he knows the drill. , manyd bank presidents are distinguished economists, including john williams, thefrancisco fed who is a potential candidate for vice chair. shery: the outlook for the economy? because of no survey this time, next time we will get an update of economic projections in march which will be interesting to watch, because by that time, maybe a little bit of the tax-cut starting to hit. and more time for higher commodity prices and oil prices have gone up. and labor markets keep getting tighter, we will see the employment rate on friday and if they keep dropping, it will convince them things will get tighter faster. maybe they tweak the number of fate -- fed rate increases they expect for the year. vonnie: we may see some dissenters. will it be similar types of descent? >> i am thinking that this time because neel kashkari is not a voter. and it is janet yellen's last meeting, why send her out with negative waves? because there is no dispute about what will happen at this meeting, it may seem to be pretty much on board with what their policy is. the economy changes directi

what i just now said, the risk there, is very greatest hen i say i've said manyd, times before, i look back in days of the cold war, two super powers and we knew what they had, they knew what we had, something.n meant doesn't mean anything anymore. we have countries like north korea, north korea on november 8, fired rocket that has range to reach here we're we're sitting any place in the continental united states. that is something we're working on now, trying to get ground interceptors where they need to be, that is the threat we're facing now. house is e action the talking about doing, i want to make sure they do it. >> the national defense strategy was unveiled this past friday, portion, at least. so you mention this is greatest national have seen, defense strategy says united states greatest threat from russia and china, i'm wondering you have seen classified version of the report and what -- senator: things i can't talk about right now, agree,o-three strategy, i in terms of the greatest you are talking about the 2-3 strategy. i agree in terms of the greatest threat, eventually wou

. >>> to politics an manyd the president and his inner circle fending off damaging allegations in a new book. president trump back at the house after a camp david retreat with republican leaders. waiting for him, a new statement ressing regret for comments he made about a, e, treasonous meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer tower. bannon's statement comes a day after president trump again called him sloppy steve while also slamming the michael wolff book as quote, fiction and defending his own mental fitness. several advisers today defending the president but so far the white house unable to quiet the conversation about this book. abc's david wright is at the white house tonight. >> reporter: tonight, fallout over "fire and fury." president trump's former chief strategist is trying to justify his use of the words "treasonous" and "unpatriotic" to describe that 2016 meeting at trump tower between don junior and other top campaign officials and a russian lawysing dirt on hillary clinton. steve bannon doesn't deny the quote, but claims it's been inaccurately reported. patri

on the one hand you will get conversations or forms of direct you have manyd mediated things.for is a moment that the first time there is satellite communication, photos, tv, all kinds of things happening. the other thing that is more widely recognized is that if you read or study history of different places in 1968 you will come across multiple actors saying very similar things. that have no idea about each other. oft is a deep kind of level synchronicity you have to pay attention to. this is the reality of the situation. >> one thing i want to add, a ity of middle east context. 1968 is not over. just declare jerusalem the capital and people went crazy, why? a cousin of 1967. -- middle east contacts because of 1967. for middle east context it is not over. for empire,new term really. it is important to discuss this is not a placeit where things happen, it is a major part of the global dynamics of geopolitics and political realities happening today. it is something unfinished. continuum of a something longer. a lot of people think it is cool to 2011to connect 1968 in egypt. opp

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american workers are increasingly at risk because the manyd states admits so foreign workers, some of whom are permitted to stay for years or even decades. many companies use cheap foreign labor, driving down salaries. worse still, many of these employers commit terrible abuses. that is why i was pleased to see this administration take on the issues with its by america, hire american executive order. it is unclear whether efforts to date have really moved the needle when it comes to protecting american workers and i hope that you, madam secretary, could shed light on that. this committee is well aware that the department is facing larger structural problems. operate like a't single agency. you may disagree, but that's the way i see it. it operates like a bunch of little agencies that don't always work well together. time and again i hear reports that the various components department do not have adequate mechanisms for data collection and information sharing. that means the right hand often doesn't know what the left is doing. in practice, that causes inefficiency. that criticism is p