Pleasure to be seated up here with this group of senators. Not only from, two from the senate forms relations committee, but also a Bipartisan Group. As joe and i told us, a couple of days ago on stage, the Asset Security group was set up for bipartisanship. Its nice to have a Bipartisan Group up here. I brought my pen just in case. Senator coons, you try to warn me you would try to scare me on stage, if anything breaks out, i am armed. Let me start with you. You are the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign affairs, Foreign Relations committee. A job that the former delaware senator, who was now on the other end of pennsylvania, used to have. I want to start with you and talk about something that was discussed with secretary blinken, which is the counteroffensive. By way of context, senator risch was one of the most outspoken senators in advocating for not only arming ukrainians but some of the weapons that are produced , not only have an effect but have produced controversies. You are
A surprise. Not a surprise was to both independence and accountability that was doubted by key republicans. Where will the hunter biden investigation go from here . How will the Biden Campaign respond . Will the mounting legal troubles of hunter biden and donald trump obscure other issues and candidates in the 2024 president ial race . It is saturday, august 12, 2023. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Those questions and more about the announcement of the special counsel. We would like to hear your thoughts. 202 7488001 is the line to call for republicans. It is 202 7488000 for democrats. For independents and others, 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. We will also look for your comments on facebook and twitter, cspanwj. We will give you the chance to hear all of Merrick Garlands brief comments from yesterday. We will look at some analysis and update where the investigation is now. And we will hear from you
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Encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience i told brock obama the same unfortunately i dont get any response. Those who see the backing of the us will not stand the turkish nation it is our National Struggle is essentially turning on and has allies hes accused the west of providing weapons and ammunition to the Kurdish Militia he says that aside from five thousand trucks weapons and ammunition from some two thousand planes has been provided the turkish president also saying to quote that his allies are dishonest when they do not admit to the fact that they have been supplying weapons to terrorists and here of course hes referencing the Kurdish Militia known as the y. P. G france is calling for an urgent United Nations Security Council meeting while at the same time germany has expressed that it is extremely concerned with these developments particularly saying that the culture latest risks that could result from this confrontation between turkey and the kurds
Another big asian selloff. China losing 8. 5 in overnight trade and the hang seng in hong kong also dropping 3 . Japan a more muted drop but i think you get the picture. Europe falling as well. Germany and france bearing the brunt of the selling and the drop continues through the usa. We are off the lows of the day but as you can see the dow is moving to the downside by 133 points right now. The nasdaq is off by 46 points. The s p down by 11. The russell 2000 is down by nearly 1 folks, or 11 points. My old colleague now joins us with more on why china dropped so far, so fast. Reporter volatility returning with a vengeance to the Mainland China stock markets. Equities plunging more than 8 . The biggest oneday drop in more than eight years on signs beijing might be backing away from supporting the markets. Concerns over Economic Health soured sentiment further. Data show chinas industrial firms dropped 3 from a year earlier reversing a. 6 rise in may. Index heavyweights including china u