Very proud publishers of mike and were teaming up to try to do a series of things during this pandemic crisis as part of our political intellectual mission but also because were on lock down, were trying to find new ways for us to share information so its very exciting for me to be collaborating when my Close Friends and comrades at haymarket and you might have caught haymarkets excellent teaching last week its when they started to pioneer this online form, marvelous event, super informative, even inspiring, 15000 of us participated in that, joined in for that great talk and this is aiming to be a series haymarket first others that put together, haymarket in fact has already organized a followup to taylors talk in the gonna reconvene these three and discuss the further politics of coronavirus in the next talk would be broadcast on thursday april 9, thats not this thursday but next thursday at 5 00 oclock eastern time and same time this time with mike davis, the following thursday the s
The president has arrived in japan for the g20 summit, just as he stepped off air force one the news broke that china has established its negotiating position in the trade talks. Remove restrictions on huawei, remove all tariffs. Thats a hard line. Trump meets xi on saturday. Im going to call it a flat to slightly higher market. Any loss for the dow is accounted for by boeing, which is down sharply because of new problems with the max jet and look at that nasdaq go, up half a percentage point. Big tech doing well this morning. Theres a story on bitcoin. It hit 14,000 overnight but the Coin Base Exchange crashed. When that happened, bitcoin fell sharply, currently is down to 11,700. Just look at how amazon has changed the world. Their prime days dominate the summer selling season. Now we are seeing target, ebay, walmart and others join the club, jumping on amazons band wagon with a ton of special deals of their own. Thursday, june 27th. Varney company is about to begin. Who here would a
Welcome to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the subcommittees hearing. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Wed like to welcome our witness today, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation. Director wray has served in this role of august since 2017, overseeing an agency of over 35,000 people. Including special agents, intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and Information Technology specialists. The 24 budget request for fbi salaries and expenses is 11. 3 billion. With 6. 7 billion of that amount to about 60 . Thats designated as defense spending. Thats a 6 increase above the fiscal 23 elected level for salaries and expenses. The fbi budget request includes 196 million in program increases and 409 million adjustments too base representing the substantial increase cost of continuing the fbis current activities. The Largest Program increases
Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the subcommittees hearing. Ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Wed like to welcome our witness today, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation. Director wray has served in this role of august since 2017, overseeing an agency of over 35,000 people. Including special agents, intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and Information Technology specialists. The 24 budget request for fbi salaries and expenses is 11. 3 billion. With 6. 7 billion of that amount to about 60 . Thats designated as defense spending. Thats a 6 increase above the fiscal 23 elected level for salaries and expenses. The fbi budget request includes 196 million in program increases and 409 million adjustments too base representing the substantial increase cost of continuing the fbis current activities. The Largest Program increases requested art for
Deep in the south. But in fact, brazil is a growing superpower. Its gone through an extraordinary transformation in the past 20 years. So the last time that i was there was 1997. If i was to go back to rio or sao paolo now, would i see a difference . What would i see . You would see a country whose people is more comfortable with the current. Its current situation. There is a sense of hope that has been restored to the country compared to that time. That was the time when we had established democracy, reestablished democracy, but we were entering the period of economic stability. Democracy and economic stability have been the two pillars upon which two brazilian governments, the government led by president Fernando Henrique cardoso and the government led by president Luiz Inacio Lula da silva, built the current reality of brazil, which is a promising reality. Hinojosa a promising reality. And yet, you know, i think back to the first time that i was in brazil, in 1982, and if you were a