His troops of the truth, the House Speaker came up with this brilliant plan to hold off a Government Shutdown. How about a continuing resolution . Here is the thing about continuing resolution. They are the kardashians of congress. They are lazy, side and get more attention than they deserve. Ryan is hoping this onemonth can kick is enough to momentarily stave off embarrassment. Its not. Ryan should have his can kicked out of congress for his constant reliance on fictions thats portray shameful laziness at not being able to pass a decent spending bill. If there is a shutdown, its the party in power thats controls both chambers and the presidency. Their fault. Republicans have gotten so bad at messaging. Freedom caucus members are right to balance can at boy wonders lefthandedness. Just as they deserve more from an out of touch congress. Lets start the show. Im kennedy. The deadline for a deal is midnight sharp friday night. So will there be a Government Shutdown . And if so, who are th
Data on inflation. Also minutes from the last fomc meeting. The july Consumer Price index will be released at 8 30 eastern time and at 2 00 this afternoon we should be getting more insight into what fed policy makers talked about last month and perhaps what theyre thinking about is the highly anticipated september gathering. Heres the other stories were watching today. Chinas wild and scary ride continuing, volatile perhaps not a Strong Enough word to describe the session. The shanghai composite dropped by 5 early on but then closed up by more than a percent. They point to government backed buyers as catalysts for the turn around as well as rumors that Chinas Central Bank might be ready to cut the key reserve ratio requirements for banks. German lawmakers are voting on a greek bailout. The legislation is expected to pass despite a growing rebellion within chancellor merkels on party. More from our colleagues in europe in a few minutes. Back here in the states the consumer remains front
The first leg of his first major foreign trip abroad. Hes going to be facing a lot of challenges and opportunities over the next nine days. More on what we can expect from his historic tour of the middle east and europe. And yet more leaks from somebody inside the white house. New headlines just released from the Washington Post and New York Times involving comments that the president supposedly made to russian officials about fired fbi chief james comey. Were going to take you there live for an update. Among our guests this hour, former ambassador john bolton and Lieutenant Colonel oliver north. Melissa well, yuve got the dow ending the week on a high note. Take a look at the numbers the dow surging 140 points, 20,803. Lets bring in gerri willis. She is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Gerri, tell us what the mood of traders is after such a wild week of stocks, or we could call it the trump is it your testimony that we saw o wednday. Thats right. People down here pretty up
[applause] in this land so rich in history, israel has built one of the worlds great civilizations, a strong, resilient, determined and prosperous nation. It is also a nation in the commitment that we will never allow the horrors and atrocities of the last century is to be repeated. Now we must Work Together to build a future where the nations of the regions are in peace and all of our children can grow and grow up strong and free from terrorism in violence. During my travels in recent days, i have found new reasons for hope. I have just concluded a visit to saudi arabia yesterday met with king salman and with the leaders from across the muslim and arab world. In that visit, we reached agreements to pursue greater and greater cooperation in the fight against terrorism and evil ideology. They future travels will take me to visit out francis at the vatican and then our nato and european allies. We have before us a rare opportunity to bring security and stability in peace to this region a
Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. President trump in the last hour has been speaking to members of the Us Armed Forces in tampa, florida. This is his first addressed to troops as their Commander In Chief and he has been speaking in particular about nato. We have your back, every hour of every day, now and always. That also means getting our allies to pay theirfairshare, means getting our allies to pay theirfair share, they are means getting our allies to pay their fair share, they are very unfairto us. Their fair share, they are very unfair to us. They strongly support nato. We only ask that all of the nato. We only ask that all of the nato members make theirfull and properfinancial nato members make theirfull and proper financial contributions to the nato alliance, which many of them have not been doing. 0ur north america correspondent, nick bryant, is here. You were sitting with me in the studio, there is President Trump making what seems like a recommitment