Get folks shopping and why wall street got to buying and greg palkot in hong kong. Grady what is the latest . Its like a seesaw lately. The markets going up and down based on whatever the trade war update is that day. Today its good news for investors. The trump administration, as you mentioned, announcing theyre delaying tariffs on certain made in china products. The tariffs were supposed to go into effect in about two weeks for the products that you see on your screen right now. Were talking about things that we buy and use on a regular basis. Everything from cell phones to laptops. Other Electronics Like game consoles and toys and shoes. Now the tariffs being pushed back until december 15. The president says part of the reason hes doing this is to provide some relief for holiday shoppers. Were doing this for christmas season. Just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on u. S. Customers. So far theyve had virtually none. The only impact, weve collected 60 billion from chi
We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im george howell. The cnn newsroom starts now. 2 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast and around the world good day to you starting with the president facing an impeachment inquiry. Donald trump is tweeting up a storm. Attacking his opponents, firing up his supporters and trying to discredit the whistleblower at the heart of this ukraine scandal. The president is calling the whistleblower his accuser and says he wants to meet him. Mr. Trump is also trying to depict himself as the victim of espionage and warns there will be, quote, big consequences, some view that as a threat and there are fears someone might try to out the whistleblower. His attorneys wrote in a letter to the acting National Intelligence director, it says, in part there are, quote, serious concerns we have regarding our clients personal safety. We appreciate your offices support thus far to activate appropriate resources to ensure their safety,
Footage were getting a rapid lid evolving situation. What were going to do is report more on it in this hour, in fact, later a former atf agent will join me with an update and the latest. So that is something that everyone is processing here. On a week where obviously, theres still been a lot of fallout from the Mass Shootings and the president s responses to them as well as the discussions weve been having and reporting on regarding potential gun control. We have all of that here and as i say, were going to bring you more on that story this hour. Right now, we turn to the other major crises that are engulfing washington and this Trump Administration. Donald trump spending what is supposed to be a vacation period karining from one selfmade crisis another. Top aides embroiled in a controversy over the immigration plan that explicitly says the goal is to punish or target poor people. Growing accusations of racism and then this, the markets plummeting 800 points today on new warnings abou
President of ukraine. Tonight, let me just cut to the chase here. None of this really in truth matters. The fake whistleblowers thoughts, their feelings, they dont matter. Anonymous sources dont matter. Witnesses to the phone call, they dont matter. None of this circus but democrats are now dragging the entire country through matters because we have the actual transcript. It is public and it shows zero, nine, no misconduct whatsoever by the president. The transcript not only exonerates the president but it clearly features a president of the United States upholding his sworn duty to execute the laws of the United States and investigate foreign election interference so nothing the democrats have supposedly cared about for three years all of a sudden matters. By the way, there was even a Court Decision in ukraine and that found that their government interfered in our 2016 elections and an effort to help Hillary Rodham clinton. I thought democrats cared about foreign interference in our e
Were already on edge before this news. So lets do a roundup of how its playing. Lets begin on capitol hill. Cnns senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju. What else are we expecting from sondland . We expect Gordon Sondland to throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus. But the question is, will he throw the president under the bus as well . Thats going to be a big question today because according to witness testimony after witness testimony, Gordon Sondland had direct interactions with the president and then sondland later told other witnesses that the president himself had essentially linked military aid to ukraine in exchange for this public declaration by the ukrainians to announce investigations into the president s political rivals. Now the question is will sondland confirm those accounts or will he say as he did in his closed door deposition, he did not recall some of those key accounts. Already amend his testimony saying he later remembered in september he had a conversation with a