Start. Not going to get ahead of the dinner tonight, but it shows a great indicator that we have a big agenda and a very ambitious agenda legislatively this fall. Maria tax reform not the only thing on the president s play. The commanderinchief will survey the devastation left by hurricane her mother. Latest on the Recovery Efforts this morning. Features indicate a lower opening for broader averages today after another record set yesterday. Dow jones industrial polling 12 points, non sequitur by 11. Look at the European Industries for the ft 100 is down half of 1 in london. In asia overnight, markets close this way amid the nikkei average in japan up one half of 1 . Shanghai also hired petition higher cost below are appeared from the 1000 2027488001 awash with cellular service, weve got all the factors from apples big event yesterday. Theres the stock all that down two thirds of a percent. Espn host under fire this morning. Jamal hill sparked outrage after a controversial treat calling
Im dave cook from the Christian Science monitor. Thanks for coming. Our guest today is marc short. Assistant to the president and director of the office of legislative affairs. This is his first visit with our low cal Breakfast Club come home to what steve bannon called the pearl clutching mainstream media. Thanks for making time for us in your busy schedule. Marc short, a virginia native graduated from washington and lee university. He got his start in politics serving as finance director for Oliver North Senate campaign and went on to become executive director of the Young Americas Foundation where his role included stewardship of Ronald Reagans ranch. After running the ranch he earned an mba from university of virginia. He worked in the Homeland Security department during the bush administration, served as senator hatch and since chief of staff and later was chief of staff with the House Republican conference under then conference chair mike pence. He was later hired by freedom part
How about life in london with the top stories on aljazeera the u. S. Secretary of state is warning that saudi arabia is not yet ready to begin direct talks with doha to resolve the gulf crisis Rex Tillerson was speaking hours after meeting the saudi leaders he said it wasnt for the u. S. To impose a solution gulf countries had to find one themselves with respect to the talks getting underway yes i did in my meetings with the crown Prince Mohammed bin samana i asked him to please engage the police and gauge in dialogue. There is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. And so we cannot force talks about people who are not ready to talk so there has been no invitation to the white house because its not clear that parties are ready to engage but were going to continue to work towards that dialogue and towards that engagement. This is it is quite important for the collective security and we feel sort of that this is it would be the victim of this crisis again this is the
Will beat on thursday to consider its response to the Central Governments move to take control of the regions institutions on friday the upper house of Spains Parliament will vote on whether to impose direct rule once thats approved the Central Government may install a representative to govern the region its been a standoff ever since catalonia has secession referendum last month latasha but the reports now from barcelona. Well what were seeing is a real hardening of positions on both sides weve just had a meeting of the cattle and parliaments executive body and what theyve decided is that on thursday they will have a full session of parliament to try and formulate their response to madrids decision to impose direct rule on the region but weve heard over the past couple of days from castle and regional leaders decrying this decision by madrid as outrageous saying that it slams the door to any future dialogue and we saw hundreds of thousands of process session supporters on the streets
This month the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff says the u. S. Will stand as you know despite the deaths that isnt isis affiliated group and i think what you bring up is what were dealing with in many places is isis and al qaeda. In this case they try to leverage local insurgencies. And connect those local insurgencies globally this is the challenge that were dealing with and so our initial assessment is these your local tribal fighters that are associated with isis earlier the widow of one of the sergeants who died criticized President Donald Trump for being insensitive johnson says trump struggled to remember her husbands name during a condolence call from denies the allegation. Well he said there was the president yes the president. He knew what he sounded up for but he hers anyway. And now was it made me cry because i was very angry at the way the tone of his voice and how he said he couldnt remember my husband they only way he remember my husband name because he told me he ha