to cia forget history that come up up to today s business. brennan. he wanting to go today, to pompeo his name congressman going to be cia director, he wanting his plan was is to go introduce him, to the agents he is a strong guy, you know, a fierce guy veteran harvard all the rest. you know who pressured president trump showing up today, cia. standing ovations applauding him aggressively. a movie star. what they are tired of brennan call him a calm-rad brennan. probably he sever traffic jams even for president getting there the biggest day of. we are going to get to that. history of the nation. and there is a you know words have impact, we you know, you can you can support a guy, and love a guy, and hope for his success, because his success is our success.
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to get an appropriations bill. we have it all covered for you this morning. chris jansing at the white house and ryan grim is in d.c. ryan, i want to start with you. senate getting down to business right now. what do we know about what we can expect as far as when a vote could take place. yeah. any time today. but it s a formality at this point. the huge fight was over on the house side because the democratic leadership had already cut a deal with the white house and the senate republican leadership that they would allow it to go through. the only place to stop this was over on the house of representatives where enough democrats could have united to try to knock it down. you know, unless all of a sunshine that has been brought on to this creates a more difficult situation, but it doesn t appear that s going to be the case in the senate. we can see the chaplain starting the order of today s business. the white house got what it.
and to rear that child today could be about $241,000. these numbers don t include the cost of sending that kid on to college. now to business, where later today we are going to get a look at the weekly jobless claims as well as some other economic key data. the fate of the fed stimulus program continues to impact the markets, all three indices were down yesterday with the dow falling more than 100 points. for more on today s business headlines we say good morning to jeff cutmore who is live in london. good morning, thomas. well, latest filings are through from some of the big institutional fund managers and what we see george soros doubling his position in apple just a day after we learned carl icahn tweeted he thinks this say big turnaround story. the attractive thing is the big cash pile they hope the company will start handing back to shareholders. moving you along we have charges filed in the jpmorgan story. this is about the $6 billion
one running around the royal palace naked. we look forward to welcoming the little bundle of joy. craig ferguson is so funny. he is. you hear it which means it s time for the rock block, a quick roundup of stories we ll be talking about. straight to it, michaela. first up in the chicago tribune rod blagojevich is back, he s appealing his conviction, he was sent to prison for trying to sell president obama s senate seat. the risk of high blood pressure for american kids has shot up by 27% over the last 13 years. yale university researchers blame thickening waistlines and more salt in the diets for the increase. and from the wall street journal new fossil evidence proofz proves t. rex was a hunter. the tooth buried in the spine of another dinosaur proves he was a hunter and not a scavenger. we go toalson kosik with today s