Trajan is not cooperating with the inquiry it s very clear that the administration is stonewalling plain and simple it s really just outrageous people have a legal right to talk to Congress and the State Department the White House should not be standing in their way and stopping witnesses from appearing before committees really constitutes evidence of us this obstruction of the impeachment inquiry and will and go however did not commit to going to court to enforce a subpoena in the event it s ignored He also told n.p.r. Today expects former ambassador Maria von of each to appear before the committee Friday as scheduled small business owners remain fairly bullish on the u.s. Economy but not quite as confident as they were this summer N.P.R. s Scott Horsley reports on a new small business survey the survey found 30 percent of small business owners have been adversely affected by terrorists uncertainty about the business climate has ticked up in recent months about one in 5 business owne
I don t see how tax could have actually been broken down if they are happening today and in the days to continue Rob Watson looks at the motivation behind the briefings from the government in London the message is look there s not going to be a deal it s going to be that you use fault we re going to fight really nasty I mean we re going to blame people in the e.u. We re going to go after anyone who were sisters of the Late to the practice of process and if we have to fight an election on this basis it s going to be nasty and you have to understand Boris Johnson and the people around him of being driven by one thing they think they have very political survival depends on delivering that no matter who gets hurt the matter how painful it is for Britain diplomatically and in service of its relations with the outside world Britain is currently show jeweled to leave the e.u. At the end of this month the commissioner of the u.s. National Basketball Association has said that the n.b.a. Will c
Budget Office the House committees are seeking documents related to Trump s decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine the Defense Department and White House Office of Management and Budget have until October 15th to comply with the subpoena as the intelligence oversight and foreign affairs committees are investigating claims Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to interfere in the 2020 presidential election the efforts add to a list of outstanding subpoenas to the State Department and the White House as well as ongoing testimony before the Intelligence Committee. N.p.r. News Washington the grocery store chain Kroger says it will stop selling cigarettes N.P.R. s Amy Held reports Kroger joins a growing list of retailers responding to health concerns about vaporing Kroger cites mounting questions and an increasingly complex regulatory environment associated with the cigarettes 1st though it will sell through its current inventory and then no more Wal-Mart said last month it too wou
This week as it continues an impeachment inquiry into President Trump s dealings with Ukraine N.P.R. s Claudio reports lawmakers will follow up on last week s testimony from Trump s former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker Voeckler testified last week that there were text messages between himself and other diplomatic officials and those showed efforts to work with Trump s demands from the Ukrainian president and one of those officials on the texturing is millionaire and Trump go on are Gordon Sunland the European Union ambassador who s expected to testify behind closed doors this week N.P.R. s Claudio. President Trump will not have to release his tax returns at least for now shortly after a federal judge ruled this morning that a Manhattan district attorney could seek the returns as part of a probe into Trump s business dealings and appeals court has issued a stay the winners of this year s Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine were announced this morning in Sweden N.P.R. s Richar
Igniters Turkey s legitimate security concerns but that no sustainable solution to the Syrian conflict is possible through military means European Commission spokeswoman my of it is also emphasizing under a must ensure unhindered safe and sustainable humanitarian access to the expected battle zones reporter Teri Schultz the acting homeland security secretary left a conference on immigration policy in Washington today with out speaking as N.P.R. s Joel Rose reports protesters refused to stop shouting during his remarks acting homeland security secretary Kevin Macklin and was invited to be the keynote speaker at an immigration policy conference at Georgetown Law Center good morning everyone d. Thank you for the kind introduction Andrew. But protesters drowned him out chanting and reading the names of the migrant children who died after being held in immigration detention Doris Meissner of the Migration Policy Institute of the organizers of the conference asked the protesters to stop he