according to committee vice chair liz cheney, that s just a fraction of the evidence they have related to possible witness intimidation. this morning the new york times reports that trump s political organization and his allies paid for or promised to cover the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called to testify in the january 6th investigation. it does raise for some ethical and legal questions about the possibility of witnesses being pressured and the possibility of trump trying to influence testimony that has a direct bearing on him. joining us now is john wood, he was until last week a senior investigator for the january 6th committee, he was a u.s. attorney during the george w. bush administration, he also clerked for justice clarence thomas and he s now running as an independent candidate for the senate in missouri. thank you so much for being with us, counselor. when you were with the committee, what was your knowledge of how the attorneys for some of these
Letsthings first, quickly check on your markets. First of all, i wanted to have a look at the yuan, this is on the back of what we heard from china. Stocks in europe in to be drifting sideways a touch. I think investors are trying to figure out what the next catalyst is. Draghi is due to speak today. And then, the independence claim is tomorrow. N, that thats the bloomberg dollar index, up a touch. Heres nejra cehic. Reporter donald trump claims tax reforms would be worth 4000 a year for the average american household. He asked for help so he could give the country the best christmas president of all. Today are business tax rate is 50 higher than our average economic competitor. This is a giant selfinflicted economic wound. Reporter the u. S. President has said he plans to choose from amongst five finalists to be the next Federal Reserve chairman and will make his choice soon, before he leaves for his 11 day trip on november 1. With canadawound up and mexico rejecting what they see as
But cannot will them out completely and here we are into the early evening. This is 6 30 and skies are starting to clear many of you will be firing up the grill again because its such a great week for. Lets check the roads. They are drive which means we dont have any delays from that at least now. There is some light 271 around chagrin. Akron moving well into canton. And dont forget if youre leaving the house you can always to into wtam 1100. Traffic and weather updates. Overnight police are looking into a crash that sent a sedan crashed into the back of a pickup your the intersection of west 44th and bush around midnight before Police Arrived the driver of the stand got out of the vehicle and ran. Another passenger in that vehicle and driver of the truck were taken to metrohealth Ethical Center and no word if drugs or alcohol played a factor three bodies have been found in two ne. Counties and one that is under arrest in connection with all three cases. Ashland county in the third was
Thinks big kick off. What is your favorite good day philadelphia moment . Use the good day 20. While were thinking bit, why not come down to fourth and market to celebrate with us. We have so much food. Great music. Come on down to fourth and market right now. I think Mother Nature decided not to play an april fools joke. We thought it might be pouring rain. It is looking better for our forecast. We will give you a six out of ten. For the entire day we might see then are storms but they will hold off until later in the a afternoon. Heres bus stop buddy and his party hat because it is not a Party Without a pointy hat after all and he is ready for some cake and for temperatures in the 60s. He has the umbrella, you will need the rain gear at some pint today, bright, mild out there this morning. There is a look at the rain and cloud cover on radar, so not much going on right now, if it stays this way we will have a a great time outside, and we will have a great time outside no matter what.
Since weve seen temperatures like this this late in december. We broke the record. The record of 65 degrees set back in 1931. Today our high reached 69 degrees and were going to do it all over again as we head into tomorrow. Temperature wise 62 in philadelphia, 52 pottstown, low 50s in allentown and close to 60 in the poconos. Your eighthour city planner shows by 8 00 a. M. , 59, 56 by 11 00 p. M. And overnight lows will actually stay in the 50s. So a closer look at how far above average we are, average for this time of year is 46 degrees. We already set a new record today. With our forecast high of 70 degrees tomorrow, we expect to break another record. Thats what im watching for you. Im also tracking rain on the way. Its going to help us out with temperatures. Ill let you know the details coming up in my sevenday forecast. Denise. Thanks, brittney. We continue with Randy Gyllenhaal live in center city. Randy, there are plenty of december events happening, although it does not feel li