Giving a lot of insight well be bringing you results apple, amazon, alphabet and facebook all report their earnings coincidence those four Companies Make up about 16 of the s p 500. Worth about 5 trillion combined and come a day after the heated antitrust hearing. Wolf, this is a good read in for you. For sure. There was meant to be three of those. Facebook got moved from yesterday to today after that hearing. After the close, we are waiting for two economic reports it is thursday, that means weekly jobless claims. Another 1. 4 million filed for the first time last week the first read on Second Quarter gdp. The economy likely contracted by 34. 7 . Both jobless and gdp due at 8 30 eastern time you look at those numbers down 34. 7 from the estimate we know it, weve been hearing from companies and what has been happening. Thats a lot of news to digest ahead of all of these reports. You are watching futures under a little pressure. Lets look at where things stand now. Dow down 206 points,
[inaudible conversations] clicks thank you very much. The subcommittee will reconvene in. In the sixth district for five minutes. Clicks im going to write down the questions. Doing a great job leading to do a lot of stuff. I will save the flowering go to questions. I want to start with broadbent equity excess the program. And michigan almost 500,000 households are underserved are unserved or underserved by highspeed internet infrastructure another seven or 33 households face excess broadband. Approximately 30 of households do not have affordable reliable highspeed Internet Connections that meets their needs. And every family across our state to get access to highspeed internet. As of november 23, alls states and territories have released their action plan and initial proposal. Can you update the committee as to how ntia plans to continue to work with each state and territory in the process . Whats up silly. First of all would only succeed in connecting up every state is a territory. An
Before being the president s special envoy many of you know he took on the small challenge of trying to help lead the middle east Peace Process for two years working back and forth between the israelis and palestinians in helping with what was a pure like efforts to move forward towards the two state solution in hes been the commander of centcom and is somebody that applies a great deal of thought and reflection to help America Needs to handle its most ethical challenges. And most importantly and i have seen in in this capacity wearing the uniform and out of the uniform, he understands the challenges we face are never strictly military, they are always political and always complex. We could have no better person to bring to this task to try to figure out what are all the pieces of the puzzle countering the threat posed to the country that it is correctly decimating in the racing borders to the region in how we can get a solution that isnt going to rely just on a military force by us an
One of the first things thats evident in any coalition that while states have come together usually sharing a desire to achieve a common purpose, achieving common values and common interest. Seldom will those states in that process subordinate their personal or their National Interest. So National Interests will continue to be important to the individual members of the state. Of the coalition. We have achieved i think, in a relatively short time a remarkable consensus within the coalition. Ultimately for the defeat of daesh. That really that really was a very impressive effort i think on the part last year of the president s leadership but having watched secretary kerry very closely in this and the real emergency of august and september, bringing this coalition together, so they have come to achieve an outcome with regard to daesh. But in the course of that they also continued to recognize the National Interest of their own. For many of the members of the coalition, iran is one of the
The second session will begin and we will introduce the second panel. As alpas chief executive and administrati officer, the captain presides over the body and oversees daily operations. The chair recognizes the captain to testify. Good morning, mr. Chairman and congressman payne. I am president of the Airline Pilots association international, and we represent more than 52,000 pilots that fly for 31 passenger and all cargo flights in the United States and canada. Thank you for inviting me here today. For several decades pilots have had a strong relationship with the federal air Marshal Service. We meet on a regular basis to make sure we have a current and most accurate understanding of the rules and responsibilities and training and methods. We focus on how they act. Alpha members have been deeply impressed by the professionalism of the air marshals and the leaders, including the assistant administrator alison. Every day they put their lives at risk to safeguard the crew and passengers