Bari has more from the iranian capital. Irans foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif is the 1st official to comment on the latest developments out of london the foreign minister tweeted that the may government seizure of iranian oil at behest of the us is piracy pure and simple i congratulate my former counterpart Boris Johnson becoming u. K. s Prime Minister iran does not seek confrontation we have 1500 miles of persian gulf coast line these are our waters and we will protect them his sentiments are shared by other high ranking officials in iran weve heard from the 1st Vice President who also said that the suggestion of a Coalition Force to patrol the waters of the strait of hormuz and guarded the ships that pass through it is absolutely not necessary and that iran is capable of providing security to the ships in the strait of hormuz and it is up to iran and the regional countries to ensure the safety of their waters meanwhile weve understood that there has been the extraordinary meeti
3 years he says hell do it in 3 months with regards to break that how realistic is that. Well. There are a number of threes in the briggs it story did via Boris Johnson becomes the 3rd breaks it Prime Minister after David Cameron and to reason may hes promised as you say to take britain out of the e. U. Top of the 31st deal or no deal how realistic is that well look at the deal aspect of it 1st he would have to resurrect a reason mays deal passed through this house of commons unsuccessfully 3 times hed have to get rid of the hated Northern Ireland back stop that hes there to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland well thats the one thing that the European Union has vowed that he does not prepared to do it would mean putting the interests of an existing member of the us head of those of an existing member of the republic of ireland so that leaves no deal is a possibility already the opposition to no deal lining up is already a majority against it in the house of parliament the c
More downgrades. This time not on the sovereign but u. S. Banks, 10 downgrades overnight. Tom there is a bank story in italy as well. That is the economic thing to look at. Overwhelming everything here this morning led by the news out of china is it is deflation tuesday. Im looking at the screen and i have not seen that screen in 4, 5, six years. Jonathan dreadful. Tom we were out in front of the story, there is deflation in the air. I can bore you with eight ways, all you have to do is say even oil breaks down. Jonathan every time i get data out of china, it is downside surprise. Lisa one interesting area, the divergence between the u. S. And china has been accelerating. What you have seen with respect to the u. S. Dependence on china is it is decreasing even though in europe it is not. I wonder how much those stories are linked. The underperformance of germany and the outperformance of the United States. Tom the banks have to deal with this disinflationary, deflation tendency. You go
Yesterday President Biden was in brownsville, texas. Trump made the chaos on the border a campaign issue. We want to hear your thoughts about this. Our phone lines for democrats 202 7488000, for republicans 202 7488001, for independents 202 7488002 we have a special line set up for border states that 202 7488003 you can use that mind to text us with your first name, city, state and you can also reach us on social media at facebook on facebook. Com cspan and x at cspanwj. Congress passes a shortterm spending measure. The shutdown would have started this weekend if it had not passed. They extended the funding for federal agencies into march keying up another scramble with another shutdown deadline a week away. This stopgap passed on thursday evening and the funding deadline was pushed until march 8 and march 22. Lets get back to our topic which is the border in those visits as i mentioned President Biden was in brownsville. [video clip] the speaker of the house needs to put this on the f
Counsel jack smith. The 45page indictment accuses the former e president of three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Culminating in the january 6th attacks on the u. S. Capitol. Heres the Special Counsel tuesday after the charges were handed up. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 20211, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. If lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of clerking, counting and certifying collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Paul lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnists dan Dan Henninger kim strassel and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, its interesting, he cited the riots at capitol, but thats not really in the indictment, per se, nothing that links to the rioters in par