Morning, congressman and Ranking Member doug collins here to talk about all things mueller after yesterday. Ohio congressman house intelligence and weighs Means Committee member joining us and house energy and commerce manager debbie plus tennessee congressman and Committee Member is here on israel boycott bill, and c op of Raymond James paul riley on company fernings but ceo of ups will weigh in on earns and brotdzer economy. Dont miss a moment of it and top story this hour more than six hours on the hot seat yesterday former special counsel answering to lawmakers for first time leading dmets with little hope for impeachment mueller taking heated questions concerning the wording of his report and the conclusions. Watch. The president claimed your report found no obstruction and that exonerated him but that is not what your report said is it . Correct that is not what the reported said. Report did not include that he did not commit obstruction of justice is . Is that correct . Thats co
Well take your calls and you can join the conversation on twitter. Nd is next. N journal [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] it is monday december 18, 2017. One week until christmas, and the selfimposed deadline for congress to pass tax reform. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend the first part of the program asking you about the anticipated action on capitol hill this week and passage of the republican tax reform plan. Your message to congress as that. Et set to do heres how weve divided the phone lines for the conversations for the first part of the program. 50,000 a under that. Year. Year the numbers are on your screen. As always we welcome your comments on facebook, cspan and send us a tweet. Well get to your calls momentarily. The headline this morning. A look at the front page of the Washington Times and their preview of the days ahead. Host youre first up this morning. Welcome. Ca
Critically helping sentiment, china stocks recording their biggest twoday gain in seven years. A number of stocks there are still halted. Weve got the Portfolio Manager for fidelitys 2 billion china fund coming up. He says there are a lot of opportunities in the china market right now. Well tell you where. The latest data show the pc market is just getting clobbered. Its dying yet again. Could microsoft have a plan to revitalize that sector . Thats coming up. Also a new bill that could help patients get their treatments faster but at what cost . Well break down the fight brewing between Pharma Companies and doctors coming up. Troubling reports out today. Lets begin with greeces bailout and reaction from germany. Our reporters are still on the scene. Chief International Correspondent michelle cruisae a carusocabrera live in athens and Steve Liesman in frankfurt. There is new controversy around greeces former finance minister. He cannot stay out of the headlines even though he is no long
Reports of a chinese stateowned Company Looking to buy the semiconductor giant. The deal may have a tough time getting through regulators. Could another suitor be waiting in the wings . Well find out. Wells fargo turning in a solid quarter posting a decline in Mortgage Applications this morning. John shrewsberry will join us to discuss whether he sees a slowdown in housing. We are seeing a rally in the price of oil. We are going to ask about that. What is going on with oil . I think some of this deal was priced in. We had several days of imminent announcements of a deal. When the deal came, i think everyone expected it. Also the return of barrels looks like a 2016 event. Its not a Million Barrels hitting the market tomorrow. Thats why we havent seen a bigger reaction to the iran deal today. So when do you expect to it happen and what will the price of oil do when that does occur . Its a timeline. We have basically 90 days where there is going to be debate in congress for 60 days, but a
The ceo of boyd gaming will discuss where he sees growth. Today we have henry tao, steve grasso. Should we be as concerned over whats taking place in china . I dont think the u. S. Market should be concerned at all. In china only 15 of household assets are in the Chinese Market. People are not spending according to what they make in the chinese equity market. I dont think there will be any substantial impact on the u. S. Earnings at all. Do you buy that rick . Not even a little. I dont disagree with his information. I do think there are many aspects to china unique to china. Many have no problem when commodities were racing and copper was racing saying this represented global demand. Maybe it was chinas demand. I think that this reversal may not be exactly correlating. Lets speak or let the market speak for themselves. The dollar index, bund and dax all hit the same levels in july. When i see the dow, its not everyones favorite gauge of value, but the lowest levels since february this