in support of the amendment or public financing bills or protecting public financing statutes already in place. i'm not going to go into the entire plan now. at the end of the day we want a system like adam and jay described. >> there's growing momentum on the local level for small donor matching public financing systems. we had a victory in montgomery county here in the d.c. area, and that's really sparked interest across the country. there's some advisory ballot initiatives. and ballot initiatives percolating. and that's a real hopeful bright spot. and then also, i'd add another solution. because as you mentioned amending the constitution is a grand ambition, something we need to work towards and do. we at the brennan center and campaign legal center and lots of other groups here are also working on a complementary strategy. >> gives us a better chance of success. >> not a question but a potential item. we have a comment period open right now through thursday last chance. and one of the items that's on the agenda is whether the fcc should do more to approve disclosure of campaign fi

that is the words of the greek finance minister.n us a wide-ranging interview on his nation's prospects. >> eestnet general election takes place on january 25. the leader has promised to write off some of greek's debt. >> greece could be forced to leave the euro. he wants to strike his own deal with the european commission, the international monetary fund, and the european central bank. >> let's go to athens where he has in speaking exclusively to the country's finance minister. >> it was a wide ranging interview. we spent an hour or so with the eye nantz minister. he said there is an and norman's -- enormous amount writing on these elections. if he wins office and forms a government, it is imperative that he sticks to the commitments to greece's creditors. >> has to boobey by the commitments that greece has signed up. greece has received a huge amount of money. just from the europeans, 10090i billion. when we made those commitments we work greeks. we were not a particular party. >> have greeks stopped paying taxes, social contribut

the answer to your question is housing finance reform a sustainable housing finance system, one that gets up off -- gets us awfully boom -- one that gets us off the boom, bust bailout cycle, that is a priority. >> the questioning about -- a question about housing finance. >> you had a bill that would wind down all support for the government housing -- >> that's not true. the federal housing administration was still around. >> outside of the fha. >> it has a pretty big footprint in the market, but go ahead. >> wind down fannie and freddie and not replace them with a government backstop. >> that is true. >> the senate had a bipartisan bill that would replace fannie and freddie with a government backstop. do you think this year you would be willing to move more in that direction in compromise with the senate version, or are you planning to move forward with something similar to what you were doing last year? >> as you may recall, there is a change in management at the united states senate. i, for one, think that is a good thing, and, clearly, the american people do, too since they voted

your finance minister it could stumble out of the euro. i want to talk about bond markets, for me this is where things get frisky. japanese government bonds they are defying me, but what you are seeing the government bonds have been negative in germany, the japanese went in tandem. is it fear inflation or what is it? is it deflation or fear of a bigger route of the equity markets. john williams says june is reasonable -- everybody is pushing and hedging and migrating their view on where the euro will go. will the rate cycle happen this year? can it happen this year? global bonds are at their lowest yield since 1996. 1.21% on a global basis. does it create asset bubbles elsewhere? not my job to know. 44 points for seven is where we are on west texas intermediate -- 44.47 is where we are on west texas intermediate. there you go, oil is on lower. three stocks which are in focus today. a little bit of retail. w m morrison looking for a new ceo, a stock up dalton phillips steps down or is stepping down. his performance is underwhelming. he deli

sector again. >> i spoke to finance ministers. the indication is there willing to extend maturities -- they are willing to expend maturities. is that enough? >> for the great people this debt issue is overblown. there is one creditor, and the maturities are far into the future. it's not going to change the day to day life of great people renegotiating this debt but it could be if sustainability is regained, it could unlock further financing from the financial sector as they work their way into the marketplace, so that will make a difference. i think from both sides there will be some interest in sitting at the table and discussing these things. >> a big question. greek bonds, how brave a man do you have to be to dip into that and start buying greek bonds? >> i would say the official sector is the dominant creditor of greece. the greek bonds that have been restructured carry very strong covenants, so they are difficult to restructure, but i think they have to be seen in the context of a dominant creditor who could extend some relie

