Here now, the president of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. It is good to see you all. Hope you had a great weekend at your convention. And we are going to have a Great Convention coming up, and i look forward to it. But before i discuss a historic breakthrough in our fight against the china virus, i would like to provide an update on the recent wildfires in california, and the storms in the gulf of mexico. Yesterday, i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I spoke to governor newsom. As they battle two of the worst wildfires in the history of their state. That continues. The federal government has already deployed over 26,000 First Responders, and personnel to battle the wildfires. Were working very closely with the governor and very closely with a lot of great state representatives and local representatives. And well take care of the situation. But we have 26,000 First Responders already. Our hearts go out to the thousands of families who have lost
Well show you part of that hearing now. The entire hearing errors tonight and just after 10 00 eastern here on cspan. Raise your right hand, please. Testimonyirm the about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god . I thought i was all done with this when i left the government. This is the first of two hearings this week. Understandably, concern about the egregious russian interference in our election process is so critically serious , bipartisanopus focused by the congress and the American People. Pasture the Intelligence Community conducted an exhaustive review into russian interference in our election process, resulting in a special Intelligence Community assessment. Im here today to provide whatever information i can now is a private citizen on how the Intelligence Community conducted its analysis and came up with its findings and communicated them to the obama administration, to the congress and to the American Public. Address forly related
Well try to make this as reasonably short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So, people wonder what are we doing, what are we trying to accomplish . In january, the Intelligence Community unanimously said that the russians through their Intelligence Services tried to interfere in the 2016 american president ial election, that it was the russians who hacked podestas emails, it was the russians who broke into the Democratic National committee and was russians who helped empower wikileaks. No evidence that the russians changed voting tallies, how people were influenced by what happened, only they know and god knows, but i think every american should be concerned about what the russians did. From my point of view, theres no doubt in my mind it was the russians involved in all the things i just described. Not some 400 pound guy sitting on a bed or any other country. Russia is up to no good when it comes to democracies all over the world. Dismembering the ukraine, the b
This week she warned the white house that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn had lied about his communications with russian officials and put at risk for blackmail. Miss gates served as acting attorney general in the opening days of the Trump Administration before she was fired to refusing the president S Immigration band. At a judiciary hearing monday she testified alongside director of National Intelligence james clapper. [inaudible conversation]. [inaudible conversation] just a gal. Thank you katie. Testing here. Here we come to order, thank you all for coming, heres the order of the day, a brief Opening Statement along with senator white house and then we will have senator grassley and feinstein follow some questioning and the seven minute rounds initially, we will try to put a second round of five minutes, both of those witnesses, thank you for coming. Will try to make this as short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So people,what are we doing an
Thate seeing signs drillers are fearing a slump in crude prices. Hot property, china june home price data will give us the latest look at how the wider economy is doing. We will break those numbers down for you and 30 minutes. Follow me on twitter. Dont to forget trendingbusiness. Get underway. Ets singapore and malaysia have just come online. , that is theg short of it. It is a very unexciting day so far. We are looking for the next catalyst. Frosty,ns looking multiyear highs for some. Asia mixed. Basically flat on the msci. Blames are quite thin, especially in australia and center 30 thinner. We are looking at the drop in the kiwi dollar. We were looking at gains postturkey into early this morning, then inflation data came out. 5 , but therer is the drop their, a 1. 3 drop. Once the data came out, the a 62 chen chance chance that the central bank could cut rates. As far as the markets are concerned, this is one of the least exciting at the moment. Angie not even a coup will shake thi