The torture of a mentally disabled man in chicago, streamed on facebook live, as a despicable hate crime. Also, the winner of the bbcs sound of 2017 has been announced. Ray burke. Greg burke. 22 year old south londoner, ray black, has been described as embodying female black britishness. And a more ancient noise. How stonehenge may have sounded, thousands of years ago. Good morning. Its friday 6th january. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The us President Elect, donald trump, has voiced fresh scepticism about claims that russia tried to interfere in the american president ial election, just hours before hes due to receive a detailed briefing from intelligence chiefs on the alleged cyber attack. He appears to be sticking to the opinion. The in a series of tweets overnight, he said the three intelligence heads have collectively insisted the kremlin ordered the attack to undermine mr trumps opponent, Hillary Clinton and have warned the President Elect against disparaging t
People. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To our viewers around the United States and the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. President trumps inner circle under scrutiny by the feds. The longtime aide who knows the most about the money and the longtime fixer no longer willing to take a bullet for the boss. This man has come to a moment in his life and i wont talk about what he did in the past for donald trump other than being a loyal defender as an attorney, but i will tell you my own personal view. This man has turned a corner in his life, has hit a reset button and hes now dedicated to telling the truth. Plus new evidence the American Economy is booming, low unemployment, high growth. Is the timing just right or will the president s trade war stall
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give assurances to the taiwanize they ll protect them and then president trump has enraged the chinese by selling more weapons and other materials to taiwan. significantly more than the obama era. so this is all happening, you know, as this trade conversation is going off the rails. so as we think about trade with china and the u.s. economy here at home, my question to you is if the president cannot get a trade deal with china, what can he do to ensure that the u.s. economy does not tank over the next 17 months or so? well, they re exploring options but he doesn t have a whole lot of tools in the tool box as the former senior white house official who worked on the issues pointed out to me. you know, you could do major tax cuts but that s not going to happen politically. they have already done a big corporate tax cut, the chances of getting anything through the congress is about zero. that s significant. major infrastructure bill again
but the president says i m ready to help. the famous quote, it s the economy stupid, well, if it s the economy, then we should do very well. i don t know any reason why we shouldn t do well. the economy is the strongest ever, and i think that will have a very positive impact. i m going to work very hard. i ll go six or seven days a week when we re 60 days out, and i will be campaigning for all of these great people that do have a difficult race, and we think we re going to bring them over the lien. can he do it and where can he do it? as we have the conversation, i want to show this michael mentioned this in the last discussion about the economy. 95 competitive house races we have in the country right now, 28 of them in the midwest, a lot of them are farm states affected by the trade conversation, 27 held by republicans. can the president at this moment we know there are some places he can help, he can help in north dakota, west virginia, indiana and the big senate
president. here is rudy giuliani who says we have taken this to forensic experts and we think michael cohen doctored it. he abruptly ended thatrd roing as soon as the president said the word check. what we re investigating is how did that happen? what actually did happen? what was eliminated? and then he s got to raise that question with every one of these tapes. we have determined the fact that he tampered with the tape in the sense that he abruptly mid conversation turned it off. now, we know he didn t do that for a good reason. again, the feds have talented people who know how to do this, know how to do the forensics and ability lies the tapes that. will be event, if we get there, in a court of law. in the court of public opinion, smear the guys who was for years the president fixer, is the strategy. now what? i think one of the important things that has happened this week is that there has always been this question about what is the importance of the southern