Fake news geniuses who along with radical dems and rinos criticized his decision and called for an endless continuation involvement in what the president termed, long bloodstained region. Turkey, syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries. We have done them a Great Service and we done a great job for all of them. I now we are getting out. Let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand. There was some political pundits who responded to turkeys offense of in syria by calling for yet another American Military intervention. I dont think so. They are the ones that got us into the middle east mess. But never had the vision or the courage to get us out. They just talk. Lou for now on todays historic achievement, we turn to chief White House Correspondent john roberts. President trump declared victory for his formal policy today announcing they agreed to make the five long ceasefire in syria permanent. Agreed to from the white house to announce a major breakthro
Friday august 18. Your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. The august selloff continue spiking interestrate squeezing consumers and sending investors to sell. After the third day of selling mixed rally, the dow industrial don 46, nasdaq 1046 as well, the s p 500 lower by seven points, edging lower, the ten year yield reaching highs not seen since november 2007. We talk about twentyyear highs, the thirtyyear is settling at the highest since april 2011. The yield is sitting up fourpoint to 25 on the ten year period that is on private basis points this morning. The thirtyyear 4. 39 that is down four basis points from yesterdays highs, investors are hoping for answers at the Federal Reserve jackson hole retreat happening next week were jay powell is expected to take the stand and speak in a speech next friday. We will be covering that jackson hole meeting as well. Mortgage rates also skyrocketing with the thirtyyear fixedrate sitting at 7. 09 . That is the highest rate since april 2
Press briefing in weeks. And there is a lot of news to cover. The fema administrator is going to join Karine Jeanpierre at the podium with an update on the governments response to the devastating wildfires in maui. Gillian also reporters first shot really to press the white house since Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a Special Counsel to investigate the president s son. Well take you to the briefing as soon as it begins. First the Campaign Trail in iowa. Way up in the polls and all over the country, thats a lot, over 50 points. I think im the most likely to beat biden and get this stuff done and the ability to serve two terms and will not be a Lame Duck President on day one. Leaders dont just give you the list of grievances that are the problem. They actually lead. Its going great. I think ive been here more than any other candidate and part of the reason is i actually enjoy it. John a little taste of republicans on the Campaign Trail five months now until the caucus is in i
Bidens from russia, kazakhstan, romania, ukraine and china. Most countries really love us, dont they . They made a fortune. Beyond 20 million they were able to trace their Chairman Comer will join us to talk about it. Just the news. Com john solomon will break it all down. Let me sum this up for you and this is serious. This is massive sums of money. Hunter biden at the height of his Crack Addiction and Prostitute Addiction was raking in millions and millions of dollars from corrupt foreign nationals. These are, in many cases, corrupt Foreign Countries and our number one and number two geopolitical foe russia and china. Or the opposite, china and russia. And facilitating meetings and phone calls and other favors between these corrupt foreign nationals. Then Vice President of the United States of america joe biden. In other words that was hunters job. Connect them to joe, the big guy. He has given half his income to pops. Hunter at the time was an admitted crack addict. Now it begs the
And it is sock eastern. Thanks for joining us. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with the breaking news from capitol hill, where we are waiting the highly anticipated testimony of former Special Counsel robert hur. He is set to appear in just moments, before the house judiciary committee. And you can see him arriving there at the capitol, moments ago. Hes being held, were told in a holding area before this Committee Hearing gets going. Now, hur is the Special Counsel who investigated President Bidens handling of classified documents. Ultimately he chose not to bring charges, but he also questioned the president s Mental Acuity and fitness in his report. He is expected to defend that today in his opening statement, saying, quote, my task was to determine whether the president retained or disclosed National Defense information willfully, meaning knowingly, and with the intent to do something the law forbids. I could not make that determination without assessing the preside