finally in terms of health care, there are a few must-pass items on the finance -- finance committee's agenda. one of these is the children's health insurance program, or chip, which is set to expired in september. we have heard from a number of governors in red states and blue states alike they want to see this program extended. it's been a marvelous program, it's worked very, very well. i'm optimistic we can work in a bipartisan bicameral basis to extend championship -- chip in a responsible way. in addition there's medicare sustainable growth rate or s.g.r. that expires on march 1. last year i joined five of my colleagues in introducing a bipartisan, bicameral bill to refeel the broken s.g.r. formula with an improved payment system. that system rewards quality efishency, and innovation. these efforts -- efficiency and innovation. these efforts will continue in this congress and my goal is to address the s.g.r. challenge once and for all. entitlement reform medicare, i want to talk about our enforcement programs overall. as i mentioned we are facing an unprecedented fiscal crisis in

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the new chair of the finance committee. he is expected to announce his committee's agenda for the year. how they will deal with enlightment programs and changes to the tax code and trade authority. live coverage as soon as things get underway here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. >> starting shortly here at the u.s. chamber of commerce in washington d.c., remarks by senator orrin hatch. set new chair of the finance committee. he will be talking about entitlement programs and tax code and trade authority and how his committee will be approaching those issues. the moderator for this discussion will be bruce joss ten -- josten in in charge of government affairs for the chamber of commerce. the senate will be back in at 10:00 a.m. eastern time for morning speeches. debate on a bill to approve the keystone xl pipeline. they will break for party lunches about 12:30 eastern. they are expected to work on amendments to the keystone bill later tonight in the senate. watch la

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housing finance sources such as as low income tax credit bond financing as well as subsubsidy and basedn a formula in the housing plan of the ddalenare's vertical subcity is approximately 40 million $40 million and however the additional sources beyond traditional sources that i mentioned are subtracted from oci's base contribution. >> since the alice griffith budget was created in in 2010 and the team at that time understood there would cost increases due to inflation to inflation from 2010 to the start date which is now 2015 the housing plan included instructions on how the inflated costs would be shared and the dba calls that inflation increase cost over runs not a favorite term but that's what it's defined as. so lenare must cover the increases attributable and oci must cover the tax credit units. as has been described before alice griffith was awarded a choice neighborhood's initiative with 21.35 million of that going to construction of the new units and the remainder is for community improvements. >> and i know that you have heard this before the grant comes with some strict fundi

. >> good afternoon, commissioners greg wagner cfo the policy is something we've worked on at the finance and planning committee for several hearings this came about due to some discussions including one at the commission planning session this summer where the commission identified a number of agenda of topics that we wanted to dedicate some time for at the planning committee one of the ways we've talked about that to change the way we tangle contract in the meeting to try to shifter our focus from individual contract based discussions to step back more and review some issues that a at a policy level we've tried to put together a new process that does that while maintaining a high-level of oversight on what the contracts are going through under the current process the historic preservation commission reviews the contract over $50,000 over the entire term of contract and we have a hearing on those at the committee meetings proposed review criteria that we would be the up the threshold to individually review contracts with an annual value of half a million dollars or more that includes the

. >> you have financing and engineers and contractor and they come here and every we're rebuilding areonment and other partners. >> all those things one little piece of a resilient piece of - >> and i felt more positive about things i thought about how to pay for this. >> we didn't want to have one financing option it didn't work. >> we found information about financing they are different options for different types property owners. >> we've seen them offering financially and a pool of styles for a complicated way of saying they'll be able to pay back their loans over the next two years. >> we have 3 options and secondly, to get a loan for the ryan white and the third becoming in the past program participants in that. it is encouraged along coastal easier where we have set time like sand and a high water table to a cause the sand to shake i'm going to get this visitation on the same bridge you'll see the water come to the surface this knocks the foundation over and pushes out the ruptured pipeline >> it is intimidating i'm talking to people as a layman who needs help. >> this is a diff

