Adam shapiro joins us with all the details. Reporter its important to know in regards to tax reform, they have always been on separate tracks. Tax reform will be guided by what will eventually be the 2018 budget resolution in the house and senate. Tax reform according to chairman kevin brady of the ways and Means Committee not in jeopardy. But with healthcare, you saw what happened today. Lets look at the three nors who for lack of a better term killed the repeal of obamacare. Yet there may be at the end of the kay the ability to come together, democrats and republicans. Let obamacare fail. It will be a lot easier. I think we are probably in that position where well let obamacare fail. Im not going to own it. The republicans are not going to own it. Well let obamacare fail and then the democrats will come to us and say how do we fix it or come up with a new plan. Reporter the democrats are quick to shoot back saying the president wants to sabotage income the United States. The presiden
Bloomberg skip today. Robert mueller, the u. S. Special counsel, is said to be expanding his investigation to look into president Donald Trumps financial dealings. His new approach to the probe could trigger a response from the president , who told the New York Times that any digging into matters beyond russia would be out of bounds. However, we have been hearing from lawmakers on capitol hill today. Just listen into what democratic senator Amy Klobuchar said earlier. Mueller has the right to investigate this. He was given that authority by the justice department, and he reports to the justice department, and not to the president of the united states. Julia joining us now, one of the reporters who broke this story. Great to have you on the show. You called it a follow the money investigation. To what extent really is this now about russia, and to what extent is this about other dealings that donald trump has had . The whole thing is about russia. This portion of it, though, deals more
Decemb december k putting together two companies that in terms of programming are similar. Its not like were going from one network that does reality or that type of programming to sports or lots of scripted work or whatnot this is putting those two things together the question is are you better off putting those two together or in this new age of media trying to go into scripted gore into a premium thing scripted. Scripted. But this has been bandied about. For a long time they were two sort of theyre not like outliers that deserve to get together. If it was going to happen, would put these together for scale thats where the synergistic value is some analysts would question this how much more power does a discovery scripps together have in terms of carriage agreement Going Forward . How much value proposition, if you want this channel you have to take this channel that was more scripps problem than a discovery problem zaslav yesterday admitted we are managing through the new times, dau
Shares are climbing in the premarket after stronger than expected earnings surging on that news. Nasdaq set to open higher after the 39th record close of the year but revenues miss anz dekrien for the 31st executive order. Its a lot to think about. Its very hard to have cyber theft which is really important. He did it lightning speed. These guys are 15. It takes so long to remake an organization in an environment when youre up about amazon and microsoft. These are just, these are competitors the likes of which ibm has never seen before. And to outrun the legacy business its slowing. The growth is slowing more quickly than originally watson dont come here i dont need you. But thats a key part of their strategy. It is Artificial Intelligence is an important component of what ibm services is going to offer. Now another undercurrent is they cant get the ai people that you can get out west. I dont know it is difficult but it can be done ibm has not yet been able to make the transition the n
Look it up i know there are people out there that remember that one i think its kind of hilarious that you and i havent heard this song at all its billions and billions of it zblifl better that you dont know this song either. Okay. Well, there may be see what im going to do here. There may be a slow seduction brewing in the media space, discovery, and scripps reportedly are in merger talks again. Could this ignite a wave of deals in that sector meanwhile, in the competition between morken, stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Gets a point today, Strong Revenue numbers out this morning. Something he struggled with yesterday. Well have the details bill akman using twitter for the first time, giving a vote of confidence for chipotle. Plus what he ordered and what he was listening to. And what he was listening to. Youll see stick around for that at least lets start with breaking news for this hour as President Trump is about to host a made in america round table at the white house after hes had lun