japan s prime minister wants to double the defense spending including buying 400 american tomahawk cruise missiles to send a not so subtle message to china. no stranger to new york. he spent part of his childhood right there in new york and visited washington earlier this year. as you said back in january, when you were at the white house, i think the quote is we face one of the most complex environments in recent history, security environments. and i couldn t agree with you more. but i m proud that the united states and japan are facing it together. when our countries stand together we stand stronger and i believe the whole world is safer. president biden will be in japan through sunday. the trip was supposed to include three-point papua new guinea and australia the unresolved ceiling talks in washington has forced biden to cut his trip short. the president sounded optimistic about his talks before catching a flight to japan. i m confident that we ll get the agreemen
agreed to up to $75 million to settle a case involving sex offender and former financierjeffrey epstein. the wall streetjournal first reported that the lawsuit alleged that the bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further sex trafficking activity, and that the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. with me is news correspondentjessica parker to discuss this further. great to have you with us, tell us what deutsche bank is saying about all this. about all this. deutsche bank toniuht about all this. deutsche bank tonight are about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very - about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very little. | tonight are saying very little. it is officially no comment at the moment from the bank. but there have been pointed to a statement they made in 2020 where they talked about acknowledging the
against the company for faciliating financierjefrey epstein s sex trafficking ring. a woman listed anonoymously as jane doe in court papers filed the suit last year on behalf of herself and other accusers. she alleged deutsche bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further his sex trafficking activity. the lawsuit alleged the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. epstein took his own life in a federaljail in new york in 2019 while awaiting trail on sex trafficking charges. the journal reports the settlement is expected to compensate dozens of epstein s accusers. in a statement to the newspaper, a spokesman for the bank said: in recent years deutsche bank has made considerable progress inremedying a number of past issues. according to thejournal s sources, the bank did not admit any wrongdoing as part of this settlement. this information has not been verified by the bbc but we
debt ceiling before we default. should be most consequential g7 in years. the bottom line is this should be g7 in which the president projects strength and resolve to our allies. if biden was on the top of his games, he would say we re going to protect our allies and i have a deal with mccarthy. that is what he should be saying, he s not. todd: lucas tomlinson live in washington with more. lucas. lucas: this trip hurts to move beyond that spy balloon. jake sullivan spoke en route to japan. common concerns and issues associated with the policies and practices, the people s republic of china will come up and i think you will see alignment and convergence around the principles of our approach to the people s republic of china. lucas: that is good dc wong speak. china will not be there, but will be focus of the meetings. trip was supposed to include a trip to new guinea. but the president s trip will be cut short. the president seemed optimistic before his flight to jap
uncover the origins of the trump-russia collusion probe on may 13th, 2019. here we are two years and four days later his final report is released. it s 30 # pages. bret, he calls some of the findings in his report sobering. let s take everyone back right now to 2016, 2017, when donald trump was running for then elected president. the investigation theme in the report durham says the fbi rushed an investigation code named crossfire hurricane without the proper legal basis he says quote at the direction of fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, deputy assistant director for counterintelligence peter strzok opened crossfire hurricane immediately. strzok at a minimum had pronounced hostile feelings toward trump. he continued the fbi s failure to critically analyze information that ran counter to the narrative of a trump-russia collusive relationship exhibited throughout crossfire hurricane is extremely troublesome. durham s narrative expected. believing the 2016 democrat nominee s ca