joe pike, bbc news, westminster. let's get more now from our political correspondent, ben wright.ime minister? questions about the “udgment of the prime minister?_ questions about the “udgment of the prime minister? members of the prime minister? members of the conservative _ the prime minister? members of the conservative party _ the prime minister? members of the conservative party have - the conservative party have tried to make the claim, saying keir starmer did about it because to the city was a friend, they have neighbouring constituencies in london, she's a political ally, they have known each other for ages, so they are trained to claim it that stopped the prime minister from seckinger earlier in the week. numbertend from seckinger earlier in the week. number tend assisted —— insisted it was not the case, it was right to wait for laurie magnus to hand the results of his fact—finding investigation to the premise for everyone to see, as was said, the standards which are, sir lori magnus, funders no code broken here, so she was exonerated on the central charge that people hav

joe pike, bbc news, westminster.ore than 18 weeks for treatment. it wants to slash the numbers by nearly 500,000 by the end of march next year. ministers say there'll be greater use of the private sector, and more access to local testing and treatment centres. hugh pym has been talking to patients. that's all right. this is what the government wants to see a lot more of — dedicated local nhs diagnostic centres for scans and tests. this morning, gavin was in for a chest scan, following up on a long—term condition. you may breathe normally. it's close to home and he didn't need to go to a normal hospital. the waiting is almost non—existent. i came here for my scan. i waited, filled in the paperwork. less than ten minutes, i was in and out. turn left down the corridors, yeah? centres like this will move to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. having sites like this where patients can almost have ring—fenced capacity so that they don't get cancelled is absolutely vital. the prime minister's plan also involves more surgical

motion to approve and a second i second roll call vote commissioner pike's yes.ommissioner kim. >> commissioner lindo. yes. and president joyce i so moved our action items listed under item ten a first is item ten a which is a resolution approving housing choice voucher administrative plan policy amendments and sections four dash two c opening and closing the wait list for dash 3c2c rad slash pbb site based waiting list for dash three c2d for project base vouchers site based waiting list and exhibit 4-1 for definitions and exhibit 4-3 for site based wait list and this will be presented by linda mason, our general counsel. >> thank you. okay. thank you commissioners. good afternoon. this particular item came to us as a as an initial conversation with our partners at the mayor's office of housing community development oci and mercy because two buildings that for the interest of time i'll leave their descriptions within the staff reports but in particular 607th street and the hunters point shipyard block 56 building will be coming online shortly. these two buildings

more like heads on a pike. but it's going to be okay. don't you think?ephen: the heads on a pike thing is only a few minutes away from not being a metaphor. what worries you most about what he'll do these 100 executive orders that he's going to sign, or 200, however many. >> he is doing a lot on immigration as he said he would when he ran. presidents typically have wide latitude to do with a wonton immigration. he will be able to do a lot of deportations if that's what he wants to do. he wants to end birthright citizenship. i think that's going to be pretty tough since it's fairly clear in the 14th amendment. >> stephen: decided in the 19th century and then again. >> a lot of these executive actions are for show. the thing that really jumped out at me is what we didn't see, there is one executive related to inflation which is basically the reason he won, right? he said inflation was out of control, prices were too high under joe biden. the executive order he signed today was a whole of government effort in a memorandum to bring down inflation. great, tha

become a distraction from the work of government. 0ur political and investigations correspondentjoe pikers together. but a steady stream of this, a decade ago, she credited herfamily with inspiring her political rise but they may also have played a part in her sudden fall. back then, keir starmer was at her side. he has been forced to defend her. tulip starmer was at her side. he has been forced to defend her.— forced to defend her. tulip siddiq has acted entirely _ forced to defend her. tulip siddiq has acted entirely properly i forced to defend her. tulip siddiq has acted entirely properly by i has acted entirely properly by referring herself to the independent adviser. a , referring herself to the independent adviser. , ., ., ., , ., adviser. many of the other, many of the allegations _ adviser. many of the other, many of the allegations relate _ adviser. many of the other, many of the allegations relate to _ adviser. many of the other, many of the allegations relate to her- adviser. many of the other, many of the allegations relate to her aunt i the allegations relate to her aunt who

