And a School Bus Driver takes off with a students backpack caught in the door. While the teens mom says it was intentional and racist. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And im christine romans, it is 4 00 a. M. In the east, 4 00 p. M. In beijing, and today is the day, tariff day, the Trump Administration raising tariffs on 200 billion of chinese goods. That is thousands of different items, including dish washers, frozen fish, baseball caps. Tariffs hit roughly half of the products that china sells to the United States. How did we get here. Thats thanks to three rounds of tariffs last year starting with march, starting with the u. S. Hitting all steel and aluminum, including from china. The u. S. Then singled out beijing in july 2018 hitting 50 billion of chinese goods. Thats mostly hightech goods and then it goes on, china retaliated with tariffs on 50 billion u. S. Goods, mainly ag products which have big markets in china, and cemeseptember, 200 billion in chin
2020 rival, joe biden. Of course, this is after the Mueller Report found help was welcomed from russia to get dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016. While giulianis trip to ukraine is now off, thats not to say that hes done going after joe biden. Youre not going to ukraine. Are you just stepping back completely . I dont know. Ill play it by ear. Ill see what is going on. I am actually quite confident that the facts with regard to Vice President former Vice President biden are so compelling that theres no way he gets from here to the election without this being investigated. Okay. He would be better off getting investigated now, where it really isnt going to affect the election. It is 17 months away. Cnns Sarah Westwood is at the white house for us. Sarah, the president also focusing on joe biden, telling politico that he could raise the possibility of an investigation by the attorney general bill barr into biden and possibility his son, right . Thats right, alex. The president telling politi
Thats right, fred. Lets start with the president saying that he believes he would be within his rights to ask attorney general bill barr to look into former Vice President joe biden and his son, hunter biden. This stemmed from events that took place in 2016, when joe biden was in office. Then Vice President biden was one of several western leaders to push for the ouster of ukraines then top prosecutor. That ukrainian investigator at the time, or around this time, was looking into a Ukrainian Energy company in which hunter biden had a financial interest. Biden was not alone in pressuring this ukrainian official to step down. There is no evidence that joe bidens actions were connected to his sons business activities. Nonetheless, trump said he could be interested in having the attorney general investigate this. In the same interview, he acknowledged Vice President joe biden, at the moment, looks poised to be the most likely democrat to face him in the 2020 election. This also comes as th
Months before the Deadly School shooting in colorado this week, a parent warned School Officials Pressure Cooker conditions could lead to another columbine. Extreme flooding in and around houston, dozens of water rescues, rivers over their banks 100,000 customers in the dark. A School Bus Driver takes off with a students backpack caught in the door. Why the teens mom says it was intentional and racist. Welcome to early start, im dave briggs. Im Christine Romans, 5 00 a. M. In the east, everyone, its 5 00 p. M. In beijing, and we start with tariff friday. It wasnt a bluff. President trump jacked up tariffs on thousands of goods, dish washers, frozen good, baseball caps, half of the products china sells to the u. S. Carry an import tax. How did we get here . Three rounds of tariffs tlalast year. In july, the u. S. Then singled out beijing, slapping tariffs on 50 billion of hightech chinese exports. China hit back with tariffs on 50 billion in u. S. Goods, mostly ag products, devastating
Here. How does this work . Does the judiciary chair call Robert Mueller and say, mr. Mueller, wed like to see you before our committee, can you make it on this day and mueller says yes or no . Thats what happens originally. Initially you ask witnesses, particularly administration witnesses to come to the committee voluntarily. Thats always been the tradition that witnesses just come, you agree on a date, work out the date and they arrive. Its different with the Trump Administration where the president has first said mr. Barr would decide whether its appropriate for the special counsel to come. Then he said he didnt come. Then he said he shouldnt come. Now hes back to, its up to the attorney general. I think theres been some confusion from the president. Obviously if a witness doesnt come voluntarily, the committee has the ability to issue a subpoena and we would do that with the special counsel. I think its everyones hope hell come voluntarily. Just to be clear, is mueller not coming v