here with senator david perdue. saw the new health care bill. do you like it? involve.ontinues to i am hopeful we will get motion to proceed next week. we will get the cbo scores hopefully monday, and move on to this bill next week. this roomask you for for error. we have seen comments from senator rand paul saying he is not on board. perfection is difficult to achieve, and that's why we have been working so hard. we have a crisis on our hands. obamacare is collapsing after six or seven years. information the senator from montana has been asking for for months. the latest information they can give us his august 2014. the irs find 8 million people in this country because they could not sign up for insurance under obamacare. 85% of those 8 million people make less than $50,000, and half make less than $25,000. of thethere are portions majority leader's bill that would keep some of the taxes from the affordable care act. does that frustrate you? senator purdue: of course. what we've got to do is fix the problem that is

, david perdue, they're going to hold their nose and go ahead and vote for the skinny repeal legislation? >> well, to dana's point, wolf, we have the five senators that are going to make this bold statement that they can't support the bill unless they can be assured it's going to go to conference. it's not reserved to these five senators. i've talked to a number of republican senators today. in fact, every republican senator that i've talked to today said that they do not want this bill to become law. the skinny repeal. that they only want to use it as a vehicle to get into the conference committee where they can hash it out with their house colleagues and come up with something that is something that's a little bit more pal lathable, both a repeal and a replacement. i talked specifically to mike rounds of south dakota who said that he has great concerns that if the skinny repeal were passed into law that it would really disrupt the insurance markets and also be dangerous for medicaid. he definitely doesn't want it to become law. the fact that you see a group of very powerful republican

the bipartisan group included senators john mccain, elizabeth warren, lindsey graham, and david perdue a press conference the democrats and republicans agreed on the need for a new strategy in the 16 year long war. >> the time for strategy has come. we need a strategy in the united states that defines our role in afghanistan. >> we need to have a strategy to win, the strongest nation on earth should be able to win this conflict. >> senator graham said he has strategic advice for president trump. >> one thing i'll tell him after this visit, you need to pull all of our troops out because 8600 will not get the job done or add to their numbers. >> military officials have said several thousand more troops are needed to break the stale meat. >>> secretary of defense jim mattis will present president trump with strategic options by the mitdle of this month. >>> newly released dash cam video showed wildfires that forced people to evacuate. flames light up the night sky. officers helped evacuate homes and businesses. flames were feet from the patrol car. about 14,000 residents and tourist-to fl

so i would say david perdue. i think you would be the best.cconnell is a nice guy, i know him personally, but we need to have a new leader. host: mitchell, where are you calling from? caller: michelle? hi, it does say michelle now. you're calling for minnesota, correct? caller: correct. host: continuing with our discussion with republicans this morning. what do you make of all this? caller: i am very disappointed on how mitch mcconnell wrought this altogether. you do not take trend or 12 -- 10 or 12 republicans a back room when you know you have to get a conservative ted cruz type, a gentle man from kentucky, i cannot -- gentlemen from kentucky, and then you have the moderates from a main -- from maine and the gal from alaska. they knew who the opposers were going to be. the conservatives in the market -- and the moderate republicans were not in the room when it was all coming together, and actually create a bill that could be agreed upon by both. so i am in the business world. you do not do this in the business world. you do not put something

coming up to join the conversation georgia senator david perdue is with us and fox news contributor newt gringrich, fbi assistant kallstrom. right now top story this morning janet yellen heading to capitol hill this morning, yellen delivers semiannual testimony to congress today and tomorrow and lawmakers to grill for 4 and a half trillion dollar sheet. jpmorgan ceo jamie diamon weighed in, more disruptive than people think for the markets. joining us right now to weigh in house financial services committee member congressman david of tennessee and congressman, it's good to see you, thank you so much for joining us. >> good morning, maria, thank you very much. maria: what are you looking forward to solicit from janet yellen? >> i want to hear from housing reform, interest rate hikes and also in terms of -- of lending money, community banks, being able to lend money more freely, where the economy is going. now, i have been able to hear her in one prior session earlier this year, i heard that chair say that we were at full employment or nearful employment, i expect her to probably say that

complicar aun mas , ya que segun la revista digital politico, los senadores republicanos tom cotton y david perdueldo de donald trump pretenden reducir el numero de visas para inmigrantes y se otorgarian con base al merito y no a vinculos familiares sot alma rosa nieto abogada de inmigracin por aÑos y aÑos ha existido el lazo familiar y la manera de unir a familia para poder obtener la residencia ahora quieren tirar eso a la basura y ahora decir solo la gente que tiene ciertas especialidades y educacin puede ingresar a ee.uu. el proyecto de ley busca reducir el numero de visas para inmigrantes de alrededor de un millon al aÑo en la actualidad a medio millon en la proxima decada. bridge ruben pereida este proyecto de ley denominado raise act, aparte de pretender reducir el numero de visas familares, tambien eliminaria la loteria de visas y limitaria el numero de refugiados. una situacion que alarma a marcelina gonzalez de la organizacion latinos progresando, donde ayudan a personas a solicitar visas familiares, un proceso que segun ella tarda muchos anos. sot marcelina gonzalez/"latinos progresando

