Undoing of progress towards a u. S. China trade deal beijing has responded furiously to a u. S. Vote calling for democracy in hong kong. Government said it would do whatever was needed to safeguard its rule over the territory this after the senate in washington unanimously passed legislation aimed at protecting human rights in hong kong and threatening to revoke the territories special trade privileges with the United States in the event of noncompliance on kong shares ended wednesday morning in the red. 7 tenths of a percent. Well. Hang in taipei so the turmoil in hong kong has already tipped did interest session are there any estimates to what a protracted unrest is likely to do to hong kongs economy. Well just as you mentioned the u. S. Senate just passed the legislation to protect human rights in Hong Kong Well if the bill is finally passed then it would lead to Hong Kong Special through state has been revoked in which case u. S. Would start of you hong kong more in line with Mainl
Looking for the opportunity. Looking for their opportunity to launch the biggest hostile takeover in american history, far worse than any robber baron from the 1800s could have dreamt up. The take over of cadbury or anheuserbusch. These democrats have been sounding the alarm with this lawyers tweets. The lawyer representing the leak. Coup has started, he tweeted. First of many steps. Hash tac hashtagrebellion, h. Two more will take their place. We get it. You want it. What are we witnessing right now . The impeachment to nowhere and harassment of the president. Look what they have put americans through the last 2 1 years. We have 2 1 2 years in 40 seconds. His actions are contemptible and i will fight every day nell is impeached. I wouldnt be surprised after all is said and done that some people end up in jail. I think we are in impeachment territory. Mueller dropping a major bomb on trump. The Justice Department may indict him. He may be the first president in quite some time to face
Trade deal. So were really in a win win position. Either the tariffs will continue, or well have an acceptable deal with china. So the important thing is to make sure that the deal is what we think it is, make sure that it is consistent with the premises that theyve made to us. Maria and there was a lot of back and forth about that this week. Also this week we saw signs that the consumer is still strong thanks to great retail sales numbers, better than expected earnings from walmart, among others. All of this led to a texassized rally on wall street. And joining me right now to talk about this week and beyond with is the president of the Dallas Federal Reserve bank, robert kaplan. The president of the bank there. And, robert kaplan, its great to have you this weekend. Thanks so much for joining me. Great to talk to you, maria. Maria how would you assess the economy right now . We did get some okay numbers on the consumer this week, certainly retail sales and walmart numbers. It feel li
Very well welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me nicky arun its great to have you with us our top story this hour this weekend marks the one Year Anniversary of the other best movement with rallies taking place across the country 105. 00 demonstrators have been detained in the french capital alone so far police have now evacuated the square in paris where the main rally was and marveling earlier one journalist also suffered facial injuries during the protests arent easy enough was that among the crowds. Well the yellow vests protest here at the tally in square in southern paris is still in full swing now the police has lately become more aggressive theyve been using an extensive amount of tear gas they have been using flash bangs as well to disperse the crowds now for instance what im holding right now this is one of the canisters from from the tear gas launched by the police at the protest as its things like these there are hundreds of these chatted all over this sq
Rollout. All of it built on two diplomats, William Taylor and george kent who under time questioning by congressman John Ratcliffe couldnt name a single Impeachable Offense they believed to have been committed by president of the United States. Neither diplomat has spoken to the president. Neither dip that had anything to neither di diplomat had anything to say other than what others had to say. Tomorrow well hear from the former ambassador to youve crane marie yovanovich. The dimms can hardly do worse on the second day than they did on the first. Return to White House Correspondent kevin corke. Reporter good to be with you. The president sets the Foreign Policy for this country, not the diplomats on the ground. Today he didnt say a lot. In fact he didnt answer any questions before he made his way to louisiana. But he did allow white house officials to act in his stead. Among them kelly and conway, she had plenty to say and a chance to handicap tomorrows proceedings. We learned that th