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You agree with me though that they were keeping the commitments and only seventeen of the members were keeping the commitments we do agree with me on that the commitment was to get it up to two percent by twenty twenty four that was the commitment were not about twenty twenty four yet and it wasnt it was commitment to not try and attract it well i dont think you made a minimal try to get that. and mr trump also made another irania statement at the summit he said everyone has agreed to substantia...

Is how both parties will ensure compliance so there is a still a lot to be done and what seems sure is not going to be solved in over a week so maybe more questions than answers with us china trade talks was a luisa haro there for us in new york thanks was a. us president donald trump has confirmed that additional tariffs for european auto imports are still in the cards earlier this week european commission president john clarke said he believed trump would honor a commitments made last year not...

It but im not going to debate with you well im asking you your reaction to that because you said that my reaction europes europe hadnt lived up to its commit it has not and are you trying to tell me that europe has lived up to its commitments under nato is that what youre trying to tell me because believe me there is no belief or that on anybodys part that some of the european nations are not living up to their commitments and indeed look ive done this for ten years ive come over here and tried ...

Politically damaging but not criminal conduct. well see, i guess. despite all this, we think we might know about the mueller investigation. some very basic questions remain, including what is it? what is in it? who gets to see it? the only thing the guidelines say is mueller should submit a report to the attorney general. and then its the diskregsz to the picked attorney general what, if anything, he shares with congress. he did not make any commitments about what he would make public. today the...

Politically damaging but not criminal conduct. well see, i guess. despite all this, we think we might know about the mueller investigation. some very basic questions remain, including what is it? what is in it? who gets to see it? the only thing the guidelines say is mueller should submit a report to the attorney general. and then its the diskregsz to the picked attorney general what, if anything, he shares with congress. he did not make any commitments about what he would make public. today the...

Phone. the president thought whitaker should do a better job of overseeing the investigators in the probe. during recent congressional testimony whitaker would only say he wont discuss conversations with the president when asked if he spoke to him about the sdny investigation. >> i want to know whether you talked to president trump at all about the soern district of new yorks case involving michael cohen. >> congresswoman, as ive mentioned several times today, i am not going to discuss my privat...

House asked for nor have i provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsels investigation or any other investigation. >> reporter: but this latest report being fits into a pattern where he believes that officials in doj roles should show loyalty to him and do his bidding. as you will recall, the president was furious that jeff the russia probe. >> according to the "times" report, this kecontroversy is jt a pattern of intimidation applied by the president that includes orchest...

Whitaker then went to -- went on to dance around questions about the content of those conversations. >> mr. lou asked you if you ever communicated with president trump about investigations in the southern district of new york. instead of answering, you referred him back to your statement. referred him back to what was written for you. but all you said is that you -- in your statement, that you didnt make any promises or commitments to president trump. i want to know whether you talked to preside...

Testified at length under oath he was shown great disrespect by any number of members there -- >> and he was disrespectful. >> he wasnt disrespectful. >> he spoke in a way we have never seen anyone in that position -- >> thats not true. you should go back and roll the tape of the questions he was asked. >> i watched it. >> he answered that question and today the doj said in a statement that the then acting attorney general matthew whitaker stands by his sworn testimony. the president independent...

Transition. and even over at fox news, friend of the president says that if these charges are true, that trump tried to put berman in charge of the cohen investigation, this is bad. >> would that be obstruction? >> yes. it -- well, it would be attempted obstruction. >> attempted obstruction. according to the "times," theres no evidence that whitaker actually went through with this because berman actually had already recused himself from the cohen investigation. but the thing is, whitaker knows b...