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Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with the confirmation hearings for judge neil gorsuch, and we talk to emily bazelon. She writes for the New York Times magazine and is a senior fellow at the Yale Law School. One question is whether the democrats have the kind of ammunition they need to justify voting against judge gorsuch as a person, as opposed to as a symbol of the Trump Administration or as, in the democrats view, the unwarranted, undeserved replacement for merrick garland, ...

Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with the confirmation hearings for judge neil gorsuch, and we talk to emily bazelon. She writes for the New York Times magazine and is a senior fellow at the Yale Law School. One question is whether the democrats have the kind of ammunition they need to justify voting against judge gorsuch as a person, as opposed to as a symbol of the Trump Administration or as, in the democrats view, the unwarranted, undeserved replacement for merrick garland, ...

Of obamacare. We talk to al hunt of Bloomberg View and robert costa of the washington post. When the president visited the capitol Tuesday Morning he had an exchange with mark meadows of North Carolina the chairman of the House Freedom caucus and said we may go after you. He said it in a joking way but a lot of people told me they saw it as a veiled threat. Trump likes to keep the house g. O. P. On edge. He may not go after them. He may not be angling to have primary challenges but he wants them...

Rise from the dead. And hes on a committee, chairs it, looking at health care. Look at this, speaker ryan side, no voters were now in the yes column. That moment the movement started to go up. So this morning, obamacare, back on the table, question mark . It looks like the great negotiator called the politicians bluff. You failed last week, now make something happen or else. Weve got a show for you, greg norman, grover norquist, Charles Payne and thats just the next 15 minutes. Varney company is...

Joining us at the business desk. Filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, cutting losses from u. S. Unit as it tries to rebuild its finances. The Company President says the bankruptcy filing is the first step in restoring its health. Toshiba says it can post a net loss of 9 billion fiscal year. That would be the biggest ever for japanese manufacturer. We believe the removal of westinghouse from toshibas consolidated earnings is in line with the companys policy of avoiding risk from the Nuclear Business ...

Are 30 minutes away from the open in hong kong, china and taiwan closed for trading, but singapore and malaysia coming online, a slew of asian pmis, the markets have a lot to digest. Lets get it over to david ingles. Happy first day of the quarter, by the way. David and to you as well, heidi. Ofeak dollar story, a bit deals. The leaders across asia, a few flat markets. South korea. 5 , new zealand, singapore, we wont get into the details. Japan erasing earlier losses. Have a look at the currency...

The markets are rebalancing. Lets see if the traders wind up agreing. Chinese leader is going to maralago in florida. Oining us now is kevin cirelli. Kevin last week he was tweeting it would be a difficult meeting and then he tweets there will be a lot of great things coming out. Here is he headed . Kevin north korea saying if china wont handle north korea then the u. S. Will have to do it alone. Two things, National Security as well as trade policy are the top two items on the agenda for the su...

Slowed. Nat dak off by 1. 5 . Last week, a pretty good week for the markets, dow was up by 66 points for the week. Nasdaq was up by 1. 4 . If you look overnight in asia, nikkei, 0. 4 . And kospi up 0. 34 . Markets in Mainland China were closed. The european equities, the dax is off. Off by 0. 4 . Market is flat in france and london as well. A couple other big stories were watching today. Weve got a lot. On the economic calendar, the ism. Auto sales. Tomorrow, factory orders and the paychecks Sma...

In the absence of china and hong kong in the market, also india close today, as well as taiwan, we do have malaysia coming online as expected. It does kind of feeling we are getting a slight drift into the risk of sentiment. Lets go over to david, who is taking a look at how the markets are going. We had a week cue from wall street overnight, but it is important to say that this is a lower as opposed to a sharp leap into drop off territory. David absolutely. When you consider what happened overn...

Jinping hail some a success despite the threat of syria and north korea. A big week for markets as we get underway, not the best. A decenthaving session, but currencies commodities, a lot of event risks. Have a look at my bloomberg. It is 7629 on your bloomberg. , the benchmark across asia, still close to 2015 highs, but the box top right, things starting to rollover. Indicator, monetary conditions in china, something to watch, key inflation data out of china and new credit data as well. You hav...