richard haass. and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. also with us, the founder of the conservative website, charlie. liz cheney, one of two republicans serving on the committee, went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work. here s how she responded to a question about why capitol police weren t better prepared for the attack. it s an entire focus of the investigation. you will see in our report. you ll likely see in upcoming hearings, so it is certainly something we re going to be focused on. but what we aren t going to do, brett, is blame the capitol police, blame those in law enforcement for donald trump s armed mob that he sent to the capitol. kevin mccarthy decided not to participate in the committee, that, somehow, the house of representatives cannot investigate the single worst attack on the capitol since the war in 1812. cheney discussed the committee s interest in interviewing ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas.
And working on the move. We hear how the man behind regus serviced offices turned his quest to find a Flexible Workspace into a multi billion dollar empire. And if you struggle with recycling, youre not alone. The worst products to recycle have been named and shamed so we want to know what are your Recycling Frustrations . Get in touch use the hashtag bbc biz live. Send us your comments about that. My question is whether you can put envelopes in recycling if they have the plastic window . Hello and welcome to Business Live. For months, optimism about the Trump Presidency has been powering markets to record highs. But late on wednesday the trump bump turned into the trump slump as us stocks and the dollar suffered their worst day since before the election. Its down to growing concern that the president s promised tax cuts and pro business reforms may never materialise, as the white house battles one controversy after another. Lets show you the numbers. The Dow Jones Industrial average f
And we look back at the past week in business, when us markets had their worst day since november, and the economy was the main focus in the uk election. Thats all with our Business Editor, simonjack. We always want to hear from you. Its easy to get in touch with the programme just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. It is friday, we have got that friday feeling. We start in france where the new president , emmanuel macron, says he expects no honeymoon from the public after his first week in power. He now has to try and win a majority in next months parliamentary elections and implement the Economic Policy he says can turn the country around. So what is Macron Economics and can it solve frances problems . Macron calls himself neither right nor left, hes a centrist, and, sure enough, the team he announced on wednesday is a diverse mix of figures from the left, right and centre. He says his Economic Policy is based on the nordic model. Whats that . Basically,
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Well hear less from him on tax cuts and republican policies that might refer it makes a difference depending on the brand of republican running, especially if they are an incumbent. Desantis has been pro actsive aligning himself with trump. To put it mildly. So of course hes going to do that. On fox every night talking about it. Hes going to be somebody that thinks this is a great, great boost. There are a lot of republicans that are squeamish about the thing the president says that dont line up what they are doing and saying. Florida is a good experiment for this. I was covering the governors race. This is a great experiment. Look, i think in the general election, trump is more of a negative than he is a positive. I think he motivates democrats in a way they have not been motivated since barack obama came onto the National Scene in 2008. But, in the primary, he can
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A look at the days latest news and headlines. Moment. But first, ed henry joins me live tonight with the back stor story. Congressman hunter has temporarily stepped down from his three Committee Assignments and congress under pressure from p chris Speaker Paul Ryan who l forcibly strip him of those assignments and thats a sign of how much political hot water hes in right now. Stepping down from the Armed Services panel had to be particularly hard for hunter and for a man who quit his job after 9 11 to serve as a combat marine. Also ps stands accused of misusing Campaign Money in some cases, intended for wounded warriors. The congressman and his Wife Margaret who serves as his Campaign Manager pled not guilty to some 60 charges of stealing a quarter Million Dollars in Campaign Funds. The couple today greeted with those chance of, lock him up. The use Campaign Cash for private school tuition, and spend big money on personal
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