predicate an extremely broad and sweeping subpoena of records of an unknown number of members of congress, staffs and children? it would be you would need to have substantial evidence. at the fbi, there is something called an s.i.m. sensitive investigation group that goes to the general counsel, the deputy director which very senior members who would review something like this before it was approved. in other words for something this sensitive you don t want it to be left to more junior people who may or may not have the right judgment and then briefed to the dag and to the attorney general for something that is this sensitive. so to me this is something where there s just an unusual failure because it wreaks of being a phishing expedition.
the fact that the case is so weak and it looks very likely i should say there s a strong chance that they could lose and you add to that the fact you have it coming so closely on the heels of the craig thing. all of those arguments add up for a case you would typically pass on. mccabe has said he s going to air all of the department s dirty laundry. that s the kind of case the department typically doesn t want to bring. so when you look at that and you say none of the normal factors argue for indictment, you say what s actually going on here, and the only thing that you re left with is saying the president wants him indicted, the senior leadership at the department wants him indicted, and they ve sent that pressure down the line. the u.s. attorney is getting in line. and you ve had all of the people who are making it known publicly that they want this prosecution too are all trump-appointed officials. and that shouldn t matter when you re talking about justice department profession
created by the president s trade policies as well as his inability to play political chess with democrats and avoid a shutdown. of course, the president is blaming the market downturn on the federal reserve s raising of interest rates, and trump has reportedly begun polling advisers on whether or not he has the legal authority to fire federal reserve chairman jerome powell. finally, trump s reportedly lashing out at his hand-picked acting attorney general, matt whitaker, for failing to prevent prosecutors in the southern district of new york from implicating him in a hush money scheme. oh, boy. a report that s so alarming, on any other week, that information alone would suck the oxygen right out of the of the news cycle, but this isn t any other week. it s as one top house republican told cnn, the week the wheels may be coming off. okay, here s the deal. something is rotten in the state of trump s presidency. it stinks. it wreaks. it s decomposing before our very
national security. we need a steel industry. if we re at war with china, who are we going to buy steel from? china? neil: thanks, john roberts. we ll speak to another ceo and his take on that. first, deidra bolton on the fallout from this. wall street abhors this sort of thing outside of the industries involved because it wreaks of something that could get bigger, right? it certainly does, neil. most of that theme is higher prices. then you have to worries about inflation. that is part of what we saw with this market sell-off today. take a look at the dow. the president said the u.s. would place higher tariffs on steel. the commerce department did a study and recommended some levels. but the president s plan goes further than that. the commerce department talked about a 24% tariff if it happened and a 7% tariff if it
environment. climate change, as well as their healthcare programs. they want to keep them going while she runs for president and possibly becomes president. they want that foundation to be up and operating and maybe bill clinton will run it if she were to be elected. that s something that probably will become a campaign issue for sure because she continues to accept the money now, she has limited it to six countries for the main part of the foundation. the health initiative will be able to receive money from many more countries. okay, the but the problem is that many of the foundation s biggest donors are actually foreigners that are legally barred from making convictions to the united states presidential candidate. so how are they going to reconcile this very troubling ethical question and escape the fact that it wreaks of influence pedaling? well, that s the balance they are trying to strike by limiting it to the six