Also on the programme. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says trumps actions amount to bribery, escalating the stakes in the impeachment battle. Politics can be a ruff job. Luckily for staffers on capitol hill yesterday, some Furry Friends were on hand to help. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london and Michelle Fleury is in new york. Health care is a major talking point in any election. And especially so here in the uk. The nhs is our most cherished institution. Funded by public money, free at the point of use but today it is a service under enormous pressure. New figures out today will make grim reading for government. In october one in six patients in england waited longer than the four hour target. In england waited longer nearly 4. 5 million are waiting for a routine operation. In the uk healthcare is a devolved issue scotland, wales and Northern Ireland are also missing their targets. All the parties are proposing in this campaign to increase the nhs budget. Were joined now by
Percent. Nasdaq down 53. Major Market Indices falling better than 1 yesterday, the selloff coming after surprise decline in Manufacturing Activity after the World Trade Organization cut global trade forecast for the year, we told you about that yesterday, joining us hodges capital manager, craig hodge. What did you make of manufacturing data and what do you think that tells us about the economy and the markets. Its obviously not positive, we put all the manufacturing, its only ahird of the economy, we are a service economy, consumer is over 70 , one data p, as we go, the consumer what youre talking about the jobs and payroll, that would be more important as we go along. Maria look at the reaction, we have been talking about manufacturing weakening for a little while, dagen, but the market was sizable decline on this news. Dagen because this index contracted in august and expect today rebound above 50 plus and came much worse than expected, worse than literally every estimate that was o
Did the mueller team go far enough in exploring this . I believe the mueller team did not go far enough in exploring this, in particular one of the bases on which it decided to decline to prosecute any Trump Campaign officials at the trump tower meeting was lack of evidence of willfulness. In order to be prosecuted for this crime, you have to know that you are violating the law. The report says that donald trump jr. Had failed to voluntarily speak to mueller, and then mueller did not subpoena him to appear before a grand jury to answer questions under oath about what he knew at the time. I think that was a mistake. It could have come out differently had he done so. And after the president s comments, you tweeted, it likely would be a campaign Law Violation to receive information from a Foreign Government, but thats not the point. The point is its wrong, its immoral, and its contrary to u. S. National security interests. For a sitting president it violates his oath of office. Thats a st
Secure facility when he was Vice President and when he was the United States senator. Both are a violation of the espionage act and having a poor memory does not absolve you from violating the espionage act. Maria jonathan, of course we know what robert hur said after the interview of joe biden, that the public would see him as an elderly man with a bad memory and yet the doj will not hand over the actual tape, the actual audio and notes, transcript from that interview. Yes. Quite interesting because im not sure the real reason for not turning it over other than not wanting President Biden to look bad and my guess is that tape would be even far worse than robert hurs characterization of the interview. And we see it time and time again, whenever hes not reading directly from a teleprompter hes a mess and everyone can see it. There are a couple things in the report that are quite interesting. I hope they get into what is the circumstances if which these documents were found . It seems ve
and the president is at the house in delaware where the documents were found near his corvette. and lucas, the drip, drip, drip, just keeps going, doesn t it? just took the words out of my mouth, bill. just a few days ago we learned about the existence of some classified documents first here in the nation s capitol at president biden s think tank and later in the week we lettered that more documents were discovered at president biden s home in wilmington where he s spending the weekend and now minutes ago before coming on air, the white house saying additional documents with classified markings were found at president biden s wilmington home where he is now. the white house insists it never know a special counsel was coming to look into this matter. what i can tell you is we re not given a heads-up that attorney general garland made his announcement yesterday on the special counsel and something that we learned like many of you, watching the news. thanks to our colleagu