What is the biggest story of the week . The president s fiveday nations trip to asia. I want to zero in on china. I think the relationship between the United States and china is very, very important. And President Trump seems to have a love hate relationship with president xi jinping in china. He he has very warm rapport when it comes to can xi. They rolled out the red carpet. With china, theyre trade abusers, they have stolen our wealth, stolen our jobs, our intellectual property. Even more knew answered than that we saw him on the trip saying one thing. Then he got to china and they did this great forbidden city tour, a great welcome and he backed off a little bit and said china is not to blame. It is past administrations. Got bad reviews over that. A annie, swallows the china trip. What is it . In my mind you go back to North Carolina and his base. They did a focus group in North Carolina where it turned out only one in ten were willing to defend donald trump. You never see any sort
Amendment strategy not answering Robert Muellers questions on the ground his answers would tend to incriminate him and claim that as justification for taking the fifth which trump himself associated with gangsters but also on the political ground now that the Mueller Investigation is out to get him. Indeed, President Trump is going to new extremes in his attempts to put the fbi on trial by alleging now that he, the subject of a federal investigation, is somehow the victim of fbi spying, thats his word. The president s eketively staged a crisis to convince the country that muellers not being fair to him and therefore, he donald trump has a right not to answer his questions. Its an excuse the president is setting is up to justify a number of escape routes. Pleading the fifth with special counsel mueller or in a most extreme move shutting the probe down all together. This morning trump launched his most egregious assaulted on our Law Enforcement institutions to date saying look how things
Hi there, everyone. Im j. J. Ramberg. Welcome to your business, the show dedicated to growing your business. Small business saturday is only a couple of weeks away. And small retailers across the country are gearing up their marketing plans to get customers through their doors. But thats an issue even big retailers have been struggling with. We meet two Online Companies who say the problem isnt that people arent shopping, its that businesses are stuck in the old way of doing things when Shopping Patterns have changed. Theyre trying out alternative approaches to retail, and it has both their online and offline sales booming. Youve seen the headlines. More bad news this week for the 5 trillion retail industry. Macys, sears, toys r us have all closed locations. Smaller stores are struggling to get customers in the door. Seems like a bad time to open a retail shop, right . The founders of this store feel otherwise. We always thought it would come to life in a physical way. Sheryl kaplan is
Deputy rick gates have been charged with additional crimes today the ongoing federal investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. This promises added pressure on manafort and gates to cooperate with mueller, perhaps forcing them to flip to the side of the prosecution. A grand jury returned multiple new counts against the former trump advisers filed today in whats called a superseding indictment. Among them are counts of bank fraud and conspiracy, as well as subscribing to false individual income tax returns. The indictment alleges that manafort and gates an secured more than 20 million in loans by falsely inflating manaforts income and his companys income. These additional charges are on top of the multiple charges made in a previous indictment against the two the last october which included conspiracy, Money Laundering and making false statements. All reit to the work that manafort and gates performed for the former prorussian government of ukraine. With both defendants alread
Instead, mueller described trump as a subject of his investigation. As legal experts say, there can be a fine line however between a target and subject of an investigation. A target is at immediate risk of being indicted. I subject is someone whose conduct is colorliened investigation. Saying trump is not a target makes sense for two potential reasons. One, Robert Mueller isnt ready to indict him or two, mueller doesnt believe he can indict a president while in office. It does not say hes not investigating trump either for purposes of triggering or supporting impeachment or for indicting hill as a criminal. This development contradicts the president s claim in january hes not under investigation. Theres been no collusion. Theres been no crime. And in theory, everything tells me im not under investigation. Maybe hillary is, i dont know, but im not. The news that the president s not a target of the probe comes amid the ongoing negotiations to get the president to testify before muellers