Maria joining the conversation, Dagen Mcdowell, former republican president ial candidate steve forbes. Im so happy that youre back, dagen. Dagen i was watching or trying to, i missed you immensely and i will leave it at that. Maria we will talk more about it. Maria steve, thank you so much for joining us, big day again. Consumer is still king. Maria we are wait on retail numbers, top story, markets hitting record high, futures on the way to another record at the start of trading, s p futures up 8 and nasdaq futures up 34 with a number of retailers to report quarterly earnings, home depot, kohls, tjmaxx among them. Lets get to home depot, Ashley Webster are the numbers. Ashley lets get right to it, home depot on the earnings per share coming at 2. 53 a share, that is one penny better than the estimate but revenue just a hair short, estimate for 27. 53 billion coming to 27. 2 billion, lets not forget home depot lowered guidance in last Earnings Report and reaffirming that, same store sa
Two Prison Guards, who were on duty the night the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, took his own life have been charged with falsifying records. Plus, the anti Meth Campaign in south dakota that has raised a few eyebrows. Well explain why. Hello and welcome. Im Michelle Fleury in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. For the first time, we have heard publicly from two people who had direct knowledge of thatjuly 25th phone call between President Trump and the ukrainian president. The House Intelligence Committee has been hearing evidence from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman an army officer on the National Security council and Jennifer Williams, a veteran Foreign Service officer, in the Vice President s office. In his evidence, lt col vindman revealed that he had twice raised concerns about how senior officials had been handling ukraine. He took his concerns to the nsc lawyer, john eisenberg, once onjuly 10th and again onjuly 25th. He told the committee he was so alar
Chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was informed by her superiors that altho
One that was loaded with an extended magazine. Maureen naylor attended this afternoons News Conference and has more from the chief. Reporter the breathing just wrapped up in the last half hour. Eddie garcia identified the man who was killed as a 29yearold resident saying he has a history of convictions for illegally being in possessions of gun. That man was armed with a loaded weapon and did not comply with officers request to leave the vehicle during a stop. We want to show you video of the scene on saturday. This was after 3 pm on saturday and forced the partial closure of southbound highway 85 in an area where san jose and saratoga converge. The chief said the 29yearold suspect had been under surveillance since an incident in october and they say he backed his car into a police car and let them on a chase. This happened on saturday on highway 85 in the middle of a traffic stop. The suspect was driving the lexus suv when he turned his car over. The wanted felon did not exit the suv a
See like they said. And to be concerned. [inaudible] mckinley was not involved in the situation. That fundamental fact has never changed and will never change there is no quid pro quo. Those individuals on the call have been very clear that there was no pressure or no quid pro quo they did not even know the aid was held up at the time of the call. The aid was released seven and a half weeks later. Those facts never have changed and it is interesting that the president of the United States first of all can have whoever he or she serves the interest of our country is ambassador but its also interesting even the president didnt want the ambassador there as well and that was clear from the call. Talking a lot about giuliani is it appropriate to go outside of channels to inform policy . To the president who can have who he helps thing will help the interest of the United States its been many done many times before maybe from doing certain diplomatic missions. With a Senior State Department