The nature of this information, why we were telling him, and that provoked from him a long monologue that had nothing to do with what i had asked about, reviewing and then denying other allegations of Sexual Misconduct i women who had said he assaulted them. 19 of them. Mr. Comey i dont know if they went through 19, but he went through one after another. It was a woman on a plan, a woman here and here, and i think he said, do i look like a guy who needs to go there . Meaning prostitutes. Rich eisen was rhetorical, so i did not answer. Which ilad he assumed was rhetorical, so i did not answer. Im glad he did not ask me. It was going off the rails, so i pulled out and the rhetorical sense so i reduced the temperature by saying, look, we are not investigating you. Which was true. We were not. We are not investigating this, we simply thought you would need to know this because as i told you, the press is about to run with this breed we do not keep secrets from the president of the United S
[background conversations] hello, politicon, how are we doing . [applause] be back ateat to politicon in nashville, tennessee, how many folks here nashville . Wow. How many folks are from outside of nashville . Cheering] how many people here are from outside of the country . Back. Got a few in the nice. Well, my name is steven, im the president of the millennial action project, were a national Nonpartisan Organization working with young bridge theicials to political divides in our country and to enact systemic reforms to our democracy function better. Today, weve got an amazing discussion lined up for all of with two of the leading political commentators in our country, so lets bring them out. First of all, we have writer, commentator and author of 13 new seller sellers, ann coulter, give her a round of applause. [applause] do i go there . Right in the middle. Thank you. Andnd another writer commentator and writer at the atlantic, give a big round of david fromm. All right. Feeling . E
Back with a discussion on the economy and how its going to affect the 2020 election. Joined by the president of the Economic Policy institute and joe griffith, research fellow, finance and regulations at the heritage foundation. For both of you economy what do we see the economy playing into the 2020 elections. Lets start with you. Jesse. K you, i think in the past, the economy has been a pretty good predictor the outcome of president ial elections. In other words, in the economy is trunk the incumbent tends to reelected or the incumbent party and if the economy is weak, the opposite tends to be case. I think this year might be a little different for a couple of reasons. One is the economy is kind of quite ased, its not cut and dry like its good, its bad. News from such different places best for two bill clinton, defeating an incompetent, bush. S george h w he had won the gulf war. We entered a mild recession. President clinton want. 1996, bill clinton one despite having a lot of havin
Say well have the election in november and the u. K. Will crash out of the in the meantime she wants the legislation to go through but i think either the legislation goes to and then he will vote for it or the government can move their own bill to call for the general election which needs a simple majority of the house not to chooses majority in that saying we can sit in 20171 way or another were going to end it for the general election in october i think and thats where the fun is the ones ok chris coons will talk more as the evening wears on and as we await paid an hour a little over an hour for a vote on this motion Boris Johnsons motion trying to trigger a general election immediately back to you yeah the evening isnt over yet is it thanks very much china with all the latest unlicenced well as the brits have battles roll on their westminster mass protests for and against the move are continuing to take place on the string hundreds of pro and anti breaks at protest as rallied their
Those accusations so until those 5 demands are met are the protests about going to go ahead with more demonstrations this weekend ok with the latest from Hong Kong Sara thank you the u. S. Has impose new sanctions on iran for the 3rd time in a week iran immediately hit back by announcing its plans to further scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal. Jordan has more from washington d. C. Another day another round of u. S. Sanctions against iranian officials hezbollah and businesses in India Singapore and the u. A. E. But wednesday sanctions included a twist the u. S. Is offering a 15000000. 00 reward from a fund meant to find alleged terrorists to get information about the people running what officials call an illegal scheme to sell oil on the world market these people they say are members of irans Islamic Revolutionary guard corps coots force or i. R. G. C. This network has moved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit oil that money is then used to Fund Terrorism i