Cspan2. Former state department and National Security officials testified on the Trump Administrations iran policy before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Secretary of state mike pompeo declined an invitation to testify on the president s decision to kill iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Committee chair representative eliot engel threatened to subpoena secretary pompeo in order to obtain information on the u. S. Drone strike. Subject to limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to make the big announcement that todays mr. Mccalls birthday. So happy birthday. Im 35 years once again. Me, too. Pursuant to notice were here today to examine Trump Administration policy towards iran. I welcome our panel of distinguished witnesses. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We had hoped to hear from secretary pompeo today, as well. After we invited him, he announced that he would instead be in california. Thats unfortunate whether you agree with this administrations ap
God to be here. Maria investigation is turning criminal now dagen in terms of the origins to have russia probe, we are seeing more and more evidence of really exactly what went down as weve been discussing for the last 2 and a half years. Dagen ability to enpanel panel a grand jury and with bob mueller, the way special counsel worked, he couldnt report to congress, technically john durham would be able to report to congress, again, being out like keeping congress and the public informed about whats going on is going to be very important and flies in the face of what the democrats are doing in terms of this process because its not really impeachment. Maria youre right, we will talk more about that. Amazon stock down, profits fell 26 from a year ago, the companys heavy investment in terms of speed up shipment, the stock is off of the lows last night this morning but still looking at decline of 5 and a half percent, set to lose 40 billion in market value at the start of trading, mitch, yo
Uk. They are fed up with the endless negotiations and endless delays. Theyve now delayed twice before to achieve what . Well have the latest from luxembourg and westminster. The other main stories on bbc news at 5 the us issues satellite images and cites intelligence to back its claim that iran was behind attacks on major saudi oilfacilities. Two former British Army Soldiers win a Racial Discrimination case against the ministry of defence. Its one of the holy grails of medicine a cure for the common cold. Scientists in the us think theyve made a breakthrough. Its five oclock. Our main story the Prime Minister has told the bbc that the eu has had a bellyful of the Brexit Process and like the uk government wants to get a deal. But his host, the Prime Minister of luxembourgm, launched a scathing attack on the uks brexit policies after borisjohnson pulled out of a News Conference amid noisy protests. Earlier the Prime Minister met the European Commission president for the first time. Jean
Said that because you have many bright city years in there are a lot of booing but it will get her the votes of the social democrats of the u. K. Who are in favor some of them at least of no braggs it at all so you can see she played her cards quite well mixing it with her personal story makes it with the fact that shes the 1st woman candidate for the European Commission presidency by all accounts she really did the right thing here. And you know its interesting because thats the view from from the european level but melinda here at home we do see some social democrats criticizing the opposition to Fund Alliance of the kind of to say frankly we see them see sawing back and forth sigma gabriele the former party leader the former foreign minister said shortly after this backroom deal had been done and arcelor funded line had been declared by the heads of state to be their preferred candidate he said well you know that might be grounds to actually for the s. P. D. To leave the coalition.
Healthcare and ill legal illeg. Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. [ cheering and applause ] maria there you go. Weve got highlights, the low lights and President Trumps reaction as well. Markets this morning look like this. Futures pointing toward a higher opening this morning, dow futures up 86 points right now, a third of a percent, s p futures up 7, and the nasdaq futures higher by 11. Yesterday the s p closed higher with snapping a four day losing streak. The s p and the nasdaq were higher but the dow was down 10 points at the close yesterday. Nasdaq up a 57 points at 4 00 on wall street. For the month of june, the markets are all sharply higher. The dow on pace for the best june since 1938. Actually as the president told us just the other day. European indices look like this, take a look at the gains across the board, fq100 up 19, cac up 12, dax up 52. In asia overnight, markets were down as investors away President Trumps