Well discuss all that, but i want to get to Fareed Zakaria and jim shciuttsciutto. Tonight cnn has learned that donald trump is working on ways to limit the power of the direct of national intelligence. This is not new. A recommendation was started from the post 9 11 panel to get better communication with all the agencies which was issued pre9 pre9 11. Since then, a lot of the agency heads have been concerned about bureaucracy. You have this overarching authority in the dni, does it actually shore with the interest of the Intelligence Community. There are lots of talk about how to change this. Now here is donald trump saying does this work well. Now to be clear, our reporting is that michael flynn, who so Donald Trumps National Security adviser is one of the drivers of this, and just so we know the history of this, he was pushed out as head of the Defense Intelligence agency in part by the director of national tleps. So theres some background there. I will say on the other side, ive sp
Standing on principle. Get to your chief National Security correspondent and start with you jim. Learned that donald trump is working on ways to limit the power of the director of National Intelligence. What more can you tell us . First off its not new. Dni, director of National Intelligence started recommendation of the post9 11 panel to get better communication among all the intelligence agencies which was issue pre9 11, not sharing information. Instituted and since then concerned about bureaucracy. Overarching security of the dni, does it serve the interests of the Intelligence Community . Lot of talk to change it. Now donald trump is saying does this work well. Our reporting is that michael flirngs trumps National Security adviser is driver of this. And he was pushed out in part by this director. Theres background there. I will say on the other side spoken to heads of the other intelligence agencies over the last couple of years who have bristled at bureaucracy of having overarchin
Report im Stephen Beers in berlin thanks for joining us the chinese economy continues to cool new Quarterly Results showing the slowest growth in 27 years so does that mean china is on the ropes in its trade war with the u. S. Well not so fast domestic demand is up and state support appears to be kicking in but china does have its work cut out for it. In the past 3 decades the chinese economy has undergone an extraordinary transformation developing from an inward looking agrarian based society to a Major Industrial powerhouse growth has been rapid for years double digits were the norm now the pace of expansion is slowing down in the last quarter g. D. P. Rose by 6. 2 percent followed by many standards but for china the worst performance since the early 1990 s. The governments been keen to offer reassurance but doesnt deny there are problems from. From one year and generally speaking Economic Performance in the 1st half of the year was within a reasonable range and has sustained momentu