Is, he is more the president s lawyer than he is the lawyer for the United States and our constitution. I think he should recuse himself from the 14 criminal referrals that came out of the mueller inquiry. It turns out he didnt even look at the evidence. That is a report. It is not evensvillidence. If i were trump, i would fint them. I think this is trying to destroy him and his family. Did he commit a crime . He lied to congress. He lied to congress. If anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. We are looking at images of you at the Committee Hearing with what appears to be b a bucket of Fried Chicken and you brought props here. The message youre trying to send . Its that bill barr is a chicken. He is the president s defense lawyer. He is not the attorney general of the United States. In the way he has conducted himself. . They wa. They want mueller to come up here post haste to speak for these committees and theyre considering holding the attorney general in contempt as
Happy friday it is friday. Its been a long, busy news week. I have been telling you its friday for the last hour. We begin with a trade war thats escalating in a big way this morning. President trump more than doubling tariffs on chinese imports from 10 to 25 on 200 billion. China is vowing to retaliate. We just dont know how yet. The worlds two largest economies are set to resume talks in two hours meanwhile, President Trumps attorney Rudy Giuliani is planning to visit ukraine to persuade the incoming government to pursue investigations into joe biden. Let that sink in. The president s lawyer is trying to convince another government to meddle in the u. S. Election. Also this morning, new questions emerging about attorney general bill barr. Did he tell the truth when senators asked if the president asked him to investigate anyone. Statements like this from President Trump have people wondering what i would like to see with iran, i would like to see them call me. John kerry speaks to th
They attribute this boom that continues . Stock market gains continue this morning. The dow is indicating that it is going to be a bright day on wall street. We want to get to a lot with mike pence and talk about william barr this week and the chaos in venezuela and mike pence is about to make his trip down to louisiana. Well talk to him about that as well. 263,000 jobs added in april. Thats a big number. The white house is going to be talking about that in moments from now. Bill the thing that strikes me about that, sandra, this is the line the administration always comes back to. They believe a Strong Economy can fend off any claims on behalf of democrats in the house. As long as they can keep numbers like this that are so impressive. 1949 that weve seen the Unemployment Rate this low. It is really strong and it really stands out in bold letters at the end of a long week. Very much looking forward to hearing what mike pence has to say about all this. Sandra it wasnt a long time ago.
Bernie sanders and joe biden. Its hysterical. And a principal who has had enough. And some journalists desire to jail bill bar. I kid you not. The news that should matter most to americans is todays jobs report. Its another record breaker and another sign that trump economics is work. In april 263,000 jobs were adding to the economy surpassing wall street and economists expectations. The experts were wrong by 70,000 jobs. The unemployment is 3. 6 , the lowest in nearly 50 years. The last time the Unemployment Rate was this low, the following things were not evenmonthold. Even imagined. Mobile phones. Video games. The mri machine. And disposable lighters. Its been a long time. In the 28 month since trump has been in office the economy added 5. 4 million jobs. These are spectacular numbers. Anyone who says anything different is lying. Its the best economy in my lifetime. And yet, all of the good news out there drives the left and some media to distraction and denial. Are there any signs
First broke the story, rebecca ballhouse. Rebecca, what are you learning about this outreach from the white house to don mcgahn. What we understand is within a day of the release of the Mueller Report, emmet flood, a Top White House lawyer, the white house special counsel, received a request from the president that he ask don mcgahn to publicly declare in a statement that he didnt believe his interactions with the president , which included trump asking him to seek muellers dismissal and subsequently to deny that that conversation ever happened, that mcgahn thought that that amounted to obstruction of justice and they wanted the statement to come out right in the middle of sort of this public furor that was emerging over the report that had a lot of these explosive details about the president s efforts to get rid of Robert Mueller in the early stages of his investigation. So President Trump wanted mcgahn to say that he didnt believe the president had tried to obstruct justice . Thats r