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yields piking, concerns grow about where the fed is heading. we break down the moves. and the year of the obesity pill. pharma companies seem to have a singular focus. the stocks that could see biggest gains. >>> consolation energy hits new highs on a blockbuster power deal and tapestry may be done. live from the nasdaq on the desk tonight. we start with a major sell-off. all three indices tumbling more than 1.5%. payrolls growing by more than 250,000 in december, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. today's market drop nearly erasing the entire post election rally. just one week to go until trump's inauguration. the dow is below where it was on election day. the s&p 500 basically flat. the nasdaq still holding on to a less than 4% gain. while equities sold off, the dollar and treasuries ticked higher, ten-year closing in on 4.8%, highest since 2023. the 30-year hitting 5%. the dollar at its highest level in more than two years. all of this action ahead of two key inflation reports coming next week, both producer and consumer prices expected to accelerate from nov

how much of that is premature based on some of the policies coming down the pike, uncertainty around to divorce a little bit from the fiscal work that has to be done. the incoming treasury secretary has to take seriously the question of how we manage the revenue stream, expense stream, get it all to work out. that becomes easier if you have more activity, more things going on. enthusiasm from the bankers is more structurally, they believe, even starting yesterday, you don't have the constraint that you had. if there is more that enables more, that is good stuff. right now it will stop it going from the wrong direction. our medium and small size businesses, their biggest complaint last summer, and we talked to the administration about it, you are in my pocket, i cannot get things done. i want permits to do something. it takes forever. labor rules, all of this stuff. small businesses don't have the people to figure that out. the same person running the business is sitting there at night saying what is this new taxation on social security? how does it apply to me? they are just saying,

now comes the 20th, seal the board or executive order, a lot coming down the pike here.ns better be lock stock and barrel with him because he is the president. christian: when it comes to the primary season, we will see what happens with norman, self, massey, if they get donald trump's backing. that dangles over those figures in congress when donald trump is in the white house. of course that's the case. one thing mike johnson did do, annika, as speaker, said he would commit to a working group to look at government spending, audit federal agencies, task house committees to undertake aggressive reviews of the work that federal agencies do. does that reassure you that this is a speaker that wants to get to grip with spending? >> i think to step in the right direction. the leadership has to do what they can with what they have. that is always a challenge. the house doesn't have as much power. individual members don't have as much power as they do in the senate. by working with democrats in the past, he has shown he is not afraid to do that. he will not be hamstrung if his m

make the broth take it and we'll say for a time my henry before his paperwork as the saying goes, pike's head is an empty babble. but still hands are useful for making. who are you? what are they? i'd say adds flavor to that list of, of that. yes, it as flavor for a whole. some you can safety on you as well. what does the north mean to you? konstantin know back, i can fully says best of those. this is my home. the lead time, my home country town, i go and fishing really 5 you have in my whole life here. yes. it's a place where the soul rest as they say, there's no other way to put it. and then you feel it, no matter when you go home, once you do me, the north is the place where you can reconnect with your roots and really feel ties to your country, your culture and your nature and your origins as a whole village in the north is where you can learn how to communicate with other human beings, understand and accept them. it's a place where you can grow spiritually and become a better version of yourself for everything good is the north. people here in the village or like family. we're all v

camino, we have been working on this to be in place to analyze whatever legislation might come down the pike. i know we will not be perfect. we will not be ready for everything. but we have been working hard for months now to be ready for whatever legislation might come up. then on the impact of the tax changes, i think what you said is fair. that in our baseline we have a relatively modest impact of the expiration of some of the provisions of this -- of the 2017 act that is currently in law. you can see it in our economic projections. you can see it in our revenue projections. i'm just going to hold up one page for everyone to see. this is the report on our website and the inside front cover of the report has a one-page by the numbers. it gives a summary of the budget numbers and economic numbers in both dollars -- dollars and percentage of gdp. this is on our website as well. anyone who wants to see a snapshot of what we are seeing in our projections, that is the one page i would suggest. again, you can see it. that gdp growth slows a bit as we go from 2025 to 2026, reflecting the factors

