Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Edward lawrence live in d. C. And edward, we start with you. Reporter a hiccup in the implementation of usmca threatened to cause tensions between the two countries over the agreement. It caused mexicos top trade negotiator to come here to washington, d. C. To meet with u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer to work this all out. Because of concerns and that meeting, the u. S. Trade representative, allayed fears. Basically mexico was concerned that the u. S. Could force them into accepting up to five inspectors into their mexican factories and u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer in a letter today saying those were not actually inspectors. Theyre attaches, attached to the u. S. Embassy here in the United States. So those attaches would offer technical guidance and expertise to the mexicans, not inspections. Adding that any compliance verification would be done by an independent panel with help from representatives from mexico and the u. S. The undersecretary says his fear
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Poverty or in jeopardy. Also why hes bullish about Artificial Intelligence. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. Its still pouring rain. Just hour by hour this rain does not stop. It does not let up. Hurricane maria rages on in the caribbean. Devastation in puerto rico, stunning, the flooding zrieked as harvey like. Despite all of this, they smile. North korea threatening to test a Hydrogen Bomb over the pacific ocean. After President Trump announced tough new sanctions. I want to be clear, the order targets only one country and that country is north korea. In mexico, recovery crews still digging through the rubble but time in indeed running out. Facebook saying its going to give congressional investigators ads linked to russian accounts. I dont want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. Violence erupted as actuary can is leader gave a speech in new york. Mother nature has fastforwarded. Snow already falling. All that touchdown los
American culture. 91yearold hugh hefner passed away at his famous and infamous playboy mansion. We have a look at his life. Reporter a revolutionary indeed with his First Magazine published back in the 1950s a pioneer in many ways who was never far from female companionship or controversy. He was the man who brought sex to newsstands with playboy magazine. Nudity is still big in america. Its good for america but says how unsophisticated we are in terms of sex. Both hugh hefner and his magazine were born in chicago. The first one sold out when it hit stands in 1953. Future issues had the same success, launching an entertainment empire. By the end of the decade, playboy was selling more than 1 million copies a month. In the 1960s, he took the brand global, opening several clubs, including this one in San Francisco in 1965. In the 1970s. Hef moved west buying a home in los angeles, to be known as the playboy mansion it became notorious for parties and scantily clad models and tonight its