Sooner. Saying jay powell and the fed dont vat clue. Where did i find this guy jerome . Our fed calling it wrong too long. Who is our bigger enemy . Jay powell or the chinese president President Trump also saying powell had a horrendous lack of vision. Those in the Business World placing most of the blame on President Trump and his trade war with china and in a just released roundtable report, reporting a negative impact on sales from trade retaliation by foreign nations. Cnn business and politics correspondent Cristina Alesci is heres along with a columnist at the washington post. As we look at this and are waiting for the number, there is speculation we are going to see this cut . Yes. Just got the number, and in the cut, the cut was as expected a quarter percentage point. Now the federal funds rate is within a range of 1. 57 and 2 . What was expected. But its not going to be low enough for donald trump. Because he wants negative Interest Rates. He wants zero or negative Interest Rat
Should he follow a congressional subpoena ordering his testimony or follow the white house directive to stand down . Here was the president today as he compared his case to the one involving jesse smollett, the actor accused of faking being the target of a hate crime. Then you have the case of this wise guy, jesse smollett, and he said maga country did it, maga country. Okay . Thats a hate crime. Thats a hate crime. And its a scam. Its a real big scam. Just like the impeachment of your president is a scam. The democrats running this impeachment inquiry say that the lawsuit is no excuse for kuppermans noshow today and that they are threatening him with contempt and adam schiff added this. I think we can infer from the white house opposition to dr. Kuppermans testimony that they believe that his testimony would be incriminating of the president. If this witness had something to say that would be helpful to the white house, they would want him to come and testify. They plainly dont. Cnn c
Way, quote, by thursday morning it was clear that mr. Trump had no intention of conceding that he was wrong about alabama. At a tweet at 6 39 a. M. , the president accused of media of not giving the hurricane the attention it deserves. And they said the president sco harms way and the president is focused on covering up a mistake he made. This is part of a pattern of two trump phenomenons, lying and doubling down. The Washington Post is out with a piece chronicling other low points in the trump administrations war on truth t began on day one of his presidency when trump sent his press secretary out to defend his claims about the inaugural crowd size. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. That was how trumps posttruth presidency started and the administration would later go on to tweet doctored video in order to support trumps punishment of journalists and convene a commission to back up trumps baseless claims that wid
The house will impeach him, showing signs that the cracks in his republican wall of support may be getting to him. Do you believe its a forgone conclusion that the house will impeach . I think they want to. Any democrat wants to, because theyre not going to beat me in the election. So of course they want to impeach. Why wouldnt they want to impeachment. Its so illegitimate. It cannot be the way our great founders meant this to be. The president also said republicans should act more like democrats, at least in one regard. I think theyre lousy politicians, but two things they have, theyre vicious and they stick together. They dont have mitt romney in their midst, they dont have people like that. As the president pressures republicans to fight more, there are a string of reversals indicating that hes feeling pressure from inside his own party as he even just mentioned there about mitt romney, hes no longer at this point pursuing holding the g7 International Summit at his own florida resor
All the president s men. With problems. His acting chief of staff could be on the way out. Secretary of state facing questions about whether his reputation has been ruined by their dealings in ukraine. And theres more. The former defense secretary cohen is warning World Leaders are telling him they quote no longer trust the United States. Is americas global standing hanging in the balance . As this is all happening is the white house pulling stunts to keep americans from noticing. Well go through some of the moves this week. And tell you if it is news or not. Plus democratic anxiety. Do 2020 candidates have what it takes on trump in messages and how theyre delivering it . Katy hill is facing an ethics investigation after affair allegations surface. Well start with our breaking news. Sources telling us a white house official expected to back up key parts of the damming testimony we heard from the top diplomat in ukraine earlier this week. Joining me now. Good evening to all of you. Elli