president james hoffa is joining us today and purchased another david perdue is with us here. i had at the subcommittee hearing on taxes. the white house is confirming president trump of a second previous acknowledge conversation with vladimir putin in hamburg germany. the leaders and their spaces. hours after more than two or formal sit down because the two leaders. mainstream media reports describing discussion is quote, unquote the meaning. fake news stories and invited by the chancellor of germany press note. on he goes. more and more dishonest with leaders in germany. fox news contributor to the public. good to see you. you see those pictures of the g20 at a table nec person sitting next to melania triumphing donald trump the president. how is this a meeting? >> how dare the president that next to his wife seated next to vladimir putin. the question is to make the seating chart. it was clearly on the schedule assuming you between g20 liters. 2016 when the media tried to nail down attorney general jeff sessions for allegedly secretly meeting with the russian ambassador tha

i'm david perdue from georgia. we have seven people, actually eight who will make comments and answer questions. we're here today to talk about a letter we sent to leadership last week. basically this is the -- the message is clear. you have seen the letter. we're willing to forgo some or all of the august work period because we got some very important issues that we have to get done and get results for the people back home. the president basically said the first of the year that there were three major properties. health care, one was regulation, one was tax, and one was the supreme court. we are meeting on most of those. right now even if we get through health care on the next week or two, between now and the end of the fiscal year, we only have 31 working days left. we have the debt ceiling to get through, the budget for 2018, reconciliation goes with that. and the appropriation process to fund the government before september 30. then even if all that gets done, we have tax, which is the last thing in the preside

as we speak, we are working with two wonderful senators, tom cotton and david perdue, to

as we speak, we are working with two wonderful senators, tom cotton and david perdue, to create a newm

as we speak, we are working with two wonderful senators, tom cotton and david perdue, to create a new immigration system for america. instead of today's low-skill system -- just a terrible system where anybody comes in, people that have never worked, people that are criminals, anybody comes in -- we want a marriage-based system, one that protects our workers -- a marriage merit merit-based system, one that protects our workers, and one that protects our economy. we wanted merit-based. we want people that work really hard in their country and are going to come into our country and work really, really hard. we don't want people that come into our country and immediately go on welfare and stay there for the rest of their lives. we are not going to do it. we are working every single day to move the legislation that serves the interests of the american people. as we discussed earlier, at the very top of the list is health care reform with obamacare, the washington obstructionists, meaning democrats, made big promises to the american people, and every single promise they made turned out to

hill for two days talking about the economy and let's look at what she told republican senator david perduebout the pace of the economic recovery. >> this is a long recovery, very weak and long, almost nine years and the typical recovery in u.s. history is 58 months. with consumer confidence right now at a 13 year high, and you consumer debt is risen in the last couple of years back to approaching 100% of household income, what are your concerns relative to the strength of this market? and the fiscal policy coming out of washington over the last couple of years and this year, relative to a potential correction in this long standing recovery? and does the economy have energy to pop and recover from this extended time of week economic growth? chair yellen: i have a reasonable level of confidence that the expansion can continue. we are trying to put in place monetary policy that will facilitate that. often, previous downturns following expansions have reflected inflation rising to levels that are on acceptable, forcing a tightening -- unacceptable, forcing a tightening in monetary policy and w

publisher the comment that georgia senator coming david perdue. >> mr. president nice to see you here at 11:00 p.m. on monday night. it's one of the privileges we have been in the minority or majority do we get to preside over the united states senate. we get to listen to all the colleagues talk here to this body. i've been in the chair for the last couple of hours mr. president and i can't go to bed tonight without putting his record straight in this body. i don't think there is a member of this united states senate that doesn't want america to have the best health care in the world. the problem is, we have a campaign of disinformation right now and it is outrageous and i cannot let it stand. a mission tonight, very briefly and will be to put them facts on the table, on the record. they have a lot of innuendo, a lot of misinformation. people are going to die. but remind everyone we are sitting with a health care system that is collapsing. no other way to describe it. why are we here tonight 11:00 p.m.? i want to remind the american public of why the uni

david perdue said, john mccain is a friend, mentor, and to patriot. tackle a challenge like this, it is him. mccains office says the 80-year-old former republican presidential nominee and his family are reviewing treatment options. auschwitz today, john mccain said "i greatly appreciate the outpouring of support. unfortunately for my sparring partners in congress, i will by.ack soon, so stand global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. scarlet: let's get a recap of today's market action. it had appeared the s&p 500 closed that a record high, but shortly after, it settled. it is down barely so we did not get the record high today, but the nasdaq closed out a round number, much to joe's delight, 693390. the dow pulling back a here. after the market close, we got results for a handful of companies. microsoft, fourth quarter beating estimates by a wide margin. the consensus estimate was $.71. revenue also higher than anticipated. intelligent crowd revenue.

