Summer Travel Season officially underway. Tens of millions of americans hitting the road for the Memorial Day Weekend. Got off to a rocky start yesterday. 6,000 flights delayed on the east coast. Mine was one of them for seven hours. First lets go to the bronx last night. Im here tonight to declare that we are going to turn New York City around and we are going to turn it around very, very quickly. [cheers and applause] bill quite the political event. New yorkers showing up and showing off for the former president. Bronx rally expected to draw 3500. Campaign says more than like 25,000. Whatever the number, it was a moment to behold in this campaign. Dana has the day off. We wish her and peter the best memorial weekend. Im bill hemmer in new york with my old pal smitty. Sandra . New yorkers coming out in full force for President Trump. His message on the economy, inflation, immigration all seemed to be resonating. Bill its been 40 years. 1984 since a republican won the empire state. Tru
they do not regularly do. talk about what the impact of all of this will be on the russian economy, on russian oligarchs close to vladimir putin, and those middle class russians who were fearing the worst right now. yes, joe, this is certainly the most robust package of financial sanctions thai can remember being imposed. i think it goes far beyond what most people, including the russians especially, expected to happen. i will come back to that in a second. but the impact on russia and its economy is very much along the lines of what you have said. we have seen reports of people lined up at atms. we see hoarding going on. we see the russian stock market falling over 40% and now being shut. we see the ruble collapsing. these are all signs of a country in great distress. where it ends for the russian people and the russian economy, of course, is too soon to know. but i think you can probably expect based on past efforts past sanction efforts that we have done a very steep recession
crossing the finish line to hitting targets all around the world by the time you mobilize and apply sanction efforts, north carolina will get the capability. i m talking sanctions on steroids where there s a good old fashioned trade war. china needs the ambassador. you think of china s surplus in trade. 68% comes from the u.s.a. if we say enough and we are not buying your goods anymore period, i would think they get the message. if the president had the authority to do that, which i don t think he does without congressional legislation, although china depends on our purchase for the united states for a ccia considerable part ofe economy, the two are linked
to undermine sanction efforts against russian oligarchs and putting cronies and whatnot. this is a dramatically different story than we ve been getting and requires a lot more of those great investigative journalism things we ve been seeing on the trump thing. we d like to see that on fusion gps. bret: it s important to have a caveat that we don t know we don t know. we are reading the tea leaves, some of what s coming out in leaks. there hasn t been a major leak of some collusion tied. these investigations continue. i think stepping back a minute, the fact that they are following up the lead on a foreign agent registration possible violation by a democratic firm suggests robert mueller is a straight shooter and not a partisan figure, it s he s been accused of being. i think that piece of the narrative should be adjusted as well. on the surface, doesn t seem like the crime of the century
is now under rebel control. the videotape you re seeing here is what we believe was taken only two days ago in benghazi. in the eastern half of the country. you see all those blue dots on the screen? that s all the oil fields, and if the eastern half of their country is under control of the opposition they may have more than one town under control. what if anything will the white house say about it? juan william, political analyst, good morning to you juan. is the president s response in your view adequate at this time? well, he s been widely criticized, but i must say if you re talking to people inside the white house and the state department they feel they ve got every hand busy right now, they ve got treasury reaping assets, they re trying to get the united nations involved in some type of collective action to the security council, today the president has been on the phone with the british, the italians, trying to get them to have coordinated sanction efforts and possibly also to