bess: i don't know which one it is.to say to someone, you would go to the dances as a kid, girls on one side, boys on the other. nobody wants to get involved. there is just gridlock right now. 2024 was one of the worst housing market since the mid-90's. it is taking real time. a lot of people are saying potentially, i think greenspan said there was some irrational exuberance during the.com, when everything exploded, and it feels like that right now with ai. the housing market, we need to start to get buyers and sellers in the market. sellers are holding off because you locked in a rate at 5%. people don't want to give up their lower rates for higher rates. why would they? there is no inventory, prices are high and rates are high. people are sort of -- sonali: what will move the needle? what level of rates do you think will be the new unlocking level? bess: there was a survey done that i read about, people said they would get in the market around 5.5%. that doesn't mean everyone but people feel like that still feels comf

bess's dna on file in the national database? mankiewicz: donald bess had been out on parole only seven months on a rape charge when angie was raped and killed. prosecutors say she clearly had no idea of his history when he came knocking on her door. and angie let him in the house. why would she do that? like a different time, a little more innocent, 1984. if they said, hey, can i use the bathroom, can you give me directions, she was the type of individual that would help. she wouldn't have thought twice about it. he's never admitted to it. has not. he still has yet to admit that he actually had sexual relations with her. josh mankiewicz: in may 2008, donald bess was charged with angie's rape and murder. the trial took place two years later. his dna hit was fresh, but everything else in the case was more than 20 years old. and the murder weapon was never found. by now, donald bess was 61. angie would have been 45. her college friend, sheila, walked in the courtroom on the first day of trial. and i just remember feeling shaky all

and here was the metropolitan opera with a virtually all black cast singing porgy and bess. great success and remembered to this day as one of these, you know, monumental first steps that continued. and i think on a small scale, it was very, very important, not just for showcasing cultural achievements, which is important, but i think for beginning that person to person contact. and as i look through some of president eisenhower, his writings and speeches, i've come across people to people contact him greatly believed that that at the end of the day you had to have power for ordinary americans. ordinary russians is somehow talk to each other. and so there were two other components. there was a cultural exchange, very important. there began a rather small 1958 with academic exchange so that professors of history, professors of political science who knew russian, who dealt with soviet union could spend some time in the soviet union. and an equal number of soviet scholars could come to the united states to do the same. it was a real honest person to person exchange. it was init

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scott bess ant will stop a $4 trillion tax increate. pam bondi will stop the weaponization of the justice department and enforce the law. christ kristi noem will make sure the border is secure. these nominees are not a return to business as usual. business as usual gave us painfully high prices. business as usual gave us wide-open borders. business as usual gave us the disastrous death of soldiers in the fall of afghanistan. these nominees by president trump are bold choices. they're motivated, they're skilled, and they are committed to the safety and security of every american. most importantly, they show that president trump is serious, serious about bringing fresh eyes and a new outlook to washington, d.c. that's exactly what the american people voted for in november. senate republicans are committed to get president trump's team in place quickly. our committee chairs are working aggressively to give each nominee a fair and speedy consideration. that's how the senate had operated historically, especially when faced with such a mandat

again, ian bess and others say it is to early to tell. they are bracing for the impact in california. of the publicly traded companies, jpmorgan says allstate and chubb and travelers have the most exposure to the fires. those are down significantly in the extended trade. because these fires have done more damage in residential, it limits the commercial side. you have chubb and aig and kinsale could get hit from this. the more the fire spreads, it could impact the reinsurance. the carriers will have surpassed the deductibles or attachments. if you look at arc capital and renaissance re, we will look at meaningful impact. the jpmorgan analysts are not changing the buy/sell recommendations. this is a big near-term problem because it overshadows any promise of higher prices in rates in california's future. that is something that california had been working on. moody's and others are calling into question the impact on the state's insurance market saying the increased recovery costs will likely drive up premiums and reduce the availability of

