And the markets still loving President Trumps pro growth drive of tax cuts, big spending and deregulation. And as the head of bt europe resigns over an Accounting Scandal, well be getting the inside track from our business editor, simonjack, on that and all the rest of the stories hes been covering this week. After ten years of almost constant growth, the sales of soft sugary drinks in australian supermarkets has fallen by more than 60 million. We want to know are you more aware of sugar, and is it changing the way you shop . Just use bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in the us, where, as you have been hearing, uk Prime Minister theresa may will become the first world leader to meet President Trump when they hold talks later today. Mrs may has called on the president to renew the Special Relationship between the two countries. She is keen to show britain can prosper outside the European Union, so lining up a Post Brexit Trade Deal is high on her agenda. But is it really a
Necessary, yes. The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund. Then Scott Pruitts luxury trip to rome on the public dime. Lets have no illusions about what was really going on here. And what primary night in america looks like in the era of trump. Im basically trumpier than trump. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president and his lawyer are applying the same strategy that got the president elected, to his rapidly multiplying legal threats. Overwhelm the public with enough noise to drown out the facts and muddle the issues. Whether it can work this time is still an open question. The president today spent his morning executive time, as he so often does, tweeting about the criminal investigation into his campaign, his allies and his Family Members and himself. And this comes after the president s new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview over the weekend that the mueller team might try to set up the preside
investigation. the russian interference in the 2016 issue that was under investigation by the fbi. right? and jim comey announced that investigation before congress in march of 2017. and then the president comes along in the following may and fires the fbi director, and within a few days of that, or weeks of that, we d learned from the washington post that the mueller investigation, mueller since appointed, investigating whether the president obstructed justice, and that s a criminal question. obstruction of just sis a criminal inquiry. and so we ve tended to think of these investigations as sort of separate. you have an underlying counterintelligence investigation on collusion, and then a secondary development of this obstruction investigation, and what i think the significance of the new york times story on friday is, it s
trap of falling into obstruction. having his attorney help edge him there is insane. ben, should we read into it, he s saying resigning. is there a reason he s saying resign instead of fire? yeah, there is. i think all day today the press that was relying on the white house sources was saying that rod rosenstein is offering his resignation. has orally resigned and the press said wait a minute if he s disappearing it s because he s going to get fired. he s not resigning. so i think what you see when mr. sekulow says that is that they are the white house and the president s legal staff is trying to make any rosenstein departure look like a kind of voluntary thing that he did leaving with his tail between his legs after the new york times story on friday. and that appears to be not true. it appears to be that rod
to call rosenstein up to the hill to get him to answer questions under oath about whether he said in a serious manner he wanted to record the president and or that he discussed invoking the 25th amendment. that is the dynamic and the backdrop that all of this is autopsy against. it is really important to know and those are the thing that is the president is hearing. which is why, frankly, he was not gone right away when the story came out on friday. even though the president has no love lost there, he understands the dynamics and not to mention the public pressure. republicans on another news channel. i can mention one more thing. there is a sense among conservative that is the president could be set up and that maybe perhaps the new york times story on friday came from memos of andrew mccabe who the president does not trust and who