Bauer, who is my supremely wise, talented, and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic, i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth year of the Sidley Austin forum. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the center on law and security, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institute. And the director, richard gold brenner who is here, has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This forum would not be possible without the generous support of Sidley Austin, a Renowned International law firm. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce peter roskam him, who is a partner in their Chicago Office Company Knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. And during that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to what were talking about today is that he chaired
Emmer, the chair of the National Republican congressional committee. Thanks for joining us this morning. Along with the questioning is the National Journals highlight editor and a campaign manager. Go ahead and start. Lets start with the current news. How has the last week of impeachment hearings altered the trajectory of the 2020 race in terms of messaging or outcome . The messaging issue is interesting on the republican side. Both sides, it is a little different. The republican side, i have not changed my opinion the democrats, the socialist democrat majority in the house literally gave away its majority the day it started this impeachment proceeding. The polling over the last week shows it. Since they have socalled made it socalled public, independent voters, they are losing quickly. We knew from polling that voters, this was done shortly after this began, two thirds of the voters in battleground states Want Congress to work on the things they sent them to work on. Two thirds of tho
Walmart today. Absolutely. Even though the stock is up sharply as i said. And that does not matter to me because i think the stock continues to go higher you have to reevaluate how youre going to look at this company in terms of the growth that they are producing right now. This is about multiple expansions this is about a company that were pricing at x ike i think its time to price it as x plus clearly the purchase of jet. Com was just a sensational purchase and youre seeing evidence of that right now i bought it today. No problem buying it up 8 , its going higher. Josh, comps best in eight years. Grocery comps best in like six years. Im saying do you remember youve been talking about this stock for a long time. No doubt. We called the breakout in the 70s. And i remember some very heated arguments here on the desk about, oh, they overpaid for jet. What have they added since they bought jet, like 30 billion in market cap they underpaid for jet it was worth so much to this company becau
Scream at the very this morning i was the majority of americans are disapproving of the republican tax cut plan. Futures are higher this morning come expecting a higher opening to the broader averages. Dow industrials that dow industrial set to open 60 points the nasdaq up 26. The s p 500 up a third of a percent. In europe, similar story had a better talent than yesterday. Dax up two thirds of a percent as is the cac and the ft 100 higher by a fraction. Asias dots close mostly higher with the exception of china. Best performer japan. Nikkei average up 1. 5 . Ban hunters under way in baltimore. A Police Officer in Great Condition after being shot in the head. The details as investigators search for a suspect. Consumer rage both at t and google with massive outages. What you need to do to get back up and running this morning. Retail earnings still the focus on wall street. The biggest of the mall, walmart expecting earnings of 97 cents a share. The numbers analysis as soon as they had wa
There be a special council to look at Hillary Clinton uranium one controversy as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. Republicans notching their first big victory on tax reform. The house passed its bill last week and now it is the senates turn as they prepare to vote on a different tax bill after the thanksgiving holiday. However, 13 republicans actually opposed the house bill on the fate of the senate bill is far from certain. How does the gop get everybody on board . Joining me now is Illinois Republican congressman peter rosscam, chairman of the house ways and means subcommittee on tax policy good to see you thanks for joining us. Thanks maria. Maria congratulations on a big victory last week. Ill read you a couple comments on the group from the committee for responsible federal budget and she says tax cuts do not pay for themselves and shes looking at the current bill that just passed saying that the last Time Congress added 10 figures worth of tax cuts to the debt w