we need scott besse at the treasury so we can stop the conversation around the global taxation and a minimum tax. we need to get back to making america great and that means let's bet the gnomes but let's get her job done in record time, bottom line simply this, donald trump of the american people deserve to have the job done right and quickly. trey: let's talk about background checks, whoever is assigned to do john ratcliffe's background check will be bored out of his or her mind. i cannot think of anything that god has done wrong, matt gaetz you missed an interesting read that would've been nc-17 movie but he quit for good reasons. what would be a disqualifying fact or what are you looking for in a background check? >> let me just say hopefully what were looking for is john ratcliffe and every nominee. i read through his back on the first time around and i fell asleep. it is so boring because he's done nothing wrong. we should start with being innocent and not guilty when it comes to these nominees. we want people who can do the job and qualified. the good news president trump has c

scott bess bessent was sworn in. more confirmation hearings are happening today.secretary, howard lutnick for commerce secretary and kelly loeffler for head of the small business administration on tap for today. tomorrow's hearings include kash patel, among others. joining us now, montana senator steve daines. senator, good to see you. thank you for being here. >> good to join you. maria: how would assess hearings in terms of how rapidly president trump is getting his team on the ground? because i made the point earlier that it's very odd to me that there are 53 republican senators and 47 democrat senators and it appears to me that the democrats are running the table here. >> well, look, we're off to the best start in a decade in terms of moving quickly in the u.s. senate, that's thanks to the new majority leader john thune who has the senate working seven days a week and because of that we're ten years ahead of where we were literally back in the days of obama and trying to put nominees through and again, the most important thing we can do in the senate is move p

how's scott bess e seven going to do, senator sheehy? >> i think he'll be fine as well, you know?ibly be conjured up to slow this down. i think he's going to make it. i think, for the most part, everyone's going to make it through. there's going to be some fights. we know they're gearing up to the fight us on tulsi, whom i know personally. we're going to get her across the line. it's gown to to be a fight, but the next three weeks are going to be very interesting, but we have a lot of work to do, and we've not to get these people in the office a carrying out our agenda. larry: yes, sir. >> as soon as possible. larry: i don't have much time, senator. tulsi gabbard, she gonna make it? if i know she's a supporter. >> she's got my support. we're pushing for her. larry: all right. senator sheehy, you're terrific, sir. thank you for your time. we appreciate it. folks, i'll be right back with my last word. when you're a small-business owner, your to-do list can be...a lot. ♪♪ super helpful. ♪♪ [ cheering ] what are invoices? progressive makes it easy to see if you can save money with a c

that's what bess sent is going for. grow the economy. more jobs. better wages.low income people. everybody wins. >> so i think the two top priorities for and things on his radar the tax cuts, obviously, but also tariffs we have heard a million times tariffs are tax on peel, too. you tax 20% china. >> that depend on who swallows the 10% tariff is it passed along to consumers? no, not always it. can be swallowed by chinese manufacturers, swallowed by the importers. it doesn't mean -- tariffs do not mean higher prices for consumers, necessarily. what they do mean is that trump has negotiating ability with china and with other countries to get their economies, our economy in order. and you can raise money where w. tariffs as well. that's a big part of the plan. >> steve: one of the things i liked about his talk to the senators was the fact, you know, we passed this stuff. we could be in a golden age >> stuart: exactly. >> it's all about goethe. that's what he is aiming for. if you believe -- if you take away the tax cuts. you don't get growth. you get a slowing econ

julie, there is a lot going on, start with the choice for treasury secretary, scott bess ept.explained his view on tariffs and facing questions on tax returns. what did he say and how is his confirmation looking? >> reporter: let's start with the last part first, that republicans have the votes needed to confirm pretty much all of these people except for those of those, the more controversial ones like rfk or tulsi gabbard. bessent doesn't need democratic votes to get confirmed. although his hearing faced fireworks from democrats on the panel. you mentioned tariffs. it was a big line of questions from senator ron wyden, for example, senator bennet pushed him on this issue because trump promised he would put tariffs on goods coming in from mexico, canada, china, and democrats are worried that it's going to fall on americans to pay for it. watch this exchange. >> all through the campaign we heard they weren't -- foreign countries would pay it. that's bologna. it will be paid for by workers and small businesses. so your response? >> yes, senator, i would respectfully disagree, an

