Go Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us on this thursday our Investment Committee today, josh brown, john ageri, Jenny Harrington we begin the markets where all eyes are on the white house. That meeting on trade with those new tariffs looming. Watching it all. The latest, including the president ial tweet sending stocks surging the best gains since october u. S. Negotiators have offered to cancel the december 15 tariffs and cut existing tariffs on 360 billion in chinese goods in half. Thats according to two people close to talks my sources offer a couple caveats on the offer reported this morning by the wall street journal. It was made to the chinese last week clearly, a lot of time in between then and now second, talks have been taking place at the deputy level, with the ambassador absorbed by developments on usmca. Lighthizer will brief republican senators on that deal at a lunch meeting today on capitol hill. President trump appears ebullient saying the
Raised more than 100 million, to fight a. L. S. And pete fratese has succumb to that disease. Good morning. Its early start. If youre counting, 55 days to the iowa caucuses. Breaking overnight, House Democrats plan to unveil two articles of impeachment against President Trump this morning. We expect to learn more at a News Conference set for 9 00 a. M. Eastern. What we do know, according to sources, there will be one article on abuse of power and another on obstruction of congress. We are in a place where the leadership of our committees of jurisdiction have gotten the last input of it and the q a the question and answer, from the Minority Side from all of this will make a recommendation how we will go forward. At a closed door meeting, democrats debated whether to include obstruction of justice. Getting the votes to pass that separate count could be too difficult. But references to the mueller allegations will likely be woven in to show a larger pattern of misconduct by the president.
Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm on capitol hill in washington, where the Housejudiciary Committee has been debating for the last hour or so the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After what will be a spirited discussion, they will most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. If the president is impeached, the senate would hold a trial in the new year. With me is our north america correspondent peter bowes. Peter, tell us more about how this debate is unfolding. Well, this is a debate, as we expected, that is very impassioned from both sides. The democrats saying that President Trump has committed constitutional crimes and should, in effect, face the music. These two articles of impeachment, the charges against the president that he abused his position as president , and abuse of power, and also tried to essentially lock the process to withhold information power, and also tried to essentially lock the
Environment. In washington dc, Thejudiciary Committee of the us house of representatives has been debating for around two hours now the articles of impeachment against President Trump. After a spirited discussion theyll most likely vote later on thursday, ahead of a vote in the full house next week. The house is dominated by the democrats. If the president is impeached, there will be a trial in the senate controlled by the republicans in the new year. Our north america correspondent peter bowes joins us now. Talk us through the process here. This is a very political process. And extremely political process did again what is happening right now is that the Judiciary Committee are considering in detail those two articles of impeachment, essentially the charge sheet against donald trump. But it is political because at this stage it is the democrats who have the majority of the Judiciary Committee and indeed in the house of representatives so the end of the day it seems that when they get
A controversial citizenship law that opponents say discriminates against muslims. And trying to clear chinas air well tell you why its the middle classes are being blamed for a rise in pollution. Hello voting begins in the u. K. General election in 5 hours and final opinion polls point to a narrow win for Prime Minister Boris Johnsons conservative party but the prospect of a Hung Parliament where there is no clear winner cant be ruled out and that means bracks it could be further delayed or even canceled barker reports from london. After touring the country Boris Johnson was back in the capital to deliver his final Campaign Message the conservative policies lead in opinion polls has narrowed ahead of the vote anything less than a majority could be disastrous for the conservatives and johnsons hopes of delivering bricks it opposed 24. 00 to end the deadlock 24 hours to break the gridlock 24 hours in which we can remove the parliamentary roadblock and get a working majority for a sensibl