and there are some other key nominations coming down the pike. pike, anderson. caitlin, including tulsi gabbard. that's the one for the director of national intelligence, robert f kennedy jr., for health and human services. mcconnell, seen as a swing vote on those two nominations as well. so what will what will this vote say about how he will approach the rest of trump's agenda? the rest of his cabinet nominees? something to watch as the republican former republican leader breaks ranks and now forcing vp jd vance to come in and break a tie to get over the finish line, barely. >> caitlin. yeah. and so he spoke to him for two hours. and hegseth also sent to senator thom tillis a letter. manu. >> yeah, that was essentially it. at least the questions that tillis had. he said that he needed to speak to the hegseth. hegseth responded to those questions and not just hegseth responding to those questions. other republicans also weighing in directly with thom tillis, the majority leader of the senate, john thune, spoke to him several times through the course of the day.

joe pike, bbc news, westminster. 0ur political editor chris mason is here.nd of resignation is never good for a government but particularly when it is coming underfire in other areas — such as the handling of the economy. if you were to produce a political heat map of the government in the last few weeks, the bit that would be flashing red would be the treasury, so first the stuff about tulip siddiq, and there is detailed but in politics it is not the court of law but the court of perceptions and unanswered questions are dangerous because they generate more headlines. it is worth quoting a few more extracts from the independent adviser to the prime minister, i've not been able to obtain comprehensive comfort in relation to the uk property related matters referred to in the media. he also says tulip siddiq acknowledged that over an extended period she was unaware of the origins of their ownership of herflat unaware of the origins of their ownership of her flat in kings cross. and that she had in summary exposed herself to allegations of misconduct by associat

ms siddiq insists she's done nothing wrong, asjoe pike reports. what is the background to this?year was prime minister of bangladesh who fled the country amidst a violent and deadly anti—government protest. many people believe that she was a despot. the allegations facing tulip siddiq the uk government minister come in two parts, part one is the claim already investigating by bangladeshi authorities that she helped broker a deal between her aunt and anime putin before she was mp for the that the minister was at that meeting in 2013 and she is always insisted that she was there in a personal capacity. also notable that the allegations were first raised by a political rival of her aunt. the second part of the allegation which was seen in newspapers recently is allegations around homes and flats in central london. tulip siddiq has lived in various properties which are or were owned by people with links to her political party including a flat in central london which labour could was gifted to the minister is an act of gratitude to her parents. and the ft newspaper said the businessm

there are 3 more coming town the pike this is a growing issue.ongressman and senators will be able to say, in my state, we have a flat tax, why not nationally. david: grover norquist you gave us good news into the new year, happy new year to. >> yes, thank you. >> you too. >> coming up while u.s. struggled during the 2008 financial crisis, texas led the way in jobs, economic under governor rick perry, we'll ask the former governor when kudlow continues. let's go boys. the way that i approach work, post fatherhood, has really been trying to understand the generation that we're building devices for. here in the comcast family, we're building an integrated in-home wifi solution for millions of families, like my own. connectivity is a big part of my boys' lives. it brings people together in meaningful ways. ♪ ♪ . >> drill, baby, drill trump's mantra, helping us reduce a huge part of inflation equation, best way to increase productiono all fronts. growing the economy, a man who knows a lot about that our next guest former texas governor former u.s. en

it's something we're going to be talking about more and more especially as decisions come down the pike that liberals disagree with but the likelihood is obviously not going up. host: there's nothing in the constitution that mandates this. guest: not at all. there's not even the number of justices on the original court and again to the genius but infallibility of the founders, they decided in the first congress to have six, which is obviously setting yourself up for a even number where decisions are tied obvious times. no, it's set by congress and congress is the architect of the other two branches and set at nine a long time now but it's not written in stone from the mountain high but that's what it's got to be. host: you want to talk about f.d.r. and his attempt? guest: it was in political circumstances he wasn't getting the rulings he wanted from a more conservative court so he was threatening a lot to pack the court to make sure a lot of his new deal legislation would go through and wasn't subject to judicial review to stop it and would say all right, you want to test me, i'll get c

