Here is the political situation this morning. President trump continues the rollback of the obama era. Today he will shift cuba policy. New restrictions after the opening of havana two years ago. Obamacare, repeal and replacement coming, reportedly by the end of this month. Afghanistan, 4,000 troops to be added, thats a reversal of the obama drawdown. Now, the president has already cut a lot of red tape. Hes rolled back some Financial Regulation, doesnt make a lot of headlines, but hes chipping away at the obama legacy and it begins this week. News this morning from the russians. They believe theyve killed al baghdadi, the isis leader. The u. S. Has not confirmed his death. What will the left say about this russian connection. Here is where things stand. Unity last night, pledges to tone down the rhetoric, knock off the person attacks. Politics, however, rolls on. The reversal of president obamas legacy will keep this debate redhot. Keep it here. Varney company is about to begin. In wa
The rug out from under them that isnt really too shocking coming from speakinger ryan. Simple majority votes in the house before taxes go to the senate. To make them permanent in the senate you need 60 votes or more. This would not be done if he had his druthers if he had budget being sill ages. Is he sending a signal in order for Lasting Impact and value, and if he truly wants them to be permanent, then going the budget reconciliation route, will only require simple majority in the United States will not be enough. You will have to go to get a 60vote win, a 6vote margin allows permanent tax reform. Aa to president bushs tax cuts. They sunsetted after about 10 years. Now the question is, is he sending a signal both to the administration and to his colleagues in the senate, we can not afford to do that. Tax cuts are one thing, we have to welcome them, but we have to go for something much bigger that would involve going past budget reconciliation to something getting 60 votes in the sena
Be what you think, connell . Reporter it is interesting. No doubt a good night for the republicans last night and they are 4 for 4 in the special elections to your choice. But glass halffull, half empty. Look at numbers. Margins may tell us something as we look forward to 2018. Well look at all four races. With the race in georgia last night, 3. 8 percentage point win for republicans and karen handel on that side, compares to last time this seat was open a 23point margin. We saw in other races, South Carolina, which was much closer than anybody anticipated with republicans only winning it by 3. 2 Percentage Points, versus a district where they won by 20 point the last time around. The other two races, four special elections for the republicans so far have gone 44, montana, 5. 6, versus 16 Percentage Points last time around. The final one kansas where we saw something similar. This was 30 plus point win for republicans in the 2016. Special election is six points. You say a win it is a w
Across the state. There is one down in Santa Barbara county this morning that has already tried over 5000 acres. We are also watching one in Contra Costa County this morning. We have been talking about the rodeo fire. We will talk more about that. It is definitely a cooler morning today. I was relieved when it felt cool today as i walked out of my house. Its nice to see the fog back this morning. Was at 70 degrees yesterday when we got up . Yesterday was another round of triple digits but today we bring the cooling relief you may be waiting for. Good morning to you. Yesterday via temperatures above 100 degrees. Here we are with a fog deck out there. We will still have mid 90s inland but the marine layer will cool us off. For example you can see the triple digits toward livermore and concord. Coming down to 96 degrees today. You will notice a change compared to saturday. Heres a satellite where we have the low clouds. Hanging out of the coastline and still some patches heading back to t
In the meanwhile, we have the federal staff writer brie with us. One of things that comes up with Jared Kushner, trump, jr. , paul manafort, former campaign adviser, manager, i should say, who did they know, when they did talk, is this developing into anything or is this just going to be a week of closely monitored hearings even though theyre private hearings . The media is going to be completely fixated on all the hearings this week. If any of the past hearings with comey and Jeff Sessions which revealed very little to nothing as the substance about this investigation into potential and alleged collusions with the Trump Campaign and russia. I think given the past kind of hearings that weve had, nothing came much from it. If thats indication, hearings ha that are coming up, i doubt that those will reveal much either. Yeah. One of the things that kushner try today clarify is they werent meetings of the case up to them. They were receptions where you had russian embassador Sergey Kislyak