Windows but not killed terrorists. This is a two war president , fighting isis and fighting coggan and gold, oil, stocks barely changed. Varney and company is about to begin. Stuart two days into the air strikes against bases in syria and the market is taking a big yawn. The Dow Jones Industrial average in the first hourandahalf of business this wednesday morning virtually unchanged, of 22 Points Holding at 17,000. You would think we would see some reaction in gold as a flight to safety in times of trouble, not happening. Gold is down 1. 80, 12. 20 an ounce. The same is true for the price of oil, turmoil in the middle east, america is involved and the price of oil is down a little. We are off 0. 20 to 91 a barrel. Lieutenant colonel oliver north joins us from d. C. Always a pleasure to have you with us. I am sure you watch the presentation to the u. N. When he called for the muslim world to reject isis and reject al qaeda there was absolutely no response whatsoever from that audience.
America and helps us set it aside in the Pacific Northwest as boeing and microsoft and those of us have graduate medical education and i hope the administration will treat it with the same regard as they do other initiatives that have been proposed, i think 16 billion in terms of the cuts are a bit over the top and i hope that you will have due consideration for the proposal that youre offering and to really set it aside to be the next few minutes to talk about the proposal as i had talked about. Let me talk about the tax credits and the bonds you have talked about, we have agreed very much that they have made a huge difference. And we are honestly considering new market tax credits, which is also a bipartisan administration, so we can do things together in a bipartisan basis to create real opportunity obviously the issues regarding this is always difficult in this includes proposals from past budgets were we have the savings in medicare and as always we look forward to working with co
Do to shake as standard deduction on a single piece of paper and be done. Why is the administration not equally energize are motivated to insure that not just the tax code is supplied is the administration willing to work with us for a tax reform . A number of proposals to simplify them. There is always tension those to be reflective of the complicity you dont want to have a cliff in the tax code like through provisions. But the goal to simplify is one that we share. We both share the goal so i would just point to the president s home state the we have raised the minimum wage four times in the last 10 years each time the percentage of the People Living in poverty has gone up in the percent of an employee mitt and we need to look at a different strategy at the federal level and i would hearken back to the days of jfk for those living in poverty went down and a living wage went up and we could embrace that jfk strategy with this president teeeighteen they give for being here. So they cou
Borders open immigration yea or nay . You will get a copy of this on leaving. I will let introduce the panelists. That would be superfluous. I want to point out is not true as some people have suggested that we hired barack obama to the advance publicity person for this conference. That is not true. He did it on his own initiative but we are delighted that he was able to bring such focus to this important issue. I think it is an important debate and there are no easy answers i think. Alex nowesteh will start things off with a crisis of his broadside and Mark Krikorian will follow. The other panelists will comment on it and we will allow alex and mark to respond and open up to the audience so perhaps you will have something you would like to say as well. Thank you for that introduction. Thank you to hudson for putting together this great event for publishing the book, for the center of the Immigration Studies, for cosponsoring it and for all of you being here today. I believe american i
Here on cspan, we bring you more live coverage of the state of the state live from michigan. Members of the house and senate gather for the state of the state from republican governor rick snyder, who was sworn into office three years ago. Just a reminder as we wait for his speech to begin, we will re air some of the state of the state speeches we have covered in the past couple of days. Night, beginning on c span two, among the speeches you will hear, colorado, idaho, and indiana. That all gets underway tomorrow night at 8 00 eastern. Tonight, waiting to hear from Governor Snyder live from lansing. F sergeant at arms. Mr. Government, the governor of the state of michigan, the honorable rick snyder, the first family and the lady weight entrance into the joint convention. Will these special committee please escort the governor to the rostrum. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, please be seated. Thank you. Thanks, folks. Please, be seated. Thank you. Members