Stay updated with breaking news from Reuters. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
it sells for just over $2,300. that comes out to about $2 a beer. up to you. buy it if you want. celebrate. i m sandra smith. here s harris faulkner in for shepard smith. after a victory, republicans are getting ready for the next battle over healthcare in america. it won t be easy. with one republican senator saying it has zero chance of moving forward. others say it has a bumpy road ahead. we ll have updates from capitol hill and the white house. when chris wallace joins me, i ll ask him how people feel about the changes proposed so far. unemployment just hit its lowest level in a decade. what it means for our economy and your money. are two of the planets most dangerous nations about joining forces? a connection with iran and north kor korea. and who is trying to kill kim jong-un? the assassination accusation. it s friday. time for the news. i m harris faulkner in today for shepard smith. you might call it a healthcare hangover. some bracing for changes to a republican he ....
media, if people don t believe us. one of the reasons they don t believe us is because of the way the last election was covered, which was overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate over another. that is not surprising given that there is no politically diversity in the press corps. politico did a study on this. how many registered republicans in the white house press corps? zero. that s a huge problem, don t you think? i m a registered independent. i think it is important to be neutral when you are covering politics in the white house. tucker: do you i agree with you. you think of the people covering the white house are objective? i do. we went to read their twitter feeds? i can t speak for every member of the association. s i think it is very important to be neutral. i think it is important to report the facts, it is important to report robustly with the president is doing. i think you should do that regardless of whether the president is a republican or a democrat. tuc ....
it gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. and it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. and a lot of what s written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. it s taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. again i just want to i m trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. so i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders? well, we don t i mean i suppose it s possible. clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. most of them, as you point out, were coming through the front door, not the bac ....
here. and the white house ought to explain why that wasn t followed here, but there is a good way to answer these questions and we will do our best to answer these questions but we will not lose sight of the russia investigation and we are going to keep focus on that. yes? has there been any uptick in attacks on your or your staffers computers or i.t. networks since this investigation has been going on? i m not aware of anything like that. thank withdrew veyou very much. thank you. okay. steve kornacki in new york. that is adam schiff. just finishing up u a press conference there on capitol hill. adam schiff the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, of course, the house intelligence committee had been pursuing interference of the status of that committee s investigation now some quwhat i question. there s been all sorts of controversy about actions, about statements from the republican chairman, devin nunes, in that statement you just heard there, th ....
saw a flare being fired into or being thrown into a police suv. the police also took that out. that fire we saw was just a few minutes ago. these are live pictures of kptv in oregon, the official protest cancelled, we have seen now just dozens and dozens of these people, basically just moving freely through the streets, kicking in windows at several stores, sara sidner has been in seattle, and she joins us now at the protest that is going on in portland. sarah, this protest in portland, the official protest was cancelled, but there s clearly a number of people that the police are describing as anarchists who seem to be moving down a block in an uncontrolled way at this point. reporter: yeah, i think been destroyed. and so there is a lot of consternation there, where there are folks here who are concerned about that same group, the antifa, or anti-fascists. they sometimes call themselves far left. you re actually seeing a police vehicle with tactical units, basically hangin ....