Night in toledo, ohio. President trump as we begin the new year, our economy is booming, wages are soaring. Workers are thriving and americas future has never ever looked brighter. We are th the envy of every couy in the world. We created 7 million brandnew jobs since our election. Lou the president s economy strong, growing. A symbol of his commitment to making america great. Rising wages for our middle class and those who aspire to it, and the lowest Unemployment Rate in a half century. President trump boasting americas economic strength will assure his America First National Security policies are always backed by the strongest possible military might. Today the Trump Administration moving ahead with sanctions against 17 metal producers and Mining Companies, as well as 8 senior officials of the islamic republic. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin making it clear more sanctions will come until iran puts aside its aggression towards u. S. En. And. If we didnt have these sanctions in pla
They have been buying into taiwan media. So they own it. That means the Disinformation Campaign is embed into taiwan politics. And it has been going on for years. It stepped up in the days before the election where there is all sorts of news that is untrue. Lou that would be like allowing big tech and big telecom. That would be silly to prevent such a thing. There was a bill passed the past few days about interference in the election. Lou it seems a little close to the event. This was controversial because the Media Companies in taiwan were against it because necessity were getting a lot of the money from beijing. At the end of the day i dont know if it will affect the election because of what happened in hong kong. Giving her a 10 to 15 lead in the polls. Lou you expect her could be reelected. Lets turn to hong kong. We have seen very little out of hong kong. Is that because its calm or is it because of benign neglect over unrest in hong kong. Whats had an important effect is the pneu
President trump as we begin the new year, our economy is booming, wages are soaring. Workers are thriving and americas future has never ever looked brighter. We are th the envy of every couy in the world. We created 7 million brandnew jobs since our election. Lou the president s economy strong, growing. A symbol of his commitment to making america great. Rising wages for our middle class and those who aspire to it, and the lowest Unemployment Rate in a half century. President trump boasting americas economic strength will assure his America First National Security policies are always backed by the strongest possible military might. Today the Trump Administration moving ahead with sanctions against 17 metal producers and Mining Companies, as well as 8 senior officials of the islamic republic. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin making it clear more sanctions will come until iran puts aside its aggression towards u. S. En. And. If we didnt have these sanctions in place iran would have tens
Regular updates. He is an Obama Administration hold over he is also far away from the d. C. Swamp. Folks like that. Whats unclear is how it will go down with Congressional Republicans like peter king. First, chief National Correspondent ed henry is following the latebreaking developments tonight. Good evening. Knew tonight come some sort of supporters of President Trump are getting slamming the attorney general Jeff Sessions, claiming that he passes the buck by not naming a Second Special counsel. As you noted, the attorney general is signaling with this letter for the first time that criminal prosecutions are on the table for fbi and Justice Department officials from the Obama Administration who may have broken laws when they engaged in speech and abuse to on the Trump Campaign because session already has a criminal prosecutor all over this. In a letter to republicans chuck grassley, trey gowdy, Bob Goodlatte, he is for dell micro serving the right to name a Second Special counsel to
Issa. Congress should give him the benefit of the doubt that hes going to turn over to, if you will, the u. S. Attorney anything that need to be prosecuted, and hell get answers or hell get an outside seen a, i have no doubt about it. Arthel Garrett Tenney picks up the story. Conservative lawmakers want a Second Special counsel appointed but this week the attorney general announced u. S. Attorney john huber from utah will be conducting an investigation along with the justice departments Inspector General. Some conservatives say thats a good step, but others say its like the fox guarding the hen house. It was a number of people, we dont know how many, in the main offices of the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation in washington engaged in highly biased activity with regard to the 2016 election and two investigations were launched during that time. Reporter many are suggesting its a political stunt. There is an Inspector General and fbi that could do this work. B