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why rob portman is hopeful. mick mulvaney is warning. and steny hoyer is fighting mad. they re all here and only here. we begin with blake burman with the latest. blake? it s clear here in the halls of the capitol as house republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. there s a host of issues to work through. earlier today, the club for growth, an influential republican group put out a note saying they have issues with four different things on the individual side of this house republican plan. here they are. top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low million dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45%. they take issue with a portion of pass-through profits would be taxed 25%. growth. you had big deficits. it wasn t tax cuts that did it. cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil: but you left out ronald reagan. i know. deficits didn t grow with him. the first two years ....
Get a jump on the day s news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. sources tell cnn he is concerned that his son don junior may be caught up in the mueller investigation. the white house ready to put sanctions back on iran. that country s leader is set to speak out as the deadline approaches. breaking overnight. a second meeting between north korea us kim jong-un and president trump could take place some time later this year. we have reports from tehran and hong kong. good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. nice to see you. i m phil mattingly. she is putting up with me all week. it is monday, august 6th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. president trump admitting during the 2016 presidential race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. on sunday, the president called the trump tower meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. adding i did not know about it. that tweet directly contradicting the earlier statements. the presid ....
voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. of all the world s continents, africa is the one likely to see the greatest transformation in the course of this century. it will likely be home to almost 40% of all humanity by 2100. if, by then, africans have benefited from sustainable development, their global economic power will be enormous. if they haven t, then they could be facing cataclysmic levels of economic and environmental breakdown. my guest is the president of the african development bank, akinwumi adesina, sometimes dubbed africa s optimist in chief . is his positivity realistic or deluded? akinwumi adesina, welcome to hardtalk. it s good to see you, stephen. it s great to have you here. you need the world to believe in a bright african future. how is that going right now? it s going pretty well. if you take a look at the african econom ....
And fewer cancer patients starting treatment within the two month target. there were more than 591,000 patients on treatment waiting lists in wales in february, the highest number recorded. the coventry building society has agreed to buy the co operative bank for £780 million. the deal would eventually see the private equity owned lender return to mutual ownership. the agreement needs the backing of members and the regulator, and would create a merged group, with assets worth £89 billion. it s two weeks until the local elections in england and wales for councillors and police and crime commissioners. voters will also be electing ten metropolitan mayors. the conservatives andy street has been mayor of the west midlands which stretches from wolverhampton to coventry since 2017. this will be the third time he s standing but polls suggest he s well behind labour. 0ur political editor, ....
Manufacturing moving again. you have some information that republicans don t want america to know. what is it? well, i don t know what they want america to know, but we want america to know that there is actually some good news. it relates to manufacturing, which has been, as i m sure many americans, all americans know, a tough place for us in the economy in recent years. let s look at what has actually been happening over here. as i mentioned, manufacturing construction, the suspending on manufacturing facilities was kind of flat lining, jumped up a little bit but never over $100 billion. we ll remember donald trump said he was going to make america great again in manufacturing. he persuaded the carrier corporation to keep a few hundred jobs as large costs of tax benefits. foxconn was suggested to invest $20 billion. they backed out and only invested a small amount of money. we have $189 billion of manufacturing spending since the biden inauguration that has been announced and expec ....