AFN
NEWS
Thursday, October 17, 2019
1)
From ABC News, I’m Chuck Sivertsen. A
White House walkout; Democratic Congressional leaders say they walked out of a bipartisan
briefing on Syria at the White House after they say President Trump started hurling
insults. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Congressional Democratic leaders say they were stunned by the President’s
attacks when they came to discuss Syria. “What we witnessed on the part of the President
was a meltdown.” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck
Schumer said the President told them Syria is Turkey and Russia’s problem
now and then insulted Speaker Pelosi. “He called her a third-rate politician
and there are communists involved, you guys might like that.” The House passing
a nearly unanimous resolution condemning the President’s Syrian pullout.” Andy Field, ABC News, Washington.
2)
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
saw the meeting differently, saying it was more productive after Speaker Pelosi
left. “The Speaker tries to make everything political. Her own statements were
unproductive. To storm out of the meeting, which I’ve watched time before during
other crisis, is really not the ability of a speaker or the style how a speaker
should carry herself out.” The meeting came after the House overwhelmingly voted
to condemn President Trump’s withdrawal of American forces from northern Syria.
President Trump has drawn bipartisan criticism for the withdrawal which led to Turkey
attacking Kurdish forces and citizens in Syria.
3)
A senior Trump Administration official confirms to ABC News that President
Trump wrote a letter to Turkish President Erdogan,
asking him not to slaughter thousands of people and threatening to destroy the
country’s economy.
4)
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says
the Senate will hold an impeachment trial as the House passes articles of
impeachment on President Trump. “We intended to do our constitutional
responsibility.” McConnell reviewed the impeachment trial rules for Senate
Republicans, one of which is no talking.
5)
Major indexes finished the day lower on Wall Street with technology stocks leading
them away. The Dow fell 23 points. You’re listening to ABC News.
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“I’m
Charles Payne and this is the Fox
Business Report.” The major averages closing lower after U.S. retail sales fell
for the first time in seven months in September, offsetting a good start to the
third-quarter corporate earnings reporting season. // And shares of General
Motors rising up 1% today after the automaker and the United Auto Workers
reached a tentative deal to end a month-long strike. The Dow falling 23 points,
the NASDAQ down 25, S&P 500 down 6. // And shares of Netflix are higher in the extended session after the company
reported better-than-expected-earnings results for the third quarter with the streaming
service, adding more than twice as many subscribers for the period than it did
in a previous quarter. // And IBM reporting earnings after the closing bell
with the stock falling this after the tech giant reported that revenue fell for
the fifth quarter in a row even with contributions from Red Hat, an acquisition that closed in the third quarter. That’s
your Fox Business Report. I’m Hilarie
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