Nice to get started. This morning we will consider the president s budget request for the u. S. Forest service for fy 2021. Chief christiansen, its good to be able to welcome you back to the committee, thank you for being here. We say around here that the president s budget request is just that, it is a request. It does start the annual budget process. It gives us here in congress the opportunity to learn about the administrations priorities and how it would carry them out. But ultimately, it is up to us to determine what programs to fund and what levels. Although this years budget request is far from perfect, i agree that the priority must be on Wildland Fire Management and improving the health of our forests. Im encouraged that the administration is proposing to invest significantly in hazardous fuel reduction and other active Forest Management activities. We know such investments pay dividends in reducing the risk of severe wildfire. Hopefully we will see this important work planned
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Fail miserably. But he says that is all part of the magic. Joining me today on bloomberg studio 1. 0, astro teller, head of alphabets x lab. And captain of moonshots, which is your official title, as i understand it. Astro it is. I function as the ceo, but i go by captain of moonshots. Emily you rolled in on wheels. This is your standard mode of transportation . Astro it is. Emily how much time do you think you shave off . Astro i have worked that out. Its about eight minutes a day. Emily wow. [laughter] astro its a big building. Emily you are making the most of those eight minutes. We are in the x lab, just a couple miles south of googles headquarters. This is where the magic happens, or sometimes doesnt happen, as you are quick to point out, because you have far more failures than you do successes. What is the mission of x . Astro x was created to be the part of alphabet that would make, hopefully, some new googles for alphabet to have. Things like waymo, the selfdriving car business
There Patrick Conroy issuing a prayer. I want to remind people about when the founders argued for what would call on the removal of a sitting president. They landed on treason, bribery and high crimes. One of the high crimes was the desire of foreign powers to gain an aye concern dent in our council. That is the question today did President Trump elicit foreign influence in our elections. The vote today will set up a senate trial on the charges that the president pushed ukraine to investigate his political foes. The president has been tweeting this morning calling the impeachment a terrible thing and asking supporters to say a prayer. That follows that sixpage letter he sent to nancy pelosi yesterday calling the impeachment an attempted coup. This is the first time in American History that this is happening just before an election year. The president is correct the voters will ultimately have a final say. Our cbs news team is ready to coverall cover all of todays developments. We want
Continues to pose risks. But first, our top story. Mark zuckerberg will get a firsthand look at the growing opposition to facebooks plan to create a cryptocurrency. He will testify october 23. The hearing will examine facebooks impact on the financial and housing industries. My first question is, how significant that it is zuckerberg . It is very significant. Anytime the ceo testifies, it is a big deal. I was there in april of 2018 when he last testified and it was a total zoo. Everyone wants to see him and asking questions. I imagine this will be the same. I know they had been trying to get sheryl sandberg. We wrote about that a couple of weeks ago. It looks like they got someone even better which is her boss. Taylor what do we know about the content of the hearing . Kurt this committee focuses on financial services. They also do housing staff. Stuff. Accused withbeen issues around its advertising businesses. People are being discriminated for housing related issues. I imagine that wi