Good morning. Picketing will come to order. This is a Hearing Resource the title protect the homeland. We will review the department of home its a good budget. When the acting sect of Homeland Security, the honorable Kevin Mcaleenan here to testify and want to fraternal appreciate and thank you for your long service to this country. And in particular, at this moment where we are glad, grappling with some issues. The aftermath of an unprecedented level of disasters of hurricanes and fires in california, hurricanes in the gold coast, the disaster that is occurring at the border right now. If we could just put up our chart. Do we have our chart . Org we have it it on the chart that we have and that an oshkosh would weaken the required a a giveaway. So a quick produced out of my factory some cups with that exact same chart. What it shows is how out of control this problem is in the first seven months of this year. We had over 300 total, 312,000 individuals coming either as over the border
Foundation and enough to say the taxpayers Washington State as part of the building for the arts project. I looked all of our funders but especially of public funding for the arts. Im hoping this might be returned to town hall for some of you are familiar with this building but havent been back for a couple of years. During the time weve been renovating, this is still a soft launch for the space, different elements like signage and bar and cafe service have yet to come online so bear with us. September is the real formal launch of townhall with a big festival of programs we recently announced the you can see on our website town hall seattle. Org. Check us out. We are really happy to reopen and get going with the program especially in the sure which is a new space for us. Thank you for being our guinea pigs. I do know and a couple gifts that this is a little cold in here, we have adjusted the thermostats and are trying to make it more comfortable. Im sorry about that. In the meantime as
Pleasure to introduce todays offer. Andrew is an awardwinning journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a correspondent and editor for newsweek where he served as the bureau chief in hong kong, moscow, rome, warsaw and berlin. The subject of todays top 1941 the year germany losts the wars scheduled for public release next week. This is his first talk on the book and we do have them for sale following the lecture and they will be sold so please stay for the reception and book signing. According to jon meacham, the book gives a vivid account of the year that shaped not only the conflicts of the hour but the course of our lives even now and the bestselling author observes it must have been the bravest and stupidest year in modern times. With the gripping narrative and revelation, he shows us why a character is destiny. Please join me in welcoming andrew. [applause] thanks to all of you for being here. Everybody must want a little bit of a break from the intensive politica
Them for sale following so please stay for the reception in the book signing. Ng book 1941 is a vivid account not only the conflict of the hour but the course of our lives even now. There were times bestselling author evan thomas observes the year 1941 mustve been the greatest and stupidest year of modern times. With eyepopping revelation to show us why character is destiny. Please join me to welcome our author. [applause] join me to welcome our author. [applause] thank you very much and to all of you for being here. Break from the intensive political news. [laughter] i really appreciate the hospitality for inviting me for this event im sure most of you have done it but it was my first tour and was particularly struck me is writers tend to be a possessive about things. And the of sessions about the house and how to design it and the gardens it is all there at the library and it is magnificent to see the autographs of henry james and others to underline in various places makes it feel v
Might be slowing. So well discuss that. And ai getting aggressive. Google is announcing a new assistant and a search overhaul. Two key departures from openai, and amazon replacing its ceo as jeff bezos keeps a close eye on their efforts. Well dig into the rapidly evolving landscape. Lets start with the Market Action, show. Dom chu, i think were going to see a lot of stars today. The markets are as green as dress as that dress youre wearing, kelly. What we have is, yes, record highs for both the s p 500. Well put the star right up there right now, and the nasdaq composite right now. So alltime highs there. The dow currently sits at a level that could be a closing high. But were roughly up 50 points away from its own record alltime intraday high. So the dow industrials up 285 points, three quarters of 1 , 39,843. 5292, pushing 5300 mark. Up 351 p 51 points. So highs of the session for the s p 500, almost just a hair away from 5300. And the nasdaq composite a record high, up more than 1 ,