Gerri willis on the floor of the new york stock exchange, make burman at the white house, edward were starting with you. Will the u. S. Impose more tariff s on chinese goods this weekend or next . Deirdre, youre asking right now, today, yes. The administration Going Forward with those tariffs nothing has been changed, as of right now, white house Economic Advisor larry kudlow saying its up to the president if he sees enough progress to change that and it was a very busy day as you noted on capitol hill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that she got a usmca deal but was a nonstarter and she turned it into in her words an infinitely better deal. Now the house ways and Means Committee chairman richard neil says theres no more roadblocks and a vote could be set as early as next week. The senate is also in session next week and senator Chuck Grassley may not get his wish, listen. It brings uptodate nafta. I think that its a very good agreement. I hope that we got time to get it done before
Spent the weekend. We begin with phil keating who is outside the Daytona International speedway. Phil . Jon, the daytona 500, the 67th running of the greatest american race is currently in a hold pattern right now. The red flag is out after we had a bit of a deluge of rain about an hour, hour and a half ago. So since then, theres been somewhat of an exodus of nascar race fans leaving, not willing to endure potentially more rain, and so as for the race, it could resume any time now or tonight or they may actually try to finish it up tomorrow because they still have 180 laps to go. But it was a sunny sky day before the race when air force one did a very cool and very low flyover of the Daytona International speedway, thrilling the 100,000 fans inside the stands. Air force one did a lap and then landed next door at the airport, where the president and first lady melania descended the stairs and got into the beast. The president s armored vehicle. And then it was into the speedway where th
Alert. Folks in louisiana cannot catch a break. We are watching dangerous flooding that has already killed at least two people down there. Hour two of americas election headquarters, also americas news headquarters theres so much going on. Im leland. And im elizabeth. Welcome to americas election headquart headquarters from washington. Flash flood warnings in place throughout the weekend as a nasty front of thunderstorms hangs right there over the gulf course. You can see it centered lower lefthand corner of your screen right by new orleans. This system is capable of du dumping 3 to 3 1 2 inches of rain per hour and it could be there until tuesday making an already dangerous and deadly situation so much worse. Louisiana governor John Bell Edwards declared a state of emergency. A local congressman down there said they simply dont have enough Law Enforcement resources to evacuate everyone who needs to get out. Will carr is following this and more on the response. Hi, will. Hi. This is re
Intense grilling of the fbi director today. Were going to break why did he never say anything about the investigation into the were going to break that all down for you. It looked like it was on the brink of collapse yesterday, 24 hours later, a very different story right now u for that republican obamacare replacement plan. Word that there could even be a vote tonight. Rounding out our agenda, obamas big announcement. Although we had a formal bidding process to determine where the president ial library was going to be, the fact of the matter was it had to be right here on the south side of chicago. Former president announcing hes going to be cutting a very big check today. We will tell you what that money will go to. A lot still ahead this hour. Plus, we are watching on your screen right now, live, that is the scene on the house floor or roll call vote being held as we speak on that spending bill. This would keep the government funded through september. This would avoid a government s
Fbi director over, according to a source familiar with the situation. Just yesterday Jonathan Swann also reported this, quote, attorney general Jeff Sessions has adamantly urged fbi director Christopher Wray to make a fresh start with his core team, including replacing Deputy Director and trump bete noire Andrew Mccabe, according to a Senior Administration source. According to this source and two other sources briefed on the conversations, sessions has been strongly urging wray to do this for some time. Another person sessions thought should be cleared from the core team, the fbis top lawyer james a. Baker who was reassigned in december. You may recall that fbi director wray was appointed to the job after james comey was fired. But in the months before wray took over, Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe ran the bureau. The president , many of his republican allies have been publicly critical of Andrew Mccabe and have alleged that political bias has influenced the fbis handling of the investi