. >> brian: what about down the pike? >> dana: possibly.crats this unprepared for hearings, only person more unprepared is you and that is a shot because you took a shot at me during the commercial break. he said he prefer to have bill hemmer. >> brian: escort dana out of this, how dare she. [laughter] >> brian: when dana turns on you. okay. since i'm not worthy, tell us what is next? >> dana: doos is on the loose ahead of the inauguration? >> brian: i think he's out there now. >> dana: there it is. >> brian: take a break and then dana will apologize. [laughter] with fiber to help promote gut health. and probiotics to help relieve occasional bloating. so you can feel your best. metamucil fiber plus probiotics gummies. bent finger appointment in 30 minutes. you got this. one — remember, i don't want surgery for my dupuytren's contracture. two — i don't want to wait for my contracture to get worse. three — i want a treatment with minimal downtime. four — i want a nonsurgical treatment. and five... and if nonsurgical treatment isn't offered? i

was to have been played on wednesday, so the authorities knew years in advance these are down the pikeknew potential for any more large scale public events to be a terrorist target, whether again a "lone wolf" or organized threat, so i would argue that you know, i know doing a hot wash right now saying how did we miss this what did we do that was lacking, part of that security bair system they said essentially under repair in anticipation of february super bowl you can't allow a comap you have to get everything right every time terrorist only need one opportunity to get it right. cheryl: well, you know to your point about bollards they said that was a mistake, because they removed them you are correct removed them, to repair afebruary super bowl then police vehicles blocking off the street he drove the truck around that i want to ask about las vegas police have identified 37-year-oldtive duty green beri matthew livelsberger from colorado as driver of the cybertruck that exploded newerier's day in front of las vegas trump international hotel officials say he said of self-inflicted gunsh

there is a lot of legal repercussions coming down the pike with respect to this contempt hearing thats outside of all of his other legal troubles. >> thank you so much for being with us. >> when we come back, it is the end of an era in canadian politics. prime minierti trudeau saying he will resign. we will explain his thinking in just a moment. (woman) i've got this dream... and you're all in it! (banker 1) let's hear it! (vo) with wells fargo premier a team can help you plan for your dream. (woman) i have this vacation home... (banker 2) so, like a getaway? (woman) yeah, but... it's also an eco-friendly artist retreat. (banker 3) so, you're expanding your business... (woman) ...and our family! can you help me plan for that? (banker 1) yeah! let's get started. (vo) ready to meet the dream team? you can with wells fargo. >>> some news justin. the louisiana department of health said the first person diagnosed with severe symptoms of bird flu has died. there were hospitalized after exposure to a backyard flock of birds. the person was over the age of 65 and already had underlying health

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of understanding exactly how the fed is analyzing incoming information and policies coming down the pike. jonathan: stay tuned for more coverage on this. i want to get into today's schedule just briefly. annmarie is down in washington, d.c., our nation's capital observing the day of morning, the funeral of president jimmy carter. that will have implications for markets in the united states. equities futures are open, but they will close early at 9:30 a.m. eastern time for the cash equity market will not open today. the bond market, cash treasuries are open. they will close later at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. lisa: yeah. futures i believe closing at 1:00 p.m., which puts all the more emphasis on the bond market, which, frankly, has been one of the main drivers of the concern that is rising. in equity markets, this i think is important, the fact that equity markets held in as far as they have in the face of some of the bond market selloff, highlight how much they are on growth in a downside surprise. this according to christian of goldman sachs. jonathan: your lineup for the next 60 minutes l

response, she admits she had no idea they were there and talking about the lawsuits coming down the pike and one of them already this coming week. i imagine that will probably be part of the lawsuit if they're trying to prove negligence, here's the police super-intent saying gosh, we had these protective measures and i didn't even know about them and golly, it's too bad they weren't up and in use on new year's eve. that is a tough, tough sound byte for the city of new orleans. rachel: charlie, new orleanss is a huge tourist destination and a place that obviously needs top w enforcement and so many events there. what are they thinking putting this woman in charge? she does not in any way shape or form make you feel confident. is this dei hiring 124 what is happening here? charlie: no, she does not inspire any confidence whatsoever and i agree, i think, you know, a quote like that will be perfect in a lawsuit. the other thing that's really frustrating though right now, and we're doing what we should be doing, which is focusing on the people who made these terrible decisions and focusing on

