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May ya macguineas, part of the responsible federal budget. What is it . I thought you were going to make fun of the name which happens regularly. Its been around for decades, in fact, one of the most distinguishing feature about it and important thing about it is its very bipartisan and our board of directors are people who have been in this town in washington and they have run all of the budget organizations. So our cochairs are governor Mitch Daniels now president of purdue, tim penny, leon pa...

This is just over 90 minutes. Now, as a creation of a soho forum we begin with a warmup act from a great libertarian comic back by popular demand, dave smith is great podcast, part of the problem, i myself faithful listen to. Here he is, the part of the problem libertarian comic dave smith. Dave, please come up. [applause] thank you, jeanne. Thanks, guys. How is everybody . What a great event. Libertarian comic even sounds boring to me. As soon as her that enter, that sucks. I had to come up wit...

So ill make a comment about the latest tweet. Have you seen it . Okay. So apparently this morning President Trump tweeted out that he believes that president obama ordered wiretapping of his campai campaign. And that would be really . Yes, so i dont know what happened but i can only tell you the summary of the tweet. The president of the United States is claiming that the former president of the United States ordered wiretapping of his Campaign Last year. I dont know if it is true or not, but if...

Town hall meeting at clemson university. Constituents asked about gop of the replacement law efforts, environmental protection, and russian involvement in the 2016 elections. [applause] so, we are going to be done so we can go to the clemsoncarolina baseball game, arts by 1 00. I will make a comment about the latest tweet. Have you seen it . All right. Apparently this morning President Trump tweeted out that he believes that president obama ordered wiretapping of his campaign [laughter] [jeering...

In asia, the nikkei closed up by 1 . Shanghai was down about 0. 4 . Hang seng was up by 0. 6 . In europe, some of the early trading right now, it looks like the dax is up by 0. 6 . The cac and the ftse are flat. If youve been watching the tenyear note. We fell below 2. 4 on the tenyear yield. This morning that yield is at 2. 38 4 off the lows of yesterday. If you look at crude oil prices, crude down 11 for the month. Its up 42 cents today, sitting just above 48 at 48. 16. President trump will be...

Look at crude, which has been dictating terms for equities lately. Relatively unchanged on wti, about 50. 18 per barrel. For brent, 51. 88, barely higher. Rbob gas edging up a bit. Well get back to the markets in a bit. Breaking overnight, the u. S. Military launching tomahawk cruise missiles against radar sites in yemen after incidents earlier in the week where a navy ship was fired on from a rebel controlled area. Now to this mornings top story, embattled wells fargo ceo john stumpf is out ret...

We still have the roads and airports to build. People to put back to work. We have been people who need more help going to college. We have Early College Education Programs to set up. We have Clean Energy Programs do build. We have immigration laws that need to be changed. We are a nation of laws and immigrants. We need more to bring our outstanding Law Enforcement officials with those to make sure Law Enforcement is colorblind. We have so much work to do and so progress does not stop with my re...

We still have the roads and airports to build. People to put back to work. We have been people who need more help going to college. We have Early College Education Programs to set up. We have Clean Energy Programs do build. We have immigration laws that need to be changed. We are a nation of laws and immigrants. We need more to bring our outstanding Law Enforcement officials with those to make sure Law Enforcement is colorblind. We have so much work to do and so progress does not stop with my re...

Close. Republican charlie republicans seem to be coming home, so to speak . Larry two weeks ago it looks like hillary was going to run the table and then the fbi stuff came in and her husband. The whole investigation may be redone. This point, my best guess and you need other pollsters to do this. At the National Race looks very, very close. The question is on the battleground states. I think hillary has an advantage but that may be ephemeral as this week goes on. Trump is trying to broaden his ...

Close. Republican charlie republicans seem to be coming home, so to speak . Larry two weeks ago it looks like hillary was going to run the table and then the fbi stuff came in and her husband. The whole investigation may be redone. This point, my best guess and you need other pollsters to do this. At the National Race looks very, very close. The question is on the battleground states. I think hillary has an advantage but that may be ephemeral as this week goes on. Trump is trying to broaden his ...