going to get a lot more on this reuters interview. stand by for that. jim acosta, thank you. >>> also tonight, federal prosecutors may be days away from announcing criminal charges against the president's former personal lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. we're learning more about the possible charges and how cohen may try to protect himself by turning on the president. let's go to our national correspondent covering it in new york city. cohen could be charged before the end of the month? >> yes, and there are just two weeks left in the month, wolf. sources tell cnn the southern district of new york is keenly aware midterms are approaching. because prosecutors don't want the decision to influence politics, we could see an indictment soon or word of a deal made with the president's former fixer. >> hi, mr. cohen, how are you. >> doing great, yourself in. >> they're preparing federal charges against koenlmichael co president trump's former fixer. he was spotted in the lobby of his lawyer's office only after the "new york times" broke the story they're looki

that's coming from the reuters news agency, according to the united states geological survey. and we know of course that there have been weeks of tremors in lombok, more than 470 people have been killed. but this latest earthquake, we are hearing from reuters in magnitude of 7.2 striking north—east of lombok. a 29—year—old man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after a car hit people outside the houses of parliament on tuesday. salih khater, who was born in sudan and was living in birmingham, will appear before magistrates tomorrow. three people were injured when the car crashed into security barriers in westminster. fire crews are attending a fire at an industrial estate near east midlands airport. the blaze has led to trains on the east midlands railway line around both nottingham and sheffield being cancelled. more than 50 firefighters are on the scene, with plumes of thick black smoke visable. a british paraglider has died after a mid—air collision

at the critical long refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king solomon has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crown prince mohammed bin simon wants to sell five percent of the company which is known as a ram co such divestment would open up the company's finances to independence auditors but the reuters report says the king doesn't want to do that officially they saudi government says the offer has been postponed not counseled roberts' model nikki is a senior analyst at the group it's a consultancy an advocacy organization he says saudi arabia has economic outlook is improving. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the price of oil was still low there were

take control of autostrade according to reuters the economy ministry has denied knowledge of such a plan the board of autostrade separately approved a 500 million relief fund in the wake of the genoa relief collapse carlo joins us from rome you have been following this story. there was the board meeting that occurred yesterday what more can you tell us, particularly in light of this reuters story suggesting that cdp may be looking to get a stake into atlantia as well. >> good morning. the building behind me is the same one that yesterday hosted autostrade's board meeting today's atlantia board of directors will be a different one. atlantia has many important international shareholders ranging from hsbc to blackrock to the singapore wealth fund and then the bennaton family the representative of these

the president again saying to reuters if it was russia.n some level you have to believe he's just doing it to poke at either the media or his critics because he had to read that statement after helsinki where he basically in a chagrinned way had to admit he knewwa

reuters just posting an interview moments ago with the president. here's what the president said, and i quote. i decided to stay out of the mueller investigation, now i don't have to stay out, as you know, i can go in and i could do whatever. i could run it if i want. let that sink in. i could run it if i want. an investigation into the president. that's right, suggesting he could run the special counsel's entire probe. now, a probe that is investigating not only him but his campaign and his associates. the president also echoing his attorney rudy guiliani saying speaking to the special counsel and his investigators could be a perjury trap. this comes as sources tell cnn the president is unnerved by the stunning revelation that white house counsel don mcgahn has been cooperating extensively with the special counsel's team. three interviews lasting 30 plus hours. outfront tonight, jeff mason, reuters reporter that broke this story. jeff, you spoke to the president moments ago. there are a lot of headlines here. let's begin with the bombshell that the

from those headlines at "the new york times" and reuters moving aswe speak here.that trump says he would consider lifting u.s. sanctions on russia if mouse cuwere to take steps to work with the united states on issues like syria and the ukraine. the president signaling there he's open to if he gets some help from moskow to lifting those sanctions. a key objective for vladimir putin to get those sanctions lifted, guys >> to wrap it all together it seem like a lot of relatively combative comments whether it be about the fed trade, iran, sort of digging in on a series of issues here in this interview. >> yeah, that's right. but signaling he's open to a meeting with iranians and i think that's fascinating we've seen the president do this now with the president in helsinki, with kim jong-un in north korea. the president willing to meet with those traditionally in the u.s. adversary box we'll wait for more confirmation from the white house exactly what the president's intentions are there. but you can see those conversations setting up a big international set piece the

