Lying to the fbi, prepared to testify against President Trump, nbc something nice has yet to verify at any rate, down sharply. Now weve come back. There was a lot of talk about tax reform, stocks recovering the early losses, tax reform appears to gain no men tucmomenm the latest from washington on where this bill stands coming up in fact, lets get straight to the big news in d. C. Hitting the markets today. It is the fall yout from the guilty plea of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn eamon javers joins us with the latest at this hour. Reporter kelly, we got news in the past couple minutes here reported by nbc news that two officials tell them that Jared Kushner is the official who is listed in the criminal information surrounding Michael Flynn guilty plea today as being a very senior transition official who advised mike flynn to get on the phone with officials from various countries around the world to talk about a u. N. Sanctions problem that they had back during the pres
I very much welcome the tone of the foreign secretarys remarks. This now opens the way for iran to play a constructive role in regional shares and noting that we have a profound common interest in defeating dinesh and the reactions from reality. Will we do not use the opportunity to employ the full british diplomacy to force intelligent, effect incorporation between riyadh and tehran towards a common strategy to defeat daish appeared he is quite right it is to achieve a measure reconciliation between saudi arabia and constructive engagement between those two important regional powers in addressing many challenges facing the region. That will not happen overnight. Hes absolutely right the measured tone of the response we heard from saudi arabia in stark contrast to the last measured response was heard from elsewhere in the region and is promising and i spoke last night we will maintain our engagement doing two things. Encouraging allies in the arab countries around the goals to be willi
Powers. Good to see you. Thank you for having me. It is terrific to be here. Jeff you talk a lot about the concept of americana. Is it over . It is not over yet. Asiaericana in east shows america as the dominant power since the Second World War and the policymaking power. Let me give you an example. It is quite remarkable that 70 years after the war the u. S. Still has troops in south korea. It still has troops in japan. It has troops in australia. It has facilities in thailand, singapore, the philippines and the like. Interwoven set of security guarantees that the u. S. Provides for east asia and has provided for 70 years. I guess linked up up with the Economic System the u. S. Has built since the Second World War and built along with europe, which is basically built around open markets and rules. The rules of the road. Portrayed, for security. That is tax americana. Jeff we are 100 removed years from world war i. This is the legacy of world u. S. I, the legacy of the victory over jap
Will reduce some of the contents therein. If you want to make your thoughts known, 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 four republicans. N independents, 202 7488002 and onter you can post our facebook page. This is the front page story that you will find in the New York Times online, Michael Schmidt writing trump appealed to comey to halt inquiry into asked going on to say he the fbi director to shut down the investigation into michael flynn. According to the memo, mr. Comey wrote shortly after the meeting, goes on to document information that the president has tried to direct the influence the Justice Department and fbi investigation between mr. Trumps associates and russia. Jason chaffetz demanding that the fbi turn over the memorandum, notes, summaries, and recordings of discussions between mr. Trump and mr. Comey. They also highlight some of the dialogue that went on between these two gentleman saying i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting guy, io. He is a
S p 500 having their worst day since may 17th. So youve got to go back weeks just for even modest declines like that. This morning dow futures indicated up by 15 points. S p futures up by 2 and nasdaq up close to 10. Overnight you did see gains in the chinese markets. Japanese nikkei was flat as well. In europe this morning in some of the early trading there. Lets get a look at whats happening in the u. K. Ahead of the elections tomorrow. Stocks are slightly higher. Up by just under. 2 of a percent. The cac is up. Take a look at the treasury market. This is the one thats been causing so much consternation. The ten year note sitting just above 2. 15 but hovering around this level even though we do expect the fed is likely to raise Interest Rates next week. A lot of people wondering whats going on. Some of the weaker Economic Data including the jobs report leading market watchers to assume that the fed, even if it does raise next week, that it wont do it again in the near future. Lets ta