New survey on credit card use and consumer debt. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host the house and the senate come back into session today after a 5 week after a 6week break. This is the washington journal for september 9. Several state attorneys general will announce they will investigate google over antitrust concerns. This as another group of attorneys general plan to investigate facebook over its practices and congress expressed concerns over these two companies and discussing more regulation of these companies. What do you think about this new round of investigations . Do you think larger tech firms need more regulation. If you say more regulation of these companies needed, 2027488000. If you say no new regulation needed, call at 2027488001. If you say less regulation is needed, 2027488002. You can post on our twitter feed at cspanwj an facebook, you can post there, too, at facebook.
Thank you for having me. Tell us about theis organization and how you are funded . We are owned by lending tree and a credit card market place where people can come in and get credit cards but also learn how to use them wisely what to know when you are shopping for one. Basically we get a bounty every time someone signs up for a car through our site with relationships so we also have a church and state divide in our newsroom like any newspaper and my goal is to be the person who goes out and tells the truth and helps people make smart decisions about cars. When it comes to the overall topic of Consumer Debt how is the residents of the United States doing generally on that front particularly when it comes to Credit Card Debt . They are still handling their business pretty well right now. Delinquencies are climbing up a little bit right now but there is stillit generally low historically but there are definitely signs that we are starting to run into issues but that is to be expected. It
Church and state divide in our newsroom like any other media outlet in the country. My role basically is to be the person who goes out and tells the truth and help people make smart decisions about cards. Host when it comes to the overall topic of consumer debt, how are residents of the United States doing generally . Guest they are still handling their business pretty well right now. Delinquencies are climbing up a little bit but they are still generally low. There are definitely signs that we are starting to run into some issues. That is to be expected because there is 1 trillion in Credit Card Debt and essentially people are going to have to start having a hard time with that. We sorted to see we started to see some signs of people becoming less confident about their ability to pay. Host such as what . Guest we do polling every month, asking people how confident they are in being able to pay their statement balance in full this month. How often they have paid in full in the last six
Partner Mitch Roschelle and jessica and chief strategist david, welcome one and all. Good morning. Jeff, already on the way to the polls. [laughter] dagen we got another poll the quinnipiac comes out. Fantastic, bring it on. Dagen we talk about polls because its interesting, thats why. Also on deck attorney general from the state of North Carolina jack to talk about the states concerns over vaping and what North Carolina is doing, partner to talk china, pennsylvania congressman and member of house labor to veteran affairs and chief of staff to Vice President mike pence marc short on trade and former fed official wrote the resistance among former fed officials, i will leave it at that. Lets look at futures, 44point gain, gains across at the moment amid more uncertainty of any trade deal between United States and china, the Chinese Foreign ministry not aware of any weekend phone calls between china and u. S. Trade representatives, President Trump said there were two calls at the g7 summi
She should have surrounded all of her emails before leaving her post at the department. There have been longstanding weaknesses with recordkeeping going back several secretaries of state. B clinton did not address the report at a rally this morning, but her spokesman said clintons political opponents will misrepresent the report for their own gain. Back to you. This breaking news just into our newsroom. Two of the Baltimore Police officers charged in the death of freddie gray have just filed a lawsuit against the states attorney general. Theyre suing mosby for defamation and right to privacy. Grays death, but it ended in a mistrial. White faces trial in october. The governor of virginia threatening to withholding from metro if your safety on metro isnt improved. Terry mcauliffes announcement carries a lot of weight because theres a new Oversight Commission that would have the power to shut down rail service. Mark segraves tells us what all this means for you. Reporter good afternoon, c