Of the leftwing national media. Today the president declared comey is not only a liar, but a confessed leaker as well. He held a rose garden News Conference in which said he will be able to testify under oath that he never asked comey for a loyalty pledge. That he never asked comey to drop the investigation into former National Security advisor general michael flynn. Fox news chief white house correspondent, john roberts, with our report. John there was a lot of anticipation about what the president would say about the testimony on capitol hill. It turns out he said a lot. In the rose garden President Trump spoke for the first time in public about james comeys testimony on capitol hill. He said he would be happy to tell the details of their meetings to robert mueller, under oath. The president said he never asked comey to shut down the investigation. I didnt say that. He lied about that. I didnt say that. And there would be nothing wrong about i did say that. But i didnt say that. Repo
I would like to introduce someone that i met and we will speak for a few minutes and then we will talk about the book i did not follow my own rules. [laughter] i tried to sell now people actually do follow less on twitter so bad as i have the phone out and i apologize for not following will rules enough of that. Said tonight we are pleased to host a live the discussion if not downright depressing because raven rock is a fully researched book writing for politico and really dug into this for you were given a script option so you have to look keep the microphone but interestingly enough competition is fair and square. But the book raven rock and i dont want to step too much on top of Garrett Graff but with a continuity of government we remember september 11th the Vice President cheney said many times how they shoved him into the undisclosed location and there is a whole big history behind fact we are excited why garett can speak to that and how it came about and its legacy to the Current
Earlier i welcomed our cspan audience and i want to welcome them again. Were grateful that cspan is here. Im sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here, chairman pai, but were glad all of you are here. So, in keeping and chairman pai knows that i do this because hes been here before. Hes got an illustrious biography. I could go on and on and on about it, but weve got it in the brochure. For those of you who are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website, on the home page of the website. Its got fcc chairman ajit pais bio in it. I commend that to you but i would just state what everyone here knows, that chairman pai served as a commissioner prior to assuming the chairmanship of the fcc. How soon after the inauguration . Was that two days later . It was on a monday, january 23rd. So about three days after. About three days he was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. What i will say about chairman pai is this, without going over each of the particula
Clock, the senate giving back two weeks of august vacation to work on pushing the again today forward, including repealing and replacing obamacare. Republican leadership blaming the delay of the recess on democrats obstruction. We have third highest ranking republican senator, john thune of south dakota. Chris van hollen, democrat of maryland both joining us this hour. There is donald trump, jr. , releasing his entire email exchange about a meeting with a russian lawyer. He did it to be quote, unquote, totally transparent. If he was aiming to make the story about russia go away. He failed there. It is blown up. We have white house reaction. Legal analysis later in the hour. Melissa back to the markets. The dow logging a 160 point swing on heels of big news out of washington. Straight to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. We have you concerns about selling about 11 30, down 130 points on the dow. Of the later in the day as Mitch Mcconnell said they would delay taking
Google ceo says he violated company policy. He was dismissed for perpetuating gender stereotypes. Is diversity of opinion allowed . Not if your opinion strays from the company line. He is exploring legal options. Silicon valley and free speech could be headed to court. Relax, everyone, the judges that the shortly. Mary is. Just as important, your money. Will the doubt make it to 10 record in a row . If it goes up today, yes it is and reports in a row. Just the inauguration of President Trump value has gone up to . 3 trillion. Since the election for . 1 trillion. Question, while those rich democrats who hate the president , will they give it all back . Dream on. Great to be back with you all. Varney company is about to begin. Dream to north korea commit serious stuff from u. S. Spy satellite detected north korea voting to antiship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the countrys east coast days ago. Remember north korea vowed to strike america with thousands fold revenge after the Unite