President to be impeached in u. S. History. The democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened the debate. She called for both sides to put aside their differences and vote in the interests of the country. It is tragic that the president s reckless actions make impeachment necessary. He gave us no choice. What we are discussing today is the established facts that the president violated the constitution. It is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our National Security and the integrity of our elections, the basis of our democracy. Hundreds of historians, scholars and former prosecutors regardless of party have stated that the president committed impeachable offenses. Now, republican senator Lindsey Graham says he wants to see a quick trial and the Senate Without any new witnesses presented. I think this exercise in the house is beginning to weaponize impeachment. The Intel Committee conducted the factfindings elements of it which is unusual. The process they used i think
Titfortat expulsions. Disputes between olivia, spain and mexico. A powerful arden group armed group is vowing retaliation for the airstrikes in syria. Did mention of evil american ravens. Sundays bombings targeted three spaces in iraq and to in syria. Two in syria. At least 24 were killed. They are considering there relationship with the u. S. Led coalition against iso. Mike pompeo called the strikes a decisive response to iranian backed forces. We will have an update from washington and a moment. First, Simona Bolton begins our coverage. Some u. S. Troops are based here. Competitionedented between the u. S. And iran on iraqi soil. Targeting basis of an iranian backed armed group. Killing and injuring dozens. The operation in response to a series of groups that struck military bases. We just a decisive response that makes it clear what President Trump has said for months and months. Stand for the islamic public of iran to take actions that put american men and women in jeopardy. They a
The pound higher. So we are less than 30 minutes away from the European Equity open. It is friday morning. Let me tell you what bloomberg is pointing us to. Lets show you the wti function. You that not all lot is going to happen this morning. We are looking at a fairly flat story. Not much happening on the equity front. It has been an interesting week. A lot of down days followed by a positive session yesterday. Lets show you exactly what is. Appening i think what you can take away is the dollar is backing up a little bit. A little bit of a move on the ,pside for the dollar index which has suffered so much this week. That is a story we will spend a little bit of time talking about. Dollar, oil, a combination of what is happening in the commodity sector. Iron ore, gas, wti trading higher. E had wti trading up the dollar index is rising. Lets get the bloomberg first word news with christine harvey. Christine thanks, guy. John williams says he is for hiking rates and doing it soon. He war
Is evil for skilled and unskilled workers. We are finding there is high turnover in low skilled industries, hospitality, hotel. There are two things happening there. Some pressure from state minimum wage increases. This is a policy question we have had for a while. That is resonating out through the economy. Overall, minimum wage increases. When we are also looking at is this is a Service Oriented recovery. Manufacturing other than Motor Vehicles and aerospace was weakened. One thing we are hearing again, not news, the dollars impact on exports. Strong dollar is offset a little bit on the margins by the lower price of oil, but the trade weighted dollar, janet yellen is watching it. District manufacturers are really feeling it. David one of the things that fed policy makers look for is what they think the economy is doing and anecdotal data. What are we seeing with hiring . Brendan many districts reported that there is hiring across a broad variety of sectors. And again, we saw that in
Next a british Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from the members of the house of commons and outgoing president the congressional gold medal and another chance to with a tomorrow on washington journal, the author of 100 victories, special ops in the future of american warfare, discusses u. S. Military options in iraq. John gable examines the impact of the Health Care Law so far on insurance plans, including pricing. Texas congressman henry dont bonilla talks about the attempts to break gridlock in washington. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal live on cspan. During this weeks question time, british Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the hiring of former news of the world editor andy colson as his inmunications your back 2010. Mr. Colson was charged with intercepting voice mails, also known as phone hacking. The Prime Minister apologized to members for hiring him, saying it was the wrong decision. Opposition l