Bring section 8 usc 1324 charges or any criminal charges against state or local officials. I believe the request for made. The department of justifiable is reviewing what avenues might be available. Martha the answer to that is yes they are looking into it. Good evening, everybody. Im Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Also tonight some reporters at the white house incredulous as the white house doctor declared that the president is in excellent mental and physical health. Watch this. Can you tell me how a guy holler all those diet cokes and never exercises is in as good a shape as you say he is in. Its called genetics. I dont know. Martha Everyone Wants to get on that plan. He rarely sees the president when he terms as stressed out conditions. He has the ability to wake up every day and sort of reset when he is faced with the pressures of the office. More to come on that fascinating afternoon News Conference today. The president no doubts is going to need all of his faculties as
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Investigation. Let me read between sure. I want to read the tweet. The words the president used in the statement on twitter that he released earlier this morning. This is a terrible situation. And Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob mueller is totally conflicted and his 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to usa. I just want to be specific what the president has said because, dana, this is the most bombastic statement hes made yet on this entire russia probe. And it comes as mueller is now engaged in the first trial thats actually started yesterday. No question. And, look, when and this goes to the heart of part of the Mueller Investigation. When a boss, or when the president , says makes a suggestion to a subordinate, is it really a suggestion . Like David Chalian was saying earlier, when
Tariffs against china. Initially they were going to target with a 10 tariff, but sources say the president wants to increase that tax to 25 . There is a growing belief that china is a bad actor on trade and needs to be handled as such. China cannot fight titfortat trade war for very long, it will quickly run out of bullets. We also expect questions on a tweet a president sent out this morning that many people saw as him telling Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Robert Mueller investigation. Tweeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this which onto right now. Democrats started shouting about Obstruction Of Justice that the president was pretty overt and telling Jeff Sessions to shut the investigation down. Investigation, so we will see where it goes. I laugh because theres never been a natural end to a Special Counsel investigation. Harris there are very few natural ends to anything so we will see what happens. We are joined by a member of the Senate Intelligence
from republicans wanting to come to the table and make investments in infrastructure, but this is taking a really long time and they re actually having to concoct this backup plan if the gop and white house talks fall apart so congress has something else to fall back on. it s just, you know, i think feeling like this has is in the final stage of the dance here on congress. griff: talks will only on monday, we will see what happens. one of the things from the start, though, there was a sticking point it seems is how you pay for this. we showed the numbers very high numbers, but how you pay for it and whether it threatness the president trump 2017 tax cut law. jacqui: most recent offer from the white house, they got around the proposed increase in the corporate tax rate. they were proposing 28% tax hike up from 21%. biden said that we are not abandoning our long-term plans. we still want to hike corporate tack rate but for the purposes of paying for this specific plan, proposed 15%, mi
trump boom died. they are still wishing for a collapse. guy they hate so much. the problem is the market, small business owners, people across america see the opportunity we have right now and they just brush te o side. lisa: pete, you hit the nail on the head. because they re wishing. they. you the economy to fail. bill maher admit that i want the bottom to fall out. the recession is the way to defeat this guy. they know if the economy is as strong as it is, how do you defeat him? if you are one of these democrat contenders whoever ends up being the general election nominee, what s the argument you make. we need to change the trajectory and path economy is booming and they are benefiting from it. bottom of 10% is seeing 7% increase to wage growth. real hard working americans that are the beneficiaries from the tax cut law. ed: joe biden was frankly tongue-tied about what he would do different. lisa: although this seems to be ed: regular occurrence, perhaps. economy difficult for him