And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of
Told anna. He says barclays is becoming the bank he wants it to be. Boosting pressure on north korea, Rex Tillerson echoes trumps warnings, but says to is ready tona impose further sanctions. Is the market paying attention . Alphabet beats sales projections in the First Quarter and amazon continues its 20year streak of doubledigit revenue growth. Will it continue to fuel the nasdaq streak. Less than an hour away from the end of the month in trading when it comes to european equities. We start the session on a little firmer footing. The fair value calculations on your bloomberg. 1 s like we are opening up higher. Interesting to see how the stock stories perform. Lets talk about what is happening more broadly. Not a lot of action. Lets show you the gmm screen. The is the picture around world. The dollar a little firmer bid. Up by. 1 . Elsewhere, not getting huge moves. Equity markets drift and that is the story to take away as well. Do we get a sense of direction from the gdp data today
Face of these key events with european stocks hugging the flat line one hour into the trading session while oil recovers from a 5 drop stateside. President trump told james comey, i need loyalty, according to the former fbi directors prereleased statement to congress. Comey, who will testify on capitol hill today said the president urged the fbi to make a public announcement saying it was not investigating him personally and pushed him to drop the investigation into former nsa chief Michael Flynn. Nbcs Pete Williams has more details from the sevenpage testimony. James comey gives a dramatic account, often in vivid detail of five oneonone conversations with donald trump. The first with president elect trump in new york on january 6th, a briefing on the investigation of russias meddling and salacious claims that mr. Trump was involved with prostitutes four years earlier the in moscow. Comey says he thought about whether to give an assurance about mr. Trump not being under investigation.
Before he came in to start the meeting, the president spoke briefly. This is just over two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States. Good morning. Please be seated. On behalf of the first family, welcome to the white house. And welcome to the inaugural meeting of the president ial on electionmission integrity of the area of just over two months ago, may 11, President Trump signed an executive order to create a fairssion to help promote and honest federal elections, the foundation of our democracy. Toction Integrity Matters every american. Calvin coolidge reminded us that the whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. President reagan declared that the right to vote was the crown jewel of american liberties. By establishing this commission, President Trump is taking action to ensure the ballot box remains inviolate and that the crown jewel shines brighter than ever before. At the president s direction, i will have the honor to Service Chairm
Before he came in to start the meeting, the president spoke briefly. This is just over two hours. Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States. Good morning. Please be seated. On behalf of the first family, welcome to the white house. And welcome to the inaugural meeting of the president ial on electionmission integrity of the area of just over two months ago, may 11, President Trump signed an executive order to create a fairssion to help promote and honest federal elections, the foundation of our democracy. Toction Integrity Matters every american. Calvin coolidge reminded us that the whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. President reagan declared that the right to vote was the crown jewel of american liberties. By establishing this commission, President Trump is taking action to ensure the ballot box remains inviolate and that the crown jewel shines brighter than ever before. At the president s direction, i will have the honor to Service Chairm