AP Headline News May 10 2019 22:00 (EDT)

 

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The Chaiman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Massachusetts Democrat Richard Neal has sent subpoenas to Treasury Secretray Steven Mnuchin and IRS commissioner Charles Rettig demanding 6 years of President Trump's tax returns by next Friday. Mnuchin rejected an earlier request from Neal. His action is a latest in a series of skirmishes between House Democrats and the White House over investigations into Trump. The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says special counsel Robert Muller won't appear before his committee next week. AP's Mike Gracio has more.

Special counsel Robert Muller will not appear before the House Judiciary Committe next week. Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler who wanted Muller to testify on May 15th announced Friday negotiations continue with Muller and with the Justice Department about the testimony. He added if necessary the Committee will attempt to compel Muller to testify. Meantime Nadler sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr saying his committee is open to negotiations for access to the full Russia report. There was no immediate response from the Justice Department. Mike Gracio, Washington.

 

U.S. and Chinese trade talks without show little movement after President Trump imposed tariffs on billions in Chinese imports earlier today. Sagar Meghani has this.

Negotiators met briefly here in Washington hours after the Trump administration more than doubled tariffs on roughly 200 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports. President Trump says there's no need to rush to a deal and he's defending the tariff hike by falsely saying it will pump more money into U.S coffer. But Phil Levy a former George W. Bush White House trade advisor says the tariffs are actually paid by U.S. importers who in tun pass on the higher cost.

"And it's consumers who will end up paying"

The battles already disrupted billions in trade and shaking global markets. Sagar Meghani, Washington. This is AP Radio News.

 

President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says he wants to travel to Ukraine to meet with government officials to push them to open a pair of investigations. One to find the origins of special counsel Robert Muller's recently concluded investigation, the other to look into whether Joe Biden had anything to do with the ouster of a Ukranian prosecutor who was reportedly investigating an oligarch at a time that Biden's son was involved with a gas company owned by that oligarch. House Intelligence Committe Chairman Adam Schiff.

"We have president's lawyer seeking help from the foreign government again to influence an American presidential election. That's just appalling."

The President's reelection campaign says it has nothing to do with Giuliani's effort.

 

A ship has collided with a tugboat and 2 barges in th Houston ship channel. One of the barges has capsized, the other has been punctured. Both were carrying 25,000 gallons worth of gasoline product. It's not know how much has spilled. I'm Tim McGuire. AP Radio News.