazing the designs are out, the excitements there, but its time to talk money. The sands corporation. Along with Sheldon Adelson and the raiders want clark county to shell be built. But whos pockets are really being affected . This is a publicly owned stadium, we need to have a public commitment, the public is gonna own it, and we think a room tax is an excellent opportunity to do that. In his words, a stadium built by tourists through 750 Million Dollars in Hotel
Private groups or private people you can be responsible, pay the costs. Well worry about health care and other things like that. I think we would find enormous appeal, enormous support for these kinds of programs in the country. For one, we have our neighbor to the north have done this. Canada has had private sponsored resettlements since 1979. Under their program, more than 275,000 refugees have been brought to canada with Great Success through sponsorships. There are several versions of it. Certain ngos can go online. You can do this all new virtually to bring people in. And secondly, the United States itself has had private sponsorship. Ronald reagan initiated small programs during his presidency. About 16,000 people entered under a private sponsorship program. It can be done under existing president ial authority. The program shut down because of costs of primarily health costs. Medicaid, and the aca may mcthat more doable. It is time to bring this back. And i think about private s
Congressional leaders will be heading to the white house this afternoon. Theyre meeting with president obama about keeping the government funded. The current budget year runs out at the end of this mop. The Government Faces a shutdown if they cant agree on a spending bill. Senate negotiators have been working on a threemonth extension of current spending levels. The white house meeting is scheduled for 4 00 eastern and well bring you any reaction that follows. Congress returns this afternoon for legislative business on the house agenda this week, legislation preventing the transfer of guantanamo detainees into the u. S. , expanding the authority of the Veterans Affairs department to fire or demote employees for misconduct and proposed impeachment of irs commissioner. The senate will resume consideration of water projects authorization bill with a procedural vote later in the day. Off the floor, negotiations continue on a deal to fund the government past a september 30th deadline. The h
Waldorfastoria in new york city and plans for tax cuts and deregulation. His team says that plan will produce 4 growth in each of the next five years. Later today, the results of this physical will be released on the dr. Oz show. Hillary clinton is now playing catchup. Sidelined by illness, she returns to the campaign with a speech in north carolina. She is in a tough spot. She has pneumonia. And shes lost momentum. And she faces an opponent who has learned a lot about politics. Just look at the way trump handled this incident. Everything she touched didnt work out. Nothing. Now, Hillary Clinton mr. Trump, the political oh, okay. Diplomatic, restrained. How do you think he would have responded just say a couple of months ago. Its the new trump and hes winning. Varney company about to begin. Yes, of course, well get to politics in a moment, but first, you can be sure that well get to politics, but look at that. The dow is going to be up a few points at the opening bell. The dow, the s p
Security. He talks about waterboarding, the apple iphone encryption debate and the brussels terror attacks. The American Enterprise institute hosted this event. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you. Whoa, were life. Were live. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im marc thiessen, a fellow here, and were pleased to be joined today by former cia and nsa director michael hayden. With the events in europe this week, i cant think of anyone better than mike to enlighten us and put these, put everything that were seeing on our Television Screens into perspective. Mike, thank you for joining us. Thanks, marc. Thank you. So you have a new book out called playing to the edge. What motivated you to write that book, and what does it mean. Sure. In the forward which i actually wrote at the end, the manuscript was already done, and penguin said, so whyd you write this book, i talk about being in australia in the outback at a joint facility, the australian call