Almost all of the island without access to power, clean water, food and fuel, president donald next says he will visit tuesday. Hes also refused to waive shipping restrictions to help get gasoline and other supplies to puerto rico, even though he weighed those restrictions twice in the last month following hurricanes harvey and irma, which hit the mainland United States. We will get response from nelson denis, former new york state assemblyman, about the law strangling puerto rico and from democracy now s juan gonzalez. Then calls are growing for a independent investigation into the u. S. Backed saudiled war in yemen that has ravaged the countrys infrastructure, stripping the country of social services, triggering a massive cholera outbreak. Well speak with radhya almutwakel, chairwoman of the yemeni civilian society to brief the u. N. Security council on the war in yemen. Then Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of grameen bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
To 3 doubling the standard deduction for individuals and married couples and eliminating the socalled debt tax but reduction of Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 , a provision the president has called nonnegotiable. Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise institute. Welcome, senator, great to have you here. Thank you, paul. Paul so as you look at this plan, how good is it, do you think, in terms of helping the economy . I think its very good in terms of helping the economy. I think with what we are doing legislatively through rulemaking, through executive order and and and lessening regulatory burden, we would guaranty that we would return to 3 plus growth, more jobs, better jobs, higherpaying jobs and, of course, the government would get 2. 2 trillion in new revenue. Economically i think the plan is right and i think politically its very strong because its exactly what republicans promised in the campaign they would do and voters dont like to be surprised, they dont like it when yo
Deduction for individuals and married couples and eliminating the socalled debt tax but reduction of Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 , a provision the president has called nonnegotiable. Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise institute. Welcome, senator, great to have you here. Thank you, paul. Paul so as you look at this plan, how good is it, do you think, in terms of helping the economy . I think its very good in terms of helping the economy. I think with what we are doing legislatively through rulemaking, through executive order and and and lessening regulatory burden, we would guaranty that we would return to 3 plus growth, more jobs, better jobs, higherpaying jobs and, of course, the government would get 2. 2 trillion in new revenue. Economically i think the plan is right and i think politically its very strong because its exactly what republicans promised in the campaign they would do and voters dont like to be surprised, they dont like it when you say, im going to do somet
And im anna edwards in london. Lets start the program with data out of the eurozone, specifically out of italy. We had gdp data hitting the bloomberg. Exactly inline with estimates, 0. 4 , the Second Quarter pulmonary reading. That is what the analysts were looking for. Data on abetter number of fronts from italy. Industrial output expands in the Second Quarter. The jobless rate, still too high of course, but coming down. Better news on exports and bank rescues taking place in italy. Those are some of the headlines in the Second Quarter. In line with that, we see this better growth picture, in line with estimates and the previous quarter. Lets look at where we are on various assets. 1. 1720. Urodollar, heading into this we were at 1. 1755. A little bit of sluggishness on the euro. The stoxx 600, up by 0. 7 . Gold and yen, continuing to s lip. Bullishness in stock markets in europe today. Pound, 0. 91. O we are going to get the u. K. Wage data and eurozone growth figures. We got the s p
That did not go down well. Senator schumer, all condemned the president. Very few republicans wanted to comment. Speaker y and z be. White supremacy is repulsive. Politically, the president increasingly isolated. Charlottesville has led overdue condemnation of the entire term presidency. Business also backing away. Seven ceos know like the president S Advisory Council plus Union Leader Richard Trumka appeared ceos do not want to be associated with this president see. It classic trump counterpunching style, such has gone on the attack. Jeff bezos earns the Washington Post which is a harsh term critic. There you have it. The most chaotic politics of this presidency so far in a market that ignores it and rallies again. Youve never seen anything like this. Varney company is about to begin. Such you at the group on one side that was bad of was bad in his grip on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. Ill say it right now. You had a group on the other side that