eastern yesterday interior secretary pike doug burgum and energy secretary choice chris wright highlighting plan to unleash energy. >> energy dominance vision will end wars abroad make life in other affordable for every family in america driving down inflation, and president of trump will achieve those goals, clean air, clean water, and protecting our beautiful lands. >> previous agencies viewed energy a liability in ansted of immense national asset it is we must companion energy production concluding commercial nuclear liquefied natural gas cut energy costs for americans. >> closely watching nominee scott bessent presenting case for why current economic policies are not working, how president-elect trump will make it better. >> i believe, that president trump has a generational opportunity to unleash a new economic golden age that will create more jobs, wealth prosperity for all americans. we are spending about 24, 25 percent gdp so as you said, 6.8 to 7% deficit we have never seen this before, if we do not -- fix this -- if we do not bring limits down then we will be facing an economic ca

trump is spending the weekend at mar-a-lago after successfully if pressuring his party to preserve pikeohnson's speakership. -- mike johnson's speakership. nate foy has more. >> reporter: hey, griff. president-elect donald trump and his team are working to fill out the leadership apparatus in washington, d.c. with people who will implement his agenda starting on day one of his second term. as you mentioned, that included supporting house speak speaker mike johnson, but it will also include uniting republicans around trump's cabinet picks who will face confirmation hearings starting in ten days. >> we need to not only put in president trump's people so we can implement this change, but we need to restore confidence in our basic levels of government whether that's national security, law enforcement or critical infrastructure. we cannot have any more lapses. president trump has picked some fantastic people, and the american people voted for him to put the adults back in charge. we need them on day one. >> reporter: trump's pick for defense secretary, pete hegseth, will face a senate hearin

we have tax cuts down the pike and deregulation ball rolling rg and accelerated energy production.ee the shutting of the southern border. the reason the shutting of the southern border matters is millions of migrants that crossed illegally, i don't support obviously, but the reality is it caused waged inflation to decline significant and inflated corporate profits in the process and you could be reversing some of that. charles: it's great news for main street. >> well, yeah, and those that voted president trump in office. charles: about tax cut s? >> expanding trump tax cuts will represent a small positive shock to the economy from the perspective of boosting con couples investment expandtures and the tomorrow rat tax cut is the biggest market catalyst and merely extending the individual income provisions of the tcja, that's not going to be much of a stimulus. the big one is the corporate tax reduction. charles: animal spirits feel like they're back and opening weak. your thoughts on where we are with the equities market and the animal spirits, how far can they carry us? >> upside

much do you see that being, may be a little premature, aced on some of the policies coming down the pikend some of the uncertainty around deficits and rates? brian: you have to divorce some of the physical work that has to be done and the incoming treasury secretary and others have to take seriously this question of how do we manage the stream and the amount of debt and get it to work out? that becomes easier if you have more activity and more things going on. i think the enthusiasm you hear from the bankers is more structurally the belief is that even starting yesterday you don't have that she don't have the constraint you have so you can go. if it is more enables more, that is good stuff, but right now it will stop it going the wrong direction. medium and small sized businesses their last complaint last summer, last time i was here -- and we talked to the administration about it -- the biggest complaint was, you are in my pocket, i can't get things done, i want a permit to do something, it takes forever, labor rules, just all of the stuff, over and over. small business's don't have the

nearly half of the ipos that come down the pike this year are expected to come from pe-backed firms.picker is here with more on the story and ken squire is with us as well. >> literally a shove. >> she did this. >> she's right, though. they've been sitting in these funds. these funds are aging, and the longer they sit there, the bigger they get, the fewer prospective buyers. and, by the way, there are all these limited partners and investors in the private equity firms that want their money back in the realizations of m&a or ipo. ipo is becoming an even more attractive option. after 2024 when you saw outperformance, when you look at the ipo class of 2024, the edian performance for those that were backed by private equity was about 21%. those backed by venture capital, the median performance was about negative 8%. >> wow. >> so a huge disparity. so you've got the public market investors who like that performance. they also like the predictability of these companies that have an operating history and credit spreads are extremely tight right now. >> interest rates are still high. >> int