the belgian finance minister taking a tough tone on this.e was making it very clear that he wants a tough line. >> greece has been the problem for a long time and we now have a new government and permit and's from the former government with respect to public finance and restructuring the economy and we really are quite insistent that those increments -- agreements are respected. >> waiting for news of the and i think a lot of people would like confirmation of who the finance minister is going to be and who is the person they will be negotiating with. from this new independent greek coalition. i think that is the news that will come out midmorning and the story as we will have four super ministries here. that news on who will be the finance minister is very keenly anticipated in athens. >> keenly anticipated in london as well. still with me is lisa mcdonald, lucy, we have a coalition but we can already see the standoff developing between the finance ministers and the greek government. do you think a compromise can be found? >> it has to be fo

the finances minister of france has indicate whad he thiss. we'll see what happens 3:30 in bruss sells. >> finances ministers are going to be discussing ukraine. what are they going to be saying on that subject? >> as much as ukraine is a political crisis a humanitarian crisis it is a financial crisis as well. it was very clear last week. have you 7.5% economic contraction. there is a budget short fall from ukraine of 15 billion euros. the e.u. has talked about giving an additional $2.1 billion. there isn't enough money out there. they are going to need more. you talk about a bailout for ukraine while holding the line on greece could be an in congress moment in bruss sells later today. >> thank you very much. >> on twitter one of the trending topics is greece. i'm sure that will continue to trend throughout today. that's our big story today on bloomberg. you can follow us and tell us what you are following yourself. >> coming up it's a new political era for greece with victory, what does it mean for the greeks and the whole of europe? we'll pu

the financing piece. i just wanted to ask because on the marin launch they were seeded with private investment money. is there an at some point or potential because you didn't mention that and i know there is a lot of money these days in san francisco. would there be opportunity for private investment at a low rate of return or something that could be put into this equation and i don't know if that would affect the contract pieces or exploration or launch. >> there are many options on the financing aspect. one of the interesting one is the investment of tax credit at the local level. a lot of the municipalities that have tried to procure their own new resources have private investors to build-out and that private investor at the federal level can get federal tax credit. that tax credit ends 2017. the build-out would have to occur before 2017. after 2017 is the question can you do your own financing through less over bonding or another arrangement with another private investor and there is a variety of opt

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i'm here today speaking at the chairman of the finance committee. legislating on issues that impact the lives and livelihoods of each and every american. we have jurisdiction over the tax code, much of our nation's health care policy. we have jurisdiction over our trade policy and entitlement programs and there's much more. we have some great senators on this committee, on both sides of the aisle. i'm very grateful for the senator majority leader and my colleagues for entrusting me with this opportunity and leadership of this important group of senators. pardon my voice. our country faces a number of significant challenges. for example, excuse me despite some recent upticks, economic growth over the last several years has lagged behind historic levels. and even though we've seen a decline in the unemployment rate labor force participation is dangerously low. and we know that the -- one of the big reasons for the decline is that people aren't looking for jobs anymore. more and more americans are forced to work in low paying often part-time jobs or le

here today speaking as the chairman of the senate finance committee. the largest restriction of any committee and congress, legislating on issues that impact the lives and livelihoods of each and every american, jurisdiction over the tax code and much of our nation's health care policy jurisdiction over trade policy and entitlement programs and much more great senators on this committee on both sides of the aisle. i'm grateful for the senate minority leader in my colleagues. pardon my voice. .. >> it is projected only to expand in the coming years. and we have a coming entitlement crisis that threatens to take our economy down with it. if we are going to write this we are going to need a new agenda that puts help the economy is and job creation's first. an agenda that gives hard-working taxpayers greater security and independence. it will put our economy on a responsible fiscal footing and that is what i am here to talk about today. as the chairman of the finance committee, i want to do all that i can to put the country on a better path. to ensure that

it is yet another major item falling under the finance committee's jurisdiction. it makes you wonder why i went on this committee to begin with. it is at this point uncertain how the near extension of the debt limit will be processed and what that will entail. human resources. another area under the financial committee jurisdiction is that of human resources and welfare. i have a full agenda there as well. the federal government needs to be a better steward of taxpayer dollars and ensure that funded social interventions produce positive outcomes for vulnerable children and families. we should fund what we know works relative to the child welfare system and stop spending scarce taxpayer dollars on what actually hurts children. there are a number of funding streams in the jurisdiction for the senate finance committee that have languished for years without appropriate oversight and evaluation. i will review programs like the temporary assistance for needy families, and the social services block grant, to determine if they are producing positive results and if not wha

