Casts. More now about the 2007 surge of troops in eric with a foe cuss on the planning by the Bush Administration. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. My name is stef, it is my great pleasure this afternoon to introduce our distinguished panel of speakers. We have ambassador edelman who has served in the department of state and the white house, and u. S. Ambassador to finland, turkey, and was Vice President dick cheneys deputy assistance. He has a department of defense medal for distinguished public service. From the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and a distinguished service award. To my far left we have general lute, he retired in 2017, previously he had a distinguished 25 year career in the u. S. Army and he served for a total of sick years in the white house under both president s, george w. Bush, and barack obama. And in 2007 he was named to coordinate the wars in iraq and afghanistan. It was both on the joint staff in washington dc and on the United States central
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Maria big show this morning, joining the conversation Dagen Mcdowell, chief Market Strategist art hogan and president ial candidate arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Good morning. A lot to talk about this morning especially on day 2 of Federal Reserve meeting, Delta Airlines coming. Ed is here, chairman and ceo of the black stone group, Steve Schwartzman talking about his book. Oklahoma senator James Lankford also joining us this morning, dont miss a moment of it, we have a big 3 hours, top story this hour is oil, once again dropping this morning on news that saudi arabia will restore normal output and production levels by the end of the month as secretary mike pompeo meets with saudi arabia king prince salman to twin attacks on saudi oil facilities, iran is denying any involvement in saturdays strike with president Hassan Rouhani blaming u. S. For disruption in the region. Its not exactly going well for them. I think this was their attempt to break out and sort of find way to put press
policy decisions. the house oversight committee has subpoenaed f.b.i. director christopher wray for documents. they want him to turn over that specific file at a meeting that they will have six days from now, may 10th. committee chair james comer and senator chuck grassley are leading the charge on this. we have a rough idea what is in the document and i just want to do what congressional oversight responsibilities i have to see what the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. has done to follow up on it. has there been political influence to not proceed if there is a reasonable possible criminal activity? harris: this directly from the white house now. republicans and congress have been lobbing unfounded and unproven politically unmotivated attacks against his family without offering evidence for their claims or decisions other than u.s. interests. we begin with peter doocy live at the white house. peter. the white house statement continues as white house officials claim that republican
This morningism maria bartiromo. I hop youre having a good friday morning. Happy weekend. Its friday, may 17, 7 00 a. M. On the east coast. Time for the hot topic of the hour. Former President Trump so called hush money trial is entering its final stretch as the defense prepares to resume cross examination of exlawyer Michael Cohen on monday. Lydia hu with more. Reporter the cross examination highlighted cohens history of lying and made the discussion that Michael Cohen continued his lies on the stand before the jury yesterday. Defense attorney todd blanche crossexamined Michael Cohen about a brief phone call that took place in late october of 2016. Cohen testified that he called Keith Schiller, trumps body guard, and trump about Stormy Daniels, telling them the nons didisclosure agreement was done. Blanche used Text Messages to suggest cohen received a harassing series of phone calls and called schiller to discuss the harassment. Heres the exchange. Blanche, question, that was a lie,