Of them have lost their homes and their livelihood and theyre hoping for a promise from the government of assistance beyond just now this week also but in the coming years to come for them. Still ahead on aljazeera the mounting cost of weeks of often violent protests in chile against poverty and corruption also new fires forced thousands more from their homes in the u. S. State of california. Hello again to welcome back well of course all eyes are on japan as we go into the Rugby World Cup here on the weekend and things are looking quite nice in terms of the weather not a lot of clouds here on our forecast map on saturday and temps of wise we are looking at probably the low twentys as your high going into the teens in the overnight hours there for tokyo 21. 00 degrees and for a sucka we do expect to see a temperature few of 22. 00 degrees there well here across much of china things are not looking too bad out here towards the east but we are picking up a lot more showers on saturday ac
Youre willing to hear what they have to say or if you really that want to hear that kind of stuff but it is forced upon you because that individual had paid for advertising so so i think that the simplicity of the phrase free speech need to be looked at in a little bit more detail here. Well you know speaking of paid speech i want to look at some of these figures so i know there are some discrepancies about reporting and whos spent was and where and whats cause the fight is political ads but lets take some numbers here from the u. S. Federal Election Commission and it says since 2008 and thats really the birth of social media in terms of political campaigning campaigns have spent Something Like 46000000 dollars on facebook 30000000. 00 on google and theyve spent less than 2000000. 00 on twitter so when really dont talking about huge amounts of cash if a twitter so is this and im going to ask this question to joe is this rather a savvy strategic business decision on the part of twitter
The white house denny behind the president and also suggesting they have not lost any significant republican support. Some critics have report have emerged, including mitt romney, but largely democrats are hoping to have articles of impeachment by thanksgiving and have the vote in december or around that time frame, which means this could be settled by the end of the year. David there is also the question of subpoenas from capitol hill to the white house for various documents. I understand the white house is pushing back, saying you should have a formal inquiry of impeachment, you have to vote in the house first. Why is that important . Kevin they are continuing to say let the courts handle this. Democrats have issued subpoenas from the state department all the way to the Vice President with the various house committees there in investigating this. Is theond Point Administration feels confident this is being handled in the political realm. They do not view it as as he did get wrist out
Sadly, on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the congress that the administration was forbidding him from turning over the whistleblower complaint. On constitution day. This is a violation of law. Shortly after, reports began to break of a phone call by the president of the United States, calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. This is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities. The facts are these. The Intelligence Community Inspector General, was appointed by President Trump, determined that the complaint was both of urgent concern and credible, and its disclosure, he went on to say, relates to one of the most significant and important of the director of National Intelligences responsibilities to the american people. Thursday, the inspector testified before the House Intelligence Committee stating that the acting director of National Intelligence stopped him from disclosing blocked him from disclosing the complaint. This i
Power lunch starts right now with two hours to go, here is where we stand with the markets. S p and nasdaq hitting record highs to close out the week. Nasdaq better than 1 . Alphabets power move behind that rally stock of double digits best day in years kelly. Thank you we are a week away from the decision of a rate cut the National White house economic adviser larry kudlow saying it is a miracle the economy is growing at all given years of monetary tightening mr. Liesman is here. Other parts of the economy reverse the strength of the First Quarter. Lets look at the details. We were looking for 1. 81 consumer is 4. 3. Best member since 2017 and powered by durable you see federal spending up 7. 9 Business Investment and exports were negative. In fact, i want to show you the reversal of everything strong went the other Way Investment positive in the first. Inventory. You see the consumer the contribution to gdp. Less than 1 to less than 3 that is a very big number. Here are the july prob