Somebody had to do it i am the chosen one. Somebody had to do it. Were live from the white house. Those stories, plus going nowhere fast the new report that shows traffic in america is officially worse than its ever been. Stunning sight new images of the titanic revealed, the first in nearly two decades and what scientists were shocked they didnt find. And stampede oh, my god. The dramatic moment tourists find themselves caught in the middle of a massive herd of bison at yellowstone look at the big one oh today, thursday, august 22nd, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning, nice to have you with us on a thursday morning can you imagine being in that car . Its like the summer of bison. I feel like weve seen these bison stampedes over and over the past weeks fortunately in this case everyone was okay. We did have to bleep some of that video well show you what happened in a few
Mrjohnson is determined to leave the European Union on 31st october, ideally with a deal, otherwise without one. His government, though, has a majority in the commons ofjust one and 21 conservatives have signed a letter this week telling the Prime Minister his policy is wrong. If they did support a vote of no confidence and injected Boris Johnson from downing street, can they prevent a no deal brexit . Thats a good question, and this government of National Unity is the kind of thing a nation reaches for and people begin suggesting when there absolutely is no unity. Jeremy corbyns plan this week was to try to get other opposition people to unite behind him, and he would become Prime Minister and then he promised them this would be limited, he didnt say for how long, with the aim but not certainty of delivering aim but not certainty of delivering a general election and so on. At that point, unity such as there might be among the opposition people began to break up. If borisjohnson lost a
Hello, and welcome to the programme that brings together some of the uks leading commentators with the foreign correspondents who write for the folks back home with the dateline london. This week is a gnu the beast that can block the exit to the European Union if theres no deal . And is there a way out for the protestors in hong kong as chinas government warns it has enough power to quell a ny u nrest swiftly 7 with their take on those events diane wei liang, born in beijing, spent part of her childhood in a labour camp, where her parents were sent for rehabilitation during the cultural revolution. Diane is a novelist and a commentator on china. John fisher burns, a pullitzer prize winner, was chief International Correspondent at the new york times. David aaronovitch is a columnist with the times here in the uk. Bronwen maddox, a former newspaper foreign editor, now runs the Research Body the institute for government. Welcome to all of you, good to have you with us again today. That gn
, because of tariffs. Here is the question. Is the president getting ready to take a softer approach to tariffs . Well be asking our china experts coming up. And more hong kong protests this weekend, organizers say 1. 7 Million People brave the rain to hold a very peaceful demonstration yesterday. Well get a live report from hong kong later this morning. And get this, the business round table, the top ceo group led by Jpmorgan Jamie dimon saying maximizing shareholder profit, your wealth, can no longer be the primary goal of big corporations. Whats up with that . Varney company monday edition starts right now. President trump china is doing very very poorly. Theyve had i just saw a report theyve had the worst year they had in 27 years because of what ive done, and they want to come to the negotiating table. Theyre losing millions and millions of jobs in china, and were not paying for the tariffs , china is paying for the tariffs, for the other countries it may be that if i do things wi
Win would lead to a total meltdown especially when it comes to markets. Stuart talked about hong kong. Were watching it closely. Well have a run on the banks well talk about. A big weekend ahead in hong kong. Well look live where tensions stand right now. Lets get to trade, how governments are reacting to what is happening. The dow is up 275. Were ending week on up note. We have a few hours to go, still down overall for the week whether governments are aware well get to that in a moment. New stimulus could be helping stocks. Hillary vaughn starts us off at the white house. Hi, hillary. Reporter connell, President Trump says the september meeting with chinas trade delegation is still a go. He talked on wednesday with chinese trade officials. He is expecting a call soon with president xi. He said if china dares to retaliate against september first tariffs he thinks the u. S. Holds the ultimate retaliation or ultimate form of retaliation. I never said china was going to be easy but it is