Senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging or tweeting. In short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway. There is no embargo when the session ends at 10 00. To we will email pictures all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. If you would like to ask a question, please send me a signal and i will call on as many of you as time permits. Mr. Perez. The floor is yours. Perez thank you for the additional invite to come back. It is an honor to be here with all of you. Two and a half years ago, february 2017, i ran for chair of the dnc, and iran under the promise that we were going to Work Together with our partners in the democratic ecosystem to build a 50state party so that we are competing everywhere, every year, in every zip code. And we are doing ex
Lots to talk about this morning, once again we follow the bouncing ball of the china story and overnight we are learning that both sides said they would be willing to roll back tariffs, interesting. Devil is in the details, this can be very good, imagine how much markets might soar if you, in fact, do get this first round deal with china, very good news for investors. Maria we have a rally underway right now, futures indicating doubledigit gain, on top of all 3 major averages closing in record territory yesterday over optimism in deal with china, u. S. And china, s p was up 11 and nasdaq up 46, washington and beijing considering rolling back tariffs of completing phase 1 of much larger agreement, President Trump spoke about that in rally last night, listen to this. China is doing poorly as you know, but they are paying billions and billions of dollars and theyve never given us 10 cents before, billions of dollars, they gave a lot of the money to our farmers who got targeted but no long
Responsibility and make more constructive official contribibo multilateral cooperation instead of adding negativity. Amy well have more on the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement after headlines. In news from washington, democrats have begun to release transcripts of testimonies from the closeddoor impeachment inquiry into whether President Trump withheld military aide from ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate trumps political rival, joe biden, and his son. One of the released transcripts shows the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, said she felt threatened by the president s words after she read a transcript of the july 25 phone call between trump and ukrainian president zelensky. Another topic to secretary of state mike pompeo my michael mckinley, testified he told pompeo three times they should make a Public Statement in support of yovanovitch. Contradicting pompeos claims in an abc news interview last month that he had never he
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For the whole country, the blue states. A worsening trend, a fast growing list of individuals and Companies Fleeing those outofcontrol policies. Believe it or not, the u. S. House is in recess again, voters waking up to that fact when they come back from congress, they will have a little over a week to stop a government shut down by thinks giving. The debate, can they get that done in time and will shut down delay the democrats impeachment inquiry . The 2020 election may well be decided in three states that gave the President Trump the presidency, we have the names as polls now show impeachment underwater. Going negative with voters in those states in the democrat candidate who does not break 50 in these make or break states. The trouble ministration tightening the screws, iran later this week, for the break with the 2015 nuclear deal, we have the update on that and what they warned us about last night. Iran might retaliate in a big way to hit the oil markets. Also tonight, outrage and