The whole russia thing is bleep . Is it all xwleep bleep . Mostly bleep . We dont of any giant proof. Cnn is constantly russia this, russia that, why . Its ratings. Ratings . Our ratings are incredible. Tucker the rate rings incredible. Never mind the core story is untrue or that its a distraction from important events taking place in the world. Or maybe most important its hamstringing our Foreign Policy to the point where americas vital interests are suffering as a result. Who cares . Its ratings gold. Thats all that matters. According to bonifield jeff zucker, cnn president , ordered his reporters to get off real news and back to russia. Its a cash cow. So my boss, you i. Shouldnt say. This my boss, yesterday, we were having a conversation. He said i just want you to know what were up against here. He said to give you context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accord, and for a day and a half we covered the climate accord and the ceo of cnn said in our internal meeting, good
Daily briefing. The republican lawmaker has said he would not support pompeo to be the next secretary of state before agreeing to take todays meeting at the behest of donald trump. Rich edson is live at the state department. Rich, i thought that was a pretty wise move of the president to suggest this meeting. Reporter yeah. Just after the president suggested it, dana, the president spoke with kentucky senator rand paul, asked him to meet with mike pompeo, the cia director. That just happened on capitol hill. The cia director meeting with the only republican to publicly oppose his nomination as secretary of state. That meeting happening for about 45 minutes in rand pauls office. Shortly after the president nominated the cia director to be secretary of state, paul said that he would vote against him. Kentucky republican argues pompeo advocates for an enduring military presence overseases. He says it would be a big deal to change his mind on pompeo. Now, pauls office, or paul himself have
His beloved barbara bush. We will have much more on that. I will be joined by Texas Governor greg abbott, Marlon Fitswater and david valdez, chief white house photographer during the push presidency. But first the Justice Department turning over 15 pages of memos written by james comey detailing his conversations with President Trump. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is updating this. Id love to have an update. I cant keep track of whats going on there. Reporter heres what we know. When you look at the memos, president s supporters say they dont contain evidence of collusion while his critics while critics point to a memo. This is where he writes, he asked what he could do to lift the cloud. I explained we were running it down as quickly as possible. I reminded him that we werent investigating him and i told the congressional leadership the same. He said that would be great if that could get out and asked me to find a way to get that out. Mike flynn, who plead guilty
Happening. Tell us whats happening. Its a big selloff. Its across the board. Lets start with the dow, down 670. S p all down. The nasdaq composite also down dramatically, 221 points. Behind us a lot of conversation about trade. Trade with china. Will we get a deal with china . Thats a big question folks are asking. Concerns about statements coming out of the white house. Are there conflicts between some of the president s biggest advisers . Thats the questions im hearing here at the stock exchange. Were seeing stocks that rely on china really getting hit hard. For example, caterpillar. That is the stock leading the dow lower today and dramatically so. Thats because lot of caterpillar sales of heavy equipment go right into china. Those sales at risk as a deal comes together, doesnt come together, as we wait to see what happens to trade negotiations between the u. S. And beijing. Meanwhile, were all seeing bank stocks trading lower as well. Jp morgan chase, bank of america. Even capital
autobiography of presidential hopefuls? not really good? i think a closer a candidate is to announcing for president, the worse that candidate s book will fare. dana: because they don t want to get pinned down on something? i think. you become part of campaign propaganda rather than something that i think really reflects the man or woman. if you look at president obama s book, that holds true. dreams of my father, i enjoyed reading. dana: just going back to george h.w. bush for a moment. when you look at the body of work and about the man, in 1993, january 93 when they leave the white house, marlon fitswater told me they never thought he would be reveered or nobody would understand him as a man. do you think this week and outpouring that people do understand him? i d have to be closer to the family to draw that kind of judgment. i think that there s always an