First to sue at the nyse. I have a funny feeling thats going to get messy, ty. Right now though lets focus on the markets, and despite the fact that the markets do remain near record highs the underlying economy is constantly on the mind of traders down here and investors across the country. American companies and, of course, the u. S. Government also concerned with unemployment still at 7. 6 . What are the forecasts for growth Going Forward . Our senior economics reporter Steve Liesman has the latest cnbc fed survey. Steve, over to you. Sue, thanks, not very good is the forecast for this year. Strengthening next year. I want to show you whats happened to the 2013 forecast. When we first started asking about 2013 back in january 2012, 2. 6 came steadily down to 1. 9 by year end and then it went back up above 2. This time around giving up the ghost on 2 this year, bringing it down from 2. 1 to 1. 9 , but what youll see when you look at it at the next year is that belief in a rebound in
Nbc news and msnbc, John Heilemann and theres john. White house reporter for u. S. A. Today and incoming Nbc News National Political reporter heidi pryzbyla. Did we give her a flourishing welcome . We did. On friday, we did. Was it good enough . You may want to do it again. Not good enough. What would be good enough for heidi . Champagne corks popping . Associate editor of the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson. Hello. President donald trump is blaming senator dick durbin for blowing a possible immigration deal. And raising the risk of a Government Shutdown. First of all no. Were going to have hard time getting through the script this morning because theres a lie coming from the white house at every turn. White house defenders, almost every sentence of this script. Jon heilemann, Everybody Knows how this went down now. Even the white house aides are admitting the vulgarity was used. Yeah. Tom cotton heard the vulgarity. David purdue heard the vulgarity. They lied on sunday morning. The l
California. Some kids chained to beds. Their parents now facing serious charges. We have reports from capitol hill this morning and jerusalem and from london. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. Lawmakers begin to face a complex agenda and ticking closclos clock. The government will run out of money on friday. It is complicated by the president s comments last week. Usually cooler heads prevail, but conservatives dont want another shortterm solution. This is the first time members are considering withholding their votes. Some want to fight for a longterm daca fictix. Phil mattingly has more on capitol hill. Reporter they want to keep the government funded beyond friday. Things are in a difficult position. Issues are completion in terms of the pathway forward as you talk to democratic and republican aides. They dont want to vote on any bill if there is no daca resolution included with it. Republicans now have made very