Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an
Good Afternoon National press club, im Angela Greiling keane, managing editor at politico and a Technology Team editor, past president of the National Press club and journalism institute. For todays headliners event we are pleased to welcome andy parker and hopefully joining us by phone, anderson francoise whose the director of Georgetown Universitys civil rights clinic and the Voting Rights institute. Theyre here to discuss andys campaign to get google take video of his daughter allisons murder off of its platform and to take your questions. During the q a, i will take as many questions as time permits. Wait for the handheld microphone will be brought to you and when i call on you, your name and affiliation prior to asking a question. Andys daughter Allison Parker was an awardwinning Virginia Television journalist who was tragically murdered along with her colleague photojournalist adam ward while reporting the morning news on a live location in roanoke virginia on august 26, 2015. He
The big trip from china. Good to be back with you. Melissa we missed you. Connell you did . Melissa absolutely. Looks like he doesnt believe me. We missed you very much. Connell glad to be back. Melissa im melissa francis. This is after the bell. More on the big Market Movers first here is what is new this hour. President trump hitting tehran with new punishments following attacks u. S. Drones and oil tankers in gulf of oman. The newest threat from iran. Plus taxpayers on the hook for those who cant pay their bills. How senator Bernie Sanders plans to pay for his newest socialist proposal. Waiting on the results from key toxicology tests as another american dies after visiting the Dominican Republic. We are live on the scene with an update on the fbis investigation. Im glad you werent there. Connell crazy story. Fox business, Team Coverage of all the days top stories. Kristina partsinevelos is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for us today. Blake burman as usual at the white
Literally lining up to pay their 2018 property taxes. Are we in there somewhere . Do you hear christie made moves today. Did he . He did. In his last couple of days in office yes, apparently well tell you whats going on with that and whether its worth it to pay your property taxes ahead of time because of the tax bill thatll be very interesting. But lets start with how companies are going to be impacted by this tax law, number of corporations have released the impact that they will see, Morgan Brennan has going through those filings, she joins us now with the latest details, morgan. Yeah, thats right, bill, finally getting some hard numbers regarding tax reform or at least i should say the Immediate Impact of tax reforms. Companies readjust their Balance Sheets among the immediate or near term winners which expects the bottom line boost of at least 250 million in the forth quarter, german auto makers expect to see net profit wind falls for 2017, they did add it couldnt quantify the tax
Contributor, katie frates, and deneen borelli. Katie, you know what, forget about everything, all the predeductions all the predictions of doom fan gloom, the obamacare failure, the tweet storms. President trump, his economic agenda, he has an amazing head of steam. Consumer confidence at alltime highs and the market at alltime highs. Well have to wait and see if republicans can keep an even keel. They are going to have to keep that cohesiveness with trump to have this momentum continue on into 2018. Charles are you to keep their ship in order. Does this mean Establishment Republicans have to understand who is driving the ship and stay on board. Instead of saying i have got wind in my sails. Paul ryan was coming out every other week with his own agenda. Katie people be be overexcited. They got tax reform. Thats a trap they will have to watch out for. Im just hoping they have come together and that glue will stick long enough to get things like infrastructure reform. Charles democrats c