Gaffe . This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back, under fire. And the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. I got up there, this is gods truth, he stood at attention, he said sir, i dont want it. Do not put it on me, please, sir, do not do that. David he was wrong in just about every detail in the story and yet somehow hes trying to defend it and now doubling down. We will tell you how he is spinning it. Trish regan primetime begins right now. Good evening everybody. Im david asman in for trish. Our top story, the New York Post dubbing fired fbi director james comey the quote leaker of the free world as President Trump lashes out saying comey got lucky, by escaping prosecution after a blistering Inspector Generals report found he had violated fbi policy and set, quote, a dangerous example for the agencys more than 35,000 employees by leaking memos detailing his private conversations with the president. Joining me now former fbi special agent and former
Gaffe . This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back, under fire. And the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. I got up there, this is gods truth, he stood at attention, he said sir, i dont want it. Do not put it on me, please, sir, do not do that. David he was wrong in just about every detail in the story and yet somehow hes trying to defend it and now doubling down. We will tell you how he is spinning it. Trish regan primetime begins right now. Good evening everybody. Im david asman in for trish. Our top story, the New York Post dubbing fired fbi director james comey the quote leaker of the free world as President Trump lashes out saying comey got lucky, by escaping prosecution after a blistering Inspector Generals report found he had violated fbi policy and set, quote, a dangerous example for the agencys more than 35,000 employees by leaking memos detailing his private conversations with the president. Joining me now former fbi special agent and former
Preliminary investigation and those facing the possibility of charges say they hope that the rule of law will prevail they say the initial court action smacks of political persecution Dogon Al Jazeera manila so ahead on aljazeera the u. S. Economy is slow but steady how the trade war with china is impacting jobs plus a bill blocking a note that will become wall but then days after being approved by the u. K. s Parliament Parliament open upper house. Still plenty of hot sunshine across the middle east at the moment little more cloud you know into that southeastern corner. Of pakistan just spilling out solve in the but for much of the region certainly across afghanistan iran easing over toward still events hot and it is dry 30 celsius full by rates of 27. 00 interest in the still touching 40 degrees in baghdad further north we got a few showers between the black sea in the caspian sea i mean in georgia we could see some wet weather over the next couple of days is flooding a little furthe
Disagrees. As ecb bond buying divides opinion, we will hear from Christine Lagarde, plus how negative yields are impacting the Worlds Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund. Matt i know what the big news for you was last night. Number in the u. S. Showing manufacturers in contraction was fascinating. It definitely moved markets. If you are, even sitting in the u. K. , there is no doubt that was one of the biggest market moving things yesterday in terms of increasing fears, changing the price on futures. We will discuss that. Matt we will touch on brexit. We are going to be going down to westminster throughout the morning and following the fall out of last nights vote. Lets take a look at the market numbers right now, starting with asian equity indexes after those big drops in u. S. Stocks. We see asian stocks rising. Yen bouncing back a little bit. Just an hour ago. To sellare more willing safe haven assets in the last 60 minutes. Crude oil i think fascinating. Weakness we have seen in crude oi
The day. This is sort of translating over into the equity markets as well. The risk off tone continues after a 3 selloff yesterday. We got some of that tension in the last two hours or so, with china saying we violated the agreement given the 10 tariffs. They are vowing to retaliate. We have a read now on the u. S. Consumer. Walmart earnings are coming out. Let me jump over to that. The risk off sentiment continues. David earningspershare was a beat, 1. 27. Their target comps beat estimates, samestore sales. International sales were down a bit 1. 1 ,. A little bit of a leavening there. Also a beat on the revenues. Good numbers here, and it looks like in the premarket, it is up well, that has it down 3 10. My terminal has it up. Taylor i think it is because they are boosting their fullyear growth target. Analysts were hoping for a beat, hoping for them to shrug off some of the trade concerns and tariff concerns and boost that fullyear adjusted earningspershare growth. Indeed, that is wh