headlines coming from the president's interview with reuters.he president saying he does not anticipate very much will come from the china trade talks this week in washington. managing expectations there. he also says that he has no time frame for ending the china trade dispute. we will be keeping an eye on how this news impacts the markets tomorrow of course. connell: those, meetings this week, anyways, seemed to be more of a set up for down the road. melissa: interesting. more of low-level folks to hammer out details. connell: that is true. that is true. funny to see it on the front end, as opposed to back end. >>> meantime powering up the coal industry. the interesting story that the trump administration making a big push to keep coal plants open. we'll tell you what steps they are taking next. melissa: calling out bruce ohr. the president putting pressure now on attorney general jeff sessions to fire the justice department official with connections to that anti-trump dossier. he still works there? ♪ u'd be better off throwing your money righ

the quotes are from a new reuters interview. the president kept up his daily rant against the special counsel. but instead of just calling for an end to the investigation, he insisted that he could take it over. quote, i don't have to stay out. i can go in. and i could do whatever. i could run it if i want. but i decided to stay out. i'm totally allowed to be involved if i wanted to be. so far, i haven't chosen to be involved. i'll stay out. now, getting involved in the investigation is one thing. the yoid of running idea of run is something else. that's because the special counsel is by definition an independent authority. it's not the first time the president and his legal team issued similar warning. >> the president wants to purposely remain uninvolved in this process, and he's going to continue at this point to remain uninvol uninvolved. however, he sees more and more every single day that this is proving further and further to be a total witch hunt. >> you look at the corruption at the top of the fbi, it's a disgrace. and

. ♪ >>> this morning the president taking on the russia investigation in an interview with reuters.e says he could run it if he wanted but he decided to stay out of it. >>> plus, first lady melania trump speaks out against cyber bullying, but in the past week her husband has called former staffer omarosa a dog and john brennan a hack. >>> fall-out over brett kavanaugh. in it he suggests graphic questions for then-president clinton about his affair with monica lewinsky. ♪ >>> good morning. it is tuesday, august 21. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside frances rivera in for yasmin, and louis bergdorf. president trump, who is using the powers of his office to go after critics and perceived enemies, is asserting he could personally take over the probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. an investigation in which several of his former aides have already been charged. now, in an interview with reuters, trump said his administration was, quote, a smooth-running machine except in that world, and i've decided to stay out. now, i don't have to stay out. i can go in and i could do whateve

he made the comment in an interview with reuters. he said any statement he gives to robert mueller could be used to bring perjury charg against him. he did not comment if he will t down with mueller. l > and jurors deciding the fate of paul manafort whave another day of deliberations. the judge told jurors to keep deli rating until 6:15 in the evening. some say this cld be a sign they are closer to a decision. manafort is charged with 18 counts of tax evasion and bank r aud. jme are worried that president trump is swaying ty. >>> the blame game over president trump's postponed ar militarye continues. the subject budget iing fingers council.s he scity that voted 70% against the president wouldn't want to help. yesterday, the council members fired back. they pointed out it was 95% of district voters that didn't pick mr. trump. the council says it would oppose it even if it included the obamas, chuck brown and the statehood floats made of hemp. >>> from social security numbers g birthdays and addresses. schools are reopend students may

anyway, talking tonight about trump's conversation with reuters. hasn't given much thought to stripping robert mueller's security clearance. but did not rule it out. as you know, this unfolded at the end of an already busy day characterized by a flood of presidential tweets. david, you see the president throwing out some of the most loaded terms in american history. attacking the mueller probe, mccarthyism, how john dean was a rat in the nixon administration, he's calling people in the mueller team thugs, the idea that paul manafort is getting it tougher than al capone. does that serve the president well? >> no, no, i don't think so. what it may serve the president is contributing to an exhaustion factor. people are tired of this torrent of insults. and doing everything except being president. even so, the clock is ticking now. you remember rudy giuliani has said that we're not going to testify at all to mueller after labor day. it's only two weeks away. mueller doesn't have much time to act. otherwise this all could be put off until after the firs

