I think all of you for being here. Guest on states has been a congressman, a House Republican leader, the governor of indiana, and is now the Vice President of the United States and always is a huge or h oosier. To welcome to the states Vice President mike pence. [applause] welcome back. You said you have a specific metric on skiing. Vice. Pres. Pence yes, if i get off the slopes without any broken bones that is a win. Mike in addition to the offices i mentioned at the top, you were a statewide radio host in indiana. You ever think to yourself, this would be so awesome. Vice pres. Pence i do. How did you know that where i started out . That was a little radio station. I started out doing a Washington Update on wednesday nights, one day week. It did grow into a Daily Radio Program that i thought might actually be my career in broadcasting radio and television. The opportunity came along to run for congress one of more time. Now i am sitting with u. S. Vice president of the United States
Bonus to over 2000 of their workers. For those of you keeping track we now have over 350 companies that have announced wage increases, bonuses, new hiring or increase Retirement Benefits as a direct result of tax reform which not a single democrat supported. These announcement have affected over 4 million american workers. The president is working to build an economy that works for all americans. The tax cuts and reforms are big part of that and so was infrastructure. As you also yesterday the president unveiled legislative outline for rebuilding infrastructure in america. Were committed to quickly building a safe reliable and modern infrastructure to meet the needs of the American People and a few economic growth. And help make this possible with a very special announcement today. In keeping with his Campaign Pledge the the president donats salary on a quarterly basis for the work being done on important projects. Most recently the president donated his thirdquarter salary to help the
Immigrants with quality and civil rights that inspired a twitter frenzy, with hashtag go nancy go. But it is not the same marathon as spending years in heightened alert. It is in the back of my mind, what is going to happen after this two years. Reporter maria is a student who just had her daca status renewed but her friends arent so lucky. I asked a 21yearold what she thought of the passionate message for dreamers. I understand what shes doing. Im thankful that shes trying to advocate for us. But at the same time, i think the first time would have they closed down the government. They have a lot of power. [ chanting ] reporter its power. Immigrant youth ask her to flex back in september when they accused her of not demanding more for human rights. Perhaps today a deeply personal approach after that bay shore confrontation with pelosi reading the letters of countless daca recipients. Abigail represents hundreds of such kids in San Francisco ishl. I think what Speaker Pelosi was trying
[laughter] rep. Schiff glad to be here. [inaudible conversations] Linda Feldman good morning, everyone. I am pleased to make an important announcement. Happy valentines day to everybody. Now, on to the program. Our guest today is congressman adam schiff, Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is his fifth appearance at the monitor breakfast. Welcome and we are glad to have you here. I would like to get to questions quickly, we have a big crowd. I would just note that congressman schiff has served in Congress Since 2001. As far as i know, you not leaving us, right. Rep. Schiff no. He is a former federal prosecutor and also competes in triathlons, as i understand. Linda feldman which is really good work for your work on the Intelligence Committee. On the record, please, no live blogging or treating. Or tweeting while the breakfast is underway. We will in no pictures of the session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast and. If you would like
Again, north of 2 1 2 on annualized basis. That is a full point, a full point higher than it was on annualized basis last year at this time. Why do i mention all of this up top here . That is another wrinkle for the market to digest, the stock market to digest, to put off action on things like tax cuts, on things like regulatory relief, on things patching up health care law. By the way the health care law, i dug up some numbers that i wanted to share with you, i will as incomes two hours ensues here. We are really given a load of bull on this. I just want to separate what are the real numbers with obamacare and how many really have signed up versus how many are picking up Health Insurance now courtesy of stronger labor market, for example. The numbers might surprise you, hear both sides tell it, we dont want to jeopardize enrollment, it is already jeopardized. That is not right or left thing. Both sides seem to hate me. I want to relay fascinating things we found out that are going to