Next, Defense Department officials testified at a House Oversight hearing on the f 35 joint star fighter jet program. They were asked about maintenance issues and concerns that prime contractor Lockheed Martin provided defective spare parts and Outdated Technology systems for the aircraft. And generalsident manager of the f35 program at Lockheed Martin corporation also joined the hearing remotely to answer questions from lawmakers. The committee will come to order. Like to all, i would congratulate Ranking Member komar. This is his First Full Committee Hearing as a ranking i believe we are want a strong private military, strong private sector that is widely tracking taxpayers money and spending it efficiently for the purposes that it was meant for. I look forward to working with the Ranking Member in the future and i am so pleased that he is with us here today. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time, and i now recognize myself for open
Suggest a post virus recovery. Highest andsides smart and Mark Zuckerberg toends the response controversial president ial tweets but his unstaffed is not agree. But his own staff does not agree. To shrug offng tensions on the streets, curfews being applied in major cities. We are seeing asia heading into the wednesday session looking likely to extend the basking in the globe we saw overnight. We have nikkei futures in australia as well as in hong kong, all pointing to a positive start to trade. The dollar fell overnight, the yen also slunk leading to some positivity out of trading. The rckiwi pair trading at its highest since october, really an indication as we see these outperform, investors feeling risk on despite gdp numbers that could show the first technical recession we are headed into in about 30 years. Pretty flattrading after seven consecutive days of gains. Americans are bracing for another night of unrest. Cities have extended their curfews. Trumpile, president feeling embat
Fair and lease zero impeachment inquiry in American History jeopardizing the foundations of our system of government. , Speaker Pelosi told the country impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there is something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i dont think we should go down that path. That was the speaker less than a year ago. In 1998, when democrats were busy defending president clinton , congressman jerry nadler said there must never be a narrowly impeachmently voted. Of n impeachment that was obviously a standard when the democrat was in the white house. Democrats, house cared more about attacking President Trump rather than keeping their promises. They rushed through a slapdash investigation. They decided not to bother with the standard legal processes when pursuing witnesses and evidence. They dont have time to do that. Told theadam schiff country on National Television that Getting Court decisions take a long time. He did not want to wait. It takes a l
Protesters call on President Trump to support their democracy drive. And Boris Johnson pushes ahead with his brexit campaign. Eu Officials Say talks in brussels have been farcical in useless. Kathleen lets look at how u. S. Stocks ended on friday. Mixed across the board. If you put it together, basically the stoxx ended st ocks ended up. The s p 500 gaining nearly 3 10 of 1 . Dowdow up 59 points and the the nasdaq down. There was the negative news for facebook. It was nevertheless all about , temporaryte jobs jobs. Less than 100,000 strong for government jobs. Hourly earnings, wages, at 3. 2 yearoveryear. At the end of the day, jay powell himself, the fed chair in his speech, said he is concerned about Global Developments and you can see stocks ending on the upside. Futures pointing to a gain in u. S. Stocks, but how are things looking in asia . Selina after u. S. Stocks barely eke dow gains on friday, were seeing the futures market point to a muted and mixed open here. Negative data o
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