joining us right now armed service committee meeting david perdue good to have you on the program thanks us. >> good morning. >> what do you make of allegations russian conclusion clvgs with trump campaign. >> i think heard everything there is to hear young man very transparent i thought the questions last night on program got to bottom what have they talked about i think he was very open and honest. we've got three investigations under way right now one in the house one in senate then in independent investigators looking into all this if there is something here needs to be looking at i have full couple ofs they will get to the bottom of it, i'm focused on getting back to the things that we're trying to focus on here to get people's work done. >> that is what we want to focus on as well senator 2 fact is that continues, the mainstream media driving us about constantly wall-to-wall coverage so-called russian collusion how distracting is this to agenda executed. >> i don't worry about details we pay attention to do it every day we are focused on health care trying to get things done to mov

i'm david perdue from georgia. we have eight people here who will make comments and answer your questions. we're here to talk about a letter we sent to leadership last week. basically this is the message is very clear. you've seen the letter. is that we're willing to forgo some or all of the august work period because we've got some very important issues we've got to get done and get results for the people back home. the president basically said the first of the year there were four major priorities this year. one was health care. one was regulation. one was tax. one was the supreme court. we're moving on most of those. but right now, even if we get through health care in the next week or two, between now and the end of the tis kel year, we only have 31 working days left. we have the debt ceiling to get through. the budget for 2018. the reconciliation that goes with that. and the appropriation process to fund the government before september 30th. and then even if all that were to get done, we've got tax. which is t

. >> david perdue, a republican from georgia.e says "we have witnessed everything that is wrong with washington. now, due to an unworkable budget process and politicians who put their political self-interest ahead of the national interest, obamacare remains the law of the land. that means the poorest among us will continue to be fine because they cannot afford obamacare. " here is a picture of senator jeff merkley from oregon, and this was a picture of the amendments he was hoping to --er in the vote a rom a a-rama, saying "i'm am glad i do not need to use them." here is burglary addressing this crowd late last night. erkley addressing this crowd late last night. senator warren also posting her "the nightmare is over, at least for now." and mark warner with his statement last night. >> [indiscernible] rejected -- we rejected the attempt to repeal obama care. [indiscernible] coverage for all americans. and that is of the latest reaction from members. we will show you more as they come in this morning. continue to get reaction from

. >> reporter: david perdue is one of many republicans pushing to do away with the annual five-week breaknell, perdue and nine colleagues point out there are only 31 working days until the end of the fiscal year. in that time republicans want to pass a health care bill, tackle tax reform plus congress needs to fund the government and raise the debt limit. >> the grid lock is not understood by people back home. nor is it going to be tolerated. >> susan collins has served for more than two decades. >> why does congress go home so often and for such a long period of time? >> we learn so much when we do go home. it gives us the chance to spend extended periods of time with our constituents. >> reporter: congress is actually on track to spend more days in session this year than the 20-year average. as republican leaders try to make the most of their control of congress and the white house. >> look, if time were the only consideration, absolutely staying through august would make sense. >> reporter: congressional scholar norm says they don't have much to show for the extra work days. >> they re

is week senators tom cotton, marco rubio, ted cruz, and david perdue sent a letter to secretary of state rex tillerson urging him not to certify iran's compliance with the deal as the deadline approaches. refusing to certify the compliance with the deal would send a clear message that president donald trump is committed to peace through strength and refuses to comply with a ridiculous deal that puts american families at risk. in conclusion, god bless our troops and we'll never forget speaven the global war on terrorism. -- september 11 and the global war on terrorism. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from washington seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, yesterday congressman higgins and i introduce add resolution 441, legislation that would require a congressional budget office score before a floor vote. ms. jayapal: this rule enthrones in house rools a fundamental and simple principle of good

senator david perdue shared this with me.r less. that's why it's failing. the insurance companies that wee betting that the mandate would give them windfall customers. it didn't work. the american people said even though legally you can tell me i have got to buy this and it's got to have this in it? they said no we're not going to do it. when the deductible is so high that they effectively did not have insurance. i had a lady call my show one day and said i'm going to take my chances, save my money and pay my healthcare out of pocket. brian: going up every year. in the beginning it seems negligible and no big deal but it gets worse. >> democrats spiking the football they are spiking mostly people who have no health insurance. people work for companies 80% are covered. then people on medicaid. then you get down to the people who are in the individual market. brian: 8%. >> they aren't going to be able to afford it the people hurt the most are the ones that have no insurance. brian: this is failed, struggling on a respirator. if