telling reuters -- i can go in and i could do whatever. i could run it if i want, but i decided to stay out. but on twitter and at public events, the president continues to try to denigrate the probe, going so far as to call the lawyers working for robert mueller thugs who are enjoying ruining people's lives. mr. trump also casting doubt on a potential sit-down interview with mueller, after spending months telling reporters he wants to speak with investigators. >> would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of this events? >> 100%. >> are you going to talk to muler? >> i'm looking forward to it, actually. >> reporter: the president now echoing the concerns of his attorney rudy giuliani, that an interview could be a, quote, perjury trap. saying, it's my word against comey. and he's best friends with mueller. so mueller might say, well, i believe comey and even if i'm telling the truth, that makes me a liar. that's no good. >> how do we know what the truth is? >> you're talking about whether or not the president asked james

now, get this, the president threatening to go further, telling reuters, he has chosen not to be involved in the mueller probe, but is totally allowed to be if he wanted to

and you saw the report from reuters the saudi investment fund is preparing to invest in in a startup electric company in china. if that is true, it raises the question will the saudis want to invest in tesla, how much money do they want to invest, would they be willing to take up as much as tesla is looking for i have a quick question for jim. jim, a lot of people have said what elon musk needs right now is a coo or someone to really be a nuts and bolts manufacturing guru, someone to ramp up production how attractive would a des lujob working with elon musk be, or would they be a little gun-shy >> customers love it, the technology is good, he's a

jeff mason was on the reuters team that interviewed the president. >> he was out of it. it was better if he did. it is interesting. he was making it clear he viewed it as a decision and he made the decision to stay out. it wasn't the only option he had. >> president trump also said he is concerned about falling into a so-called perjury trap. if he consents to the interview with the special counsel. he worries mr. mueller would compare his statement with others like james comey who trump said was best friends with mueller. in that situation, the president said even if i'm telling the truth, that makes me a liar. this comes after his lawyer rudy giuliani who said the perjury trap truth isn't truth. giuliani attempted to clean that up monday saying he was referring to the classic he said/she said dilemma. a perjury conviction requires someone willfully telling a lie. >>> white house counsel don mcgahn's cooperation with mueller's team has unsettled president trump. the president approved the interview, but the president did not know the interviews stretched for 30 hours nor

reuters quotes the president as saying association if i say something and he, meaning comey, says something, and it is my word against his, and he's best friends with mueller, so mueller might say, well, i believe comey. even if i'm telling truth, that makes me a liar. that's no good. it goes on to say trump did not comment on whether he would ultimately agree an interview with mueller. also, trump asserted that he retained power to intervene in the probe but that he had chosen not to do so in the moment. quoting the president here. i can go in and could i do whatever. i could run it if i want. but i decided to stay out, he said. i'm totally allowed to be involved if i wanted to be.

president trump takes aim at the central bank telling reuters that chairman powell should not be raising rates and instead should focus on what's good for the country. >>> president trump also down plays the trade talks saying he doesn't anticipate much progress with china, but chinese equities close higher led by the csi 300. >>> bhp trading near the bottom of the stoxx 600 after the largest miner misses expectations overshadowing a record final dividend payout. >>> and italy's prime minister slams a modest offer for the recovery effort in genoa, saying the operator could quadruple it. >>> checking in on how equity markets are doing. the chinese equities are trading in the green led by the csi. overall it's been trading positive for the last couple of sessions on positive hopes and

he told reuters that jerome powell is raising interest rates. he is not thrilled that he is raising rates. trump appointed him last year. trump said the fed should do more to help him boost the economy. now candidate trump criticized the fed for doing exactly that and keeping interest rates low to help president obama. >> we have a fed that is doing political things. this janet yellen of the fed, the fed is doing political. by keeping interest rates at this level. >> now president trump wants the same easy money policies for himself. the fed did not comment. historically, the presidents do not talk about the fed. it works independently from political influence. powell reaffirmed that issue last month. >> we do our work in a strictly non political way based on detailed analysis which we put on the record transparently. we don't take political considerations into account. >> the fed has carefully raised interest rates to keep the economy from overheating. experts worry it may be overstimulated by government spending and tax cuts. >>> breaking over

speaking to the reuters news agency, mr trump said he would consider it if russia "did something thatould be good for us" but he added he wouldn't consider it without that. in the same interview mr trump once again raised doubts about whether russia did actually meddle in the 2016 election. even though all us intelligence agencies say they did. in regard to russian involvement in the mid—term elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by

