planning federation industries says it will make it make it harder for them to react to the ups and downs of the economic cycle they say the coalition deal does not prepare the country for the future. so what will germany's new government bring for the german economy economy i'm now joined this studio by jaco hall is the president of the europeans who of management and technology here in berlin welcome thank you for joining. us this early hour why have business leaders as we've heard so cautious and doubtful about the new german government in fact the new agreement is a little bit more of the same so there's nothing really new in it and it takes for granted that the gross the unprecedented growth we've seen over recent years just with continual such as it is this very little concerned about making sure that this goes will be sustainable that new initiatives will be invested into its rather balcombe songs and then about investments but you know the german economy is doing very well we keep hearing figures that are just splendid why change anything. the real reasons behind this gross and al

the present plan is tilted heavily against older, distressed, industrial cities. it changes the way the federal formula works so that cities like flint under this plan would have to come up with 80% of the money in order to access 20% federal funding. if flint had 80% of the money , if these communities have that money available, they would have been spending it already. the president's plan is -- it falls short. host: it's $200 billion in federal funds to spur one $.5 trillion in infrastructure investment. that's the hope from the white house and you are saying that hope is far-fetched? hairs but to split it's $200 billion of federal money over 10 years. that's offset by $170 billion of cuts to existing federal infrastructure programs over that same time which means it's $30 billion of new money over 10 years, $3 billion per year. compare that to the $80 billion per year in funding, increased funding the defense department just received and it's pretty obvious that this is not really a priority for this president. from kathy is up first mesh again, a democrat, good morning. caller: good mornin

industry to three. mistakes. we regret them. the federal government's plans for cleaner air must be enforced. by cycling have to breathe in all of these diesel emissions it's especially bad in winter when you feel like the city stinks. if we have two weeks and see where the demand for diesel is going in on three. different regulations obviously confused. but i would say this it will come to a stop and sales. so you should only take celebrants so that list poison ends up in your lungs. also coming up tonight i'll talk with the u.s. representative in syria waiting to deliver humanitarian aid to. close enough to see the fighting but not close enough to ease the suffering we knew that we had to go in and help them out we know that the injured and wounded who need to be evacuated but we cannot go when it's fighting is going on. or we begin the day with the devil in the details of diesel today a court in germany ruled that cities have the authority to ban diesel vehicles in order to reduce air pollution and environmental groups praised the ruling calling it a green victory and precedent setting for

the present plan is tilted heavily against older, distressed, industrial cities. it changes the way the federal works so that cities like flint under this plan would have to come up with 80% of the money in order to access 20% federal funding. if flint had 80% of the money , if these communities have that money available, they would have been spending it already. the president's plan is -- it falls short. host: it's $200 billion in federal funds to spur one $.5 trillion in infrastructure investment. that's the hope from the white house and you are saying that hope is far-fetched? hairs but to split it's $200 billion of federal money over 10 years. that's offset by $170 billion of cuts to existing federal infrastructure programs over that same time which means it's $30 billion of new money over 10 years, $3 billion per year. compare that to the $80 billion per year in funding, increased funding the defense department just received and it's pretty obvious that this is not really a priority for this president. from kathy is up first mesh again, a democrat, good morning. caller: good morning john a

industry. >> yeah. look, the state and local governments and the federal government and the private sector will benefit from the third part of the infrastructure plan which is, get rid of unnecessary regulations that cause these projects to be tied up in endlessly in litigation and endlessly delayed for years and years and years. so i think it is unlikely they're going to get much if anything at all on the federal, local government, state government cooperation. they will get on some of the public/private partnership. the big impact is regulatory relief it gives people involved in these projects. trish: let me ask you about the topic de jure. i don't want to spend too much time on it, but frankly i think it's a big distraction right now. the whole rob porter thing thing and timing we're hearing christopher wray, different than what the white house told us, is this going to be costly to the administration in any view? >> i think it already has cost him some credibility but there is a deeper issue here which is, who is in charge of making these decisions? in january, 25th, 2017, rob porter's wife first wife, talked with the fbi and told them about th

plans to stop direct federal support for the orbiting laboratory in 2025. the document says it's possible the iss would transition into a commercial venture run by a private industry't have the only say in this, however. the space station is a cooperative program between the united states, europe, russia, canada, and japan. >>> president trump's daughter-in-law was taken to the hospital after she opened an envelope that contained white powder. new york city police say the substance was deemed to be nonhazardous. vanessa trump called 911 this morning after opening a letter addressed to her husband, donald trump jr. police say she was coughing and felt nauseous. the substance is now being analyzed at a lab. donald trump jr. tweeted today, quote, thankful that vanessa and my children are safe and unharmed after the incredibly scary situation that occurred this morning. truly disgusting that certain individuals choose to express their opposing views with such disturbing behavior. >>> after being battered by hurricanes irma and maria months ago, americans in puerto rico are still suffering. millions remain without power and clean water is still unavailable in some area

federal gas tax in order to fund the plan. he is supportive of the gas tax idea. markets are rallying this morning. a big rally yesterday that continues this morning. dow industrialsopen up 2 232 points, 1% higher, s&p 500 is up 14 points and the nasdaq up 40 points. that after yesterday's big close, stocks actually soared by the close for a fourth consecutive day. investors shook off early losses after the consumer price index increased more than expected in january. you saw the volatility at the opening of trading as we reported that cpi. by the close, a complete reversal. the fau focus returned to earnis and a strong economy. in europe, money is moving into equities again. the momentum continues there as well. dax index up 2/3 of 1%. in asia overnight, stocks were in the green, taking a cue from wall street. markets in china and korea were closed for the lunar new year. plus, is the crypto craze back on? take a look at bitcoin, surging yet again, now at nearly $10,000 on bitcoin. all that, coming up this morning and joining me to break it down, dagen mcdowell, former homeland security advisor, michael balboni and investment strategy lindsey bell joining us this

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