Dont you think it would be a great book . Youve covered congress over the years. You have six months. How is the deadline. I thought great, that will be great. This would be all the people and i had the experience of covering the republicans and the Tea Party Wave and what that was like to have a whole new part in time and i thought that was the end. From your book, he tells a lot of stories many of them personal to me. What once stand out to you as being the most remarkable stories, if you had coffee with someone, that you would want to share with them . A couple of things. I loved sitting and watching all of your interact. I did find National Security women, as they were referred to, so close to and tightknit and watching this bonding. The men as well but was interesting to me, this memory that sticks out for all kinds of reasons, the vote on the bill for a lot of reasons, she had run on the issue having had such a painful and horrific expense of losing her child to gun violence, so
Just a drift now. This is not unusual, going into the end of the year, to see more sideways movement. When we are looking at heist tech stocks or low tech stocks, heres a look at the high tax and low tax index. You do see a gaffe a gap between them. It began this week when it was clear that the bill was going to pass. Again, the lift and then the sideways movement, more or less, even for both of those divisions that we have been watching. Wanted to look at some individual groups as well. Fedex came out with earnings after the close and the company said that they would soon record deliveries this holiday season. They also talked about taxes and in a key fashion they raised their forecast but said that the earnings would be even higher as a result of tax cuts. Not just the overall corporate but other measures to benefit the company. We are seeing a strengthening of other companies as well. This group pays the highest effective tax rate. Particularly the railroads and domestically oriente
From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran
Its amazing. Ive got philip bump from the Washington Post who wrote one of the first fact checks on the whole idea that the president is saying this is the same as the dossier for the Christopher Steele dossier. Its not the same thing. No, its not, doesnt fit the felony. Its the facts, its the analysis, its clear. Look, youre not going to move the needle by saying but clinton. That is only to assure the base. The trick for the democrats is how do you show youre better . Right. What do you do . What i dont understand is not making the most of missed opportunities. Impeach or dont impeach. Just do it. And, yes, there is a rush to do it because people are frustrated by this. Theres that. But why arent you jumping on the opportunity to do something at the border for those kids . Why arent you pushing, pushing, pushing saying we want to help the election, the republicans wont do it, make more issues of things that show youre better if you want change. I dont get it. I think that because of
Imagine, just imagine, think about this, you have got the counsel to the president accused of violating the hatch act. You have a press secretary who is leaving, admitting she lied to the special counsel. Hasnt had a press briefing in 94 days. You have the president of the United States saying its okay, inviting foreign actors into our election, yes, i would look at it but also saying well, couching that, yes, well i would maybe call the fbi but who actually calls the fbi. Ive never done it in my life. Its amazing. Ive got philip bump from the Washington Post who wrote one of the first fact checks on the whole idea that the president is saying, well, this is the same as the dossier for the Christopher Steele dossier. Its not the same thing. No, its not, doesnt fit the felony. Its the facts, its the analysis, its clear. Look, youre not going to move the needle by saying but clinton. That is only to assure the base. The trick for the democrats is how do you show youre better . Right. Wha