A very warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me to keep airing our top story this hour a whistleblower has cast doubt on the way the International Chemical weapons watchdog handled last years alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma a leaked internal email from an unnamed employee at the o. P. C. W. Claims the organization cherry picked and misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks coincides with the o. P. C. Wus a 5 Day Conference which is now underway in the hague. On the agenda of this annual meeting is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in that room because it was compiled by one of the co all of those over the o. P. C. W. s report on the 20 team that chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and well his words i should say sum up better than anything hes feelings when he saw what the report that he was working on turned out to be as hes accusing th
Countrys parliament. And im leo harding and sport australias Prime Minister slams rugby star israel folau for his comments on the countrys bushfires claim the fires are gods way of punishing australia for passing same sex marriage and abortion law. Protesters are confronting police in hong kong as they try to rescue people caught up in a University Standoff demonstrators have been holed up inside the campus now for several days before dawn on monday police entered the grounds and faced a barrage of petrol bombs and arrows they responded with tear gas and water cannon. Most alarming. They did weapons were used in the 43rd at University Rich has become a bit unfair treat despair as a refugee for extremely violent viruses 50 betterman so really this reached a critical level rochus. So intention. Or cost well later a number of demonstrators fled the University Building some on motorbikes several were arrested but its not known how many remain inside now large groups of people have been mar
Afternoon on early pickup. All right, harry, thanks. So much and thanks to all of us Special Election coverage starts now this is a big night in michigan as voters in that critical swingstate cast back now lets in the 2024 president ial race, most Polling Places are closing right now. In democratic and republican primaries that are Testing Support for the likely nominees both parties, im Anderson Cooper is a Special Edition of ac360 and im jake tapper. We are standing by for the very first results from michigan. Now that voting has ended it most of the state, were going to get our first chance to project winners once the last Polling Places close less than an hour from now in the democratic primary President Biden i might be facing his most serious challenge yet this election youre not from his longshot opponents. Congressman dean phillips know from progressives who are opposed to them president s response to the israel hamas war. This group of progressives, they are pushing for a perm
Everyone, thank you for joining us this morning. I am Maria Bartiromo thursday may 16, your top stories, 6 00 a. M. On the east coast, debate season coming early President Trump and President Biden agreed to debate before the election went to debate set up for june and september while biden has a strict rule to adhere to, trumps says he wants both standing for two hours, everything you need to note new fox news polls putting trump had a biden as biden sees eroding support from demographics. Will tell you about it. Markets indicating a higher opening futures indicated again at the start of trading it is up about 28 on the dow industrials extending yesterdays gains after a major retailer walmart reporting earnings in the next hour we have the numbers here live and we will bring you the preview. Housing starts and Building Permits out at 8 30 a. M. Eas eastern. Commodities come up take a look at oil, copper up once again continued record highs in the price of copper were talking about tha
If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. You can also post a comment on facebook. Com cspan. The folks at the Pew Research Center have a report out with a inakdown the 3. 95 trillion federal spending. Social security makes up 24 of that spending. Medicare, 15 . Other types of health care, 50 . Income security, 13 . Veterans business benefit 5 . Education, 3 . National defense, they save 15 of the budget. Net interest, 6 . The headline to the piece says, what does the federal government spend your tax dollars on . Social Insurance Programs mostly. Paul ryan, the speaker of the house, boasted on a radio show about teh the future. Here is what he had to say. We will get to paul ryan in a seconds, but read a bit from the Weekly Standard first. He says that following the tax bill, ryan is not one to bask in the glow of past accomplishments. I asked about his priorities for 2018. He named three. Surprisingly, health care reform. I dont think the Health Care Issue is done, he said,