about 11% this week, 11-15%, in part because of comments, today it's up, like, today, right, scott bessth actually said he sees no reason for the united states to have a central digital currency, central bank digital currency, and my next guest actually says mr. bessent is off the an amazing, rational start. qi research, their ceo, danielle dimartino booth. danielle, i thought that was a phenomenal performance yesterday, you know? i think, i think even i personally have more confidence in the trump financial team, and my confidence level was already high. talk to us about your thinking. >> so incoming treasury secretary scott bessent was so even-keeled, so level-headed and so articulate. he was very calm in saying, look, i mean, if we're worried about fiscal dominance, then why on earth is the the dollar the strongest currency everywhere? and why is it so widely adopted? for all of the scare that it's going -- that other currencies are going to be adopted, that's just not the case. and as far as the central bank digital currency goes, charles, you know i have some very strong opinions o

when i wroter heard an account of that first theatrical cultural exchangebeee that is the porgy and bess tour of russia. it was published in yorker, the only magazine i know enurages a serious practitioners of this art form later, i contributed a few other report reportage finger s the finally, i felt and ready to undertake a full scale narrative. in other words, a novel. okay. so we do see here that capote has experimented in this genre, this idea of a nonfiction novel, or at least applying sort of reportage to narrative reportage, trying to take in all of the details that he observes all the concrete details and to tell fidelity what he observes. right. and to do so on a small scale. and then he's building towards more ambitious project to write a whole novel in this in this in this vein. so so, okay, i know i talked little bit about how this was of the genre of realism in the 19th century, how authors tried to observe everyday life in their societies and they wanted to create stories that reflected what they did see balzac. for instance, as i mentioned, wrote his work the comedy mean

when bess truman came in to see the white house on tour, before truman was going to take over, after fdr had died, she was appalled. louise on the wall where the pictures had been, the carpet seemed threadbare and she just couldn't imagine living in that gloomy place. truman moved in. the roosevelt's moved 13 van loads of furniture and objects and memorabilia out. they were very great accumulators. the place looked like an old hotel people had moved out of and had big cracks in the wall. you should see the pictures. it began to creak a lot and it began to worry. people in the east room, the ceiling, sag and plaster begins to fall. the wooden is rotting and is deemed a fire hazard. it is obvious that drastic changes needed everywhere in the white house. but the first alteration truman makes is to add an amenity to the family quarters, enhancing private life here at the white house. as you look at film of the white house shot by president truman, the south portico is missing. one key feature that you see today, something controversial during its time but cherished by all first families

. >> as you heard a little earlier, we maintain a lengthy waitlist for home deler our bess but are makingtle that away. >> we anticipate that these challenges will persist though in coming years without additional ongng funding that we can put towards these services. so i'm going to move to wrap up while we don't have time today to cover every example of the dignity fund's impact. >> i really hope that these highlights have whetted your appetite for learning more about our findings in the full cycle and evaluation report. >> it's been posted to our website where anyone can access it. there you'll see more data and narrative highlights that help to illustrate why the dignity fund is important and how it plays a role in ensuring that our diverse populations can thrive. >> i'm going to hand the mic over to executive director dearman to offer some final remarks. >> thanks. thank you. first i just want to take i think a deep in the whole planning team for for putting this together. of course huge thanks to all of our staff to who obviously were helpful and all this work that has been done. but

bess sent, good to see you again -- mr. bessent.hat after the tax cuts and jobs act of 2017, now we've had several years of being able to see what happens, and i believe the statistic you gave is the top 50 of earners in america now paying 98% of the taxes. did i hear that correctly? because i've heard over and over again that it's the only the wealthy, only the big companies that get it. i would encourage, quite frankly, every oklahoma company that's a small business to ask their cpa this year when they're filing their taxes what did the tax -- what if the tax cuts and jobs act expires next year, what would my taxes be next year and have small business owners ask that question of their cpa, and i think they will be quite surprised the say this is only about big companies and -- be the same thing on the child tax credit, the tax cuts and jobs act goes away, it gets cut in half and all the inversions that were happening under the obama administration where american companies were being bought up by foreign entities, now that's actual