3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going
National intelligence John Ratcliffe as we are learning the country is doing human testing to genetically enhance military. Focus on stimulus this morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says it will be done by christmas, we will hear from former nyc barrasso and Mick Mulvaney. Marks are lower. We will start the week in the red, dow industrials down 145 points, nasdaq lower by 15 and s p 500 weaker by 16 and 3 quarters. All three major indices up out of the last 5 weeks, last week we are up 1 on the dow and 2 on the nasdaq. Mornings with maria right now. Maria european markets look like this, dax index in germany lower by 63. In asia overnight, markets finish mostly shower. We had Economic Data, that is the fastest pace of exports since february 2018. The growth also helping to generate a 75. 4 surplus. The data, of course, coming from the Chinese Communist party and this has been the big fight between china and the u. S. , the fact that we are buying more products than china is buying from the
Back to an eight day holiday. They are putting much playing catchup. We have gains across the board. Shanghai is up 1. 6. These services pmi rising for a fifth month. The you on getting 6. 73 versus the dollar. This was stronger than expected. This is a weak dollar story. Some yen strength there. The bank of canada governors has negative Interest Rates remain an option. Courts seems like a lot of the action is in the shanghai markets here today given that robust reopening after the eight day holiday. We will speak exclusively to the Everest Medicine ceo. This is 27 right now in its debut in hong kong. The Trump Administration signaling that the administration is again leaning toward a largescale stimulus bill. That comes after nancy pelosi pushed back on the idea of peace for a. She is excepting refusing to accept help for airline without wider bill agreed. We want to help the airline workers. There is legislation that we had ed the cares act that we hope we could continue for the next
Despite election polls moving against the president , despite the media aggressively questioning his treatment and his doctor statements and his hospitalization, all of that despite it all and by the way they really hated this, the president ial driveby, thinking his supporters, cnn said he exposed his secret service driver, the president had a good night, hes been treated with remdesivir in a steroid and his doctors will update his position in two hours, you will see it, that could move the market, i have a sign of the virus time story for you, the regal chain of theaters will shut down indefinitely, 540 in america, 120 in britain, they cannot handle the delays in the release of big budget movies, james bond never say die and they cant handle the publics lack of enthusiasm for watching movers out of the home, the virus rippling through with all kinds of indications, throughout the show we are checking the president s medical condition, his possible return to the white house and the ma
Willis, white house positions saying the president can work on erected without disruption, he is continuing to do that, the president of first lady seen mild symptoms from the coronavirus, today a flurry of phone calls from the residence of the white house behind me too a number of folks because the president is continuing his or workload, this morning the president spoke with Mitch Mcconnell and also chief of staff mark matos focused on the job. I think the good thing about this president , not only is he staying committed to working very hard on behalf of the American People, his first question to me this morning is how the economy is doing, how are the stimulus talks going on capitol hill. A lot of communication back and forth with the next stimulus talks, the next Coronavirus Relief package between treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker nancy pelosi speaking for 60 minutes, management testing negative along with other cabinet members. A source tells me because of my ne