Hey, edward. Reporter we do have some reduction in tariffs so 25 on 250 billion worth of tariffs and then 7. 5 on 120 billion worth of tariffs and those december 15 tariffs do not go forward. The president just speaking about this china trade deal saying that hes using those tariffs as negotiating points for the phase ii agreement to make sure china still comes to the table and the phase ii talks china wanted them to start immediately. The man who led the negotiating team here, u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer released this statement today. He says, President Trump is focused on concluding a phase i agreement that achieves meaningful, fullyenforceable structural changes and begins rebalancing the u. S. China trade relationship. The chinese say that the phase i deal is in nine chapters, and those chapters include these are some of the big points here, protections for intellectual property, ending the forced transfer of technology, expanding access to financial markets, buyin
You had another story wrong. Never mentioned it. Charlie tomorrow, he will meet with president mahmoud abbas. White house correspondent Jonathan Karl has been traveling with the president. He joins me from jerusalem at a very late hour. Think you for joining us. I begin with this question. This seems like a remarkable trip so far because it is so different from the donald trump of the campaign. Jonathan it is an incredibly ambitious trip. The mere fact that he started it in saudi arabia, and not just starting and saudi arabia the birthplace of islam, but at a conference where he was surrounded by the leaders of more than 50 muslim nations, and entirely different image for donald trump. I dont think any of us would have predicted that during the campaign when he was declaring that islam hates us. He was proposing a total and complete ban on all muslims coming to the United States, including, by the way, all of the people who were at that event. Different image of donald trump. The town
You had another story wrong. Never mentioned it. Charlie tomorrow, he will meet with president mahmoud abbas. White house correspondent Jonathan Karl has been traveling with the president. He joins me from jerusalem at a very late hour. Think you for joining us. I begin with this question. This seems like a remarkable trip so far because it is so different from the donald trump of the campaign. Jonathan it is an incredibly ambitious trip. The mere fact that he started it in saudi arabia, and not just starting and saudi arabia the birthplace of islam, but at a conference where he was surrounded by the leaders of more than 50 muslim nations, and entirely different image for donald trump. I dont think any of us would have predicted that during the campaign when he was declaring that islam hates us. He was proposing a total and complete ban on all muslims coming to the United States, including, by the way, all of the people who were at that event. Different image of donald trump. The town
Kelly, in a way is standing up. It was on the record. General kelly is okay with this at least he did overnight. The retired marine corps general going public and maybe even it is that he wants to get this defended Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who was fired message out there to what i think is the biggest headline, after testifying in the his defense of colonel vindman. Impeachment investigation. General kelly overnight said of implying he believes it was vindman, quote, he did exactly vindmans duty to speak out. What we teach them to do from and then the words he chose to cradle to grave. Use what the president did on we teach them, dont follow an the phone call with zelensky. Illegal order. He called it an illegal order. And if youre ever given one, youll raise it to whoever gives it to you that this is an that word choice jumps out, doesnt it, peter . Illegal order and then youll tell your boss. Well, what he said is he much more on what kelly had to say about his former bos
stripping acorn of its funding in a 2009 video. in a new secret video, released from the muslim, meeting with two top siren executives. ron schiller and betsy lyly. [inaudible] [inaudible] greta: npr said, we are appalled by the comments of ron schiller in the video, which are contrary to what npr stands for. so now what? this is going to have a lot of political repercussions, with republicans on capitol hill was not what he said there. it s what he said about funding and funding for npr. in the long run, you would be better off without federal funding and the republicans are trying to defund npr. one of the top executives said, you would be better off without federal funding. that will have a big effect. in his statement, i only read part of it, he also said that the statements he said were not reflective of my own beliefs. that s the most bizarre statement. he didn t it was a fraudulently,. if federal funds were cut, npr. you see no relation,. actually, one of