more now on the breaking news, the president's interview with reuters. there certainly seems to be a dramatic ramping up of the rhetoric of the president when it comes to mueller, his team and the probe overall. >> we seem to be through the looking glass here tonight. one thing can you say about their view of the truth here, it seems to be pretty important to the president when he said to reuters that he views sitting down with special council robert mueller that it's a perjury trap. the president should not be concerned with sitting down with robert mueller, in the special council team. he's worried about purgering himself, they must have some concept of what the truth is. while they're ramping up the rhetoric on robert mueller. there's a scenario where he can envision. lifting sanctions on the russians in exchange for their cooperation perhaps in the ukraine or syria, it begs the question what exactly would that involve. i can't imagine vladimir putin pulling russian back ed forces n the ukraine. while the president is ramping up the rhetoric on robert

reuters is reporting some specifics about what the content requirement for autos would be reuters saying according to a senior u.s. trade official, the deal between the u.s. and mexico would increase u.s. and regional content in cars to 75%, up from the current requirement of 62.5%. as to that wage component, this deal according to reuters would seek 40 to 45% of auto content made by workers earning average base ways of $16 -- wage of $16 an hour. behind that, if the president of the united states wants to keep production from moving outof the u.s. for the sake of cheap labor existing in mexico alone, raising the wage on average for the workers producing those vehicles would take away that incentive from the companies that's a provision that's going to get some spift push back from swsh swift push back that argue they make them there because they sell to the mexican consumer or other reasons other than cheap labor i heard automakers privately when this provision was first aired a few months ago describe it as soviet in nature to be demanding a wage be set for the type of production we're

in an interview with reuters, the president said "i'm totally allowed to be involved." the president also said that he is concerned if he testifies under oath for the mueller investigation the statements will be compared to others, and any discrepancies could be used to bring perjury charges against him. as he has before, president trump repeatedly called mueller's investigation a disgrace and argued that mueller and his team are biased. >>> as the mueller probe focuses on russian interference in the 2016 election, a new report claims russian hackers are targeting republican groups. "the new york times" says the hackers are targeting u.s. conservative think tanks that split with the president and want continued sanctions against russia. the "times" cites a new microsoft report that says it detected and disabled websites linked to the russian government. they were created to trick people into thinking that they were clicking on links managed by two republican groups, but in reality, they were redirected to websites designed to steal passwords and other credentials. >>> w

is it a bit of a coincidence, and reuters journalist were just probing?m jackson, because this is the annual symposium that takes place when the fed get—together. takes place when the fed get-together. bankers as well. in particular, getting real steer, as to what the fed is likely to do in the coming months, always a speech from the fed chairperson. it is important, but it is also important when we get a trade delegation coming from china, of course, talk is, they want to bring pressure to bear on china to get the currency to appreciate. all these things coming together at exactly the same time. how much pressure will it take? the fed will ignore the president entirely, they need to be entirely independent, once the independence of the central bank is compromised or believed to be compromised, it takes a long time for that confidence to come back in the markets, they will not want to do anything to dent that. thank you for now, now, idon't anything to dent that. thank you for now, now, i don't believe that you work nine to five? i never have, what a way

reuters is come on. millennials, do they read reuters? >> we had a former s.e.c.day say twitter and that blog post that's probably more effective than traditional wire service release. >> i totally agree mother, anthony nodo, one of the greats, how has twitter done since he left. he talked about the notion of what a great method of dissemination. why should reuter's be the method >> yeah. >> do you think a millennial knows what a right righters is reuter's wreath rooter they like frozen food, video games, they like to set there and text, they like candy crush and they like twitter. they don't like reuter's hey guy let's tune in to reuter's. >> there is an interesting debate going on regarding ford's dividend morgan stanley staying they can no longer afford 15 cents. shanks says it is not at risk. the family gets $42 million? >> the family always wanted that there is a piece in the paper. demura piece lower eps, tp cut to nine. i read that and say ouch that dividend has to be at risk here they are doing everything they can to make it profitable remember, they wante

kristen, first to you, you even have the president with reuters discussing how he could take over the mueller probe if he wanted. we know this is not the mueller probe, but if he sees that michael cohen may be cutting a deal, as "the new york times" was reporting this weekend, and we've confirmed how close this could be, his own personal lawyer could be doing it, don mcgahn spending 30 hours, and them at least until this weekend not knowing the details of what he did tell or didn't tell mueller, this could explain a lot of what we're seeing out of the white house, kristen. >> it could, andrea. we have seen this president and frankly his legal team step up their attacks against the special counsel. and the president, as you said during that remarkable interview with reuters overnight, saying he could take over essentially the russia investigation. when i pressed white house officials, his attorney, rudy giuliani, on specifically what he meant, they couldn't give me a clear answer. but of course we all remember that president trump has said he believes he has the authority to fire rod r

