The Justice Departments focus on security concerns over tiktok. Tiktok. This is an hour. Cyber crime, terrorism, espionage, overseas pfizer and conducts National Security reviews. He was chineseo counter the persistent and aggressive economic espionage. Thats a lot of what we will talk about today. Prior to his service as the assistant attorney general, john was the Vice President and assistant attorney general counsel at boeing. You are the first generation, right . Is relatively new and you were there starting in 2006. So, a long career. Distinguished, and thank you for doing this. What we are going to do today is , john will talk for a few minutes. We will have a conversation, then we will turn to the audience. Get your questions ready. We will screen them, but we will be happy to entertain anything you want to ask. Me andks for having proposing that we do this. The National Security division has done a number of events, including our 10 Year Anniversary event in 2016. More recently
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Pointing upward the wall street journal is calling the last four months a melt up and thats what it looks like. Dow up by 83 points. S p 500 looking to open 12 points higher. Treasury yields as well. Were at. 572. Theres a mix of what theyre thinking and what the equity markets think, right melissa okay we have a we will work on the audio and hopefully get that a busy week ahead. A twoday fed meeting with a policy announcement. No major change is expected. That will tell you that but investors will watch for clues about what the central bank might do next and then on the corporate front earnings season kicks into overdrive 167 of the s p 500 companies will report. Well hear from 12 dow components and among the names likely to get a lot of attention, apple, amazon, boeing, mcdonalds, 3m, exxon and many others. This is if you like earnings, if youre excited by earnings this is going to be a big week. So far this season we heard from 128 of the s p 500 companies so well more than double t
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Moment and a reflection of the part we all have to play when slowing the spread of covid19. In light of this remote format i also some reminders to the members about conduct of the hearing. Members keep their video feed on as long as they are present at the hearing. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting their microphones and please keep your microphones muted when youre speaking. And finally if members have documents they wish to submit for the record please email to the committee whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Well, good afternoon, and well coom the First Virtual hearing of the committee on investigations and oversight. Today were discussing a critical issue. Research into repurposing existing therapeutic drugs for covid19 treatment as well as scientific basis for the federal governments evaluation of such drugs. I appreciate our witnesses being here under these unusual circumstances, but these are very important issues, and we look forward to your