Residents in the mountain and pacific time zones are 202 7488001 you can also catch up with us on social media. Twitter. Com cspanwj. You can start calling you now. A reminder, when you do call in, turn the volume on your tv down. As you are calling in, we want to take you back to the first of this month. The president was in cincinnati at a campaign rally. He talked about the problems facing American Cities. [video clip] pres. Trump no one has paid a higher price than our nations inner cities. Dear price. Id a you see whats happening. You see our inner cities, we spend millions for years, and it is stolen money. It is wasted money. It is a shame. For decades, these communities have been run exclusively by democrat politicians. It has been total one Party Control of the inner cities. For 100 years it has been one Party Control. Look at them. We can name one after another, but i wont do that. I dont want to be controversial. Host that was the president with his concerns about American C
Asking your top concern. We will talk with columnists and editorial writers from detroit, chicago, new york, and San Francisco. Ost good morning we are spending this morning on the washington journal focusing on the issues facing americas cities. Having this conversation in the wake of President Trump singling out baltimore and pointing to the nations 30th largest city as a symbol of problems with urban areas. This morning were are going to hear from City Residents only. Ellis tell us what your top issues are where you live. You areidents only, if in the eastern time zone, 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, 202 7488001. You can also catch up with us on social media. Witter. Com cspanwj you can start calling you now. A reminder, when you do call in, turn the volume on your tv down. You will you will be able to hear the program when you are on hold. As you are calling in, we want to take you back to the first of this month. The president was in cincinnati at a campaign rally.
Intervene in a state matter and say stop the state plea because it is insufficient. Reporter i want to ask you a question about the office of professional responsibility. Earlier this year, it was disclosed that they are doing a review into how you and other prosecutors in your office handled this matter. What is the status of that, what exactly are they looking at, will you submit to an interview even though youre no longer with the Justice Department and if they find any misconduct, will you resign . First, i dont know what the status of that is. I would refer that to the office of professional responsibility. I dont speak for them. I will clearly submit for an interview even though i dont have to. I think what they do is important. The office of professional responsibility will have access to the full record. They will have access to all the facts. They will have access to the fbi reports. Theyll have access to the victim interviews. They can look at this matter in its totality. And
Apple hires a key chip designer as it pushes to make its own semiconductors. How this could be a game changer. Shares of facebook and google dropping on the heels of another president ial ramp against u. S. Social Media Companies. Here is what President Trump told foxbusiness. We should be suing google and facebook, and perhaps we will, ok . To talk more about the reaction, lets go to our reporter in new york. Shares did react to the president s remarks. What happened . They did. You just saw the share prices. So not anything huge. We clearly saw before markets opened the stocks react off these headlines. He did also attack twitter. Twitter rose today. This harkens back to the conversation we have been having over antitrust laws. Everything we have heard over the doj investigation, ftc investigation, this is something here to stay. We are probably going to be hearing more about this, not just the democratic debates tonight and tomorrow, but also through the president ial election in th
Nasdaq, back up there another 11point gain. Now, Interest Rates, that was the trigger this week. The market is predicting three rate cuts this year. Up goes the market. Picture this. Speaker pelosi addresses a closed door meeting of House Democrats. She comes down hard on the young radicals. You got a problem, bring it to me, she says. That did not go down well. Aoc fired back. The speaker is quote, outright disrespectful to singling out women of color. Its a fight with race and gender thrown into the democrat divide. Action in the gulf. Iranian gun boats try to take over a British Oil Tanker. A British Navy Ship stopped it. The price of oil, i believe right now its back at, yes it is, 60 a barrel, 60. 59 per barrel. Lots of factors pushing oil up today. Records on wall street and an intruder at Buckingham Palace . You get it all on Varney Company which is about to begin. Stuart watch out in new orleans. Heavy rain, flash flood, emergency in new orleans. There might be a hurricane on t