Good to be with you. Im francis rivera. President trump is making waves in poland this morning, kicking off his second trip abroad with a friendly reception. He is meeting with the polish president whose Rightwing Party is is a fan of mr. Trump. The president brought the attention back to issues here at home. Refusing to say russia alone meddle in the 2016 election. Just one day before he meets face to face with vladimir putin. Heres what he said. I think it was russia but i think it was probably other people and or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure. The president was answering a question from our own hallie jackson. Watch what happens when hallie attempts to ask him further in the question. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You must go. Thank you very much. Can i ask the president. Preside president. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, everybody, very much. All right, kind of jaw dropping to watch t
Meeting with putin. Pres. Trump positive thing. Putin is going to what russia and trump is going to want United States. Sometimes you wont get along and sometimes yowill. But we had a good meeting. Amy and we will look at how the intercepts Parent Company First Look Media is helping support the Legal Defense for alleged nasa whistleblower reality winner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In brazil, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da silva was convicted on corruption charges wednesday and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal. Lula was the frontrunner in the 2018 president ial elections and is widely considered one of brazils most popular political figures. The sentencing of lula comes a year after his successor president Dilma Rousseff, also , of the workers party, was impeached by the Brazilian Senate in a move many have denounced as a coup. Lula has been accused
Winning journalist Glenn Greenwald. Plus we speakak with an greenwad about the latest allegations of russia meddling in the 2016 election a and trumps recentnt memeeting with putinin. Pres. Trump positive thing. Putin is going to what russia and trump is going to want United States. Sometimes you wont get along and sometimes you will. But we had a good meeting. Amy and we will look at how the intercepts Parent Company First Look Media is helping support the e Legal Defense for alleged nasa whistleblower reality winner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In brazil, former president Luiz Inacio Lula a da silva was convicted on corruption charges wednesday and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. He will remain free on appeal. Lula was the frontrunner in the 2018 president ial elections and is widely considered one of brazils most popular political figures. The sentencing of lula comes a year after
Members of the finance committee joining us today. Earlier today, ive got to get my letter. Here we are. Earlier this morning 45 members of the Senate Democratic caucus sent a letter to the president and leader mcconnell and chairman hatch laying out our preferred path for tax reform. We have three simple requests that are overwhelmingly supported by the American People first we believe any tax package should not increase taxes on the middle class and should not cut taxes for those in the top 1 . We dont want any tax cuts for those in the top 1 . They are doing fine already. Its the middle class that meets their relief. Second, unlike with Health Care Tax reform should follow regular order. Its a subject that deserves hearings, committee markups amendments and a robust debate with input from both sides. We would plead with our republican colleagues not to make the same mistake they did on health care and try to do it by themselves. They are going to have a similar result i would predic
Be able to lift the debt ceiling in time . And countdown to the german election. With just a month to go until the vote, what is at stake . Ae ftp tells us it is wary of coalition with chancellor merkel. Have less than a halfhour to go until the open of cash trading. Maybe well get some movement on the ftse, it closed yesterday unchanged and we see futures up. 1 of 1 . Not really any moves in futures either but more than we see on the dax and dax futures unchanged. Cac futures up what one of 1 . The market is in weight and hold mode. The last couple of days waiting to see what janet yellen does. President trump maybe spooked the market into some safe haven trades yesterday. We see them coming off today. Take a look at the bunds, you yields coming back up, still miniscule levels on the german tenyear bonds at least they yields are rising investors get out of that trade. They did the same with treasuries, the yen and gold. In the safe havens and there is not a lot of action and markets a