Officials with ukrainian counterparts for this reason ive been present in many of the meetings with president s alinsky and his administration some of which may be germane to this inquiry while im a political counselor at the embassy it is important to know that i am not a political appointee or engage in u. S. Politics in any way it is not my job to cover or advise on u. S. Politics on the contrary im in a political Foreign Policy professional and my job my job is to focus on the politics of the country in which i serve so that we can better understand the local landscape and better advance u. S. National interests there in fact during the period that will cover today my colleagues and i follow direct guidance for a mastery of on of it and ambassador taylor to focus on doing our jobs as Foreign Policy professionals and to stay clear of washington politics. I arrived in kiev to take up my assignment as political counsellor in august 2017 a year after ambassador you want to receive her
Heard from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who said President Trumps phone call at the heart of this investigation was attempted bribery. That is significant, those choice of words. Now this morning we are going to hear from Marie Yovanovitch. She was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine from august 2016 until President Trump recalled her six months ago. Yovanovitch says she was removed because she stood in the way of getting ukraines government to investigate joibd and his son hunter and a Conspiracy Theory. Lets go back inside the hearing room as we watch some of the arrives there in what is expected to be a day of discovery by the house democrats. And we will see the republican strategy. We have got a team of correspondent entz covering this from capitol hill to the white house. Margaret brennan joins us here, our host of face the nation. I know you have been speaking with people close to the ambassador. What is she likely the say today . What are we likely to learn . It will be
D Draymond Green is an early investor power lunch starts right now. On track for its longest winning streak since may of 2018 check out the names hitting records across sectors home depot texas instruments, sherwinwilliams and duke energy for more on whats powering the markets down to bob pisani on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Hello, melissa. We are approaching an historic high, 3027 is the intraday high, 3025 is the closing high that goes back to july. The check list, the reasons that got us here is really very short. Just take a look at what weve been moving, whats been moving. We got first of all momentum on trade talks. Thats the most important thing weve been seeing. Decent Economic Data in the United States as well and weve had hopes for Aggressive Central Bank action as well. And thats about it. Thats the whole check list that resulted in somewhat lower concerns about recession fears out there and the i remember packet on the markets in the past week has been rather
Pres. Trump thank you very much. Weve been working on a deal with japan for a long time. It involves agriculture and commerce and many other things. Its a very big transaction and we have agreed in principle. Its billions and billions of dollars. Tremendous for the farmers and one of the things that Prime Minister abe has also agreed to is we have excess corn in various parts of our country with our farmers, because china did not do what they said they were going to do and Prime Minister abe on behalf of japan are going to be buying all of that corn and thats a very big transaction. They will be buying it from our farmers. So, the deal is done in principle. We probably will be signing at around unga, around the date of unga, we all look forward to. We are very far down the line. We have agreed to every point and now we are papering it and we will be signing at a formal ceremony. And i just want to thank Prime Minister abe and the japanese people. You have been a fantastic friend and we
One of the things that Prime Minister abe has also agreed to is we have excess corn in various parts of our country with our farmers, because china did not do what they said they were going to do and Prime Minister abe on behalf of japan are going to be buying all of that corn and thats a very big transaction. They will be buying it from our farmers. So, the deal is done in principle. We probably will be signing at around unga, around the date of unga, we all look forward to. We are very far down the line. We have agreed to every point and now we are papering it and we will be signing at a formal ceremony. And i just want to thank Prime Minister abe and the japanese people. You have been a fantastic friend and we very much appreciate it. This is a tremendous deal for the United States, a tremendous deal for our farmers and agricultural ranchers and also other things including as i said, ecommerce. So its very big and we look forward to it and thank you very much. [speaking japanese] [s