The two are to talk about business ties and latest threats posed by north korea and, yes, china. You can see hes pulling up right now. The Prime Minister of vietnam about to get out of the car. President trump waiting r that moment. But as we do wait for that Prime Minister to come out, here is the statement the white house is saying it will refer all questions about russias probe to trumps outside attorney. That is the news at the moment. Now, why . Because we have the news too that we do have james comey, the former fbi chief who was fired by President Trump saying he will testify publicly, specifically before the Senate Intelligence committee. He says President Trump asked him to back off of the flynn probe. These will be comeys first comments since the fbi director. On top of it, we do have the Federal Reserve making news too that it sees signs of a tightening job market, even more so in many parts of the country. And the beige book, which leads to more speculation that a june rate
Shifted toward a less grad all approach to overall policy normalization. The fed expects inflation to remain somewhat below the 2 target near term. The fed reiterated support for gradual increase in the federal funds rate. Participants believe in 2018 there will a bit of a slowdown in the economy, revising projected gdp to 1. 8 from 2. 2 . Unemployment, expected to being strong, 3. 95 to 4. 5 . One of the things fed is watching, obviously lower inflation. Several participants expressed concern 2 longer run inflation objective might have slowed. Recent so theness in inflation might persist. Theyre claiming drop on decline of Wireless Telephone Services and prescription drugs. There is also concern among the fed and Business Community about lack of direction from the federal government on spending. They said activity in couple had slowed from high level. Some contacts in the Automobile Industry reported declines in production. They appeared to recently abated somewhat. There is uncertain
Countries. It could have been a lot of people interfered. I have said it very simply. I think it could very well have been russia, but i think it could well have been other countries. Amy we will speak with the nations katrina vanden heuvel. And we will go to honduras to speak with Bertita Zuniga caceres, the daughter of slain honduran indigenous and environmental leader Berta Caceres. Berta was assassinated last year. Her daughter was nearly assassinated last week. We did not expect the attack. We were traveling back when a vehicle blocked the road in front of us and men jumped out with machetes and threw rocks at us, trying to attack us. As we escaped, they pursued us. Amy we will speak with Bertita Zuniga caceres from her home in honduras. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In germany, more than 100,000 protesters flooded the streets of hamburg thursday, as leaders of the Worlds Largest economies gath
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First, this deal will have no impact in the u. S. Business and, therefore, no impact on the amount of supplies procured today. In hops we purchased 8 of the hops in the u. S. We manufactured some but in the open market we purchased 12 of the cans available in the marketplace. We placed 25 of the barley available in the marketplace and all those figures will remain the same pre and post transaction. Bottles, we purchased 27 of whats out there. So thats all those numbers will remain the same and no impact because this transaction is about the rest of the world. Thanks, mr. Chairman. Thank you and Ranking Member klobuchar for having this hearing on a very profoundly important topic. I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, all of you with diverse and different viewpoints. Mr. Brito, thank you for making the trip from connecticut today. We welcome you and thank you for your involvement in our community in connecticut. And i want to say that im a nondrinker, so i have to disclose