new year and thought you'd react to this high noon dramatic cat's whisker vote victory for speaker pike johnson. what do you think, sir? >> it's key to getting mandate of the november 5 election, which elected president trump once again to get it on the role. if we had to lose one day and one week, who knows how long it could have take and to come up with somebody else. i'm just glad it's over and it's good news for all the people that voted for trump, even if they don't know who speaker johnson is. larry: actually, if they hadn't got it through, you could have been president by january 20th, president protemporal integration of the senate. no speaker and no certification monday or maybe not even januar. as i understand it, you would have stood in line to become president. >> well, president pro tem job is very important job in the united states senate, but i'm just glad that scenario didn't happen because what it would be is blow everything that was accomplished by reelecting president trump and just blow it all away. we can't afford to lose one day let alone a month after getting this

. >> it's a huge issue coming down the pike and we will see work goes.kground. thank you good to see you. >> thanks martha good to see y you. >>> the newly minted chair of the house intelligence committee congressman rick crawford on trump's bold move to revoke security clearances for the officials who dismissed hunter biden's laptop 51 of them as you remember they said right before the election that it had all the hallmarks -- earmarks excuse me of russian propaganda and they had to eat their words afterwards. we will talk to him about what's going to happen to them now that they're getting their security clearances provoked. i don't think they will like that very much. that's next. u know your credit d rates may be over 22% and if you pay late... 30%! as a veteran family, you can use your va cash out benefit to get the newday 100 that lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just 80% like some banks. 100% means you get more cash to pay off your high rate credit cards and your car loan. no one approves veterans like newday. call now: 1-844-9

mike pike randy, you served in a community that had lots of big events. new orleans has got the super bowl in a little over a month. here in washington we've got an inauguration coming up, and beyond the super bowl in new orleans you've also got mardi gras. will local, state and federal authorities be ready for these huge events on the horizon? >> you know, with what we saw with this failure in new orleans on new year's eve, i think that perhaps because of the scrutiny the that is now on this city that there will be a massive upsurge in the strategy and the strategic approach to their factors involved here. i am hoping that there will be a full court press in the creation of an environment that will lead to much greater safety. but we can't ignore the rot at the top that we saw demonstrated as a result of this debacle in new orleans with that first presser and then the pressers afterwards that showed the deep confusion and the response, a very, very poor response to this event. mike: randy and scott, thank you so much for reacting, responding, giving your

executive, at this point in time i'm really confused and i really don't know what's coming down the pike far as government support goes and rely more heavily on gas powered vehicles? i have already put all this money into building these production facilities for evs. maria: i think president trump is basically saying do what you want. you want an electric vehicle, get it. you want a gas powered vehicle, get it. i'm just not going to agree to subsidies for oneen of the market. it's not going to push subsidies on electric vehicles and i think that's right. let people do what they want. >> the mandate is the problem. economic coercion that people hate and part of this election was rejection of that and so i fully agree. >> trump said he's going to end the ev mandate day one and lee zeldin was asked about this during the confirmation hearing and he said i will make sure they're common sense, prague prc solutions when it comes to electric vehicles. maria: common sense. we'll be right back. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ (♪) at enterprise mobility, we never stop

were sitting in a warehouse not protected or erected and the broader picture as we all head down the pikewe need to steward intelligence appropriately. sarah adams and intelligence group. former cia targeter has talked at length what to expect in 2025. two things to note. number one, the terrorist groups acting in concert with each other have great plans for the united states and europe and parts of the middle east and those come in the forms of surges and waves and large group activities and sports event, embassies, train stations and the like and advancements in technology that include invisible suicide vests and certain weapons that make it through metal detectors. it means nothing to the american people if the southern and northern border are so porous they can get the machines and people through and we don't steward the resources right. the risk is great and this kind of stuff is not a one step myopic approach. a long term view and long term collection of these assets and this intelligence so that we do the right things with it. i have faith it will start happening after january 20th

