This is 45 minutes. Gentlemen, please welcome politicos chief economic correspondent, ben white. [applause] i am the chief economic reporter for politico. Author of the Morning Money column. On my note, it says it is a must read for anyone who cares about wall street. I do not know if it is a must read, but we hope you read. We are honored to have the director of the Consumer Financial protection bureau. A few housekeeping notes. If you have cell phones, we would be happy to have you tweet the event. Just turn them on vibrate. I have a tab to get twitter questions if you have those for me. I would like to thank the foundation for their partnership. We are appreciative of their efforts. Here to say a few words is michael peterson, the president and chief operating officer. [applause] good morning. Welcome today. The nonpartisan mission is to increase awareness and accelerate action on americas longterm fiscal challenges. We just made it through a government shutdown. We just have a coup
President obama was and governor perry apostate speaking in dallas talking about governor perrys state in dallas talking about the obamacare law. Tonightsreview of speech and some comments on the appearance yesterday. President obama was fundraising in dallas yesterday. Rick fundraising and i with this evening. Washington bureau chief for Dallas Morning News joins us by phone. Texas is one of the chief sources of resistance to the healthcare law. What did the president accomplish in his visit yesterday . The primary goal seemed to be fundraising and he raised a large sum and we dont know the exact amount for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee which will go to states other than taxes because Texas Democrats are not very competitive. Up for reelection but the democrats dont seem to be making a run at him. I was clearly a top goal. Far as pitching obamacare, it does make sense for him in a lot of ways to go to a place like are a high there number of uninsured americans, a High P
Reviews were done in an adversarial basis and therefore had to be changed somewhat. If thats true you dont agree with it, why did you agree to stop sending enforcement lawyers . There was a certain message from that practice that was not the message that was intended. Weve been working hard to integrate our supervision and our enforcement elements of the bureau. Were a little different animal certainly a different animal from my experience. I had Enforcement Authority but i didnt have any sort of Examination Authority or supervisery authority. Its something i had to learn about when i came to the bureau. Most of our enforcement attorneys are in the same boat. They need to understand how the examination function works and how it is getting to a similar result. They have to understand how enforcement works when its an appropriate tool and when its not. In attempting to integrate this is one of the early judgment wes made two years early on. It seemed to me that this cost were outweighing
The establishment and prevent the next insurgent, rand paul, say, in 2016 . Good morning from washington. Its thursday, january 24th, 2013. This is the daily rundown. Im chuck todd. Apologies for the gravelly voice. I have beyonces lip syncer standing by, shall i need her. Anyway, lets get right to my first reads of the morning. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be back on the hill today for what is likely to be her last appearance before congress as americas top diplomat. Shell introduce her likely successor, senator john kerry, whose confirmation begins just about an hour from now. Three weeks after her release from a New York Hospital after a concussion and a blood clot, clinton jousted with republicans and basked in the praise from most democrats. In more than five hours of grueling testimony at times, yesterday on both sides of capitol hill, on her handling of the benghazi attack. The testimony wasnt just the last impression clinton will leave with the public as secretary of
Business leaders, and others at the World Economic forum in davos, switzerland. Brown from mali, Lindsey Hilsum looks at tensions caused by Government Troops as they advance into islamist territory. Sreenivasan Spencer Michels has a story about trash and one citys crusade to eliminate all of it. Reporter San Francisco boasts that it recycles 80 of all garbage, and is aiming for zero waste. But some skeptics dont believe it. Brown plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to you