good evening pete leading a group of republican democratic members of congress meeting but the taiwanese president at the reagan library, speaker mc carthy said it is incumbent on the us to continue arming taiwan to strengthen economic cooperation and to promote what he called shared values with th self ruled island that they continue to threaten. between the people of taiwan is america matter up found important to the free world and it is critical to maintain economic freedom, peace, and regional stability. for her part the taiwanese president painted taiwan as one of the front lines of the ongoing battle between democrac and autocracy. we find ourselves in a world where democracy is and we need to keep the beacon of freedom shining and it canno be understated. the meeting with leaders speak your mccarthy was following in the footsteps of his predecessor, nancy pelosi, went even further utterly and figuratively by traveling to taiwan for her meeting but the react
During that lunch for theresa may to actually make a call to Arlene Foster of the dup. It began more than three hours ago. Are. Et here we an hour ago theresa may was meant to actually delete eu president donald tusk. We will have to wait and see what happens. Of the lines. Theresa may saying shes positive the talks will conclude positively. Should saying she had a constructive meeting and they are confident they can get sufficient progress by the summit on december 14. Juncker also saying its going to require further discussion. We dont know what it was exactly was the stumbling block in these talks. My theory it was across two main areas. The irish border definitely been one of them but also possibly to do with the European Court of justice. This was emerging as one of the more difficult points in the discussion. Fromve a strong statement Eileen Foster of the dup. We were expecting also to hear irish issue and we havent heard yet. Perhaps it was the irish border that ultimately prove
At whatstake a look going on in to those brexit talks. The pound is up by. 2 . Stronger dollar story throughout the day and dollaryen is up to. 6 . 58 basis points. Thats really steep. Time for the morning brief. Ahead. A look at the week today theresa may is scheduled to meet with Jeanclaude Juncker. Then social democrats hold their convention. Congress has to act to avoid a Government Shutdown and we are also going to get on friday u. S. Jobs numbers. Big week ahead. Topics tax, u. K. , cvs buying aetna. The talk on the talk shows was all about taxes. Had towhat the senators say. When you heard the president say we are very close to the finish line you know he has wanted a 15 right from the beginning. Is parted to a 20 rate of the discussion. The house as a 20 right now. We are happy with both of those numbers. If something small happens in conference that gets us across the finish line we will look at it on a casebycase basis. Business tax all the way down from 35 to 20. It could be
A route. In other news, Orlando Hernandez is calling on the countrys leaders to help ring piece to the divided nation following his election. Several demonstrators have reportedly been killed in clashes with police. South African Media reports that olympian is repealing his prison sentence for the february 2013 murder of his girlfriend. Last month, the court more than doubled calling the initial sixyear term shockingly lenient. Now the earliest it doubleamputee runner will be is 2023. For parole global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 27 hard twice of hundred journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Julia live, i am julia chat we are 30 minutes from the close of trading in the u. S. Stocks are lower. The european tax overhaul. Joe the question is what did you miss . Texture pope republicans a tax overhaul that would be temporary benefit for individuals and would be good for companies. Strategy,t in jeffries breaks in more revenue than ever before.
For a first look at what the republican sales pitch will look like, we welcome kevin cirilli. He has been reporting right through this. Now to how they will sell this to the American People. What do we know . Ago, i was moments speaking with some senior republican aides who tell me that at 5 00 tonight, they will have this house Conference Meeting behind closed doors, and they will have to hash out the details of the continuing resolution. They will have to rebrand their pitch to the American People. Polled say they think their taxes are going to go up as a result of this plan. Republicans are pushing back against that vehemently, the democrats are making the case that they feel this will only benefit the wealthy. Know that and i both they are blaming it on the media, pretty standard move, saying it is all our fault and we are misselling this thing. At the cabinet meeting, the president said it is fake news, fake news. Thewill they make sure American People know what they got and what