27. Lauren in europe we see one as well. Stocks down between a quarter and 1 . Stocks in asia under pressure as well print the nikkei down 1. 6 and chinas shanghai composite down over half of a percent. Lea mario and luigi heading to the big screen at one of the highest profile licensing deals by Hollywood Studio in years. Remember that game . Fbn am starts right now. Trying to top of the morning to you. And Lea Gabrielle and for Cheryl Casone right now. Lauren thank you for joining us. Im lauren simonetti. Raking us this morning. Republicans are linking repealing the obamacare individual mandate to their tax reform bill. Democrats are strongly criticizing the proposal. Adam shapiro with details. Good morning. Today will begin at the new deal of the Senate Finance committees tax reform bill and it includes the repeal of the obamacare individual mandate. They wouldnt have put that in there if they didnt think they have enough votes among republicans to get this passed when it sent to th
Cspan. Org. Washington journal continues. Welcome back in this weeks spotlight on magazine. E are focusing on politico magazine, written by alex finley, who joins us now via skype. Good morning. Finley good morning. Thank you for having me. Did the cia forget the host of spying ms. Finley the cia. Host cia, im sorry. Ms. Finley the idea behind the article is after the attacks of september 11, the cia when about changing the way it did business after the cold war. The way it was a doing its business during the cold war wasnt going to work going after terrorists. As i wrote in the article terrorists do not go to cocktail parties. Itself andrganize retooled itself to be able to take on the war on terror. That of course was a necessary thing, but now of course what we are seeing is our old adversaries have not gone away. Many of those tools and capabilities that we used to have and it used to be very strong and the cia have now left. The Institutional Knowledge is now gone. And the manager
President trumps decision to fire fbi director james comey. This is an hour. Senator grassley normally, i dont start until a Ranking Member or members get here. In this particular instance, i can start, but im going to stop wherever we are when the Ranking Member gets here, so she can make an opening statement. Good morning. I am pleased that we can hold this nomination hearing for three very wellqualified nominees to three important positions in our government. Noel francisco, nominated solicitor general. He will be the first ever asianamerican senateconfirmed solicitor general after confirmation. Steven engel, assistant attorney general for the office of Legal Counsel, an office that functions as Legal Advisor to executive Branch Agencies and the president. Makan delrahim, nominee to be assistant attorney general for antitrust division at doj. Makan immigrated to this country when he was 10 and if he confirmed, he will be the highestranking iranianamerican official in the department
A lawyer and academic. I have worked on trafficking issues for 20 years now without but as alawyer and academic andt time ive witnessed tremendous changes in the fields where as much efforts almost and tiger lever on the trafficking of women and girls into this sector. We finally reached now come to understand trafficking as a phenomenon that affects men, women and children in a wide range of sectors that affect our daily lives. We recognize trafficking can take place on farms that produce foods and factories along the supply chain and produced trafficking can occur in homes in the Domestic Workers who care for our children, our elderly and or disabled and even in the public schools, in the deceptive and abusive recruitment from abroad. The nature of the problem has evolved in response is trafficking is no longer viewed as the replicated fully through prosecutorial efforts were increasingly understanding we must also attend to the problem. These include where the traffic people origina