Alltime highs right now. Dow is on pace for 70th record close, since president donald j. Trump was elected. Meanwhile cia director mike pompeo says north korea is just months away from developing a Nuclear Missile capable of hitting the u. S. Mainland. Former advisor to President Trump, dr. Sebastian gorka is here, with the intel on what we need to do. But first, back to our top story, Congress Passing the 2018 budget, taking the first critical step towards tax reform. Ii want to go trait to capitol hill where we find our own adam shapiro. So far so good, adam. Reporter so far so good, adam. We get the Conference Committee comes up with unified bill which both chambers have to pass. Passage, signed, sealed delivered of the 2018 budget resolution after Conference Committee, that house ways and means chairman kevin brady releases details of the legislation. Look at that possibly the week of october 30th, maybe the week after. That is kind of the deadlines were moving up against. What is
Flipping off canada and other democratic allies. Just how upside down is the world right now . Plus conflict of interest. How did ivanka President Trump made 82 million last year while shes simultaneously a white house adviser. Good afternoon and welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the world lead and the stunning headlines americans woke up to today, President Trump and north korean dictator kim jongun shaking hands, sitting down and signing on to a joint agreement to work toward complete deduktization of the peninsula and it is history but it is unclear what this means for the future. Critics say that President Trump gave away a key concession. Stopping joint military exercises with south korea in exchange for only a vague promise from kim jongun that the rogue regime has broken many times before. Including at least four Nuclear Agreements dating back to 1985. President trump expressed his desire to remove all u. S. Troops from the peninsula though it is not part of any
President Joe Biden has tapped Kurt Campbell, his administration’s National Security Council Asia coordinator, for Deputy Secretary of State. If the Senate confirms Campbell, he’ll be the latest in a line of American officials who are supposed to serve as diplomats but instead wage war backed by.
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