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Thursday, February 21, 2019
1)
From ABC News, I’m Scott Goldberg. Next
week, President Trump heads to Vietnam for a second sit-down with the leader of
North Korea. President Trump said he is optimistic about his upcoming summit
with Kim Jong-un predicting next
week in Vietnam. “I think we’ll accomplish a lot. We started off with a very
good meeting. I think we’ll continue that long.” The President insists that there
has been progress since their first summit in Singapore last June. “There is no
nuclear testing, no missiles going up and we have a good relationship, very
good relationship.” President Trump predicted it wouldn’t be the last meeting
he has with the North Korean leader. Karen
Travers, ABC News at the White House.
2)
The President says it’s possible while he’s in Vietnam the special council
could release his report on the Russia investigation and the President says his
new Attorney General William Barr
will decide that. The American people see it. “That’ll be totally up to the new
attorney general. He is a tremendous man.” Barr told Congress during his confirmation
hearing he will make it as much public as legally required.
3)
The President has now tweeted he told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to allow a woman back into the U.S. after she went
to Syria to become an ISIS bride. Now the woman’s attorney is responding “Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and
will not be admitted into the country. According to Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo, Muthana left Alabama four years ago to join ISIS and now wants to
return home. Her lawyer says she’s ready to face justice. Currently she is at a
refugee camp in eastern Syria and her lawyer responded to the State Department’s
claims saying, quote, the Trump Administration continues its attempts to
wrongfully strip citizens of their citizenship.” ABC’s Serena Marshall. Muthana was born in New Jersey and her lawyer says
she had a U.S. passport.
4)
An attorney for drug lord Joaquín Guzmán
known as “El Chapo” says Guzmán
may
challenge his conviction. His attorney told Vice News some of the jurors read news coverage of the case during
the trial which would be a violation of the judge’s instructions. The attorney
claims others also discussed the case.
5)
On Wall Street today, stocks finished slightly higher. The Dow picked up 63
points. You’re listening to ABC News.
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From
the Fox Business Network; on Wall Street, the major averages closing in the
green after minutes from the Fed’s latest meeting in January showed officials
expressed greater concern about risks to economic growth prompting them to
cause interest-rate increases. With the Dow closing up 63 points, the NASDAQ
closing up 2, notching its eighth straight day of gains, the S&P 500 up 5.
Among the Dow leaders today, Boeing,
DowDuPont and Caterpillar. The laggards include Walmart and Walgreens.
// And Samsung celebrating its 10th anniversary
added the Galaxy line, unveiling its highly anticipated smartphone with a foldable
screen. The Galaxy Fold will be
available on April the 26th for a starting price of close to 2,000 bucks.
Samsung is hoping that the Galaxy Fold will spur more people to upgrade their
phones and reverse its sales up for the smartphone maker. With the Fox Business
Report, I’m Hilarie Barsky.
