And black lives matter have plunged portland into chaos. The leftist acts attacking citizens activists attacking citizens and destroying property, and the mayor just grins at it all. Ing Law Enforcement under constant attack. And today the police had to step in to clear two downtown parks of demonstrators trying to create their the own autonomous zone. Businesses have lost millions of dollars because of the rioting and the looting, and federal buildings including the courthouse have been fire bombed and vandalized. Acting dhs secretary chad wolf today said, quote a federal courthouse is a symbol of justice. To attack it is to attack america. End quote. I would add, to attack a city is to attack america. Federal dhs and doj officers and agents have been deployed to protect the courthouse and other federal buildings and to keep the mobs in check. The radical dems arent happy about that. They dont want the federal agents in portland for obvious reasons, because the feds, of course, will p
Honor to have everybody here. I know the press was not quite expecting this, so i appreciate your being able to attend. We have a terrific number of things and positive things to tell you tonight. I want to give an update on the economy. Economic health is vital to public health. That is why our strategy to kill the china virus is focused on protecting those at greatest risk, while allowing younger and healthy americans to safely return to work and school, very important. 1. 8dded we added million jobs in july, exceeding the predictions, and in may. I will say the job growth we have seen over the last three thehs, 9. 3 million, is single best in u. S. History. That is big news and great news. Over the past three months, the u. S. Has surpassed Market Expectations by a total of 12 million new jobs. Over the last three months the u. S. Has added 623,000 manufacturing jobs. Remember, you would need a magic wand to get manufacturing jobs, and we are getting them even in a pandemic, which i
Pole vaulted you need to understand this week is about one thing and one thing only it is about earnings first time its been like that in awhile. This is the most overwhelming week ridiculous number of Companies Report at the same time. Let me give you the game plan for navigating a confusing if not impossible to understand period all right. Its going to start with tomorrow we hear from mcdonalds. A restaurant that can thrive in this environment, right . I would be disappointed. Yet results from pfizer that should have a good quarter and want more color on their Covid Vaccine and 3 m needed a better story about how their Safety Division is on fire. Their auto business turned and china is coming back, sadly, i dont think you hadany of that we have the defense in Aerospace Company that will give a glimpse of the broader industry on wednesday. I have a descent feeling about rathion but i fear we wont hear anything good about boeing im concerned about aerospace because we havent seen trave
Do we ask everyone to turn on their cameras . Were getting ready to get started. The hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both ranks member mr. Hysse and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person especially when we are in session. I made a promise that i would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort. I believe when were in session protecting everybody, those who are not comfortable or physically cannot join us in the hearings room, are more than welcome to join us through web i no noor. We ask everybody when they were not speaking, to wear a mask. I really appreciate that cooperation of for members appears remotely. House rules require that we see you, so police have your cameras turned on at all times during the course of the hearing. If they can let us you can use the chat function to send a request. And if that doesnt work, you can unmute and seek recognition. These arent ideal circumstances, but we are in the midst of a pa
In climbing and shows no signs of slowing down. And just the last few days 19 states, 19 states reported record cases, including florida which sought more than 15000 new cases in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths to the most concerning indicators of trumps failed response are already high and they are rising. It has gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public and im glad he made the shift. Mr. President is not enough. We wont be able to turn the corner and get American People back to work safely without president ial leadership. Mr. President , open everything now isnt a strategy for success. It is barely a slogan. Quit pushing the false choice between protecting our health, protecting our economy. All it does is endanger our recovery on both fronts and mr. President , please listen to your Public Health experts instead of denigrating them. Do your job, mr. President because if we cant deal with the Public Health crisis we cant deal with th