Is their headline, israel denies entry to reps omar and tlaib. Followed unusual intervention by the president who advisors say is trying to sow divisions by shining a spotlight on its most liberal members. In the New York Times, they frame it this way. By enlisting a foreign power to take action against two american citizens, mr. Trump crossed a line others have not, exporting his partisan battles between and he demonstrated the length see will go to target domestic opponents. The president yesterday sending out several tweets about this. In one of his tweets, he said the following, it would show great weakness it israel allowed the represented haves to visit. They hate israel and all jewish people and there can be nothing that could be said done to change their mind. For a Campaign Rally yesterday, this is what the president had to say. [video clip] the need tou feel get involved in the two congresswomens trip to israel . I am only involved in that they are very antijewish and antiisr
I have been out here for the last few hours. My job is to give you the reasons you will take home and tell your family and friends why that guy with the funny last name is the right guy for our next president. The job of beating donald trump not going to be easy. Barack obama, Ronald Reagan were 42 and 43 respectively. Trump has the stronger economy. Focused to win back those states he took like pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. I would argue if you go back and years, wethe last 120 have nevers never defeated an incumbent president with a sitting senator. With any senator. It has always been governors and former governors. Thats because governors have to make the final decision. We have to balance the budget. And when we propose solutions to our problem we have to make sure we know how we are going to pay for them. I got laid off in that long recession of the 1980s and had to reinvent myself as a brewpub owner. We worked with other businesses. Pretty soon we turned that area around. I
We saw a little bit of volatility with stocks starting the day on a down note. Crude oil is the one to watch after this attack on oil tankers after the tanker incident in the gulf of oman. We will be speaking to reporters on the ground. This is the picture for the u. S. 10 year yield. Also looking at the pound but this is the first day were we have u. K. Lawmakers doing the first round of voting. Voting to choose the next Prime Minister want to choose the leader of the tory party. Minister and to choose the leader of the tory party. Coming up next, we speak to the chief executive of the Swiss National bank after their policy decision. But first, lets get bloomberg first word news. Hong kong lawmakers have scrapped a debate on controversial extradition legislation as tensions remain high between police and protesters. The question turns to what happens next and if this will become a prolonged protest. Some say hong kong is not a safe place to keep assets. If you are an investment banker
You mentioned brent. Index isy getting a bounce. We will get to some companies in that indexing in just a moment. Tyson foods has come out with its competitor to the beyond meat product, and getting a bum from that of about 1 . We just had that ipo, another successful tech ipo, with fiber international. Guy crude definitely the top story, spiking up after two tankers were damaged in the gulf of oman. Our editor for commodities is joining us from new york. Is this an escalation . Luke reporter the market is certainly reporter the market is certainly reading it that way. Neither of these tankers was actually carrying crude oil, but weve seen all the reaction in the crude market. This is just outside the straight of hormuz, which iran has previously closed outside the streets of hormuz, which iran has previously threatened to close. Weve seen a drop throughout the course of the day. If you are looking at the global picture, this area accounts for 20 of crude Oil Production 40 ofy, about 3
President trumps quote, andifferent about the law, she said quote, everybody in the country should be totally appalled about the president s remarks to abc news that he would take information from an opponent about a foreign power. Yesterday, the president gave us once again evidence that he does not know right from wrong. It is a very sad thing. Very sad that he does not know right from wrong. I believe that he has been involved in a criminal coverup, i have said that before, and our investigation is demonstrating that. The Mueller Report shows obstruction of justice in at least 10 perhaps 11 places. Leaderenate minority Chuck Schumer also weighed in calling the president s comments disgraceful. The u. S. Is urging chineseamericans from top Cancer Research positions. The fbi and the National Institutes of health are targeting Ethnic Chinese scientists, some of which are american citizens. All of this stems from an administration drive. Bloomberg businessweek looked at the case of a sc