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Have the votes to do it, thats great, but the house does not have that repeal in their tax plan which means it will be more difficult to reconcile the two. Second, the price of oil down again, thats because we are using less of it and that may mean our economy is not as robust as we thought. Remember, please, this is where the political sausagemaking gets intense and a little nasty. Look at this. New york congressman peter king, here is the tweet. From sandy aid to tax reform, Mick Mulvaney trie...

Anthony weiner, somehow her emails are forwarded to Anthony Weiner included by her assistant huma abedin. Information. Hich classified charles that statement, as we know was incorrect. And meanwhile, the white house as of russias top diplomate meets with trump. All of this in a possible distraction to health care, and were going to have rand paul join us in a moment. Varney company is about to begin. I simply said to him, mr. President , all due respect, youre making a very big mistake. And he d...

Get in conference to find a replacement. It is not a replacement in and of itself, and i am not going to vote for the skinny bill, if im not assured by the house that there will be a conference where my idea and other ideas can be taken up so we can actually replace obamacare. Im not going to vote for a bill that is terrible policy and horrible politics just because we have to get something done. Gerri and the beat goes on, right . So now, Mitch Mcconnell needs senators graham, johnson, mccain, ...

Theyre all smiling, thats good. Okay. Silence from the right. [laughter] in fact, in the middle of this blizzard, i want to bring you something positive and ive got it for you, here it is. Another indication an optimism is absolutely soaring. Its the wells fargo gallop index and shows the biggest jump in yes. Small business has not been this bullish in a decade. All right. Contrast that with this, with the overwhelmingly negative political headlines that you think the world is about to end. Look...

Brian jo ann jenkins, ceo of aarp, why did you take that job . Jo ann it was unexpected. I have spent over 25 years in Public Service in a number of Government Agencies and i had the opportunity to come over and be the head of the Aarp Foundation. And i spent two years there really trying to institute and constitute the foundation to have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ...

Jo ann it was unexpected. I have spent over 25 years in Public Service in a number of Government Agencies and i had the opportunity to come over and be the head of the aarp organization and spent two years there really trying to institute and constitute the foundation to have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop...

There really trying to institute to constitute the foundation have it solely focused on serving the needs of the low income of 50 plus across the organization and as a result of the success that we had and the foundation, the ceo asked me if i would come over to their side and help develop a strategy for 2020 to make sure aarp was relevant to its members in the 21st century. As part of that transition and building strategy, the opportunity and opening came to be the ceo of aarp. While not planne...

Proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage. Now, this despite the white house doing an aboutface on its plan changes to the medicare partd Prescription Drug program. It is sticking by its looming cuts to the popular program. Joining me now, ovik roy, of the manhattan institute. Always great to see you. Before we get to the medicare, two medicare stories actually i want to talk about some news that broke this afternoon coming from Kathleen Sebelius at health and human services. They released february to...

Fukushima plant, the government is spend half a billion dollars. The can indians are on the streets of mumbai because the hospitals are too crowded. Scomplrnlt the United Nations says two Million People left from syrian. Threequarters of the refugees are women and children. So where are they seeking refuge . Over 111,000 have fled to egypt. Jordan has taken in more than 500,000. Nearly threequarters of a million have crossed into neighboring lebanon. There are almost half a million r u gees in t...

Dangerous are still on the loose. What can you tell us about this volatile situation as you watch it unfold on tv here . Well, theres a couple things. Number one, the fbi maintains a legal office in paris. In that office, there are a number of fbi agents. The full cooperation of the fbi both on the intelligence side and Law Enforcement side will be given to the french in order to assist them in any way they may request to locate these two individuals. The on bottom line is that anything that the...