President s Senior Advisor and soninlaw makes a rare statement defending himself before a Senate Committee on capitol hill and then to reporters outside the white house over his contacts with russia. The record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. Bret morand Jared Kushners defense today in a few moments. First, the president puts republicans feet to the fire over the stalled effort to repeal and replace obamacare. In a short but pointed statemen statement, President Trump decried democrats for passing what he says was a big fat ugly lie and then turned on republicans, accusing them of not doing their job in something theyve promised for seven years. Congress isnt the only one facing harsh words from the commanderinchief. President trump also called out his attorney general on twitter, saying Jeff Sessions is beleaguered. Fox team coverage. Peter doocy on capitol hill. We
Save a long time political ally. We begin with Tropical Storm harvey, the city of houston, one of the largest. 20 inches of rain have fallen in some places, an addition of 15 to 25 inches is expected across the texas coast as harvey moves slowly over the or ya. Emergency Services Performed hundreds of rescues tonight. The city of houston is urging residents to stay off the street unless they are in imminent danger many the mayor will be holding a press conference in h just an hour. Were going to go tote you that life. First lets go to stephanie g k gosk. Stephanie, its gotten white serious in houston. Reporter there are probably a lot of people that went to bed thinking this wasnt as bad as we thought it was going to be. This morning, they are waking up to their worst fears, overnight, historic amounts of rain. You shade 25 inches. The biggest event theyve had for rain in recent history here in houston was back in 2001. That was a Tropical Storm that dumped 24 inches over a onecoup of
Learned a lot about him and his character this evening. They have recommended substantial prison time for him. Also accusing President Trumps former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who had a lot of ties to a lot of people before he joined that campaign, basically said he is guilty of lies in the violation of his plea agreement. The government is none too happy with paul Paul Manafort. A good evening, i am martha maccallum, and this is definitely to be 26 tonight. President trump says he feels confident in the early take that he sees in all of this. Tweeting this, totally clears the president. Thank you Catherine Herridge has been going over all of it tonight as the news has been breaking, and the information has been coming in, catherine, good happy with us this evening. As he watched all of this pouring in, lets break it into two parts, two people. Starting with Michael Cohen. As you go through the document, what is the most information against Michael Cohen, and what pieces of it, p
Witness. How will all this play out to the race in the white house, jeff is here one of two democrats who voted to oppose the impeachment inquiry. The investigation impact on 2020, all that and a lot more as we look ahead on sunday morning features. In the public hearing in the impeachment inquiry will continue this upcoming week with eight officials are scheduled to testify. Including u. S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland whose name is come up so far. They heard testimony from William Taylor and george kent, the dippy assistant secretary of state for europe and eastern europe. Neither could answer this key question from john macklin. In this impeachment hearing today for treason or bribery and other high crimes, where is the impeachable offensive not call her either of you here today to assert there was an Impeachable Offense . Shouted out, anyone and raining right now ratcliff how intel Homeland Security and also former federal prosecutor. Its always a pleasure to se
American migrants to the southern border and ill also speak with carter page live, he is at the center of the fisa abuse scandal and has new information this morning to share with us about the origins of the russia investigation and also china expert Jonathan Ward here today just how personal is it between the league of the worlds two biggest economies President Trump and chinese xijinping, all that and a lot more right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. We have breaking news this morning President Trump is meeting with World Leaders at the g7 in france. He met this morning with japanese Prime Minister where the two agreed in principle on a new trade deal, breaking news out of france. He also met with canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and british Prime Minister boris johnson. Just minutes from now, he will have a bilateral pullaside with australian Prime Minister scott morrison, this as we await how markets will react tomorrow, breaking news after the close on friday