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Not the jumping out of the helicopter . That part, too. Im dave briggs. Wednesday, september 26th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. The president set to hold his fourth formal News Conference tonight, 5 00 p. M. Eastern time, when he wraps up meetings at the u. N. We start with breaking news. Usa today reporting attorneys for Christine Blasey ford have provided the senate with signed declarations from four people who said she told them in recent years about Brett Kavanaughs alleged Sexual Assault from de...

It has a bad connotation because the United States was hurt bad by nafta. John roberts, do we have anymore than earlier . We understand what was behind this. Follows along the president s desire to craft bilateral deals, country to country as opposed to doing these big multilateral trade negotiations like the Trans Pacific partnership. The u. S. Trade representative, Robert Lightheiser said when they were negotiating with mexico and canada, at certain times there were 1,000 people involved in th...

Court date right now. While the president s former National Security adviser Michael Flynn faces a deadline to make his case and stay out of prison. Two chances for the United States to learn more about the special counsels russia investigation. And our reporting begins now. Breaking news amid unrest in nationwide government protests in france. New reports of a shooting near a popular Christmas Market. Several news outlets report one dead and three hurt, this is happening in strasburg in northea...

Jillian what is next power player niche political chess match to end the shutdown . Rob after the Clemson Tigers were met with open arms, bigleague name that could give the white house a choice. Jillian fox and friends first continues right now. A Beautiful Day jillian light snow coming down in new york city this morning. Not entirely depressing in new york anyway. Other parts getting more. Rob it will be a weekend. Jillian we will talk about that later on the show. You are watching fox and frie...

The extradition is still a subject of debate. the administration said this is a legal proceeding that can happen with our conversations about change. >> huawei is no longer a separate issue from trade. huawei knows that, the chinese a know that and donald trump should admit it. they thought they would be able to get through the trade thing, but nope, donald trump is trying to walk and chew gum at the same time. so hes handling all this china stuff at once. what makes the mexico situation so much...

By 19, the nasdaq adding 49 points. the wall street journal report says the treasury secretary steve mnuchin was considering lowering tariffs on chinese goods as trade negotiations continue. the report exploding the idea although it was receiving pushback from robert lightheiser who said any concession would be seen as a sign of weakness but now spokesperson for the trade team dismissing the article completely. heres what the spokesperson said, quote, neither steve mnuchin nor ambassador lighthe...

Trump administration is setting the record straight on trade talks. >> reporter: we did see wall street reacting positively to a wall street journal report. here are the closing numbers, the dow up by 162, the s&p up by 19, nasdaq up by 49. this after a report said the us could consider lowering tariffs on chinese goods as both countries continue trade negotiations, that idea floated by treasury secretary steve mnuchin according to the article but there was some pushback from robert lightheiser,...

Government is planning to roll back tariffs on american cars. thats according to a source familiar with the conversation with the top chinese official and u.s. trade reps. right now theres a 40% tax on vehicles in the united states. the source says the chinese officials are bring the tax back down to 15%. that source spoke to blake burman that is live from the white house. what else are they telling you? >> there was a phone call last night with three of the major players, robert lightheiser and...

He said tariffs. if we dont make a deal, ill put the $200 billion. it is $267 billion in tariffs -- okay. what he means is tariffs. >> you need to translate that. >> this is the president calling the shots himself making very big threats. we heard from robert lightheiser who said the chinese have not made any meaningful offers. how is there a chance for bre breakthrough? >> there are divisions, christine. i think he cannot come back empty handed with the michael cohen swirling. he at least has t...

It could happen. the u.s. warning canada it is running out of time. >> i think that canada would like to be in the agreement. i think the u.s. would like them to be in the agreement. theres still a fair amount of distance between us. there are large issues. i think canada wants to do it. i know we want to do it. well see if it happens. were sort of running out of time. >> this is a rare public comment from u.s. trade representative robert lightheiser noting distance between the u.s. and canada o...