paul: that's right, we are hearing from the reuters news agency that the president does not have high hopes fo delegation and the negr otthiats that are set to take place in washington in the next few days. the meetings are set to take place in washington between low-level chinese officials and low-level trump administration officials. the u.s. business mmunity has been largely pessimistic about those as well. we know that the u.s. chamber of commerce, typically a stritighont- dleoeans innog,t "a coherent strategy for negotiations with the chinese."s round of negotiations sent tos kick off tek. rajini: paul backdrop in new york, thanks for joining us. pridentith trade, immigration p's freenrget cye s on of i e immigrations and customs enforcement service, also known as ice. he called them patriots and --oes command claimed tr aiopandts and claimed that democrats are weak on border control. i spoke with the former acting annt tayorin t rderref or oice. head up ice. it is a good thing, right? >> it is a good thing in the sense that they are honored for the work that they do and the case

that's the new news from reuters. let's bring in our panel.ifferent parts in this investigation. >> on the brennan stuff, the president made a big mistake, john brennan has been out there, and everybody thinks most people in the intelligence committee, and people have been concerned with what he had been saying. what the president manage to do was to take john brennan who was calling himself in the national stage and it made him into a martyr. it was like the scene in spartacus, when all they were standing there and the roman general says to them, you will be denied crucifixion as long as you give up spartacus, and then suddenly everyone says, i'm spartacus, i am spartacus. he completely backfired. >> you know john with the treason, and, the former cia directors and deputy directors i'm sure you don't agree with what john brennan is saying and probably voted for president trump. as mark said, they don't like what donald trump did in terms of stripping the clearance in response to what he said publicly. and these little breadcrumbs and these te

the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king saul man has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crowe principle had been sold man wants to sell five percent of the company known as around officially the saudi government says the i.p.o. has been disposed not cancelled but according to the report the king doesn't want to disclose company details to regulators something that any listing on the western stock exchange would require robert to move nikias a senior analyst at the sea world group a consultancy an advocacy organization he says saudi arabia's economic outlook is improving. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the price of oil was still low there were a lot of reforms that were on the agenda but had yet to be implemented and i think we have to remember that that's the context within which the i

this is part of what the president told reuters. we will dive into that. ryan nobles is at the white house with more on what he is saying this morning. he is, ryan, in this interview echoing the exact words of rudy giuliani when he talks about perjury trap. >> reporter: we haven't heard the president use those words until this interview. the argument the president is making here is that he will go into this interview with robert mueller and tell the truth, but he can't trust the other people who have talked to robert mueller. he worries that if their accounts are different than his account, then perhaps he will be accused of lying. he doesn't want to be set up here. to your point, this is a bit of a different tone from president trump. when he has been asked about whether or not he is willing to interview with robert mueller he said he wants to. now he appears to be hedging his bets a little bit. he takes it a step further, reminding the folks working for the special counsel that at the end of the day, he believes he has the authority to either allow this

the president again saying to reuters if it was russia. at this point, on some level you have to believe he's just doing it to poke at either the media or his critics because he had to read that statement after helsinki where he basically in a chagrinned way had to admit he knew it was russia but then he reverts back to saying well, maybe, if they meddled. >> i think there's two things going on. any implication that russia interfered in the election on behalf of donald trump, which is the conclusion of the u.s. intelligence agencies, trump believes will undermine his victory. the other factor going on is that trump, even when he has been forced to walk the plank at times and admit yes i support my intelligence community insists on always injecting that element of doubt maybe to keep open in the minds of his supporters the possibility that russia didn't interfere in the election. but we see this continuing pattern of behavior not just from from trump but on behalf of russia who now after having hacked into the dnc has evidently hacked into

this afternoon, reuters interviewed president trump. they report, he is, quote, worried that any statements under oath he provides to special counsel robert mueller could be used to bring perjury charges against him. quote, trump echoed the concerns of his top lawyer in the probe, rudolph giuliani, who has warned that any sitdown with mueller could be a perjury trap. reuters quotes the president as saying association if i say something and he, meaning comey, says something, and it is my word against his, and he's best friends with mueller, so mueller might say, well, i believe comey. even if i'm telling truth, that makes me a liar. that's no good. it goes on to say trump did not comment on whether he would ultimately agree an interview with mueller. also, trump asserted that he retained power to intervene in the probe but that he had chosen not to do so in the moment. quoting the president here. i can go in and could i do whatever. i could run it if i want. but i decided to stay out, he said. i'm totally allowed to be involved if i want

