Things look very different than in years past. It is a Virtual Convention. Speaks come in from across the country. Former first Lady Michelle obama, senator Bernie Sanders will speak there is a republican on the list, speaking at the Democratic Convention former Ohio Governor john kasich. President trump in person will make his way to wisconsin. He will be in oshkosh trying to rally supporters ahead of the Republican National convention which begins virtually next week. The real reason we are here to speak to the voters, trying to get a pulse of the people if you will. You will hear from some of those voters in just a few moments. First our top stories with fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman is at the white house. We start with Lauren Simonetti on the markets. Lauren. Lauren connell, good to see you. The markets are closing the session out mixed. We have a new record close for the nasdaq. Apple shares, where do they end the day . They are within striking that two trillion dollar
Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good wednesday morning, you can start calling now. A note to begin on the president s travel schedule, the president going to dayton, ohio, and el paso, texas. Daytond to arrive in around 10 30 and he will be joined by melania trump. He will head to el paso, texas around 1 45 local time and expected to depart about 2. 5 hours later. Here is one of the headlines about the president s trip. Shaken cities await trump. Conway,e from kellyanne he goes trying to heal communities. Meeting with those injured and loved ones who survived. One person the president will not be meeting with today is veronica escobar. Her series of tweets from last night explaining why. The white house invited me to join the president and my response was clear. I requested a phone call with him to share what i have heard from many constituents including some who are victims
Blown away by the fantastic talk that there was on sustainability. Thank you, again, for that wonderful tour deforce of the imperative for sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commission for the council. And i want to thank lockheed martin. Pepsico, snapon, deloitte, air chairman sponsors asu, university of california san diego, as well as our benefactors and patrons, hntv, michigan state, university of michigan. Verizon, Marquette University and white cap investment. Without this we could not do the forum and we thank you very very much for that. Well, we have a full day of very exciting talks, as well as the release of some of the critical annual policy work at the counsel of competitiveness. Calling for our clarion call that we will release shortly and i want to really just frame that in a few overarching facts about the good and bad of our economy right now. The good news, of course, is that gdp growth over the past two qu
The six democrats voted last year in favor of this measure, most of them have left congress. There arent enough democrats to really that republicans can rely on to pass this over republican objections. Youve reported and others have reported the white house issuing a veto threat on this legislation. What would happen in the senate . The path in the senate is very uncertain. Mitch mcconnell hasnt given much indication on whether he feels it could pass the senate if it is scheduled and whether it could be scheduled. The senate obviously moves much scloe slower than the house. So even if a vote was held there it could be weeks or months before they go forward and they likely dont have the votes to override any president ial veto which could temper expectations in the senate they even vote on a bill. Follow lauren frenchs reporting on Twitter Twitter laurenfrench and politico. Com. Thanks for the update. Thanks for having very on. Here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on
Screeria nigeria. Later remarks by the chinese premier at the World Economic forum followed by president obama speaking at boise state university. Wednesday state and local education officials from around the country testified about changes to the no child left behind act which was signed into law by president george w. Bush in 2002. They appeared before the Senate Education Committee Led by lamar alexander, a former education secretary under president george h. W. Bush. This is 2 1 2 hours. I am the chairman and patty minded me she is a teacher so we will start on time. Welcome. Senate committee on Health Education labor and pensions will please come to order. This morning we have a hearing on fixing no child left behind testing and accountability. There is a lot of interest in this hearing. We have heard from people around the country ever since last week when we put a draft working paper up on the website. We have a lot of people in the hall. I would say to those in the hall who are