Good monday morning, welcome to squawk alley, im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt. We will start with uber. They lose their license to operate in london. Regulators citing a pattern of failures from uber that place passenger safety and security at risk cnbc contributor kara swisher joins us to talk about this. How are you doing. Not too bad we will see how the appeals process goes, the big question is whether other cities follow suit. Its a troublesome thing. Uber has been struggling for a long time in these cities and actually the first thing that the new ceo who came in after Travis Kalanick did was go to londer to assuage the critics there. It was one of his First International trips and it was very soon into his becoming ceo. So its really problematic if they dont get these cities straight, especially london which i think is its biggest revenue generator after the United States. The thing is it comes after a couple of really big stumbles including daras unfortunat
Witnesses in their pretend inquiry upon which they dream of impeaching the president of the United States. It doesnt get much more fanciful than that. For example, todays transcripts of ambassador William Taylors testimony in one of adam schiffs secret hearings. The transcripts show taylor said he believed the president wanted them to investigate burisma. But he said that was the result of a report in the New York Times. Not because of anything he observed or communication he had with the president or state department officials. For the latest on the impeachment press we turn to chief white house correspondent, john roberts. Reporter the latest transcript to be released, ambassador bill day loesch who says he believes there was a quid pro quo, that aid to ukraine was tied to an investigation. I observe thanked in order to move forward on the security assistance, the ukrainians were told by ambassador sondland that they had to pursue these investigations. But what taylor heard was all b
Witnesses in their pretend inquiry upon which they dream of impeaching the president of the United States. It doesnt get much more fanciful than that. For example, todays transcripts of ambassador William Taylors testimony in one of adam schiffs secret hearings. The transcripts show taylor said he believed the president wanted them to investigate burisma. But he said that was the result of a report in the New York Times. Not because of anything he observed or communication he had with the president or state department officials. For the latest on the impeachment press we turn to chief white house correspondent, john roberts. Reporter the latest transcript to be released, ambassador bill day loesch who says he believes there was a quid pro quo, that aid to ukraine was tied to an investigation. I observe thanked in order to move forward on the security assistance, the ukrainians were told by ambassador sondland that they had to pursue these investigations. But what taylor heard was all b
Marie yovanovich and former Senior Advisor to mike pompeii so hes transcripts were released. But adam schiff misread the transcripts if i thought they supported his outrageous claims against President Trump. They in fact do not. Their testimony bolsters and vindicates the president. In short, summations of those depositions. The dimms tried to point both yarn vich and mckinley scared of and concerned about President Trump. Within that 317 pages of testimonies of the ambassador it was revealed she was aware of President Trumps scepticism about ukraine. Steve caster asked if she was aware of the president s deeprooted scepticism about ukraines business environment. She answers yes. And is then asked what she knew. She responds with that he, i mean he shared that concern directly with president poroshenko in their first meeting in the oval office. In a second damning excerpt. She said the Trump Administration policy stored ukraine has been stronger than that under the obama administration
Marie yovanovich and former Senior Advisor to mike pompeii so hes transcripts were released. But adam schiff misread the transcripts if i thought they supported his outrageous claims against President Trump. They in fact do not. Their testimony bolsters and vindicates the president. In short, summations of those depositions. The dimms tried to point both yarn vich and mckinley scared of and concerned about President Trump. Within that 317 pages of testimonies of the ambassador it was revealed she was aware of President Trumps scepticism about ukraine. Steve caster asked if she was aware of the president s deeprooted scepticism about ukraines business environment. She answers yes. And is then asked what she knew. She responds with that he, i mean he shared that concern directly with president poroshenko in their first meeting in the oval office. In a second damning excerpt. She said the Trump Administration policy stored ukraine has been stronger than that under the obama administration