You can describe it, connell. John bolton, the former National Security advisor for President Trump, his book is set to be due out on tuesday and an excerpt has been published, wall street journal, other outlets i believe as it relates to President Trumps meetings with president xi facetoface when it came to hammering out the trade deal between the two countries and it raises some serious questions about those oneonone interactions. In a passage just posted to the wall street journal, bolton writes, in his book, the following, he says, quote, trump then stunningly turned conversation to the coming u. S. President ial election alluding to chinas economic capability and pleading with xi to insure hed win, he, the president , stressed importance of farmers and increased purchases of chinese soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print trumps exact words, bolton writes but the government prepublication review process decided otherwise. On the last sentence, department of just
3. 5 . The s p, a similar gain, about 2. 5 there. And the nasdaq composite up just with over 2 . That is clearly a rally. Helped by the Federal Reserves bond purchases, thats money printing, a report from bloomberg on a possible trillion dollar plan for bridges, roads and 5g access in rural areas, thats the stimulus plan, a new one. Also helping, really helping, news from an Oxford University study, a breakthrough in the treatment of the virus using steroids. It significantly reduced mortality. We also have the rapid opening up of businesses all across the country and maybe an improvement in u. S. china relations. Mike pompeo meets senior chinese officials in hawaii tomorrow. And then theres this retail sales in may up 17. 7 . That reflects the partial reopening of some stores. It is a very strong number. The president just tweeted about it. Ill read it for you. Wow, may retail sales show the biggest one month increase of all time, up 17. 7 . Far bigger than projected. Looks like a big
[applause] average mead yoon incom median h rose 800 and president obama 975 dollars over 8 years, in my administration, 5,000 dollars over slightly more than just 2 1 2 years. President s message of populism and restoration of the American Dream helped carry him to the white house. And that message remains as strong as ever and today reinforced by the president s historic record of achievement. In short, the failed Political Class sold out american workers, soldout american prosperity. And soldout the American Dream. This was the alarming situation i was elected to end, those days are gone. Were not going back. We want the incentives created by our tax trade, regulatory and Energy Policies to be pro growth, pro worker, and 100 pro american. And more is yet to come. Lou more is yet to come. And m no political assault has been able to stop the trump economy from soaring. President trump delivered on his promises to restore americas wealth and prosperity for all americans, and done so de
She went missing last thursday and has not been seen since. This is torri marie gibson, shes been missing since saturday morning. Shes just 11. She has braces with blue bands on her teeth. We put the pictures and the information on our Facebook Page so you can share the posts and help spread the word. In Montgomery County, Fire Destroys a familys new home. It only took a few moments for this home to go up in flames. The parents and two children inside escaped early this morning. Now we are learning an onduty Montgomery County Police Officer came to the rescue. He made sure neighboring families got out of the way. By the time i knocked on that end door down there the whole roof was engulfed, the second floor was no one was hurt here. The fire was started by improperly smoking materials discarded on a porch. We could see protests like this one in washington today. This one was held in chicago yesterday as people protested against President Trump. It is part of the not my president s day
In february. In case 71 yesterday was not a fair enough reminder of how mild our patterns have been, heres the president s day forecast. For today, temperatures in the 40s. Near 50 by 9 00 a. M. 57 at lunch time. Afternoon highs today, low to mid 60s once again. Our average high is 48 degrees. This is anything but typical for february. Later this week, we expect to possibly be in the 70s. The entire week will be unseasonably warm. Some days warmer than others. If youre about to walk outside. Look at how mild it is. Twinbrooks, 52. Potomac, 44. In the district, 54 degrees. A lot of 50s on the map. Fairfax city, 43. Montclair, 45. For the rest of the area, heres what it looks like. We have a few 30s. 38 in manassas. 33 in warrington. Those are the exceptions to the mild air. It will stay mild all day today. And we mentioned the unseasonably warm tra earlier this week. Chuck will have a look at that coming up. Lets check the commute forecast. Right now we have this situation in alexandria