mr. perez: wha, organize every wthat is how we a where ralph northam became the next governor, and we had historic gains in the virginia house ofphil murphy in new jersn doug jones in amsoledad: after s alabama, you thanked black women, women of color, and you often hear -- i think more vocally of late -- women, black women, latinas saying, we are always assumrte democrats, and s don't necessa back. they need our votes, but they don't eme us. mr. perez: i think it is absolu accurate, and when i took this position, i went out and did we took way too many constitu granted, including african-am and latinos. that is why we are out there leading with our valin alabama,1 million in that race, and 100% of that was used to make sure we were engaging the african commsoledad: can you serve those constituents a time not ignore those constituents in the midwest? mr. perez: i categorically reject this proposition thatthee working-cls voters or you reach out to the diverse quilt that is the deicour motto and

[cheering] mr. perez: and thanks to african-american women, 98% of whom voted for doug jones. the backbone of the democratic party. doug jones is now senator doug jones. that, she was in virginia organizing up-and-down virginia from hampton roads to northern virginia, helping people up and down the ticket. -- up and down the ticket send a message to america that when we organize them up when we have great candidates and lead with our values, we win. that is what we did. so thank you for your work. i must tell you, it is a beautiful site to look out here today -- a beautiful sight to look out here today. one more thing, if the congress, the white house, the governorships across america, the legislators across america had more women like i see here today, we would be a much better america. there is no doubt about it. [cheering] president i asked trump and sean spicer to come over and count the crowd, but they did not want to come. no matter what they said, this is what an actual crowd looks like. [cheering]

[cheering] mr. perezdoug jones is now senator doug jones. that, she was in virginia organizing up-and-down virginia from hampton roads to northern virginia, helping people up and down the ticket. -- up and down the ticket send a message to america that when we organize them up when we have great candidates and lead with our values, we win. that is what we did. so thank you for your work. i must tell you, it is a beautiful site to look out here today -- a beautiful sight to look out here today. one more thing, if the congress, the white house, the governorships across america, the legislators across america had more women like i see here today, we would be a much better america. there is no doubt about it. [cheering] president i asked trump and sean spicer to come over and count the crowd, but they did not want to come. no matter what they said, this is what an actual crowd looks like. [cheering] mr. perez: we are all here for the same reason. we understand that our democracy is at risk. ago,derstand that

while the operation against them was under way, mr perez used social media to say they were unable toshooting. former us senate majority leader, bob dole, has received one of the country's highest civilian awards. the 94—year—old was awarded the congressional gold medal in recognition of his service to the nation. president trump said the former presidential candidate as "a patriot, a leader and a hero". let's turn to our top business story on today's briefing. we are in china, where in a couple of hours we get annual growth figures for the world's number two economy. we are expecting growth to come in at 6.8%. marginally better than the previous year, which was the weakest in 25 years. it is above the chinese government's target. james hughes is chief market analyst at axi trader. good to see you. china's growth numbers, we have a big focus on it. how important is it when it comes to the likes of yourjob and what people do around the world in terms of markets? it is really important. because china is such a massive economy, we need their growth figures and we need them to be strong f

government opponents say mr perez was a victim of an extrajudicial execution.ous terrorist who died in a shootout. five people have suffered serious injuries after a train derailment in sydney, australia. three passengers became trapped after the train failed to stop at the end of a line. the crash happened at the suburban richmond station. after months of deadlock, germany has moved a step closer to forming a new government. the centre—left social democratic party has voted to enter into new coalition talks with chancellor merkel‘s conservative bloc. nina trentmann from the wall street journal joins me now. good morning. nice to see you. after months of limbo, it looks like a deal could be on the cards. months of limbo, it looks like a deal could be on the cardslj months of limbo, it looks like a deal could be on the cards. i think it will take days or weeks of further negotiations. we have seen yesterday that leaders of the christian social union, mrs merkel‘s smaller coalition partner, and they say it could be in february but also have been hearing other peo

mr perez's mother issued a plea saying "he is trying to give himself up and they will not let him in.rs died — but so did two policemen. and 10 were injured. this is president madura today ahead of a state of the union address. he's said action had to be taken because the group was planning a bomb attack on an embassy. translation: the command groups were fulston to action, some of the terrorist groups fell, others were captured. more than five were ca ptu red captured. more than five were captured and they were already giving their statements and telling all. the plans they have horrifying. when news emerged that oscar perez had died box 4 this started happening. this was relatively close to where oscar perez was killed — and these supporters are chanting "freedom". here's what one demonstrator had to say. translation: this shows that venezuela is fed up with what's happening, this demonstration is to defend oscar peres who has done a lot for us, much more than the opposition has managed. some people are asking why the government didn't take perez alive after he'd said he wanted to s

