And new guidelines on Cyber Security. Well get to jack lews confirmation in a moment. First the cbo director Douglas Elmendorf testimony. He warned of the sequester could cost 750,000 jobs. Could you tell me in terms of the negative Economic Impact of the sequester, the. 6 , what does that translate in point of lost jobs . Our estimate is that the sequester alone would reduce gdp growth this year by zero point six percentage points. It would lower that gdp at the end of the year. We think that would reduce by about 750,000 jobs. 750,000 jobs between now and the end of 2013, right . Right. That is a whole lot of jobs. We should be working overtime to prevent that kind of job loss. If you were to replace the deficit reduction through that austerity program, the cuts to the sequester with a plan that accomplishes the same amount of deficit reduction spread over the 10 year period, you would not have that hit on jobs . Right. Our analysis, the republican leader, mr. Cantor had it right las
Latest. Lets start with the interview with comey. This isnt something thats a shocker but it is probably pretty hard to overstate his knowledge of the kinds of things that Robert Mueller is looking at. Youre absolutely right, chris and it underscores that Robert Mueller continues to investigate this question of whether the president or members of his team obstructed justice because james comey as we all remember testified to congress that he wrote a series of memos about his interactions with President Trump, that he found troubling and that he found inappropriate and in one case he said the President Trump suggested that he drop the fbi investigation into then National Security adviser mike flynn. Now james comey has revealed that to the world. He was an extremely compelling witness but now we know that hes also spoken to Robert Muellers team secretly at the he end of last year and Jeff Sessions also has information potentially about Donald Trumps state of mind when he fired comey and
And a live look outside the white house where the briefing is set to start just about a half an hour from now. The press secretary Sarah Sanders expected to get questions about the russia investigation. We get word that Robert Muellers team interviewed the former fbi director james comey last year. Thats according to new reporting this afternoon in the New York Times newspaper. It reports the interview focused on memos that comey wrote about his interactions with President Trump, that he said unnerved him. Among the issues mueller is investigating whether President Trump obstructed justice when he fired director comey. Fox news confirmed that Jeff Sessions mel with muellers investigators last week. The attorney general is the first cabinet member and highest Ranking Administration Official that we know about to meet with muellers team. The president said hes not worried about it. [question inaudible] im not at all. [question inaudible] no, i didnt. Im not concerned. Shepard President T
Thats moving forward tonight in the house. We want to make sure that any redactions that are made explained by the white house. We want to make sure that the white house doesnt redact our memo for political purposes. Martha Robert Muellers Team Continues to investigate in search of a crime or National Security information. Ed henry joins us in new york. New information suggesting there was a second dossier put together by the former british spy Christopher Steele with dirt on donald trump. An unfamed foreign source gave information to bill and Hillary Clinton who passed it on. They are connecting the dots from reports that suggest a clinton supporter was in touch. Weiner may have been a conduit. Lindsey graham sent a crimmial referral to the Justice Department last year about steele. Fox has the unclassified version. It mentioned the second dossier. It is troubling enough that the clinton camp funded mr. Steeles work but these associates were feeding mr. Steele allegations raises addit
The bush family is now praying for its patriarch today. Hes in Critical Condition in houston. The 93 former commander in chief was responding to treatments and appeared to be responding to treatments. On friday, bush saw mourners from the public attending his wifes viewing at the Episcopal Church and decided to go thank them greeting families from his wheelchair for 20 minutes. The suspect in that incident involving a van colliding with pedestrians in toronto is set to appear in court this morning as we learn about the details. Police have identified the suspect as 25yearold. Mental illness, not terrorism is the leading theory for a motive in this incident. Officials say the suspect was not previously known to police, but he had been involved in an online discussion about elliott roger, the man accused of carrying out a shooting rampage near santa barbara, california. It began yesterday afternoon when the suspect started driving a white van down a sidewalk in a busy section of the city