His assertion from the morning hearing that russia stood to benefit the most with donald trump in the all oval office. Reporter director, who did the russian social Media Campaign ultimately intend to benefit . Hillary clinton or donald trump . Donald trump. Reporter afterwards, the president reacting. I think today proved a lot and i think everybody understands whats going on. There was no defense to this ridiculous hopes. Reporter Top Democrats today also claimed victory saying they will continue their investigation and house to dysuria Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said democrats will go to court to gain access to muellers grand jury material. On capitol hill, ray bogan, fox news. Kate abuse political analyst, brian sobel says a key focus of the testimony was to remind americans that russian interference in u. S. Democracy is real and i watched mueller s little bit outside his reports to continue to remind the American People that this is serious, that what the russians did was
The president was not impressed by muellers appearance. The president called it a great day for republicans. Muellers testimony was mostly dry and dispassionate during more than six hours of questioning. As promised, he stayed close to the statements in his written report, and he distanced himself from topics of president ial crimes and impeachment, leaving that to congress. I think looking at this there was political grandstanding, followed by short oneword answers from mueller. Clearly one of the big messages he had today that was very important and also irrespective of party is he warned his investigator did find foreign election meddling. Its real and a grave threat to our american democracy. Reporter Robert Mueller was sworn in wednesday at the House Judiciary Committee hearing in the morning and the intelligence Committee Hearing in the afternoon. He gave guarded answers about his report on Russian Election interference and the Trump Campaign, declining to expand on his findings.
But can they keep ignoring the views of the scientists. Thank you very much for being with us. Boris johnson is set to succeed at theresa may as leaderr of the conservatism baffle Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Mr johnson defeated his rival jeremy hunt by two votes to one of the final vote this tuesday the johnson set to take over from theresa may now within the next twenty four hours. One of the uks most polarizing figures now set to take the reins as Prime Minister in his victory speech Boris Johnson took a moment to acknowledge the controversrsy that surrounds him [inaudible] no the there will be people. Around the place. Who w will questionon the wisdof your decisioion . And they may even be some people here. Who still wonder what quite what they have done . Johnson won by y a substantial margin among dues paying members of his conservative party with over ninety two thousand votes compared to over forty six thousand for rival jeremy hunt. Opposition Labour Party Leader Jere
Trevor welcome to the daily show, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for coming out i appreciate you. Lets do this. Im trevor noah. Our guest tonight is an actor from suits now starring in a brandnew Spinoff Series called pearson. Gina torres is joining us, everybody. cheers and applause also on tonights show, Robert Mueller finally testifies on capitol hill; lewis black heads to the beach; and if you have a snow globe, you could be smuggling drugs. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with some breaking news from puerto rico. After weeks of protests over corruption and leaked text messages, Governor Ricardo Rossello is expected to resign from office. Yeah. applause hes going out. applause now, he said he doesnt want to do it, and hes reportedly devastated and crying tears over the situation. Luckily, President Trump threw him some boxes of kleenex to dry his eyes. laughter and while puerto rico is saying goodbye to its leader, Great Britain is welc
Germanys business conference figures that is a test below figures. Figures. H low a lot of numbers out there. The ecb is what people really want to know about. The treasuries edging higher. A surprise in ecb policy that will play out on eurodollar. Currently at 1. 1126. And the weakness of that economy. This ahead of later mario draghi. We will be seeing that press conference. Lets get to bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana Boris Johnson clearing out more than half of theresa mays top team. A stream ofidating brexit enthusiasts into his cabinet. Becomes l counselpecial u. S. Robert mueller largely disappointed democrats with his testimony yesterday. Some wanted him to read aloud potentially damaging parts that he declined. Trump. Resident Donald Mueller didnt offer any clues. Bernie made off asking trump to shorten his 150 year prison sentence. The 81yearold is hoping to finish his fight and freedom. Made off was jailed for running the biggest ponzi scheme in histor