17th Month News Today

highest level in more than 40 years, but there are some signs in the report things could be turning around, at least a little. senate democrats will move to protect access to abortion, and this preliminary vote expected to fail. more from capitol hill ahead. the house also just approved $40 billion in aid to ukraine. right now ukraine says its making progress in the northern city of kharkiv and we will go there live. but we will begin with our team covering todays inflation report,...

With an impeachment? i guess theyre alleing the irs didnt go hard enough at the presidents son. that doesnt seem to rise to the level when, think of how many 1%-ers get away with so much from the irs every year. it furthers the argument we need more agents and should get taxes from people who should be paying the taxes. >> the former irs agents that testified last week before the oversight committee raised their concerns to the trump justice department who didnt make much of them at all. >> exac...

Strong. weve done a lot of the things that we can do here to create conditions for economic growth. 6.3 million jobs since the president took office. if you look at the number of people looking for work, theres more jobs available nor the 17th month in a row than people looking for work. labor participation rate is strong. a lot of good signs. the fed is one aspect of that. i prefer to let them do their job and us to do ours. we going to focus on what we can do for the economic growth. one is to...

Were in the 17th month of a war. the anniversaries past last week. congress hasnt had a debate on whether we should be at war. what congress really likes to do during this war is criticize the president but not vote to authorize, not vote to stop, not vote to amend. >> why are they got authorizing this war? >> they go back and say they have the authorizization under 2001. isnt isis a big enough threat. >> absolutely. >> the 2001 isolation says they have the chance to go after an attack. rand cor...

Support background checks for people on the terror watch list. lets turn to international news. great britain being more agrease evidence against isis suggesting we ramp up our bombing campaign as well. >> i think we should. i think its interesting. we start next week. the 17th month on the war against isil, congress has refused to debate or vote on it. yesterday the english parliament voted on it. in the next ten days or so the german legislative body is going to vote on it. i think its time fo...

Review board to be chaired by a former chairman of the joint chiefs ben a40-year career diplomat who was first it.ed by president nixon. and that accountability review board for benghazi came back with frankly harsh criticism for the obama administration and the state department specifically in terms of what went wrong and why in benghazi. they made 29 recommendations for how to improve. and then secretary of state hillary clinton said she was humbled by that report and she accepted all of their...

And today, the republicans on this ninth congressional committee to investigate benghazi today, in the 17th month of just this ninth investigation, the republicans on this committee derided that accountability review board as a terrible and useless thing, specifically because hillary clinton appointed its members. and she appointed its members because she is required to do so by law, by the law signed by ronald reagan to try to ensure a rigorous and real response when things go wrong abroad and ...

The syrian rebels as it enters its 17th month. the managing editor of foreign policy magazine who wrote an excellent piece why president obama must be cautious on syria. that was a good one, blake. whats the latest there? >> the rebels have really made astonishing gains over the last few weeks and there was that dramatic inkurgs into damascus when they were able to kill four top security officials of the regime. this regime is reel beingiing rw but hasnt cracked. they have the tanks and helicopt...

>> with the price of isle high and ceremony for federal revenue bordering on desperate, beating up on oil company is a popular political exercise but the industry warns if there is less drilling, there will be less energy produced and higher prices and it would mean fewer federal revenues to collect from the drillers themselves in washington, jim angle, fox news. >> bret: the u.s. service sector grew for the 17th month since april but the slowest pace since august. dollar dips to a three-year lo...

>> with the price of isle high and ceremony for federal revenue bordering on desperate, beating up on oil company is a popular political exercise but the industry warns if there is less drilling, there will be less energy produced and higher prices and it would mean fewer federal revenues to collect from the drillers themselves in washington, jim angle, fox news. >> bret: the u.s. service sector grew for the 17th month since april but the slowest pace since august. dollar dips to a three-year lo...