in fact, there was a reuters poll on health care, asking people what they thought was the most importantssue facing the country. health care came in on top at 18%, followed by immigration at 15% and the economy at 11%. when you look at it by party, we see a different story. republicans think immigration is the most important issue at 26%. democrats say health care at 23%, and independents are just about evenly split. had a guest on this program earlier this week who says health care will be a top issue for democrats this fall. [video clip] >> one of our biggest early fines was against trumpcare. hundreds,re we saw thousands of people showing up to town halls everywhere saying if you repeal this bill, i will be bankrupt. they won. the unified conservative made it their top legislative priority. we have seen the republicans saying if they maintain control of congress, they will try to pass trumpcare again. ryan house speaker paul was on fox and friends a few weeks ago. totalked about the gop plans talk about health care in the elections this fall. here's what paul ryan have to say. -- had

this is what reuters is reporting. fearing it mueller's team could compare his statements with former fbi director james comey and any discrepancies could be a perjury trap. that's what it says. well, the president is saying, quote, even if i'm telling the truth, that makes me a liar. that's no good. sounds an awful like what the president's attorney rudy giuliani said as well. >> and when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he's going to tell the truth, that he shouldn't worry, that's so silly because it's somebody's version of the truth, not the truth. he didn't have conversation about -- >> truth is truth. i don't mean to go -- >> no, it isn't truth. truth isn't truth. >> then giuliani later tried and failed to clean up the mess of his own making claiming sometimes further inquiry can reveal the truth. other times it doesn't. this is far from the first time the president's attorney has tried to claim that truth isn't truth and facts aren't facts. >> if fact-counting is anything, we've never had any

ernst reuter was dead but his work was already showing great results.eanwhile in the years of uneasy , truce the soviet union has systematically turned her zone into a purely communist regime and blocked every attempt to treat germany as a whole. the three western powers had no alternative but to move forward with the economic unification of their zones. this was followed by political unification. independence was not long in coming and there was born a new sovereign state, the federal republic of germany. the status of berlin, however, was not changed. it remained the responsibility of the four occupying powers and the garrisons stayed. the guarantee of security for western germany depended on the overall strength of the atlantic alliance. the chancellor and federal parliament agreed the new republic should join nato so bringing the organization's strength up to 15 nations. by now strength was no misnomer. though the crisis was far from over, nato's power was such to make any aggressor think carefully. now the west could negotiate from a position of st

end.has to -- that has to host: this is from reuters, a look at the jobs numbers, good economic newsor the month of july, pointing out 157,000 jobs were added. reuters writing about the jobs report and says the trade war intensified on friday with china's commerce ministry imposing import tariffs on u.s. goods -- proposing import tariffs on tuesday billion --lars worth of u.s. goods proposing import tariffs on $60 billion worth of u.s. goods. u.s. job growth slowed in july, the unemployment rate dropping to 3.9%. newport, tennessee. good morning. caller: good morning. i have a couple of things to say. you hear trump turning around and saying they are taking our jobs, they are taking our jobs. 20 years ago, you will remember this, the stock market turned around and said we were going from an industrial company to a services country. the warning was there. it's just the way it goes. iran a company -- i ran a company in new jersey for many years. i started my own business -- i'm 73 now. that's what made me able to retire. with these tariffs, unemployment in the next year, lightning is g

president trump speaking to reuters on a number of topics, including criticizing federal reserve chair jerome powell and the fed, saying the fed should do quote, what's good for the country. we have the latest headlines from that interview. reporter: i'm everywhere. i'm in washington on wednesday, not today. not today. john: that interview seems to be crazy. there is supposed to be independence of the central bank. reporter: yes. yes. the fed is supposed to be independent. you have right now president trump telling reuters exclusively he's not thrilled with the federal reserve, he's not thrilled they are increasing interest rates. he voiced his opinion before in the past. we know he put out some tweets and have done interviews with other media outlets talking about how the fed shouldn't be increasing interest rates because it will hurt the economy. that's one major point that came out in this interview. he also asked about whether he thought the fed was doing a good job and he responded that i believe the fed is doing what's good for the country. he was also asked specifically about po

