Committee met for a second day to examine and consider amendments to the bill. The committee will come to order. The purpose of this afternoon session is to discuss the details of the chairmans mark. We are not here to speculate about items that may or may not end up in the house will. We are not here to debate items that are not currently part of the chairmans mark. As of now there is no official or final version of the modification. So i made clear this morning we are still working to finalize the details of the modification. When that work is done, the details will be provided to the committee with ample time to go through them and after that, most likely tomorrow morning we will have another walkthrough that gives members an opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the modification. Long story short, no one needs to be talking about the individual mandate at this point. It is not part of the mark. Arguments, questions or statements about the individual mandate or a distractio
Closed down by about 2 . The losses were more severe by the hang seng. Down 2. 1 . The shanghai off by 0. 3 the nikkei down by 441 points. That will get your attention lets look at early trading in europe again, some declines there not as severe as we saw in asia, but the dax is off by 1 lesser losses for the cac and the ftse declines in italy and spain. Yesterday the tenyear yield was 2. 35 , this morning at 2. 34 . We are watching the price of bitcoin surging past 12,000 towards a new record high. The currency got a boost on friday when regulators announced it would allow the cme group and cboe to allow bitcoin future contracts. Theres a few economic reports on the wall street agenda the november adp employment report is out at 8 15 eastern followed by revised Third Quarter productivity and labor costs at 8 30. On the earnings front, brownforman, h r block, American Eagle outfitters are set to report before the opening bell broadcom and lululemon are out after the close. We mentioned
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A day before the Winter Olympics. Jails former Prime Minister and Opposition Leader on corruption charges. The escalation of syrias war the death toll rises in socalled deescalation zones and u. S. Backed forces killed more than one hundred pro regime fighters. And rescue workers continue to search for survivors amongst the rubble of taiwans. North korea has made a show of strength with a military parade n. P. R. It comes on the eve of a display of unity at the Winter Olympics in south korea this play was announced shortly after an agreement was reached on the norths participation in the olympics on friday north korean athletes and jews to march in the Opening Ceremony alongside athletes from the self. Isnt political analyst and publisher of korea expose joins us now via skype from seoul good to have you with us so this military parades in north korea it was pretty low key but is it still likely to upset the south. I think in south korea this is the best thing to they could actually ha
Im sorry say down this is al jazeera live from the hall so coming up seeking justice tens of thousands of people joining demonstration in pakistan against the killing of a young man in karachi. Topping the antique shop reaction from israel as the palestinian president plans to address the Un Security Council plus. A fabled shipping routes in the arctic on that goes dramatic change so if global warming. The u. S. Is taking a tough stand against suspected chemical weapon attacks in syria. Trump Administration Says its not ruling out the use of force to deter Syrian Government forces the u. S. Says its extremely concerned about a suspected chlorine gas attack on thursday near damascus the u. S. State Department Said it could be the third chemical attack in thirty days rosalyn jordan has the latest from washington d. C. The civil war in syria has not been at the top of the news agenda here in washington for at least several weeks but on thursday the trumpet ministration made known a couple