Vice president mike pence speaking out yesterday saying the u. S. Is ready to help. The United States condemns this terror attack and we will do whatever the necessary to help. The United States stands ready to assist the people of spain to find and punish those responsible. Maria the very latest developments coming up this morning. The terrorist attack weighing on Global Markets, futures off of earlier lows as you see here but certainly yesterday was the tough day in markets, the dow and s p 500 posting longest drop since may. Today we have mixed performances. 7 points lower on the dow and the nasdaq is up this morning. In europe declines across the board. Take a look at european indices. The dax index in germany down 2 . The shanghai squeaking out a fractional move. Nikkei average in japan, hang seng in Congress Congress better than 1 . Investors are seeking safety. Gold above 1300. Remembering two of virginias bravest, the troopers who died while patrolling the charlottesville rally
The political peril an extended shutdown would bring him. In about a week or so, defense secretary mattis will leave the building for the last time as defense secretary, and will be replaced, at least in the interim, by Patrick Shanahan. Mattis learned of his revised end date yesterday in a phone call from secretary of state mike pompeo, rather than from President Trump himself. I think the mattis resignation is a watershed moment for every republican in congress. Syria was the trigger, but this was jim mattis repudiating Donald Trumps entire world view. When the going gets tough, for whatever reason that no one can understand, suddenly a tweet comes out, the policy has changed. This is a dangerous time for the United States in foreign policy, because of this. The frantic search for survivors continues in indonesia after a tsunami hit without warning on saturday. The death toll rising again this morning. At least 373 people are feared dead, hundreds are injured. Its a race against the
Back to the countries from which they came. Three were born in the United States and all four are u. S. Citizens. The president said, quote, doesnt have a racist bone in his body but it is causing a growing divide among republicans as House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy denied the tweets were racist, while 36 of the 250 Congressional Republicans have spoken out to condemn the tweets in some way. Joining us now, the Washington Post political reporter eugene scott. The president and his advisers are saying, this is america. Love it or leave it sentiment. But here is the thing. He has never told white lawmakers who are critical of him to go back to their countries. So what ground does he possibly have to stand on . And one more thing, these congresswomen have been critical of the president personally and some of his administrations policies. They have not been critical of the United States of america. The president doesnt have any ground to stand on in that explanation. That is even what
Thinks the president personally bothered Department Officials to remove her without any evidence of any wrongdoing. As her statement reads, finally after being asked by the department in early march to extend my tour until 2020, i was then abruptly told in late april to come back to washington from ukraine, on the next plane. You will understandably want to ask why my posting ended so suddenly. I wanted to learn that to and tried to find out. I met with the deputy secretary of state who informed me of curtailment of my term. He said the president had lost confidence in me, no longer wished me to serve as his ambassador. He added there had been a Concerted Campaign against me and the department had been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018. He also said that i had done nothing wrong, and that this was not like other situations where he recalled ambassadors for cause. Joining me with the latest from the ongoing deposition from capitol hill, geoff bennet
Its not even close. Thats President Trumps message to one of his core constituencies after an evangelical chris man magazine founded by the reverend billy graham published a scathing editorial about donald trump. The president called christianity today a farleft and progressive outlet. And said it was doing poorly after the publication called for him to be removed from office. The editorial says the president s actions in regard to ukraine are not only a violation of the constitution but, importantly, it is a profound it is profoundly immoral. It went on to say unsavory dealings and immoral acts by the president and those close to him have rendered this administration morally unable to lead. And that should he should be removed that he should be removed, we believe is not only a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the creator of the ten commandments. Now, according to the research center, 81 of evangelical christians voted for donald trump in 2016. Earlier, i talked with the ed