affairs for him, forum, this is just under one hour and a just one hour and 20 minutes. karen: i am happy to have him here today. for two decades, jeremy haft has been in china and he has overseen export and import programs between american and chinese enterprises. spanning shipbuilding and refineries, to auto parts and medical supplies, to maple syrup and cow hides. jeremy s start-up is a private and public partnership funded by a grant, to build export markets in china for new york agriculture. prior to his china work, he was the founder of one of the first internet ad agencies in new york city, ranked in the top five and acquired in 1997. he is an adjunct professor at georgetown. and he is the author the recent unmade in china which examines competitive advantages over china. he has spoken to members of congress, ambassadors, and the business community. his analysis has also been featured in the wall street journal, the financial times, u.s. news and world report, npr,
closer to a deal to escape going over the fiscal cliff. good to see you this morning. welcome again to the program. and we welcome your calls at 1-866-55-press. in other big news, the supreme court has decided to hear two cases on marriage equality but why even bother to hold a hearing? hey, there s no doubt about it. under the constitution, it is wrong to discriminate against anybody for any reason. so, of course, gays and lesbians have every right under the constitution to marry each other. there is no doubt about it. we ll talk more about that today and a whole lot of other issues but first, we get the latest. here she is with today s current news update, lisa ferguson standing by in our studios in los angeles. hi lisa, good morning. hey bill. good morning everyone. nothing on the president s public schedule today. he just has his usual briefing in the oval office followed by lunch with the vice president. the first lady will be visiting the children s national medical c
they still say they want a virtual debate. the white house says nuts to that let s do our own things, we ll have rallies and the biden camp will have town halls. so i guess instead of debates it will be rallies and town halls which is, by the way, just fine with the president. president trump: i don t think the debates mean that much and i ll tell you y. i ve done well with debates. i ve had 15. i think i ve won every single poll. i won the poll on this one with him but i had to be rude because he was lying. he would get up and say a series of things and i had to interrupt and say he was lying. it was a very interesting thing. i would rather let him speak because he s gone. that s the president conducting his radio rally today with rush limbaugh. how confident is his doctor? here s what he said. the president in a conversation last night with sean hannity said, yeah, i would like to get back out there and rally my supporters. given the tough security requirements and ot
will commute former illinois governor rod blagojevich s prison sentence and pardoning former new york city commissioner bernie kerik and michael milken. kerik was nicknamed america s cop after his leadership after the attacks of 9/11. he spent three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to tax fraud and lying to the government. former illinois governor is serving his eighth year of a 14 year sentence for political corruption. blagojevich made headlines in 2008 when he was convicted of trying to sell president obama s senate seat, saying it was leaping gold. blago expected to walk free later today. let s kick it off this hour, john roberts with the north lawn. wind it off. the blago commutation has been coming for some time. supporters of him have been floating the idea since president trump took office. today it became a reality. blago has been incarcerated in a federal prison in inglewood, ind colorado since 2012 angle colorado. the conviction of trying to sell
about joining mueller s investigation team because he was concerned there was, quote, no big there there. trump attorney jay sekulow responding. these are political setups. it s a faux investigation. when you look at the missing documents, the witnesses, the statement from peter strzok. that s the classic one. and say there is no big there there, why will i waste my time going onto the special counsel team? which he does a couple days later. so you have all these back and forth but realize what was going on. he would have known there was no there there because of what? he was on the so-called russia collusion investigation from the outset. bill: so there you have that today. we have a lot more coming up this hour. senator ron johnson says he has evidence about a secret meetings within the f.b.i. we begin now today with the battle over immigration. president trump slamming senate minority leader chuck schumer this morning for backing out of a proposed deal on daca and the