mr perez's fate is not known. here is katy watson. this is the latest she has heard. appeared on oscar perez's instagram account, some of them showed his bloodied face, he had obviously been injured, and he said that he had come under attack. you could see a small house he was m, you could see a small house he was in, he was wearing body armour, you could hear shots in the background. he was saying he was willing to give himself up, but he claimed the varieties were saying they were wanting to kill him rather than him hanged himself in. there was also a video that was allegedly his mother, who was also calling for the authorities to let him give himself up. but after mid—morning there were no more videos. and what is this perez's game? what does he want apart from president maduro to go? as you mentioned, last year he became very famous by taking a helicopter and throwing grenades on government buildings. he says that it isa government buildings. he says that it is a crusade against a tyrannical government. the government says he isa government. the government says he

perez. >> happy anniversary, mr. president. your wish came true. you wanted a shutdown.he trump shutdown is all yours. >> reporter: uncertainty in washington and across the country after the senate failed to get enough democrat support to end debate on yet another stopgap federal budget bill. even some republican senators voting no. >> they want a deal on immigration, and then they'll think about reopening the government. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers say they won't pass a spending bill unless they get guaranteed protections for d.r.e.a.m.ers, the nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. >> negotiating with this white house is like negotiating with jell-o. it's next to impossible. >> reporter: the shutdown furloughs 800,000 federal workers and defers pay for many military personnel, but this weekend it's already impacting some americans, including tulsa, who planned to visit the statue of liberty national park. >> well, my mom actually reserved ahead of time tickets, so when we got here today we were super stoked to go. no, it's shut do

perez reporting for us, thanks very much. let's talk more about the russia investigation and the trump presidency with leon panetta, former defense secretary, former cia director in the obama administration. mr. secretary, thanks for joining us. >> wolf, good to be with you. >> you heard on president trump's mental state, do you think, first of all, and you're a former white house chief of staff, do you think it was appropriate? >> well, members of congress oftentimes do various meetings and whether or not it's appropriate or not, obviously they were seeking to have that discussion and i think we ought to not read a lot into that. i think the psychiatrist herself said this was not a diagnosis, just her personal opinion. and so when it comes to personal opinions about the mental state of anyone, they can vary a great deal. >> have you seen concerns about president trump and his mental fitness? >> we know this president can be erratic and he engages in this tweeting both with regards to international affairs as well as domestic affairs there. are a lot of questions about the behavior of this president and whether or not that relates to a mental issue, that doesn't lie with a psychiatrist. it l

perez, the director of air policy environmental defense fund. and it was a very good hearing last time, which i'll now kind of raise questions from that. mr. mcintyre, seeing there's a price spike in fuel cost, lng was imported, spot price going far higher in the northeast, this gentlemen last year said that there was actually a lot of unused capacity in our northeast pipeline system and that ferc was working to add flexibility to the schedule and to better use that capacity. do you agree it's an assertion from two years ago, i guess, year and a half ago? do you agree with that assertion and ferc adds to work flexibility in terms of delivering of gas. >> i know we have worked on reforms in the market structures and practices in schedules in the interrelationship between natural gas pipe lines which we regulate and electric transmission, which of course is critical to gain the power that was generated to where it's consumed. >> i think he was speaking of the gas and said at times only 54% of the capacity was used in the polar vortex, the event to which he was referring. i'm asking, is that still an issue or has that been addressed specifica

2016 from a fellow jonathan perez who's the director of air policy environmental defense fund and it was a very good hearing last time which i'll raise questions from that. mr. mcintyre, seeing there's this price spike in fuel cost, it was spot price going far higher in the northeast, this gentleman last year said that there was actually a lot of unused capacity in our northeast pipeline system and that ferc was working to add flexibility to the schedule and to better use that capacity. do you agree that's an assertion from two years ago, do you agree with that assertion and has ferc now worked to add flexibility in terms of delivering of gas? >> i know that we've worked on reforms in the market structures and practices and schedules in the interrelationship between natural gas, pipelines which we regulate and electric transmission which of course is critical to gaining the power from where its generated to where its consumed. >> i think you're speaking of the gas that at times that only the 54% was used in the polar vortex. is that an issue or has that been addressed specifically? >> we do have as you heard i think most -- >> i had to step out i'm sorry if