it washington forces all of its allies from buying a rainy an oil saudi arabia pledge to fire up its spare production capacity though and coordinate delivery deliveries with other producers to balance the market opec and non opec producers agreed to last month to boost output after reducing production last year to ease a global government. facebook shares dropped over two percent on tuesday following reports of an expanding investigation into the social network s role in the data sharing scandal involving british company cambridge analytic according to the washington post to the widening probe now includes the securities and exchange commission the f.b.i. and the federal trade commission facebook has come under pressure after a whistleblower revealed that british company can bridge analytical and collected personally identifiable information of up to eighty seven million facebook users without their consent the data could have been used to influence voters in several
widening probe. now we want to point out the president does deny that but here is what the washington post is writing today. so are we seeing the role of jared kushner evolve because of this investigation? sure. well, there doesn t appear to be any direct evidence of. no one is saying on the record he might think it s better to jared kushner s mental health that his portfolio is roofed somewhat. but this these constant questions about jared kushner actions during the election and, you know, the fact that the senate judiciary committee is coming back for more documents and not something is unusual for kushner. they have asked for more documents and more interviews
september 30th to see effectively whether or not or not the expenses and frequency and extent and cost was appropriate. so you know, just the beginning of that widening probe, he s already had some issues and we ll see what he finds, what they find. we know what happened when that widening probe happened at the hh department of hhs with tom price. it didn t turn out too well for him but we ll wait and see what happens. everything could be status quo, which is not the greatest for scott pruitt, given the fact the optics are not great for this cabinet. the fact they are expanding is note worthing and spoken by our colleagues. great report by them. thank you so much for breaking it down for us. i want to get to breaking news into las vegas information. sources are telling cnn that the gunman rigged his car with 90
special counsel robert mueller to lead this investigation following the firing of fbi director james comey. all of that over the last several weeks has led to rising tensions not just at the justice department, but also at the white house, where we have seen a president increasingly frustrated with this widening probe, lashing out not just privately but also publicly. the latest instance of that came yesterday as the president on twitter confirms that he was under investigation but also lashed out, it seems, at the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, accusing him of leading this quote unquote, witch hunt. so what s the sense? he s lashing out at his own deputy attorney general. does rosenstein at this point seem like he s safe? there s talk that perhaps trump is considering even firing him, too. reporter: well, it s not clear. but certainly the president has in private expressed his frustrations not just with mueller but with rosenstein as well. let s remember, rod rosenstein
under investigation. mr. president, do you believe you are under investigation now? reporter: a spokesman for trump s personal attorney didn t deny the story and refused to comment on the widening probe, except to slam the leaked information as outrageous, inexcusable, and illegal. but it s clear from his twitter tirade, the president still believes he s his own best spokesman, despite calls from his gop allies to lay low. on thursday, john thune, the third-ranking republican in the senate, called special counsel mueller, a man of integrity. it s not a witch hunt, no. i think, you know, he s got a job to do. we all understand that. and i think it s in everybody s best interests if we let him do his job. and we do ours. reporter: trump s sharply political tone on twitter on hold when he spoke about the horrific shooting at a congressional baseball practice just a day earlier. wednesday evening, the president and first lady made a surprise visit to the hospital, where congressman