Witnesses in their pretend inquiry upon which they dream of impeaching the president of the United States. It doesnt get much more fanciful than that. For example, todays transcripts of ambassador William Taylors testimony in one of adam schiffs secret hearings. The transcripts show taylor said he believed the president wanted them to investigate burisma. But he said that was the result of a report in the New York Times. Not because of anything he observed or communication he had with the president or state department officials. For the latest on the impeachment press we turn to chief white house correspondent, john roberts. Reporter the latest transcript to be released, ambassador bill day loesch who says he believes there was a quid pro quo, that aid to ukraine was tied to an investigation. I observe thanked in order to move forward on the security assistance, the ukrainians were told by ambassador sondland that they had to pursue these investigations. But what taylor heard was all b
And this merges several of my interests. The constitution with the Heritage Foundation and my friend jason j fitz. I first came to know his name over 30 years ago as a placekicker at byu and was really good to this day he holds the record including the most successful points after touchdown scored in a single game and i think in a single season and also famous for the fact immediately after he kicked a field goal the helmet would come off and he became famous for that i think it was called the Jason Chaffetz rule but it played a key role in his success as a statesman and people came to know him and who he was. I remember many years later long after he played for byu with a successful career as a businessman i met him for the first time. I was starstruck. I met him while he was running on the campaign for governor. And Jason Chaffetz himself convinced me he was the man to become utahs next governor we had a long conversation about i it. And several months after that after he was elected
Bloomberg. You mentioned housing and todays gdp data when you look at that, do you believe that you have achieved a soft landing or are achieving a soft landing in the sense that removing to trend growth the rest of the year and next year that is our outlook overall, is for moderate growth of around 2 , pretty close to trend. Thats our outlook could be better. Could be worse you know, you never say youve achieved it. But thats our outlook we feel like our current stance of policy is appropriate as long as that remains broadly our outloo outlook. Donna borak with cnn. Chair powell, setting aside expectations for todays rate cut, obviously 97 sort of expected this would happen today, can you tell us more about the rationale behind moving at this particular meeting as opposed to waiting six weeks and cutting in december and if there was any discussion about that around the table . Thanks. Yeah. I think this seems to be the right movement you can see we had our usual range of prospects, ra
Great. I would like to thank the staff are putting on this meeting thank you to our clerk. San francisco government tv who are recording this meeting for prop posterity and no one is sitting in the directors chair. At this point, i will ask, you can read the next item. So, we have Public Comment on items not in the agenda and we have one Public Comment or one public speaker. This is for Public Comment on items not on the agenda. So anyone who is here to speak on the transit issues will have a Public Comment period for that later on. This is for people who want to speak on items within the purview of the Human Rights Commission were not on this evenings agenda. Youre welcome to step up at this time if you havent done so , fill out a speaker card and give it to the Commission Secretary. We will have a clock for the Public Comment. Two minutes. Good evening, commissioners. I just want to bring to your attention the issue of a Current Article in the paper about approving 10,000 scooters in
Because nobody is going to steal our businesses, nobody will close our factories and nobody will close our plants anymore. They are all coming back. [applause] susan President Trump has popularized the debate over tariffs in our country once again. How long throughout our history have tariffs been a subject of political debate . Peter tariffs have been the topic of discussion from the beginning. Tariffs make great rhetoric. Really power people up. One could argue that the United States was founded on a tariff thatll. Not american tariffs, but opposition to english tariffs. Susan we will spend some time we started asking questions about the tariff debate and we thought we would bring the audience along to learn more about the role of tariffs and American History. Before we get into the meat of this, what is a tariff . Peter it is a tax. There are many different kinds of tariffs. You will hear about protectionist tariffs, punitive tariffs. But at the end of the day, the difference betwee