In language while seeming to try to help yates whenever he could. The senator promised to dig into the political corruption of the intelligence agencies and their efforts to subvert and to overthrow President Trump. Yates answers were predictable as she tried to deflect any responsibility for her role in obamagate. Yates blamed the fbi entirely for obamagate. Heres what she had to say about former fbi director james comey sending agents peter doc and joe pientka to question former National Security adviser general Michael Flynn in january of 2017. When you heard about the interview, you got upset, didnt you . I was upset that that wasnt coordinated. They acted unilaterally, yes, i was. Okay. Did comey go rogue . You could use that term, yes. Lou yates also confirmed that the logan act was brought up in a nowinfamous Oval Office Meeting on january 5th of 2017. But she said she remembers only comey talking about it and not former Vice President joe biden. It just so happens others say th
8000. Republicans come your opinions will come in on 202748 8001. Independents, your line will be 202748 8002. You can always text us your always ond we are social media at twitter and on cspan. K. Com tensions have been ratcheting up the last few days, with both countries forcing the other to close a key embassy in that other country. Ae wall street journal has story about that this morning that we will bring to you so i want to bring that story to you. The u. S. And china moved rapidly friday to shut down consulates and evict diplomats, unprecedented steps followed by calls on both sides to ease tension. Flareups between the worlds two biggest economies, even amid the move to avoid further acts of immediate excavation escalation. Aging ordered the shutdown of , describingsulate it as a necessary response after washington ordered china to consulate in houston. U. S. Defended the closure, citing unacceptable espionage and intellectual property theft linked to the outpost. As evidenced
Rights think Government Faces growing criticism over its handling of the crisis. China signals that its attitude towards. Beijing proposes new goals to criminalize sedition secession and subversion in the territory. Of the chinese territory. Of the program u. S. President donald trump says his country will withdraw from an important control treaty notice open skies and justify the move by saying that russia had not been complying own. With the deal which was signed to you decades ago to increase military transparency among 34. 00 countries this will be the 3rd the arms control pacts with the trump was pulled out of since taking office the other 2 were the i. M. F. A Nuclear Treaty with russia on the Nuclear Codes with iran. On the w. s that Washington Bureau chief is alexander of norman welcome alexandra. Put this in context for us how important is this open skies treaty and why does the president want to leave it. Well this treaty has been a very important for stabilizing relations be
Crude carnage im joined by my guest was me in beirut hes a professor of economics and International Affairs in irvine we have pai and he is an independent economic and geo political analyst as well as a former commodities trader and in toronto we Cross Alexandre Bruno he is an analyst at gulf state analytics sorry gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate pilot may go to you 1st in irvine because you got up early as for this program here all right it all happened quite quickly and a lot of analysts werent too surprised by the deal that the russians and the saudis had collapsed. The russians didnt go along with what the saudis wanted to do and the saudis reacted and now we have carnage on the oil markets here what is saudi arabias gambit here because you know in the if you look at its budgetary constraints it can afford to have low oil for a very long time and we throw in the coronavirus that is also hurting crude demand all
The nasdaq down by 25 points this morning, youll see futures are lower again. These are modest declines. The types of numbers we used to see all the time in the morning just over a month ago. Right now, the dow looks like it would open about 42 points nasdaq around 18 points. Keeping track of treasury yields we find ourselves this morning again with the yield indicated around those levels. 0. 7 and change andrew lets bring you an update on the pandemic and some of the numbers. The number of confirmed u. S. Cases rising to 400,000. More than 12,000 have died in america. New york is the epicenter with 140,000 confirmed cases. New york, new jersey and l. A. Reporting the deadliest day. And los angeles mandates masks as essential sharing this responsibility to keep workers and everybody safe which is why we are requiring customers to wear face coverings. Shopping for groceries, picking up a precipitation or any other business, you will need to cover your face. If you are not covering your