Alliance with regional and Global Security challenges, this is from hosted by the International Strategic studies. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for coming. Its friday afternoon in august and you know, im delighted that your Summer Vacation plans include csis, but its really a testament to how important, influential and respected our panel today is. Im the senior vicepresident for asia and japan here csis at georgetown. Before we get started we always do a brief safety announcement. And we have about ten fourstar admirals and generals in the room, but this former boy scout will be in charge. If there is a need to evacuate and ill let you know, but well head out and head around the corner to National Geographic down 17th street. Out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation and there should be headsets on your chair. If you have a problem, wave and someone will help you. Please leave them on the chair, if you take them home wed send the new
China. Xi jinping ahead of talks with President Trump before the g20. Bayer shares jump as the German Chemicals group bolsters its legal team to address a multibillion dollar litigation challenge around its roundup we weed killer. And h m reports sales of its summer collection are off to a strong start with the firms shares on course for their best day in three months. Good morning a bit of italian data this morning. Italy june Consumer Confidence numbers are just out theyve fallen to 109. 6 verses a consensus of 111. 3 this is the lowest italian Consumer Confidence number since july 2017. Overall Business Confidence has also fallen to 99. 3 versus 102 in may Manufacturing Confidence has also fallen to 100. 8, slightly below consensus of 101 also lower than in may that will paint a picture of slowing confidence in italy. That is the picture for euro, returning flattish around 1. 1370 there hasnt been Much Movement in the euro. The story has been one of dollar weakness rather than Euro
This weekend. I dont know if this is much to claim asylum as it is getting to the United States sometimes i get a good feeling yeah i get a feeling that i never, never, never had before pete we have a great reporter on the couch with us that we do not want to replace. His name is Griff Jenkins. Excited to have you. Griff good morning. Pete the jet strappe saints quk Griff Jenkins great hair. Not as good as Griff Jenkins. Hairdo, new, improved. Griff longer, typically working so hard to get that you news i havent had time to get a hair cut. She said we are doing something with all that hair today. Email us at foxnews. Com if you like the new hair. Abby you look fabulous. Griff i brought a report from the House Oversight intelligence. Pete they didnt find any collusion did, they, griff. A lot of pages there up all night reading it. Abby thank you for joining us on this saturday morning and, of course, there is a lot of news to get to. Peace on the peninsula after north and south korea an
Throwing their hands in the air. Not sure why. More on mr. Giuliani shortly. As for the president himself, heres what he said on the way to japan. Mr. President , has your relationship with nancy pelosi soured to the point of being too personal and some of these altered videos that are being disseminated, is that going too far . Well, i dont know about the videos. I can tell you that what im here is to help the country. Thats why i did this. I dont know about the videos, he said, then quickly changed the subject. Now, keeping em honest, his own tweet does say otherwise. Quote, pelosi stammers through news conference, it reads, in all caps, and right below it is the heavily edited video. So who you going to believe . The president of the United States or the tweet from the official account of the president of the United States . As for the continued attacks on pelosi, the president is putting the blame on pelosi. What do you want to attacks on the speaker . Youre saying she lost it excu
Tweeted down, then tweeted a mangled explanation, and im quoting now, or at least im trying to, ives apology for a video that is allegedly a caricature of an otherwise halting speech pattern she should first stop and apologize for saying the president needs an intervention are. If you were trying to make out your opponent as drunk or incoherent, probably not great to send out an actually incoherent tweet. He also included a visual aid. I want to show you there, the photograph he included with the tweet, some basketball players throwing their hands in the air. Not sure why. More on mr. Giuliani shortly. As for the president himself, heres what he said on the way to japan. Mr. President , has your relationship with nancy pelosi soured to the point of being too personal and some of these altered videos that are being disseminated, is that going too far . Well, i dont know about the videos. I can tell you that what im here is to help the country. Thats why i did this. I dont know about the