Welcome back thanks very much for joining us this morning. I am maria bartiromo. It is friday, august 11, at 8 00 a. M. On the button on the east coast more questions surrounding thenvice president joe bidens controversial 2015 trip to ukraine. A newly surfaced is toh shows joe biden on air force two briefed by advisory who was apparently in connection with both hunter biden, and his burisma associates, this happening right before biden threatened to withhold one billion dollars in u. S. Money, if they did not fire the o prosecutor general Viktor Shokin investigating burisma. Even massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is asking questions expressing deterrence about hunter biden business transactions. I always worry about the influence peddlers in washington regardless of Party Affiliation we got to shut down the door he thickens rules that apply to everyone. She would not specifically address joe bidenp House Oversight Committee Chairmen james comer joined this program yesterday i ask
The German Economy boosting 2. 2 . 2. 3 for 2017 , but it came in at 2. 2 . An impact on your dollar, one. 1939 1. 1939. We had a little volatility over the last couple days. Markets we are hoping will grow worldwide, and tend to focus on earnings. Today, we will talk a lot about that. Of 48le bit of zigzagging hours. Yield at 2. 54. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance. , talking with a leader from armstrong, and another guest bolus act oldish expectations. Ceo frank del rio. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. A reportina has claiming officials are reviewing the countrys Foreign Exchange holdings, recommending selling or holding purchases of the u. S. Treasury, might have quoted a wrong source. The state administration of Foreign Exchange said we think a report might have had wrong sources or may have fake news. There was a report that it wasnt clear whether the recommendation was adopted. U. S. President donald trump has agreed that america and north ko
Ask you to check that the various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin. For everyone inhouse there will be a slight shift in the program agenda. Our keynote will now follow our first panel, but it will also occur before the break that is scheduled before the second panel. So, opening our discussion today will be dr. Lee edwards, distinguished fellow and conservative thought here at the Heritage Foundation. Please join me in welcoming dr. Edwards. [applause] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We thank you so much for coming out today. August is something of a slow month in washington, dc, and were so pleased that we could attract some of this Towns Limited attention to the matter of u. S. Taiwan relations. And i extend a warm welcome to our speakers, panelists, and of course, to you, members of the audience. Particularly want to offer my appreciation to the Taiwan Benevolent Association of america, and the inst
Because doctors in iraq said there is no treatment for me. Reporter the Charity Hospital in jordan that is helping war victims recover from severe injuries. Ill have all your sport including number three seed andy murray crashes out of the u. S. Open and fails to meet a grand slam quarter final for the first time in five years. Now the u. N. Is saying an urgent system is required to relocate refugees to ease the worsening crisis in europe. The u. N. Unhcr say there are 30,000 refugees on greek islands with 20,000 on the island of lesbo alone and 11,000 syrians have arrived in neighboring macedonia on monday. Ahead of germanys biggest state northwest falia says the number of refugees arriving in the country this year will be well above the earlier estimate of 800,000. Hundreds of Asylum Seekers have broken through police lines in hungrys southern border close to the border with serbia and more people are stranded within hungry at a camp that is just across the border from serbia and the
If however the first round of the election is inconclusive and we find ourselves watching a prolonged second round of the afghan president ial election with the bsa and the sofa continuing to remain unsung then it will have a much greater impact both in the shortterm on our deployments, our posture in helmand and our drawdown and it no longer term on what nato is able to do even assuming esa does eventually get there. You have it all mapped out. Is there any evidence perhaps, any evidence on their side they have actually got an outline plan of what they require and that they have started planning so they could execute a quite quickly . Ess bsa . It will come under bilateral Security Agreement. And the status of forces too actually. Will it come under both of those things and we are still on the elections and i wonder what other prospects in your mind of the elections being free and fair and are they or will they be properly observed by independent observers . The Afghan Electoral Commi