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Of the direct fire brigadier general anthon anthony anthony a time attachment has president trump s reproach rhetorically or otherwise brought this meeting about. clearly when they say they go low we go high u kim jong un derisive messed things up over there translators have a difficult time translating speech certain tense used. this would be the first time the leader of north korea has left the country in decades u for them it s kind of like hollywood if you are going to go sit at somebody else s table that s deferring to their power. pete: where would a meeting like this happen south korea? the latest is possibly sweden. possibly. we have no idea. pete: we shall see. rebecca, what is the outcome we would want? such high stakes talk. ultimately, what looks like a win for the united states if something like this ....
Rachel, now to you for headlines. rachel: thanks, pete. attorney general jeff sessions is not ruling out a second special counsel to investigate the fbi. the doj s watchdog is probing if the agent abused power to fisa warrant to spy on carter page. sessions says it s his responsibility to make sure the process follows the law. the office of inspector general has almost 500 employees, investigators, and prosecutors. and they are going to work on this and get to the bottom of it. it could be one day that a special prosecutor would be required. rachel: not clear when the doj s investigation will be finished. the u.s. navy is no longer going green. the department canceling 356-million-dollar project to convert gas destroyers into hybrid powered ships. the navy spent about $54 million on the program to date. only ....
About. rachel: and republicans in congress. ed: devin nunes and others who have been exposing this fisa abuse. what jeff sessions is say something reasonable. the inspector general at the justice department has been looking at just not the fisa abuse but other problems. the inspector general. rather than short circuit this process. let me get this report soon. it better be soon by the way. because we have been hearing for months and months this report is coming. there are republicans like the president who feel like this is stall ball. pete: worried they don t have the same subpoena power as special counsel. ed: just a report. jeff sessions is saying get me that report. and then i will act on that and that might mean a special counsel who does have prosecutorial power to investigate crimes. pete: it all kind of blurs together. i thought michael horowitz was investigating for the most part the hillary clinton email investigation. how it was handled by the ....
Interesting that you have got the numbers that pete was citing at the end there, more people working. more people getting into labor market. in the obama years the unemployment number was coming down. but the labor participation rate. pete: great point. decades low because people were just giving up. people who couldn t find work just gave up and were sitting on the couch. now people are getting into the market. pete: other aspect has been wage growth. it s one thing to have a job. another thing to have a job that you like because it pays you properly or you are seeing uptick in what you are being paid. ed: nobody wants crumbs. rachel: not crumbs. pete: depends on definition of crumbs. rachel: truly record breaking numbers that obama would have killed for. pete: meanwhile in washington as washington loves to do, investigations continue. and so do interviews with members of the trump cabinet. there was an interview last night with tucker carlson with the current attorney general jeff ....
Uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. pete: welcome back. couple quick headlines while you join us. get some coffee. senator rand paul s neighbor pleads guilty to assaulting a member of congress. renee boucher tackled the lawmaker in his yard after seeing the kentucky senator stack brush in a pile near his property. a little dramatic. breaking six of his ribs, boucher could face 21 months in prison. now, this is headlines prison edition because disgraced drug firm executive martin shkreli sobbing in court as a judge sentences him to seven years in prison. shkreli was convicted in august for lying to investigators in two failed hedge funds and cheating out of millions of dollars. ....