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now, having put that out there, what does this portend to for future votes that are coming down the pike, debt ceiling, the budget, and other things, other legislative matters? >> well, fist let's be really clear that republican -- slim majority is still a total mess. mike johnson barely put enough votes together to get elected speaker once again. obviously, during that period of time where he didn't have enough votes, a lot of phone calls were made. donald trump, susie wiles, a bunch of folks interjected. mike johnson cannot stand on his own. he is dependent on donald trump. he's dependent on elon musk. he's dependent on all the billionaires that fund all these candidates to get their agenda through. so it's going to be a very difficult few months for mike johnson. we have in democrats a united party. they have a slim majority. more slim than the last congress. and we stopped a lot of terrible things. and so we're feeling energetic. we understand the challenge ahead and the donald trump challenge, but we feel we can stop a lot of bad things. >> leader jeff ris pledged to, quote, find bi

improved enough that they like the growth drivers like the robotaxis that tesla has coming down the pikess execution risk is e high because, remember, elon musk has said he wants that machine to be better than humans. you've got to get that right. stuart: yes, you've really got to -- i'm just not onboard entirely9 with the robotaxi. >> no? stuart: no, i just can't. >> they're pretty cool. stuart: i'm an old guy. i'm not an early adopter. >> you want your horse and buggy back? stuart: get out of here. [laughter] then we have microsoft announcing a big investment in india. what's it for? >> $3 billion in inned ya in the next to two years, all on data centers. -- in india. stuart: what are lofty expectations for a vaccine company? >> they're looking to get ten new approvals for vaccines by 2027. this would help the sales of existing drugs as well as they have a pretty good late-stage pipeline that they're looking at, again, trying to boost revenue. so, again, if they can get new approvals for things, it helps the pipeline. stuart: got it. we used to call this news you can use. mcdonald's la

but there's a lot more in the pike.one, and zions are on deck for tuesday, and comerica will be next wednesday. against the backdrop of all of this company news, of course, is an environment that could be pretty beneficial for regionals. they tend to trade better when the yield curve is steeper. although more so if that's the case due to a strengthening economy versus concerns about inflation. there's also a notion that smaller banks are entering into a friendlier environment to merge and one with less onerous capital requirements, mike. >> exactly, leslie. it feels like that's one of the things that is behind this very strong bid in the regional banks. this idea that you might have some consolidation. anything we're hearing with any specificity from the companies themselves or even from the analysts about the likelihood of certain mergers? >> reporter: yeah, we have definitely heard from analysts because one of the key trends within regionals lately has been that buyers and companies that are perceived as perspective b

. >> ana said look pike good. the injuries looked like was in a war zone. the first ambulance pulled in. it wasn't just for 6 patients. it was. 5 and then 10 and then 15 and then early estimates were at least 20 patients and all very, very >> severely injured from critical burns pleading for help surrounding initial am he says it's standard for ems to set up triage for a mass casualty incidents. what was >> significant about this event is there were just so many in the red category of the 21. >> patients transported to hospitals. most of them were considered red or critical homes and cars across the street damaged. windows blown out. one woman took us inside of her home to show us her cracked ceiling and said all of the photos fall to the ground. a 12 year-old told me her friend lives at that house and was calling out for her name for help saying she couldn't feel her leg. she hasn't received an update governor green says another patient is on life support, donating their organs and he's worried for another child who is also in critical condition over half

need the growth to be -- we need all of that right now especially given what may be coming down the pikerom this administration. >> yes. but you have a fed monetary policy that's going to be a tail wind. assuming you have fiscal policy that will be a tail wind. we don't know trade policy, tax policy, immigration policy. those are the unknowns. >> is the fed a tail wind? >> they haven't been a head wind. still saying they're going to cut twice this year. to us that's a tail wind. >> okay. jeff, what would you add to that? >> to john's point, the $7 trillion balance sheet doesn't seem like potential misstep of cutting 100 bases points back in september, we seen the 10-year note go up 100 bases points. there's a lot of cross currents right now, kelly. i've been in this business for a long time, as you know. i have the gray hair to show. seems like at this moment in time there's almost a capitulation to the upside in some of these ai stocks because the rest of the participation will be important. but corporate profits are still in tact. u.s. consumer is still in tact. just seems like this is