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what is the status of the building of that operation as they start to wrap up on the finance side ofhe personnel? >> they are definitely hiring people they are looking for donors for the super pac, and would be campaigners and he talked to two dozen people who could be playing the role of a campaign manager, if it comes to that. >> john, there is a lot of focus on the finance side, and there is a call out for personnel, there are a lot of operatives here who are being courted, and a lot of people from the last cycle who'd don't want to be with mick who are being courted by jeb and buy some extent chris christie. >>this is a big deal. >> big deals mike and julie, thank you so much, but we come back, we have an interview with mike huckabee's water, sarah, and alice stewart at the rnc meeting in san diego. we will be back in a jiff! ♪ >> look at that shot of the beautiful hotel del coronado. mark is out there in san diego and he got to talk to two vips alison stewart and mike huckabee's daughter, sarah. >> how do the huckabees view alice? >> we love her, she is absolutely part of the fa

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environmental prospective i want to express my appreciation thank you todd. >> and todd for me as financehair i'm losing my right hand man no double you've been invariable i say to people he can explain anything to a cart peril so i look at our move is like a putter i have to say a little brother but he'll be close my great appreciation to you and your service to this commission. >> and madam chair all of chief financial officer has a certain aura like the part of what todd has distinguished himself is taking that kind of expertise and background hates a that's a start point he thinks outside the confines of accounting and really look at how to do business how we may want to improve doing business i was talking to ed harrington and todd yourself name come up he was saying part of tosdz role to simply keep us from doing stupid stuff and that's frankly a huge benefit we can get so head down involved in the nitty-gritty of doing business it takes someone to sit back and makes sense ever this so having that kind of judgment is a huge contribution so thank you. >> thank you, again todd. >> i h

>> the short take is, the responsible finance gave us the financial crisis. -- irresponsible financehe financial vices. the book uses the term enlightened finance to say it is time to stop pointing fingers, looking backward -- >> ok. >> we need to start looking forward of what finance can do to make the world a better place. >> you don't have a chapter from lloyd blankfein. why not? >> i did not ask him >>. he is one of the most articulate and thoughtful people in our industry. the book is long enough. there are 20 contributors. i would, yes. >> if the problem is you had that finance causing the problem and we need good finance to help move things forward, can you change culture with legislation? if not, how do you change? >> you absolutely cannot change culture. it is a critical ingredient in having the financial system serve real people in rome markets in ways that actually -- in real markets in ways that actually make the world of better place. it is not the only ingredient. you do need different types of regulation than we had going into the financial crisis. that part of the pro

in the arabian peninsula and financed by anwar al alki. we have confirmation from one of the yemeni officials who believed the brother was in yemen in 2011, and an audiomessage from one of the senior members of the group he didn't claim directly the attack but he did praise what he called the battle of paris response of insults to afronts to islam and its prophet. >> aqa omar, has been subjected to pretty regular drone attacks hasn't it, american drone attacks and yet it seems to have dusted itself down and stage this attack which of course has registered far and beyond the location of the attacks in paris, and just outside of paris. >> that's absolutely right. let me give you some context to whole of this. now al qaeda was found it came to prominence in yemen in the year 2000 when they bombed the u.s.s. cole. then another oil tanker belonging to france. then in 2009, the forces of al qaeda and saudi arabia and yemen, joined and joined what is now called al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they described that group as the most active and mo