the story over the last 24 hours, the one reported by reuters and the state-owned fund may be looking to take a stake in the company do you see that as a good halfway come promipromicompromie >> yes this is the way to get a winning solution for everyone. first of all, they would be willing to take 100% of concession, which is obviously not possible the company needs the cash flows to confirm its rating which is important for the acquisition of the company. the most likely scenario could be the current visibility that they could take 20% stake, which could allow the government to say hey, we have -- we had concessions. we are probably oversight all the operation going forward, controlling in our view probably investments, maintenance and probably dividends on the other side atlantia will continue to consolidate the important assets and cash flows. in my view this could make more sense. >> the significant drop in share price seen in atlantia, there's been a sentiment hit as well what does this mean for the broader sector and, you know, italian equities have been struggling in general ev

speaking to reuters the mister said we are responding in a precise way.he mister said china didn't want bystanders to become collateral damage saying, when we try measures we try not to harm the interest of foreign businesses in china. the minister is most concerned about the welfare of workers here. the trade conflict, he says, hasn't hurt the economy muc so far, but he is anticipating job losses in the exportto sector. counter that, he said that the government isuspending more to help unemployed find new jobs and ensure their basic social security. he said beijing also wants local governments to issue more special bonds to fund tu infrastruc and expect the bond to blow past $145 billion by the end of the current quarter, but the minister insists that the morerotive fiscal policy won't blow out the budget saying that we are m talking abousive stimulus, nor do we want to incur financial risks to take care of everything. but many economists worry that the greater spending would only create more financial problems for china down the road. for "nightly busin

that's what he told reuters. good morning, abby. this is a president who's changed his tune. for months he's been saying i want to sit down with mueller and his team for an interview but my lawyers won't let me but now he's echoing his legal team. >> yeah, poppy. the change of tune from president trump. the attacks on the powell is that seem to have escalated in their tone points to a sense of growing anxiety from the president about where this probe is headed. look how often this month alone president trump has attacked the special counsel in tweets, 67 times just this month. new in this interview with reuters the president is saying something different than we've heard before. he's saying this idea of a perjury trap is real he says that because comey is best friends with mueller that mueller might believe comey over him prompting him to get into trouble. he also says this about the probe, indicating he still believes he has the ability to exert control. he says i could go in and do whatever, i could run it if i want. i'm totally allowed to be involved if i wanted to be. so

this according to diplomatic sources quoted by reuters.s after microsoft said earlier that it had shut down websites linked to russian hackers, who are said to have targeted various congressional websites, as long as some belonging to conservative groups >>> a few stocks tonight bill this morning home builder pole brothers reporting a better than expected numbers here, $1.26 versus $1.03 which was the estimate the stock up 10% now and still, you know, not even in th midpoint of its range. so it has, you know, peaked like so many stocks at the end of january and maybe it's on its way back it's up today, anyway. >>> nvidia ceo announcing a new graphics card at the gamecon conference in colone, germany. the gtx -- rtx 20000 series will be used for more sophisticated video games, which is the company's biggest business the stock rose more than 3% on that news yesterday and it's up, as you can see, almost 1% again this morning >>> all right. this weak, we are taking a look at the market's record run and today, mike santoli is here to tell us ab

today he tells reuters, i've stayed away from mueller. this sounds so mobster. i stayed away, ki go in there if i. to. i can run it if i wanted to. can he? is that true? >> it's not true in the sense that constitutional norms that have governed our country for hundreds of years would say, no. now, if he does it, who can stop him? the answer is congress can top him. we have a mechanism for impeachment. >> or possibly the courts. >> possibly the courts, depending on how he does it. in the future after he leaves office a president can be prosecuted if he commits a crime like obstruction of justice, that's why nixon needed the pard frein ford many years ago. it's a total subversion of the system to say the person supposed to execute the laws faithfully can undercut them for the benefit of his friends, it's totally inconsistent with the notion on law and order, unless you pointed out in the "times" a few months ago, unless law and order means you protect your friends and go after people different from you. >> natasha, as someone that follows a lot that's happened bet

