Bloomberg news covering the impeachment inquiry. Billy, first off, who is William Taylor . Well, acting ambassador William Taylor is a key witness, ukraine ambassador, because of his Text Messages to colleagues in realtime back in september expressing concern about ukraine back channel negotiations by Rudy Guiliani on behalf of President Trump. And you mentioned the texts. What was important about this as far as the impeachment inquiry . What did they say . Well, the impeachment inquiry has been looking into whether President Trump was trying to use leverage of military aid to get dirt on his president ial rivals to have the ukraines investigate whether joe biden or the Democratic National committee. William taylor in his Text Messages expressed concern about this and even called it at one point crazy to withheld military aid in a bid to get dirt on the president s political rivals. How significant is his testimony . Well, he could significantly advance what is already being built alon
Today Committee Members will be hearing from acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, williams taylor. His Text Messages regarding the withholding of usaid to ukraine are at issue. We spoke with a capitol Hill Reporter for more details. Because of his Text Messages to colleagues. In real time back in september expressing concern about ukraine back channel negotiations by Rudy Giuliani on behalf of President Trump. You mentioned the text, what was important about this as far as the impeachment inquiry, what did they say . Well, the impeachment inquiry has been looking into whether President Trump was trying to use leverage of military aid to get dirt on his president ial rivals to have ukraine investigate whether joe biden or the Democratic National committee. William taylor in his Text Messages expressed concern about this and even called it at one point, crazey, to withhold military aid in a bid to get dirt on the president s political rivals. How significant is his testimony . Well, he co
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Well. An interesting reaction to what we got out of the fed today. For more analysis, lindstedt deeper with abigail. Everyone is paying attention to the possible liquidity crunch. Going skyhigh. Not so much over the last today. Lets look at this rate coming back down as the fed did one yesterday then again today injecting liquidity into the system. Yesterday and analysts said there was not a liquidity crunch or anything to be worried about. These are the puts on the s p 500. You can to the bearish interest spiking skyhigh in october then again in december. This year pretty low as we have had stocks going higher. In august you see that it was high but more recently, look at this actually coming down as the overnight lending rates were going higher telling you that the bearish options investors are not that bearish. I wanted to take a look at dollars dynamics and the strengthening in the dollar that we saw in that announcement particularly because the fed might be more hawkish than origi
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