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i believe president chow, you were on the financing group, were you not? >> yes. >> i sat in on that one. i got to move around a bit and got a glimpse of information from what was going on. people self is selected into these groups. there was only one group with three people and came out with tremendous recommendations and did a tremendous amount of work. so you can see there was a lot of diversity there was a lot of different ways that people went about doing the work but nonetheless you are going to see the recommendations from all the work groups. people expected from each of the groups and people had the ability to call on what people might know to share expertise as well. these are open meetings and community people are very much welcomed to attend and participate. people who were not in the task force did participate and attend the different work groups. the three things that in that first meeting or so that we determined were important for us to focus on was first of all a definition of palliative care and i think we've all been in those kinds of di

carry on his blo now that he has been named finance ministerg.e calls himself the accidental economist. it is interesting, the greek press reporting that yanis varoufakis have -- if i can get my pronunciation right had spoken yesterday after the eurogroup at meetings and maybe that is an indication of the conversation is already started between greece and the rest of the eurozone about what happens next with the debt load. he is going to be the finance minister and he has done so on his personal blog. we spoke to him yesterday on air and he talked about how the negotiations were to go. i spoke to him last night as he was walking out of the athens plaza hotel on the other side of the square. he seemed in good spirits and maybe he already knew the news after that point after mr. tsipras was sworn in as he calls himself the accidental economist. i think he will try to avoid an accident in his relation with the eurozone once the negotiations start. >> one gets the feeling the voices from europe, the imf, are quite embracing of the opportunity to spea

financing to sell food to cuba. so we very much see the end of the embargo as a necessary step in allowing us to have meaningful trade. we're reenergized to establish cuba as a market for u.s. agro project -- product. currently there are 11 million citizens there and it's a natural market. it's 90 miles off our coast. certainly none of us in business in this room could say that cuba is at the top of the list in terms of markets for their company, but what they can say is it makes absolutely no sense that if we have a partner very close to our coast where it's a natural market, that we should be denied an opportunity to trade there. as our coalition, we have four goals. we're going to advance a constructive dialogue here in washington on u.s./cuba relations. we're going to actively engage to end the long-standing embargo. we're going to work with key shareholders to drive momentum towards historical change and our hope is in 2015. we are going to take public platforms to explain the moral imperative of trade liberali

eu finance ministers are meeting.ked week for officials who will convene thursday for an emergency session to discuss the escalation of violence in ukraine. jon ferro and hans nichols are with us. the volatility around the russia n ruble has that been priced in? >> people were expecting the move from standard & poor's to junk for the first time in a decade. a weaker off the back of it, today, a stronger ruble. the credit rating agency is an opinion and not a leading indicator. 68 rubles for a dollar, high inflation and a limited ability of a central bank to respond to a crisis that will head into 2015. >> the u.s. treasury secretary jacquelinek lew said that it's time for more sanctions against russia. is there appetite in europe, germany? >> yes. angela merkel has been leading the way. in some ways there was a switch among german business leaders may be four months ago. up to that point they were worried about sanctions. there was more escalation. it seems angela merkel has the business community behind her. companie

unless the finance minister is talking out of both sides of his mouth. as he talked about 2014 $200 billion. if you look at the causes of that 40 to 50 billion they attribute to the sanctions. the rest they regard the declining oil price as the reason. the oil price would have come down irrespective of what this is. that would have been an economy struggling. but that isn't about the sanctions. it's about a much bigger geopolitical issue played through with the saudis and opec pushing the price down. >> absolutely. some people are saying there is collusion between the united states and saudi arabia to push oil prices down in a way to sanction russia which would be the most effective sanction but one thing is very clear, we have seen this in the figures over the last six months. external debt of russia dropped in the second half of last year and we're now at 2010 levels. so what's happened is because of the sanctions companies and bank versus not been able to rollover that external debt and we'll continue to see this happen and what happens here is this w

the first is going to be on financing. this is going to be more of a call to action rather than a specific suggestion. funding moderate-income housing is the toughest nut to crack. the tools really aren't there at the local, state or federal levels. but i would also mention that the low-income housing tax credit didn't exist 30 years and people came up with it to create low-income housing. so it's sort of a call to action to be more creative. i don't know that we're not going to go fly to d.c. and try to make anything happen just for san francisco, but there might be opportunities that we can take at least in the city, potentially in the regional level, to create some new financing tools or adjuncts to financing tools like ifds that would really help with the sites. particularly ones that we're thinking about higher percentage of moderate or low-income housing we're going to need to find those dollars from somewhere to subsidize it and it needs to come from somewhere else than low-income tax credits and those other tools t

