By announcing an investigation that would benefit someone in the United States and it wasnt clear to me that it would be worth it, that a meeting would be worth it. So essentially there taylor saying, his personal belief was that if President Trump was going to withhold the Ukraine Military assistance and that will launch an investigation into Vice President biden and his son and he didnt think that would be a worthwhile exchange. On the open hearings, chairman intelligent adam schiff announced that would take place wednesday november 13 and friday november 15 and thats really what democrats here, our sources here on the hill are telling us will mark a whole new investigation. Excuse me, a whole new phase of this investigation into President Trump. On wednesday, ambassador bill taylor and state Department Official george kent will testify on friday we will hear from former ambassador to the ukraine maria jovanovich. Take a listen to chairman adam schiff here. Speak of those open hearin
But one thing i have to do is economically take on china. My life would be much easier if i just said, let china continue to rip off the United States. All right. It would be much easier. But i cant do that. We are winning against china. Dana lets bring in Chris Stirewalt and tom bevin publisher of real clear politics. Chris, President Trump getting frustrated. When the economy is good, they feel like they dont get enough press about it. If theres any question of fluctuation, then they get all the attention. The president now even saying maybe hes thinking about a payroll tax cut, specifically for the middle class. He said he was dismissing for now the idea of the indexing of Capital Gains because he said that might look too elitist. Thats not where he wants his focus to be. There was an economic and political message in the president s answer today. Very much so. Look, decision from President Trump and the republicans was that after eight years of relatively modest growth, steady but
If white house says it stands by what it has been saying. The president did nothing wrong. A Government Watch dog Agency Reports the White House Budget Office broke the law when it with hold hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid from ukraine. Well have more on that in a moment. The white house pushing back on that. And the Ukrainian Government announcing that its now investigating whether the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, Marie Yovanovich was under illegal surveillance before the Trump Administration removed her from her post. We have team fox coverage from the white house to the halls of congress. We begin with our chief correspondent mike emanuel. Off the bat, Mitch Mcconnell emphasized this would be quiet different than what we saw in the house. This body, this chamber exists precisely, madam president , so we can look past the daily dramas and understand how our actions willberate for generations. So that we can put aside animal reflexes and animosities and cooley c