Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with two members of the House Intelligence Committee, dem krad kem krat adam schiffnd republican peter king. They got a sense of why this is is such an important matter and why it deserves investigation. The breathed of the russian attack on our democracy, the fact that the fbi has an Ongoing Investigation to determine whether there was coordination between the Trump Campaign and the russians. As well as the directors, both of their willingness to establish that there is no evidence to support the president s claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor. Any one of those things i think on a normal day would be quite a revelation but there was a lot packed in today. And i think ultimately the most important thing is it gave a good glimpse at why this is so serious. And why we ought to do Everything Possible to do a thorough investigation and conduct it in a nonpartisan way. We continue with Matthew Rosenberg of the New York Times and
Rose welcome to the program. We begin this evening with two members of the House Intelligence Committee, dem krad kem krat adam schiffnd republican peter king. They got a sense of why this is is such an important matter and why it deserves investigation. The breathed of the russian attack on our democracy, the fact that the fbi has an Ongoing Investigation to determine whether there was coordination between the Trump Campaign and the russians. As well as the directors, both of their willingness to establish that there is no evidence to support the president s claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor. Any one of those things i think on a normal day would be quite a revelation but there was a lot packed in today. And i think ultimately the most important thing is it gave a good glimpse at why this is so serious. And why we ought to do Everything Possible to do a thorough investigation and conduct it in a nonpartisan way. We continue with Matthew Rosenberg of the New York Times and
Conduct it in a nonpartisan way. We continue with Matthew Rosenberg of the New York Times and karoun di mirnlgian of the washington most. I think i was amazed at just the astounding nature of an fbi director getting up in front of congress and saying yes, there is an espionage investigation involving a sitting president. That a lobe is just stunning. But the other remarkable thing was that there was another four and a half hours of this hearing a lot of which was spent talking about leaks, talking about, you know, why people are talking to the government, why they should be prosecuted. That will be an issue that keeps coming up and up. Rose we continue with david browne without wrote the obituary of chuck berry for Rolling Stone magazine. That mam us famous chuck berry lick everybody still duplicate, nobody was doing that before him that is a basic Building Block of modern rock n roll. Rose and we conclude this morning with an appreciation of David Rockefeller without died yesterday, a
And some data just came out on german business climate. The ifo german bit climate coming in at the estimate 104. 5. The number coming in at 105. 5. Slightly higher than what we saw in november and in line with estimates. The German Ifo Business sentiment came in at 105. 5. Why do we care about this . Germany, of course, is europes largest economy. Given its high exposure to russia, German Economy has been showing signs of weakness over the past couple of months. The recent zew survey did come in higher than expected indicating a improvement in Business Sentiment. Were looking at the euro slightly higher trading at 1. 2332. Lets bring in simon, who is joining us now to get your reaction to this german ifo number. Does this surprise you . We see this, the zew and the pmi data lately. I think mainly the main surprise is that theyre shrugging off the surprise coming out of europe. The most open economy, 35 export to gdp ratio. Thats a little bit of a surprise. And is this one reason, give