Americas news headquarters, im eric sean. Hi, arthel. Arthel hi, eric, happy fathers day and happy fathers day to all the fathers listening right now. I am arthel neville, so while the president was speaking inside the arena, peaceful and rather uneventful protests were underway outside with some disturbances as the president hit familiar themes blasting democrats and joe biden and using recent events to highlight whats at stake in november. Americans have watched leftwing radicals burn down buildings, loot businesses, destroy private property; injured hundreds of dedicated police officers, they want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new oppressive regime in its place, they wanted to fund and dissolve our police department, think of that. Arthel casey steigel, downtown right now. Reporter the cleanup has begun, we started to see the tents go down in addition to the barriers and all of the temporary fencing that was put up. The president spoke for about an hour and 45 mi
I am totally serious about it. Im really looking at it so seriously. I mean to the extent that a lot of my time up here is spent thinking about that. Much more on that. Im shannon bream. Americas news headquarters live from the Nations Capital starts right now. Last time i checked, were at war. I wouldnt send my attorney general if i were president to deal with the radical islamic terrorists. The attorney general is a Law Enforcement officer and it says all you need to know about obama obamas view of this conflict. He think it is a crime out of control. I think it is a war out of control. Republican senator Lindsey Graham taking a hard line against the white houses decision to send attorney general eric holder to a meeting in paris on fighting terrorism. All eyes were on the french city today as up to 1 Million People, maybe more take to the streets in a somber march to honor the victims of this weeks terror attacks. This as new reports emerge about the female suspect in those atax. Le
That based on the pending request of the deferment of justice, he is no longer allowed to look into this because it doesnt meet the definition of an urgent concern. Because it involves the president. Is that your understanding of the department opinion, as well . That the Inspector General no longer has jurisdiction to look into this . It is my understanding that both the Inspector General and i and my team are waiting for we were waiting for the resolution of executive privilege to be determined. It is now no longer executive privilege. Im not sure exactly what the statute has, as far as what michael can do. But we also are looking for a way now, if i did not send it forward, as you know, under urgent concern within the seven days, then the statute would allow the whistleblower to come to you and still be protected. Director, my to be accommodating. My point is this. The department of justice has said, because this doesnt meet the statutory definition, because this involves the presid
John roberts starts us off on the north lawn. These are the first transcripts to be released from depositions of people who had firsthand knowledge of what was going on with ukraine and Rudy Giuliani. Ambassador Gordon Sonland who insided there was no quid pro quo with ukraine now preassumes there was. In a surprise move Gordon Sonland revised his testimony acknowledging he told a former white house official that the resumpion of aid to ukraine was tied to investigating a gas company. Sonland recounted a phone call with President Trump about the aid. He said he was in a very bad mood. It was a quick conversation. He said i want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. I want him to do the right thing. He passed that message to taylor in a text message dated september 9th. The president has been Crystal Clear no quid pro quo of any kind. Sonland now testifies in september 2019 i preassumed the aids suspension was linked to the anticorruption statement. The white house pushed back hard on that.