Designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, Hari Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. The department of Homeland Security announced last night it would resume accepting renewals for daca, the obamaera program that protects young immigrants from deportation. This follows tuesdays decision by a federal court blocking the Trump Administrations plan to put an end the program. This morning, President Trump weighed in on twitter calling a bipartisan immigration deal that includes daca, probably dead because the democrats dont really want it. Democratic senator dick durbin responded in a tweet saying republicans and democrats negotiated in good faith to reach a deal that gives you what
That we made. Among the most contentious issues over the past two years involved the armys restructuring initiative. I understand the army has been put in a difficult position by budget reductions and over the past several years has been exploring a number of option to maximize come pat power while at the same time trying to combat costs. Congress has similarly been taking a hard look at this which is why the commission of the structure of the army was established in the ndaa. If confirmed will you comment to thoroughly reviewing the armys Aviation Restructuring Initiative and working closely with congress once the Commission Report is delivered next year to help us figure out the best path forward on Army Structure issues . Absolutely will and i look forward to reviewing the Commission Report. And what do you think are the biggest threats that should you be confirmed youll have to prepare the army to address in the coming decade . I think the armys fundamental mission of engaging in g
Good friday morning. A warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody in for sara eisen. Happy friday to you. I was going to say the same to you took the words out of your mouth. Happy friday to everyone watching lets look at the Global Market picture. We were essentially flat for the week coming into today for the dow and s p. Higher by about 1. 3 for the nasdaq ahead of todays trade. Futures pointing to a modest positive open. 30 points, just shy of that for the dow. 13 for the nasdaq, 13. P for t3 nasdaq an energy led story, the sector down 3 for this week. It is the worst performing sector, 9 out of 11 sectors have been in negative territory the week to date average return has been propped up by the tech sector the nasdaq the outperformer of the three indices. Oil prices have been front and center all week. Slightly higher today by a half percent. Slightly higher by half a percent yesterday. As things stand now well look at about a 4 decline for the wee
If you check out crude oil, which is probably the biggest market story weve been watching for a week or so crude Oil Yesterday was up slightly to 42. 74. This morning up to 42. 84 youre still talking about wti below 43 a barrel. Americas 34 largest banks did well in the stress test. The results show even during a large recession large banks would be well capitalized and could support homes and businesses when times are tough. The second part of the stress test will be released next wednesday. There are talks about whether things might have loosened up a bit with the fed. Doug parker says he is not happy with Qatar Airlines plan to buy a 10 stake in the company. Parker telling phil lebeau he found out about it yesterday parker telling cnbcs phil lebeau he found yesterdays offer confusing, adding why an airline were aggressively fighting would want to take a stake makes no sense he wonders if the motivations were misguided and ill conceived. They have been fighting over policy in washing
Ms. Pelosi were here with representative pallone of new jersey, representative neal. Pallone from the energy and commerce committee. Representative scott, Ranking Member and education and work force committee. Mr. Yarmuth, Ranking Member on the budget committee. All of these committees had a role in shaping the Affordable Care act. All of these committees and our democratic members have a role in protecting our care. So im honored that theyre here. , of course, all were struck by the news this morning of and last night about senator mccain and sends him our prayers. I am a big believer in the power of prayer. I have great confidence. Over the years one of the things i remember him saying under these circumstances is keep on fighting, and i know thats what he will do to keep on fighting. I was just sharing with my colleagues at 10 30 i had a conversation with our colleague, steve scalise, who sounds wonderful and just told him about our prayers for him. Our hope is for his recovery but