We've been listening to President Trump wrapping up a news conference here in New York.

The president talking about everything trade deals to China, to the House moving forward with a formal

impeachment inquiry.

He said he supports transparency on whistleblower information but he is also

demanding transparency from the Democrats. He said the timing of the

impeachment inquiry announcement yesterday while he was at the UN that was all

planned on the part of the Democrats.

And he also said that he does not like the precedent of releasing details of calls between the president and foreign leaders.

But he did talk about a number of things.

This of course happening on a day where he also spoke side by side at a bilateral with the President of Ukraine earlier today from the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

And we saw the markets actually finish up on the day.

Close to the session highs we saw a sell-off in bonds. We got the yields back to 1.74%

or thereabouts. We had strength in banks and we had strength also in technology. Let's

get to Aiman Javers, who had been at the press conference, actually got the first

question into the president. Aaman.

Yeah, you know, I wanted to ask the president this idea of what the American people should think about this scandal. Should the American people be happy about a U.S. President asking a foreign leader for information about his political rival.

I asked the President that and I also asked him, ultimately, what would you have done

if Barack Obama had done this and you discovered that?

The president sort of gave a very long answer there, but ultimately didn't defend the principle

of American presidents asking for foreign health. What he did do was talk a lot about

his administration. He talked a lot about how well things are going in the economy. The

president gives a long answer here, but ultimately not really

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