Spoke about Veterans Health care issues in light of this upcoming veterans day holiday. Speaking at the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I know that was a purposeful gavel, wasnt it . Welcome to the National Press club are where we have the trademark motto, the worlds leading professional organizations for journalists. My name is jeff. News editor for the americas with Al Jazeera Media Network and 110th president of the National Press club. Today, were pleased to have as our headliners luncheon speaker, dr. Shulkin, the ninth secretary of Veterans Affairs. First of all, i would like to ask you to please turn your mobile devices to vibrate. Why vibrate instead of off . Because we do encourage you to tweet the proceedings and questions to pressclubdc using npc live. Using the npc live. Now, were going to introduce our head table. And please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. The head table is usually reserved for members of t
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I know its a purposeful gavel, wasnt it. Welcome to the National Press club. We have the trademark motto this worlds leading professional organization for journalists. Im jeff would baobab ballu. Candidate we are pleased to have as our headliners speaker, dr. David j. Shulkin. First of all, id like to ask you to please turn your mobile devices to vibrate. Why vibrate instead of off . Because we do encourage you tweet the modings and questions to press club using the npc live. Thats press club dc, using the hash hash npc live. Now well introduce or head table. And blows hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. The head table is usually reserved for members of the club, our guests, and guests of our headliners speaker. So, going from my far left, mike smith, ceo of green smith pr, the National Press club Headliners Team member. Jim noon. Vietnam navy veteran and commander of the American Legion post here at the National Press club, whic
Warren here to talk about it. They are pointing out that bonds and stocks are in sink again which question as reflation trade and i kept asking that last week. 235 . What is going on with the tenure. Were going to blow out the deficit and military spending and infrastructure and tax cuts and all the greeowth, all the stuff. Maybe warren knows why. But u. S. Equity futures at this hour. Hes shaking his head. Were going to ask him. I wanted to surprise him with that. I got a lot of well, to eo late. The futures are indicated a little bit low. But nothing that significant yet. Overnight in asia. It was kind of quiet. Overall, we can see japan was down less than a percent and in europe, sort of the same thing. Were almost in a wait and see mode. Now im going to formally introduce you, becky. Time now for our special guest this morning. Becky quick. No, wait a minute. Becky quick is in omaha with our special guest and i love god, i love some of the stuff im reading about warren today. Money
Trading days of the year. Well see what happens. The dow is up 21 right now. Warren buffet telling cnbc this morning he doubled his holdings in apple this year. Is it too late to follow his lead . Well debate it. After the bell, who will President Trump pick to sit on the fed board. Jim grant will tell us exclusively. Some people in the past have suggested maybe mr. Grant would make a fine fed governor. Fun take on the subject. Looking forward to it. Lets start with the news out of washington today. Eamon javers back at the white house and ylan mui is at our washington bureau. Eamon, a surprise appearance at the press briefing. Reporter yeah, thats right, bill. We had a surprise visitor. It was Mick Mulvaney. He said the president is going to coming up with massive spending cuts in his budget which will roll out in the next month or so. The spending cuts we see, even though hes not detailing them specifically now, will seem awfully familiar to those of us who followed the president ove
Now the giants and rockies with some nighttime baseball. Happy st. St. To you. Im j st. Patricks day to you, im jon miller with mike krukow. Matt cain, a long time star in the pitching rotation in the unfamiliar spot of trying to make this stat, this is a big start for him tonight. This is game 22 of the giants spring training, for matt cain, this is when he starts to stretch things out. They wanted him to go four, five innings st s tonight. His last outing he said im very, very close. He has not had a good spring, he needs a good start tonight. Michael morse making his first start in the outfield and Jimmy Rollins in the outfield. Jimmy rollins, veteran, former mvp, trying to make this team as well. Stay tuned. Well be back. The giants and the rockies, a Cactus League friendly back with the lineups and the fist pitch aft first pitch after this. Welcome back to Cactus League baseball. Your San Francisco giants are taking on the colorado rockies. Fans looking tonight at Jimmy Rollins be