you ready? well, we re counting down southeast biggest stories of the year. cnn s chief business correspondent christine romans breaks down the top nine business stories of 2019. reporter: the unicorn bubble burst. the longest u.s. auto strike in 50 years. the tech backlash and the u.s.-china trade war. these are the top business stories of 2019. number nine, fake meat starts a real food revolution. this year corporate america and foodies went wild for plant based protein and two companies drove the crazy beyond meat and impossible foods. making deals with big name chains. beyond meats massive wall street debut. beyond meats 136% spike. reporter: demand so high
and presumably, the white house situation room keeps a record of those calls. sir, that is how i was able to confirm it. okay. are you separately testified that your staff prepared a briefing memo with suggested points for the president to raise on july 25th. points that were consistent with u.s. policy. is that correct? correct, congressman. speak about the president didn t use those points, did he? no, sir, he did not. let me get this straight, you prepared materials for the president, which did not include references to biden or the 2016 election. is that right? that is correct. then ambassador sondland, the guy who is the gordon problem, the guy with a direct link to the president, the guy who is talking about making deals, brief president trump. is that right? that is correct. then president trump raised the 2016 election and vice president biden and his son to the ukrainian president after
trying to claim he doesn t profit from the presidency because he doesn t take a salary. listen to this. i give away my presidential salary. they say no other president has done it. i m surprised to be honest. they say george washington may have been the only other president. see whether or not obama gave up a salary. first of all, he s wrong. hoover, kennedy donated their salaries. that is really besides the point he s comparing himself to washington. why does he put himself on a pedestal? he s afraid. he s fearful of what s happening. he s lost control of the narrative for most of the presidency. he had control of the narrative. in the last ten days, two or three weeks, he s lost control. i will say that all of this is a diversion. talking about look i don t make money. everybody knows his family and all over the world making deals. everybody knows he has a heavy investment in turkey. one of the reasons it is suspected that he made the decision to leave the kurds open
washington. why does he put himself on a pedestal? he s afraid. he s fearful of what s happening. he s lost control of the narrative for most of the presidency. he had control of the narrative. in the last ten days, two or three weeks, he s lost control. i will say that all of this is a diversion. talking about look doint make money. everybody knows his family and all over the world making deals. everybody knows he has a heavy investment in turkey. one of the reasons it is suspected that he made the decision to leave the kurds open to genocide. a line was crossed when he double crossed the kurds. americans like to think of ourselves we keep our word. and i do think that something moved. i won t say enough to get him impeached or convicted on charges. there s something working out
and while republican aides have and maybe some of the bribery and emoluments questions. talked privately, republican senators have been very open. and republican senators that they re not all in looking at often go out of their way not to leaving out obstruction and criticize the president. i think for a lot of people that contempt of congress, gene. have focussed on what mitt that would just be a separate article that they re debating romney had to say, not right now, how that would be insignificant, and a couple of framed. but they are looking at a very others in interviews over the past week you ve seen mitch narrow case when it comes to ukraine. and when it comes to abuse of mcconnell, john thune, marco power. now, again, i m cautioned that they have yet to go to the stage rubio, senators that this gone out of their way that trump is of legal drafting of anything. but i talked to a number of trump, i m not getting in the middle of that fight. and so we ve seen over the past const