Through a wide array of crisis and challenges but lets begin with the Current Crisis that the United States faces. As you know, President Trump had a telephone call with the president of ukraine in july. The whistleblower reported on it in august. It was released in the last week. What do you make of the whistleblowers complaint . What did it tell you what struck you . What so extraordinary about this is that we have now in blackandwhite in the president s own words evidence of the fact that when hes conducting business, supposedly on behalf of the United States, with foreign leaders hes actually only conducting his own personal business, in this case is personal political business. In other instances maybe something else, financial or what have you. If you read the transcript of that phone call not once did the president of the United States raise anything that is of National Significance to the United States. Nothing about the sovereignty of ukraine and how its been violated by russi
House. Surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. He sees it serious very seriously when it comes to taking classified documents and information. Im not going to go beyond what the president laid out. He does not know whats in them. I would refer you to the white house counsels office. We want to respect the process and so thats what im going to do, im going to refer you to the Department Of Justice. And welcome back as America Reports rolls into hour two on this friday afternoon, im sandra smith. John im john roberts. Seems to be a contradiction between what the president said and did, that he takes classified documents seriously, but they were in a garage next to his corvette. Reporters are more frustrated as the Press Secretary Dodges Question after question after question, you get it, on the matter. Sandra and we heard it over again, the Press Secretary defers all the questions to the Department Of Justice but we are not getting much from the d
Line for republicans were kimberly is waiting. In mine. Waiting, des moines. Good morning. Caller the morning. People forget that Ronald Reagan was a movie star and he was just fine as a president. Jindal, heobby sounds like he is totally jealous. He seems insecure and has to tear donald trump down who seems to be very selfconfident. That appeals to us. The american public, we are not stupid. We get tired of the same machine running. I am a number of the National Healthcare regime. The first thing they want to do is go out to d. C. And offer a lot of money. That was a complete turnoff. These people believe they should be doing the right thing, that whoever pays more. That to me is a mob. Thanks. Guest that line is the most powerful line in a doll trunk campaign speech. I think that caller speaks to that. I dont agree between the comparison of trump and reagan. He was a twoterm governor of california. He was involved in politics. In Democratic Politics and then later on in conservative
Game. She is scheduled to speak at the Economic Club of washington so it looks like markets are waiting for her comments to perhaps get more direction. We have had some commentary from other officials over the past 24 hours. Ar. Heard from leo brain we heard from Dennis Lockhart, he says he does favor raising Interest Rates is month. In addition to hearing from those officials, we also heard from adp. Its payrolls report saying the u. S. Economy added 217 217,000 private jobs. This was precursor of the jobs report on friday. Thoughts for investors to consider. P wirp. At w. A. R. The likelihood the futures market is pricing in another increase. We have seen an increase in the probability. It stands at about 74 . That is something to consider as we going to these remarks from janet yellen. Thats take a look at the treasury market ahead of her comments. We are seeing an increase in yields. 2. 18 help in part by jobs figures. A bump in the u. S. Dollar versus the euro. The ecb, we will he
The economy right now described as improving on a modest asus, a description they have used for quite some time. They know the robust sales of autos helped by low gasoline prices. They talk about manufacturing being mixed, held back by the dollar and week exports. Know manufacturers expect improvement in the coming months. That was what janet yellen was delivering today. Broadly supportive of the idea the fed can move. David an uptick in Temple Warner temp workers. We will look at Market Reaction so much as there is one right now. Julie stocks have fallen to the lows of the section. Not necessarily seeing much reaction as of yet. It is interesting we have seen stocks turn lower more decidedly after janet yellen spoke speaking about an hour and a half ago, finishing up a half hour ago. She did not deviate significantly at all from what we know already. She did serve to emphasize some. Egree that was not necessarily news to anyone. Lets take a look at what is going on to take a look at a