The latest news from around the world. reporter: trump jr. testified he never told his father about the meeting. when asked, did you inform your father about the meeting or prior to the meeting? trump jr. responded, no, i was not. when he was later asked why he didn t share news? i wouldn t tell him anything until i knew what was myself. last year he testified before two congressional meetings. a source familiar tells cnn, he did not testify trump had any advance only in of the meeting. now his attorney rudy guiliani is attacking the credible. man is a liar a proven liar. there is no way you will bring down the president of the united states on the testimony uncorroborated of a proven liar. i germany tee you, this guy is a proven liar. reporter: when just a few weeks ago, guiliani seemed to have plenty of faith in con s truthfulness. if he believes it s in his reporter: no, they re not. but i think in this sort of lexicon of international diplomacy, which mr. putin who is
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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
And bill clinton s economy back in hit a 7.8 growth rate. that was then, but this is now. earlier we spoke with financial expert about how to look at the current economy. i think there are two big things that people should be looking at. one is what is going to happen with these tariffs and what will happen with trade wars. i think that is actually the biggest risk factor that we re facing for the markets and for the economy. and it can just be as little as the threat of a trade war that can make people and businesses pull back. the second thing is interest rates. so what will happen to interest rates, are they going to continue to go up and at what point do short term rates get higher than long term rates. that is what we call interest rate inversion. when that happens almost for the last 40 years you see this very pr predictable pattern of the stock market hitting its peak within
Make people and businesses pull ba back. the second thing is interest rates. what will happen to interest rates? are they going to continue to go up? and at what point do short-term rates get higher than long-term rates? that s interest rate inversion. when that happens, you see this very predictable pattern of the stockmarket basically hitting its peak within six months. another six months after that bottoming out. it s almost like clockwork. more women are making accusations regarding the me too movement. the new yorker magazine is reporting sexual allegations among the most powerful men. the article sites incidents of unwanted advanced, intimidation and retaliation involving six women. cnn have not independently