You today to testify on the president s trade jaeagenda ande newly renegotiated United States mexico canada agreement. I would like to begin by notie ingnoteing that the American Economy is growing well. Were growing substantially faster than any other g7 country. We added 5. 8 million jobs since the 2016 election. Notab notably, 500,000 of those jobs are in manufacturing. The Unemployment Rate of 3. 6 is the lowest in half a century and has been at or below 4 for 15 consecutive months. Hourly wages were up some 3. 1 over the last 12 months. And contrary to what one hears, exports are growing. Indeed, 2018 was the highest year in our history for exports of both goods and services. While agricultural exports in 2018 were not the highest in history, they were up over 2017 and 2016. Im pleased to present the trade policy agenda at the 2018 annual report of the committee. This document, which u. S. Put out usgr put out recently outlines the administrations trade priorities and catalogs rec
while europe swelters, the eu is looking ahead to winter, and what to do if russia cuts off gas supplies completely. we need to save gas to fill our gas storages. to do so, we have to reduce our gas consumption. find storages. to do so, we have to reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri lanka, reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri lanka, with reduce our gas consumption. and we will look at sri lanka, with the - will look at sri lanka, with the country has chosen a new president who may be just as unpopular as his predecessor. the next uk prime minister will be either rishi sunak, the former chancellor, or liz truss, the foreign secretary. we reached these two names after several elimination rounds voted by conservative mps. this was the moment we got the result. the numbers of votes cast for each candidate is as followed. penny mordaunt, 105. rishi sunak, 137. liz truss, 113. therefore, rishi
from the secret service. the secret service reportedly handed over one single text to the committee, despite a request for all of the text messages from two dozen secret service personnel concerning the four-week period around the capitol attack. and steve bannon is back in court for day three of his criminal contempt trial, and we ll tell you what witnesses are saying. we have all these angles covered. we begin in washington, a single text, that s all the secret service provided to the dhs inspector general. what happened here? reporter: well, that s what they re working to figure out. so what the secret service says now is that they are still going back through just to make sure that nothing was the collateral damage of a very we know now was an ill-timed data migration that wiped phones for several members of the secret service. so what we know is that they have already handed over to the house select committee per subpoena more than 10,000 documents. the secret serv
languishes on capitol hill and americans struggle with sky high gas prices. we are all paying the price. i m sandra smith in new york. great to be back with you. john: john roberts in r washington. the president will speak in massachusetts, stop short of declaring a climate emergency. biden facing pressure from the far left to get something done after senator joe manchin shut down his plan in congress. sandra: and a drain on wallets every time they fuel up and gas prices in massachusetts have more than doubled since the summer before biden took office. rick scott will join us in moments. john: jacqui, why did the president not use the trip to declare a national climate emergency? jacqui: we don t know. speculation maybe it s tough timing to roll out the announcement on the trip to the middle east, and concerns about gas prices, state of the economy, recession fears. even some talk and speculation maybe they are holding off with some shred of a hope to get senator joe
emergency. the question is what will our leaders do about it? here at home president biden is in somerset, massachusetts today at a former coal-fired power plant that now manufactures parts for offshore wind energy. the white house says the president will announce moves to bolster the offshore wind industry, home assistance for low-income residents. excessive heat records are at stake in dozens the states, straining power grids as people crank up the a.c. to stay cool. but do these moves go far enough? democrats blocked by republicans and joe manchin in the senate have turned to the president, upping the pressure to declare a state of emergency, unlocking the power of executive orders to fight climate change, the without would not say if he will do so. across the atlantic there are big out of control and deadly fires across multiple countries. tens of thousands of people in france have been displaced and many of them are at risk of permanently losing their homes. firefighters