It became a place where it was a hubbub of activity. It was the one place where it was private family time. Now a look at chinas economy and the challenges china faces in trying to maintain their rate of economic growth. The International Monetary fund China Mission team was part of a Brookings Institution discussion on the repeat imf report outlining chinas local debt, it financial sector, and real estate market. Its an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] interest and some extend mystery second largest economy in the world and the largest contributor in the world growth. The enormous interest about what is happening in china not just within the country but around the world. This morning we have an extremely distinguished panel to help us sort through the issue. On my left is marcus. Hes the Deputy Director at the imf and the mission chief to china. Marcus, actually has studied not just economic but also law and International Relations which makes him p
In a signed letter, the former federal prosecutors and other top ranking doj officials write that no one should be, quote, given special treatment in a criminal prosecution because they are close political ally of the president. And warning governments that use their power to punish enemies or reward their allies are autocracies. Growing increasingly worried about all this, the New York Times reporting that many wonder whether trump was undermining the departments treasured reputation for upholding the law, and whether barr was able or willing to protect it. Now as House Democrats grapple with whether to launch new investigations into trump over his alleged abuse of power, the white house is playing defense. I dont think that its impossible to do this job. I think that attorney general barr is doing a great job. I think he has a lot of confidence inside the white house. The president of the United States has not asked or directed his attorney general privately to do anything at any cri
Supervisors. One agent who worked at clint told the New York Times i cant tell you the number of times i would talk to agents and they would get teary eyed. He said he believes he will find a legal way to get around a Supreme Court decision that forbids questions about citizenship on the next census. On the most important new case announced today by the Justice Department, the attorney general recused himself. The attorney general of the United States did not recuse himself from decisions involving the investigation of the president who made him the attorney general of the United States, that would seem to be an obvious conflict of interest from william barr, but it takes a lot for william to recuse himself from anything. But he did recuse himself from the biggest case the Justice Department announced today. The federal sex trafficking case against Donald Trumps old friend, Jeffrey Epstein. Here is the attorney generals explanation of why he recused himself in this case. Im recused fro