in that reuters interview president trump says the white house is a smooth running machine except whenomes to the russia investigation and asserts he has the power to intervene at any time. after months of saying he'd like to talk with robert mueller -- >> i would love to speak. nobody wants to speak more than me. >> reporter: -- president trump is revealing his concern saying it could be a perjury trap telling reuters he is worried mueller could pit his statements against those of others who have testified like former fbi director james comey. he says even if i am telling the truth, that makes me a liar, that's no good. he also declared he could run the russia investigation if he wanted to saying i can go in and i could do whatever. i could run it if i want but i decided to stay out. he added i'm totally allowed to be involved if i wanted to be. so far i haven't chosen to be involved. i'll stay out and the president with a new attack tweeting mueller is disgraced and discredited calling his team a group of thugs. this comes after reports that a top white house lawyer has become a key

rajini: we just heard from the president -- he told reuters that he does not expect any timeframe for ending the trade war with china. what can we expect from the chinese delegation this weekend? -- this week, then? l:pahat's right, we are hearing from the reuters news agency that the president does not have high hopes for th delegation and the negotiaetons that areo take place in washington in the next few days. the meetings are set to take place in washington between low-level chinese officil s and low-leump administration officials. the u.s. business community has been largely pessimistic about those as well. we know that the u.s. chamber of commerce, typically agh leaning, business friendly think tank, says that the trump administration does not "have a coherent strategy for these w negotiatioh the chinese." low expectations going into this round of negotiations sent to kick off this week. rajini: paul blake with a lovely backdrop in new york, thanks for joining us. along with trade, immigration relicy is one of president trump's mostent targets for overhaul. today he hosted an ev

reaction to president trump in a wide-ranging interview with reuters insisting he has the power to step in and run the russia investigation himself if he wants to. he said "i could go in and do whatever, i could run it if i want but i decided to stay out. i am totally allowed to be out if i want to be. so far i haven't chosen to be involved and i will stay out. the present did not rule out. we are joined by my first guest, kellyanne conway. let's start with what the president means when he says he could actually run the rush investigation. >> >> kellyanne: the president and his team have been incredibly compliant and cooperative with the investigation. you have 1 million documents produced, 33 some witnesses have gone in testified under oath thusly, and this is a president that thinks it completely ridicules the system of justice if we are not looking at the other side of this investigation. you had a corrupt dealings all the way up the chain and obviously peter strzok and lisa page is gone, she left, jim comey on the shenanigans he pulled in front of congress and his silly book, and th

. >>> and reuters reports exclusively that the u.s. to test 40,000 homes on its bases for toxic lead hazards. it comes after reuters' investigation revealed lead paint poisoning dangers in private homes on military bases. now, the report said more than 1,000 children living in those homes had tested high for lead in recent years. inspections will cost an estimated $386 million. the army testing would reportedly target homes built % before 1978, when the u.s. banned the sale of lead paint. >>> still ahead, the kushner family real estate company plans to appeal a more than $200,000 fine. why the president's son-in-law claims the errors happened. claims the errors happened. [conference phone] baloney! [conference phone] has joined the call. hey baloney here. i thought this was a no by-products call? land o' frost premium. a slice above. oh, look... i thought this was a no by-products call? another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week. with the fastest retinol form

ever the reuters news agency reported saudi arabia's king sound man has put the brakes on the planned public sale of the national oil company the flotation of five percent saudi aramco was supposed to happen this year but it's now been put off indefinitely it was a key part of crown prince mohammed bin sandman's saudi twenty thirty economic development plan but the reuters report says the king doesn't want to open up the books to regulate this robert maginnis he is a senior analyst at the seaward group a consultancy and advocacy organization he says saudi arabia's economic outlook has changed. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the price of oil was still low there were a lot of reforms that were on the agenda but had yet to be implemented and i think we have to remember that that's the context within which the i.p.o. idea came about now. after the enthusiasm around

for more now we're joined from seoul by reuters correspondent george smith josh we don't have an exact date i'm told for the summit but we know roughly what will be on the agenda. but they also didn't announce specifics of the agenda but the north koreans did say that they wanted to talk about removing obstacles to into creating reconciliation this is potentially likely to. be key issues including sanctions as well as in full declaration of peace not only between the two koreas but between north korea and the united states and actually china as well these are some things that have all sides been hung up with on the past and so while this summit is likely to have a lot of. the two koreas are likely to focus on some you know various cooperation issues and some things that might be more realistically attained now this summit trees become rather intense this will be the third meeting between the two sides north and south korea since april how significant are these get togethers do they signal a sustained fall do you think. it does certainly appear like both sides are trying to keep up the