I am here today to answer any legitimate questions and the House Oversight committee may have for me. Shall i allow hunter to give his Opening Statement first . It doesnt appear mr. Biden showed up for his public hearing. With any luck today marks the end of what may be the most spectacular failure in the history of an congressional investigations. State your iniry because we were a very important hearing what is your inquiry . It is not a stunned. I am simply asking you dont have a parliamentary inquiry . Chair recognize him mr. Chairman chairman recognizes mr. Does the committee how the Text Messages . Mr. Chairman we dont have time for games by democrats today. House Impeachment Hearing at 80 he did start, republicans and democrats taking shots at each other with two of Hunter Bidens former Business Partners. Hello and welcome everyone im sandra smith and dajohn craig to be with you. John great to be with you, what a hearing today, im john roberts in washington and this is america r
president joe biden will finally hear directly from the families of brittney griner and paul whelan two families being unfairly detained in russia. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and start in our politics lead with stark moves by two republican governors. ron desantis and texas governor greg abbott sending planes and buses full of migrants to two specific places, selected, it seems to get a reaction. the liberal enclave of martha s vineyard in massachusetts and outside vice president kamala harris official residence in washington, d.c. volunteers say the migrants seem to be mostly from venezuela. you can see some standing outside the naval observatory in the nation s capital earlier today. the immigrants were dropped off by two buses by texas. no heads-up was given to leaders of washington, d.c. that they were coming. in addition, overnight florida governor ron desantis shipped two plane fulls of immigrants to martha s vineyard. it is a vacation destination for many
was reluctant to override the views of the people who voted against the agreement. but, in this case, where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt millions of other working people and families, i believe congress must use its powers to adopt this deal. a strike would impact many sectors of the economy, including commuter rails, amtrak. though share their tracks with freight rails and disrupt up to 7 million travelers per day. and a month long strike would cost the economy about $160 billion, including 700,000 lost jobs. can you talk about what the hold up is, mr. president. i can t. because it s the middle of negotiations, but. have you been in touch with the parties again? my team has been in touch with all the parties. i have not directly engaged yet because they are still talking. meantime, the president s is talking inflation today in michigan as a top federal reserve final of official says the bank is going to need to keep those rates high to recover from stubbornl
freight railroads but could have a major impact on passenger trains because amtrak uses those rails for many of its routes. does this mean that amtrak service is back to normal? reporter: amtrak still did cancel some trains as there was a lag in getting all this information out. the big news here is that they are no longer canceling so many trains in all corners of the country. amtrak planned to cancel all long distance trains as well as trains on ten different state sponsored routes and would have trickled down to commuter rails in cities like chicago hearing from them they were able to turn this around soon and no trains will be canceled there. amtrak says everything on its system will be back to normal tomorrow. jake. all right, pete muntean, thanks very much. newly released data painting a confusing picture. another one missed the mark and mortgage rates hit their highest level in more than a decade.
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