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thought the most important story was the reaction of the death of a petty street criminal and it was most reported but not close to a story that is rocking your world and you probably didn t feel the tremor. the international monetary fund revealed that china s economy surpassed that of the united states and now china is now the world s largest economy. they reported on this story and it could should have caused demonstrations in our streets. we are losing our country and no one seems to notice. less than 15 years ago, the u.s. economy was three types the size of china. and americans since 1945 have grown used to having the number one economy and must have taken it for granted. get ready to the new ranking or get angry and we ll do something about it. our current president said running up the huge debt on children and dprand children was irresponsible and unpatriotic. if so, he is the least patriotic president in history. our debt topped the 18 trillion mark. that is more than ....
and putt against leaders of his own party like congressman nancy pelosi and senator warren. liberals are quick to condemn the spending bill calling it a broib for banks and donors. mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill with us. mike, the senate so manies stuck on the extension, they did do something successfully, right? reporter: no question about that. they passed a short- term government funding to buy senators more time. it was scheduled to be quiet today. and there are conversations taking place about cutting the deal on the government extension and we ll so if it pans out. earlier harry reid sounded aggravated. regrettably the republicans pulled the legislation off. and now, we are regulated to watching the time tick away on the clocks. reporter: at this point the senators are in session seven hours and counting, julie? what have they done all day long. a voteramma. and look at the names. murphy to be surgeon general and car lincolman for social security commiss ....
. raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a news conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. thank you for joining me today, i m carol kos toll low. @this hour with berman and michaela starts now. hello, everyone. i m john berman. and. and i m michaela pereira. history is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u.s. it s releasing alan gross from prison after five years. a series of genuinely breathtaking developments. cuba is also releasing a u.s. intelligence asset, a spy, who s been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. in return washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. that is big in and of itself. it all seems part now of something much, much bigger. president obama will announce major changes in u.s. policy toward cuba. officials calling them the most sw ....
robbie mook calling on the fbi to give donald trump the same treatment it gave to hillary clinton. all that we re asking, so that reporting can be fair, is that the information get released. release whatever information they have, and then if you re in the business of releasing information about investigations on presidential candidates, release everything you have on donald trump. release the information on his connections to the russians. maybe there are investigations now into his taxes. trump s taxes may not have been legal. reports of the maneuver trump used conferred enormous tax benefits on him losing vast amounts of other people s money by exploiting a loophole. today clinton sought to remind voters of trump s treatment of women. she appeared with alicia machado who trump shamed over two decades ago. even instructing his twitter celebrity, who wouldn t let you into one of his hotels unless you were cleaning the room, wouldn t let you on one of his golf courses unle ....
international business entanglements, these concerns are getting bigger not smaller with each passing day in the news as we get closer to him being sworn in. because this stuff keeps coming up, when it comes up, the more you look at it, the worse it is. for example, we now know that the daughter of the president-elect, she apparently got a big business deal greenlighted by a government-controlled bank in japan right after that bizarre and otherwise inexplicable spectacle where the president-elect invited his daughter to sit in on his in-person meeting with the japanese prime minister. if that deal in fact only got greenlit because of the new political position of the trump family, well, then that action by that government-controlled bank in japan, that s pretty clearly a foreign government s gift to the president s family. that s just one. with each passing day there s another one of these now. they are getting bigger and worse over time. those things by trump s business? if t ....