Lauren simonetti watching the market action. Blake burman on the white house beat. Hillary vaughn on the scene of the big debate, the vicepresident ial debate in salt lake city. Well get to all three of you. Blake, with a lot to cover. The first things first. The president in the oval office right now . Reporter he is indeed, connell. I was talking to a white house official probably about 20, 30 minutes ago who told me the president is indeed in the oval office. I was told according to the white house official the president was being briefed on two matters. One, the monster hurricane out in the gulf right now that could potentially make land shore friday, texas, louisiana, mississippi, hurricane delta the president is briefed on the latest on the relief talks seemingly over at this point. The president wants stand alone bills. Well get to that in a second. We also got a Health Update on the president today as he is now back in the oval earlier today from his doctor, who said the follow
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His birth he was in such Poor Condition that he couldnt remember. Good morning from moscow its friday february 21st money is called in by welcome to the program 1st for you this friday then the European Union is calling for an immediate end to waging conflict in the final hotbed of the war in syria as turkey steps up its operations in the province meanwhile washington is pushing for diplomatic action to be taken against syria and its backers over their military actions in the region despite admitting that it has become a haven for terrorist groups. It seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways their average of groups theyre all of them are a nuisance and menace in a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter getting up to speed then correspondent you go down off now takes a look at how the syria conflicts are volved. Its coming to shove in syria turkey and the us russia israel a
Announcements, still a couple hours away. Edward lawrence where things stand. Reporter the Federal Reserve has not cutrate since december of 2018. Nowed administration would like to see 2008. The market is pricing in a 25 basis point rate cut at this point. If you look at the speeches over the past month or so, of the 10 voting members on the federal open Market Committee six of those, those six on the screen, have indicated they would favor a rate cut. Now this Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell says that the Federal Reserve will use its tools to keep the expansion going. This is important, his language is important, not to head off a downturn but keep the expansion going. That could signal the Federal Reserve could act before they saw any numbers that represent a downturn. They are slow and deliberate in the moves up. A Senior Administration official says the president will call for a more aggressive Monetary Policy. The official says the president want a 50 basis point cut today
Intervene in a state matter and say stop the state plea because it is insufficient. Reporter i want to ask you a question about the office of professional responsibility. Earlier this year, it was disclosed that they are doing a review into how you and other prosecutors in your office handled this matter. What is the status of that, what exactly are they looking at, will you submit to an interview even though youre no longer with the Justice Department and if they find any misconduct, will you resign . First, i dont know what the status of that is. I would refer that to the office of professional responsibility. I dont speak for them. I will clearly submit for an interview even though i dont have to. I think what they do is important. The office of professional responsibility will have access to the full record. They will have access to all the facts. They will have access to the fbi reports. Theyll have access to the victim interviews. They can look at this matter in its totality. And