Solomon Islands is forging ahead, despite opposition at home and among neighbors, with a security cooperation agreement with China promising far greater cooperation, and potentially paving the way for China to deploy military assets in the Pacific nation.
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howard: john solomon, whose reporting for the hill newspaper, has drawn praise from president trump and his allies, has been released repeatedly mentioned during the impeachment hearings. solomon s reporting on burisma, hunter biden and ukraine election meddling has become inconvenient for the democratic narrative, and so the media is furiously smearing and libeling solomon. howard: but some of his articles were sharply criticized by two of the career diplomats who testified. george kent said one story was, quote, if not entirely made up, it was primarily untruths and non sequiturs. solomon, who joined fox news as a contributor last month, spent years at the ap and washington post becoming editor of the right-leaning washington times. he recently left the hill which last year started labeling him an opinion contributor.
investigative journalist john solomon. democrats switched from russia to ukraine for their impeachment crusade, solomon s reporting on burisma, hunter biden and ukraine election meddling has become inconvenient for the democratic narrative. the media is furiously smearing and library elling solman. the publication the hill told its staff yesterday it would conduct a review of solomon s ukraine reporting. the decision comes three days after a democrat on this committee told a hill writer that she would stop speaking to the hill because it had run solomon s stories. and she urged the writer to relay her concerns to hill s management. now that solomon s reporting is a problem for the democrats, it is a problem for the media as well. like to submit for the record john solomon s october 31st story entitled, debunking some
tonight. ratings agency fitch says they re going to downgrade america s outlook from stable. stocks soared on wall street. because the markets closed before that action happened. the dow was up by nearly 300 points. the reason was a wow weekend for the american economy. retail sales surged. that s a fair word. they were up 16%. accord together national retail federation. it was the best kickoff to the holiday shopping season ever. topping off, today the federal reserve said household debt in this country fell $60 billion. the outfront strike team called this optimism, 85% of them said they were not going to go into recession. when the pundits were sure of just that. they ended up being right. can this optimism really last? peter, what s your take of this market rally? will it last? especially because after the markets closed, we got the hit from fitch, the ratings agency, which was expected but is another reminder of the failure in washington. it is about the failure in was