each. cheryl: japan s nikkei falling half a percentage china s shanghai composite up half a percent. lauren: is a list of u.s. companies giving tax reform bonuses continues to grow, but what if those bonuses for tax-free? fbn:am starts right now. cheryl: 5:01 a.m. in new york wednesday, february 18th, valentine s day and its ash wednesday. in cheryl casone. lauren: predicament for a lot of people. you may not go out to dinner to celebrate today. trade to today is the beginning of lent if you are giving up things. so much for valentine s day evenings. president trump trying to stay on track when it comes to his plans for 2018 and 19 meeting with congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle to discuss his infrastructure plan which is part of his 2019 budget proposal. white house budget director mick mulvaney on the hill discussing us. lauren: connell mcshane discussing those. reporter: the budget would boost spending for border security and military while cutting back o
will have to get back to you. hasrter: general kelly become a political conversation. we believe the last few minutes of today s white house briefing to go to the heritage foundation for a panel on freedom of speech, what does it mean? oflysts will debate if vincent van names should be allowed to receive the federal trademark as one example. introduction are being made. you are watching live coverage on c-span. hosting our discussion this afternoon is tiffany bates, legal policy analyst. she researches and writes about records, judicial nominations, and other constitutional issues. she is also cohost of heritage s 101 podcast. she was a regular contributor to the daily signal, heritage s multimedia organization, and she also coordinates a pellet advocacy program. please join me in welcoming tiffani bates. tiffani. [applause] thank you, and welcome to the heritage foundation, and thanks for joining us to celebrate free speech week by highlighting recent first amendment v
and, you know his famous character. chris, on the show. where you can catch him, in philly, right now. oh, good. and it is a huge day in philadelphia. oh, look at this, it is a live picture right now, there is the mural, kevin hart day. countdown on, having party today. bring the kids, you ll have if he feud, music, act, celebration for kevin hart day in philadelphia. hey milky way in the control room, do you know if our camera person can tell, are people there already? would get over there right now if you can see kevin. can we show that? people are there? we will check back you with a in a second. oh, look at that. oh, yes. i want to get a good spot. but full day of festivities there. my god, zero nine minutes away from the ceremony, this will be pack, that s cool. it is national fried chicken day. the studio smells like fried chicken. we have two more restaurant here, what s your name? i ve seen you before. justin. and you guys do all things south
would help avoid financial market volatility. in 2013 the imf suggested that conditions are not right to raise rates. that will just add to the on going debate in this country about what to do. two other central banks in the news this morning, south korea cutting interest rates citing a mers out break and an attempt to soften the blow to an economy already under pressure. meantime new zealand central bank cut rates for the first time since 2011 and flagged the change for more easing. opec is pumping at the highest level since august 2012. this is according to a new report from the international energy agency today and last week we should tell you that opec decided to keep the official production ceiling unchanged saying that the global economic recovery and oil demand justified the high production. headlines on greece continued to dominate market chatter. angela merkel said greece told it s european partners it s committed to intense discussions with it s creditor which hav
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