And im jane that and this is the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes saudi arabia says it shot down a Ballistic Missile targeting one of the royal palaces in the capital riyadh plus. The u. S. To stop distorting chinas strategic intention china lashes out at Donald Trumps statements that beijing is out to challenge American Power and influence i south koreas military get subzero training ahead of the Winter Olympics with a serious message for p. R. Yeah. Plus the language of a persecuted minority making the leap into the digital world. With breaking news out of saudi arabia govern Officials Say they have intercepted a Ballistic Missile targeting its capital riyadh these pictures appear to show the missile in the sky and smoke from an explosion after it was intercepted here think fighters in yemen say they fired it we are getting reports the saudi Live Coalition has already retaliated with airstrikes against positions in southern sanaa. The target of the heathy missi
Afternoon eastern time and later, pending action in the house on the g. O. P. Tax bill, the senate would then take up the measure. Youre watching live coverage. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, fill us with reverence for you. Help us to remember that you are the one from whom we borrow our heartbeats. You continue to be the source of our peace and the center of our joy. May our reverential awe provide us with the foundation of true wisdom. Empower our lawmakers to make a positive difference in our nation and world. Give them generous, righteous, and compassionate hearts so that they will transform discord into harmony. As they turn to you in humble, fervent prayer, hear our prayers, forgive our sins, and heal our land. Lord, we thank you that you will never give us more to do than we can do with your power. We pray in your mighty name. Ame
Welcome to power lunch. Stocks are lower at this hour and dow and the s p 500 slightly higher telecomes are the best financials fedex more than 300 and wild trading day for bitcoin plunged 10 earlier and sinking again now. A lot of news. Hackings, bankruptcies and selling from a major player. Well dive deeper into it. Blackberry the company topping expectations and 2018 revenue and stitchfix, however, tanking. The Apparel Company increasing its Customer Base but its bottom line was impacted by higher costs. And chipotle taking a drop the stock is lowered by more than 2. 5 . Brian . Michelle, thank you. We begin today with the latest out of washington, d. C. The tax bill passing, again. All the angles of that bill covered. Abram at the president where the president is expected to hold a tax bill event at 3 00 p. M and kayla is on the next big story. Thats a funding bill to keep the government open. Lets start with elan. Brian, it is Done Congress has now passed the most sweeping rewrite
Thec implementation. Reporter they absolutely nailed it with this second time frame of legislation on taxes to the president s desk by christmas. There had been a couple different scenarios though over the last week as to when the president would actually sign the bill, and one of those options was that he might wait until january, until the Congress Gets back here, and that they would have some sort of celebration to start the year off with a bang. As we saw within the last hour inside the oval office. He explained it by saying he wanted to keep that promise of tax legs signed by christmas. Tax legislation signed by christmas. I am keeping my promise, i am signing it before christmas. I said that the bill would be on my desk before christmas, and you are holding me literally to that. So we did a rush job today. Its not fancy. Reporter now, over the last couple of days or so the president has touted the handful or so of major corporations that have said they will now, because of this
Move out to of our nominees that are currently pending before the committee. We obviously have to have the requisite number of members here. So until such time as we have a quorum, we will move to our scheduled full Committee Hearing on infrastructure permitting, if were able to get the quorum of 12 we will take up the businessman at that point in time. I would anticipate that it would be relatively quick. So with that, we have names on the table in front of us, but i would invite you each to come to the table as a provide an opening statement. Mr. Casing, ms. Fleagle, astroturfing, mr. Brown, ms. Caruso and mr. Russell if just want to join us there. We are here today to discuss infrastructure permitting challenges ongoing efforts to streamline federal approvals and opportunities to improve the responsiveness, the transparency and the predictability of our system of permit review. I think we all recognize the need to make investments that will both upgrade and modernize our infrastruct