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al qaeda in the arabian peninsula says it planned and financed the attack last week. it features a cartoon of mohammad on the cover. the print span is to be expanded to 5 million. >>> inside hong kong's legislature by the chief executive. half a million people turn out in the israelvy shirri lankan capital to watch the pope cannonize. >>> and what's said to be the toughest climb in the world. >>> welcome to the program. within the last couple of hours, a video has emerged showing a leader of al qaeda and the arabian peninsula saying it was behind last week's attack behind "charlie hebdo" in paris. eight people were killed at the satirical magazine. well in a video posted online what he calls the blessed battle of paris and the prophet of mo mohammad says they chose the target, laid the plan and financed the operation and did it on the orders of al qaeda's leader iman bin al zawahiri. this video, talk us through what's in it. >> it's just over 12 minutes long. it features this one individual talking to the camera for almost the whole of the video giving quite a long sp

>> first of all with regard to financing the operation like one in paris. and a mmo and a missile rocket launcher and renting a car and paying the ticket for this woman to go to syria. that kind of amount as my colleague mentioned is not that big. a lot of money exist in france. remember those networks in europe and france have the cash for that. i would be worried mostly as we mentioned, who is hosting her in syria? syria and iraq, whatever al-qaeda or isis is the only place in the planet that can protect her officially. >> if i could. let me get christopher to weigh in on that. you call al-qaeda in yemen a conglomerate and it is confusing to the viewers when there is a distinction in al-qaeda in yemen between syria and although both of them don't like the west. so is there a connection between yemen and syria and the support for this woman or terrorist? >> let me answer that question in two parts. the first is there are multiple al-qaeda successor organizations. and one is the front that is linked to the old al-qaeda network that operates in syria and the

plus, get three years interest-free financing.free with sleep train's 100 day money back guarantee. and of course, free same-day delivery. are you next? announcer: make sleep train your ticket to tempur-pedic. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>mark: welcome back looking for a little rebound today would they're are and is coming from apple yesterday that blew away all expectations. red apple falls and rapids cash for apple they share is up 7% in the free market dow features unchanged this morning so looks like a little movement after a huge loss into the wall street street >>darya: everyone is trying to get back to the grind in new york city after all that snow there were paralyzed in a survey. >>darya:-->> james: visit amid applause of a foot in manhattan and central park bay it had nine fine eight. but the most hard-hit areas did get like that of men would of the to the 3 ft. of snow i was looking at the latest list they got over 3 ft. of snow with connecticut with the massachusetts and new hampshire n.y. is lasalle nea

a finance minister. mr.sipras has indicated he will go with 4 super ministries and dismantles on the architecture here in terms of the way the government has been structured. 4 main ministries and the one people want to know is who will be finance minister? atoms get that, we will bring it to you. >> thank you for that round up. chris a quick look at some of the other stories we are following. a turnaround plan and microsoft. sales in software licensing is it down. revenue fell to $10 billion. curbed by flops in china and japan and one of the you -- stronger u.s. dollar. >> a strong storm of the east coast of the u.s. and is expected to don't to be the snow and -- dump 2 feet of snow in the u.s. in new york. >> ok, those are your main headlines and stories of the day. join us on twitter. what are your thoughts -- the snowstorm in new york? i am @manuscranny. >> we was big to be chief executive of phillips -- we will speak to the chief executive of phillips and stay tuned for that. ♪ >> welcome to "countdown.