What can we expect on a trial in the senate . Our experts weigh in and Amy Klobuchar joins us live. Plus, bloomberg launches hes taking on him. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. With the biggest ad buyin. Chris christie and donna brazil join our round table. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week. Announcer heres chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning and welcome to this week. After two weeks, 12 witnesses more than 30 hours of testimony, the public hearings into the impeachment of President Trump appear to be over. What did we learn . The evidence established a series of facts. Did President Trump launch a campaign with ukraine into joe biden . And that trumps Key National Security players knew about it. Ambassador Gordon Sondland put it starkly. Everyone was in the loop. That included secretary pompeo, right . Many people. Secretary pompeo . Yes. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney . Yes. Shadow diplomacy outside normal
They see fit. Okay. So the mandatory so those that are being hit with the mandatory withdrawal, i know theres interest theres interest about how to take those mandatory withdrawals and invest them in other other lack of a better word other investments, so i think thats something we may want to talk about. Maybe mr. Collins is in the audience, and maybe we should talk about a couple of the unions that are interested in that, in passing other information. So its something we should be thinking about because i know there is a lot of concern about it, and before we get a lot of questions and the mandatory withdrawal is the age 70. 5 restriction. Its r. M. D. , required mandatory distribution. But its not retirement, and you have to start withdrawing at 70. 5. Yeah, we can look at something about that. Im throwing it out here in Public Session because its a concern. Its on several minds, and first, i want to make sure were getting the best Accurate Information at the moment that we have, an
Advance, if its a very good month if it stays like this, the best june sinceey 40. We keep an eye on that. I remember that one well. Like just yesterday we were covering. A. That we have socalled bond king, jeffrey gundlach. He has turned markedly bearish. That the Federal Reserve doesnt know what he is doing and politicians flummoxed about the debt, whether they want to address it. He has been buying gold. He is optimistic on gold. His read on things a little later in the show. Edward lawrence on what the fed decision could reveal today. The white house want to see rates cut like now, right . Reporter the president made his observations clear. He would like to see that rate cut happen. It is widely expected the fed will keep the federal funds rate, 2. 25, 2. 50. Recent studies say that number goes up at the next meeting to 82 . Were looking for changes in the language of the statement. If the Federal Reserve says they will be patient for future adjustments. How the data changed and lo
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Its saturday, august 5. We will have more on our top story in the moment. We begin and they welcome back to lisa argen. Thank you. Glad to be back. We are bringing on the heat this first weekend of august. We have High Pressure building thats set the stage for a sizzling weekend, especially inland, but as we get low clouds and fog are hanging around the coast. Current temperatures are anywhere from 50 in novato to low 60s around palo alto. That brings us from a few degrees cooler to warmer this morning. Santa cruz. The beach will be nice. Air quality is getting worse. It will be good in the north bay but moderate elsewhere as the heat begins to allow for some hades. We have a fire to the north in oregon. That could allow for haze. 80s and 90s. Tomorrow will be rp key but we stay comfortably the coast with 60s will be comfortable but we stay comfortable at the coast with 60s. Authorities are investigating a double homicide after officers found two bodies in san of madthe discovery when