Them in the right direction. Witnesses in the impeachment inquiry testified that the allegation of ukrainian influence in the 2016 election was appropriate to examine. Ambassador volker testified that he thought it was fine to investigate allegations about 2016 influence. Ambassador taylor said, for example, that the allegations surprised and disappointed him, on this record i do not believe one could conclude that President Trump had no legitimate basis to raise a concern about efforts by ukrainians to influence the 2016 election. Let me now turn to the first assertion that President Trump withheld a meeting with president zelensky as a way of pressuring him to investigate the former vp. Here it is important to note ukraines long, profound history of endemic corruption. Several witnesses during the inquiry have testified about these problems. Ambassador marie yovanovitch, for example, said ukraines corruption is not just prevalent but, frankly, is the system. Witnesses testified to ha
The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were about to hear from mr. Castor. Mr. Castor, youre recognized for 45 minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for having me back, giving me the opportunity to testify about the evidence gathered during our impeachment inquiry. At the outset let me say the evidence does not support the allegations that my democrat colleagues have made. And i dont believe the evidence leads to the conclusions they suggest. Im hopeful to add some important perspective and context to the facts under discussion today. The chief allegation that the impeachment inquiry has been trying to assess over the last 66 days is this whether President Trump abused the power of his office through quid pro quo, extortion or whatever, by withholding a meeting or Security Assistance as a way of pressuring ukrainian president zelensky to investigate the president s political rival, former vp biden, for the president s political benefit in the upcoming election. The sec
Come to order. I now recognize Ranking Member nunes and minority counsel for 45 minutes of questions. Thank you the gentlemen and for those of you watching at home. That was not a bathroom break. That was a chance for the democrats to go out and hold a press conference for all the supposed bomb shells that were in your opening testimony. I want to get back to the facts of the matter here. And the thing that the democrats have been unwilling to accept is that their operatives got Campaign Dirt from ukrainians in the 2016 election. Now, they know it. They know its true. Because we have financial records that show it. So they were democrats were heavily involved working with ukrainians to dirty up the Trump Campaign in 2016. So ambassador, i want to go through just a few of the incidents that we know. I know you may not know all about them. You may know about them now. But i want to walk through some of those examples of why the president may be very upset with ukraine and think that they
Big quarter for apple, set to report tonight after the bell. Investors closely watching the companys Current Quarter sales and forwardlooking revenue forecast joining us this morning, brian white as well as krish sangar. Stocks had a great run here. How much is priced in . Theres a lot of optimism going into this report i think really whats happening is the market is saying, look, we believe the services story. Iphone 11 has been good out of the gate theres a lot of things we need to think b aabout. All three iphones came out in september, versus september and october. We have some tariffs that have kicked in that could drag forward. All in all it should be a decent report, but i think the Services Report is more important big week for apple tv plus, big premiere here in new york. How much of that story is understood, especially when we start now paying more attention to disclosure and accounting on that part of the business . I would say a lot of it because there are a lot of unknowns
Somewhere 1. 4 but the mixed signals are there. Because the Unemployment Rate is at 3. 5 . The lowest since 1969. Wages are rising. Still on the uncertainty, specifically, trade, and the Global Economic slowdown, companies are basically frozen with what to do with the money. Theyre sitting on a pile of cash but waiting for some of that trade uncertainty to sort of shake itself out to figure out where they want to invest cash going forward. That is what the Federal Reserve is trying to figure out for long term assessment of the economy. One of the debates going an inside the Federal Reserve with chairman jay powell. I interviewed, exclusive interview with tom barkin, president of the richmond fed. He said that inflation, or the prices are low. Inflation is low, because of the trade uncertainty. Listen. Whether it is transparency on the internet, big box retailers, the power of their purchasing departments theyre very nervous about the ability to pass on prices. When uncertainty is high,