AFN
NEWS
Thursday, September 6, 2018
1)
From ABC News, I’m Daria Albinger. President
Trump calls the New York Times Op-Ed piece by a senior administration official
gutless, while Press Secretary Sarah
Sanders says that person should resign. “The Times to see unusual step of granting
an anonymity to the official who says I’m part of a liberal resistance instead
of working to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s
more misguided impulses until he is out of office. It’s not clear where exactly
in the administration the official serves or what the level of direct access to
the President might be. Alex Stone,
ABC News, Washington.”
2)
President Trump also continues to push back on Bob Woodward‘s book that’s critical of his administration. “We do
run a strong White House. There’s no question about it and we are doing things
that nobody else has ever been able to do and our country is stronger now than it’s
ever been.” The President calls the book pure fiction.
3)
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
answering pointed questions during his confirmation hearing. Constitutionality of
investigating sitting president, something he says he hasn’t taken a position on.
“No one is above the law in the United States including the President of the
United States.” The question’s coming from Republican Sent. Ben Sasse of Nebraska. “If you believe
that presidents should have the power to do whatever they wanted, I couldn’t
vote for you, either. So I’m headed toward voting for you because I don’t
believe any of those things are true.” Protesters have interrupted the hearings
for the second day.
4)
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey spending a
day fielding questions from House Committee members on allegations that the
company suppresses conservative views, something New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone takes exceptions to. “I
think it’s the height of hypocrisy that President Trump and congressional
Republicans criticize Twitter for its supposed liberal bias, when President
Trump uses the platform every day for his juvenile tweets and spreading lies and
misinformation to the whole country and to the world.” The hearing was briefly
interrupted by a protester.
5)
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit northern Japan. Officials don’t know the extent
of the damage at this point. You’re listening to ABC News.
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From
the Fox Business Network, on Wall Street, major averages closing mixed with
tech stocks dropping which weighed on the NASDAQ. The Dow closing up 23 points,
the NASDAQ down 96, S&P500 down 8. // And shares of American Express
falling after the Wall Street Journal reported the FBI has launched probe into
the company’s foreign exchange pricing practices. The investigation is in its early
stages and is focused on whether the foreign exchange international payments division
misrepresented pricing to clients in order to win their business. // And Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says
that the ride-hailing company is on track to launch an initial public offering
next year and it has no plans to sell its self-driving car research arm,
Advanced Technologies Group. In fact, Khosrowshahi says that the company
is quite optimistic. It’ll be able to reduce testing of self-driving cars later
this year, this after a fatal crash involving an autonomous Uber car in Tempe, Arizona. With the Fox Business
Report, I am Hilarie Barsky.
