What the American People want us focused on in washington, d. C. Is the kind of things i was talking about, at the steel factory today and on a farm here in minnesota. They want us talking about this growing economy. They want us talking about making america more secure. I really do believe and i hope that congress will get the message that well move on. Ellison barber has the latest from the white house. Ellison . Hi, jon. The department of treasury says they have their subpoena, but officials would not comment beyond that. President trump is talking and commenting on this on twitter writing in part quote i won the 2016 election partially based on no tax returns while im under audit and the voters didnt care. The radical left democrats want to again relitigate this matter, make it a part of the 2020 election. The chairman of the house ways and Means Committee says his committee needs to see six years of President Trumps personal and business tax returns. He said quote after reviewing
It is starting over again, and what the American People want us focused on in washington, d. C. Is the kind of things i was talking about, at the steel factory today and on a farm here in minnesota. They want us talking about this growing economy. They want us talking about making america more secure. I really do believe and i hope that congress will get the message that well move on. Ellison barber has the latest from the white house. Ellison . Hi, jon. The department of treasury says they have their subpoena, but officials would not comment beyond that. President trump is talking and commenting on this on twitter writing in part quote i won the 2016 election partially based on no tax returns while im under audit and the voters didnt care. The radical left democrats want to again relitigate this matter, make it a part of the 2020 election. The chairman of the house ways and Means Committee says his committee needs to see six years of President Trumps personal and business tax returns.
Cnns ed lavandera is live for us in houston. Ed, at this point, do you have any indication of how much this gas product has leaked into the channel . Reporter well, we were told in the initial hours after all this happened it was some 25,000 barrels of this gasoline blenlds stock is the way its being described, obviously toxic to marine life. Emergency crews have deployed about 1600 feet of boon to try to contain that spill inside that area around the barge. So a great deal of concern. Theyve also urged residents to stay away from the coast line where other boon has been deployed as well. There is aroundtheclock air monitoring testing that continues, and were told that that will continue and that some residents had been smelling some gas fumes smell on the coastline. But according to officials, the air monitoring testing so far have not revealed anything of great concern, but that testing continues. It is dramatic pictures, fredericka, when you look at what happened yesterday afternoon
Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house. Jeremy, the president has a lot on his mind. Hes been retweeting an awful lot. Lets talk about the president s comments about investigating biden. Reporter thats right. The president , in an interview yesterday with politico essentially leaving the door open to directing his attorney general, bill barr to investigate some questions of conflict of interest involving the former Vice President who donald trump, in that same interview referred to as essentially the likely nominee, the likely democratic nominee, who he expects to face in the 2020 general election. Now, these questions of conflicts of interest are things that the president and his allies have been pushing for several weeks now and relates to the Vice President s roll at the time hunter biden was on the board of a Ukrainian Natural Gas Company that was being investigated by that prosecutor. Now, its important to note that biden was one of several foreign leaders calling for this pros