Dow chemical, Procter Gamble, boeing, apple and facebook all being released today. A lot coming up. At 7 30 eastern time, the dow chemical ceo will be joining us and well be hearing from at t ceo john stevens. The company says it had a higher than expect ed amount of customers switching to a new plan. If you take a look at whats been happening with at t shares, youll see at least it was down by 2 after hours, i think. 35. 50 was the last trade. Yum brands getting a boost from stronger sales. Where its most important, china, the parent of kfc, taco bell and pizza hut says that First Quarter sales in china rose 9 . Customer in china are buying more chicken following an avian flu outbreak and food safety scare which impacted demand. The fast food operator gets more than half of its overall sales from china. Most of its more than 6,300 restaurants. How many . 6,300 are kfcs. That stock traded higher. In after hours trading. Speaking of china, chinas factory activity slowed for the fourth s
Vatican and buenos aires, with a special edition of gma. And good morning, america. Robin off today. Great to have Elizabeth Vargas and john muller here on this historic day. It is great to be here on such a big morning. It certainly is. Right to rome right now where pope francis began his first morning as head of the Catholic Church by visiting romes largest cathedral. Something of a humble start. Went through a Side Entrance before an icon of the virgin mary. See him right there, spent about 30 minutes in contemplation and went outside and see people kissing his ring. Hes not really used to it this first day. Almost seems if he wants to shake their hands, but, of course, he is going to get used to this. He is the leader of 1. 2 billion catholics right now. A man famous for being out amongst the people washing their feet so this must be a change. You may remember that last night he told those crowds packed in st. Peters square just after his announcement that he intended to pray to th
Different things. I think you are going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks. Good day. Im Chris Jansing in washington. There is no shortage here of big news the track this hour. We will get to it all and we expect to hear from the president as well this hour. Speaking at the annual friends of ireland luncheon on capitol hill. This was him earlier with the Prime Minister of ireland there in the oval office. Well go live when he starts with remarks. Lets first go to our team. Andrea mitchell is covering secretary tillerson. And peter alexander, pete williams, and casey hunt. Andrea, a big emphasis as you know on hard power, the Defense Budget big in this. But one of the big losers, massive proposed cuts to the state department. From what i just heard tough from secretary tillerson, hes putting a kind of positive spin on it during his press conference. What can you tell us. Reporter exactly. That was the press conference we covered in tokyo
Under fire. Sources say the fbi is now asking the Justice Department to refute the allegations. Such wiretapping of a u. S. Citizens phone would be illegal or require a court order. Former director of National Intelligence James Clapper that spear headed the investigation into russias meddling in the investigation giving a firm no to any such claim of wiretapping. For the part of the National Security apparatus that i oversaw as dni there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign. Multiple former senior u. S. Officials dismissing President Trumps allegation calling it nonsense and a spokesman for mr. Obama says its simply false but without providing any evidence the white house is doubling down calling for a congressional investigation to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were accused. He made clear what he believes. The bigger story isnt who reported it but is it true . White house official
Under former president obama. Now, remember, President Trump tweeting the accusation a little more than a week ago, right, that was on that saturday morning. So here is what White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said about todays deadline. What im saying is, the request that was made from the house was to the department of justice. I think that thats an appropriate question to ask them. What im telling you is, from a white house perspective, there is no question that there have been an abundance of reports regarding surveillance and other type of activities that occurred during the 2016 election. Reporter that leads us to believe that the president s only evidence are these reports. That leads you to believe that. Im saying to you right, and im saying to you is that what we made clear on that sunday was that the house and Senate Intelligence committees have the means, the process, and the access to go in and look at the entirety of the evidence thats being presented to them and make