Also with us former actor attorney general Matthew Whitaker on the Senate Judiciary today firing up the subpoena canon, straight at 50 multi former senior officials. In the probe of the juices of power in the russia pro bird weve got the this newly declassified documents show what we have been reporting for three years now. Republicans are now outraged that in these documents the fbi knew that democrat funded Opposition Research used to do unlawful surveillance ofas the aumpet campaign which is now verified and was on cooperated and that there was no they were there practices in early 2017. This is well before Robert Muller launched the trumpet russia probe. Plus, former Police Commissioner is with us tonight. President trump warning Washington State officials take back seattle from anarchists as reports are now coming in that anarchists are using armed guards and doing extortion of local businesses after theylo literally seized control of six city blocks but also with us tonight, unde
Sharp and tough. We are going to leave this and go live to a briefing with the d. C. Mayor. Mayor bowser good morning everybody. I am the mayor of the district of columbia, i am joined by members of my Public Safety team, the city administrator for the district of columbia to provide a brief update, and take your questions. Let me just start with this. We talk about statehood, people wonder why we fight so hard for it. And, i think that the events of the last several days demonstrate that our fight for statehood is more about more than getting two senators, about our right as taxpaying americans to autonomy, and the autonomy that can only be fully achieved with statehood. Curfew at i imposed a 7 00 p. M. , about 25 minutes noted thatcurfew we protesters in front of the white some were dispersed using form of munitions. D. C. Police throughout the night enforced the curfew, and last night, i think the chief will confirm this number, a number of people were arrested in violation of the p
Chinese demand levels almost at precrisis level. Time for todays market moving news from our washington and new york teams. We want to start with fed chair jay powells comments on the economy. In an interview with cbs, he expressed confidence in the recovery, but timing is still hard to predict. Chair powell the economy will recover. It may take a while. It could stretch through the end of next year. We really dont know. Michael mckee, International Economics and policy correspondent, has more. Was there anything new on cbs . Michael nothing really new, just summarizing what we already knew from the fed and from economists and disease experts. He suggested that what it is really going to take is a vaccine before people feel really confident and the economy can start to move back in the direction of where it was before all of this started. He said congress and the central bank may need to do more to keep us afloat during that period. Appropriate government policy could buy time for work
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The hearing will come back to order. And for the outstanding work you have done, thank you this has to be one of the hardest jobs in government to be the impartial watchdog and with those Government Agencies as important as department of justice and fbi i want you to know how much we appreciate your work and your teams work likewise it is important even though we are critical of the leadership of the fbi during the last administration the way they mishandled this counterintelligence investigation and the colleagues need to know that we are there for them and support them in the faithful discharge of their responsibilities. I served that there is no more ardent supporter. And i believe that general hayden when he wrote his book had it right it is called playing to the edge not over the line but up to the edge so that also makes it important for us to root out the illegality and the exercise of those that are given to the Intelligence Community. So let me ask you about that. Because i ca