Announcement to formally declare the crisis in national emergency. Later, philip chino and Philip Shenon and the release of documents related to the assassination of credit of president john f. Kennedy. Silence give equal complicity. I have children and grandchildren to answer to, and so, mr. President , i will not be complicit or silent. Arizona republican jeff flake used the speech to announce his retirement. Senator tothe only speak out against President Trump. Bob corker also plans to resign when after the president yesterday. More on the speeches yesterday. We want your thoughts about that and what it says about the current state of washington, d. C. Republicans, call 202 7488001 , democrats, call 202 7488000. Call 202 s, 7488002. Our honors post on twitter page. Twitter. Com cspanwj. Senator flakes 18 minute speech most scathinghe criticism of trump today. He spoke with bewildering sadness. Speech can be available for you to view at cspan. Org. Heres a portion of it from yesterda
Stocks. The nikkei down half a percent. Lauren higher avocado prices clock is thinking about 10 . Fbn am starts right now. 5 01 a. M. In new york. Wednesday october 21st. Good morning. Lauren and lauren simonetti. Thank you for joining us. Higher avocado prices. Three bucks a pop or i go. The clinton president ial campaign as well as the Democratic National Committee Help fund a research firm. That produces a dossier of allegations about President Trump and his ties to russia. The firm, fusion gps. Then hired to write the dossier. Devin nunes on special report last night saying he is now seeking the baking records of the research firm. We believe we are going to have this matter fixed within the next week or so and we believe we will receive the financial records of fusion gps ps chairman of the committee, it is my job to enforce subpoenas. Lauren fusion gps says the subpoena has no legitimate purposes. Cheryl thats a big story overnight. Also, the white house saying Arizona Republican
The communist Party National congress. Theres been lots of reaction on social media to the unveiling of the countrys new leadership. More reaction from outside of the chinese mainland than inside it. A lot of it has focused on the make up of the committee. The gender balance is way off. This is Carrie Gracies the bbcs correspondent. Gender wasnt the only thing generating discussion their appearance did too. They are very similar, all in their 60s, wearing similar black suits and a range of coloured ties similar to each other and some jokes followed from that. Some say that the new look should have been something a bit more like this, but i think its unlikely i have been speaking to a member of the bbc monitoring staff who said that this is not a surprise. In the state media in the lead up to the announcement today, the names were more or less predicted. The official news agency, there were names mentioned that have been elected into the chinese congress, so when the announcement came o
This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. Five weeks later the power is still out in most of puerto rico, and now lightbulbs are going off in the heads of members of congress. Theyre calling for an investigation of the deal that awarded a big contract to a tiny company to get the power back on. The company happens to be headquartered in the hometown of a member of the trump cabinet. Julianna goldman is looking into this. Reporter its been more than aman since Hurricane Maria ravaged puerto rico, leaving its power grid in shambles. Today 75 of the island is still without power and lawmakers in both parties are asking why a Small Montana company was granted a 300 million nobid contract to help rebuild transmission and distribution lines. My biggest concern is we dont have enough information as to the process that went through that. Reporter republican congressman rob bishop chairs the House Committee that oversees puerto rico. The Government Power Company known
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