He is the founder of the Dupont Center and his specialty is Global Security, everything from governance culture to state actors and nonstate actors and im going to try to explore as much of that todayas we can. I want to find out each day the Dupont Center publishes. [inaudible] it is a wonderful deep dive into a timely issue that goes to the heart of what we should be thinking about even if its not in the headlines. Anything from White Supremacy to whats happening with al qaeda and isis and regional powers and i encourage you to read it every day. I also encourage you to read the morning brief which they Stephan Group sponsored at the National Security produces in the 14th year and bring you the news every day about what you should be thinking about about National Security in a variety of dimensions. Ali, thank you for joining me today. Welcome. Please dont stay mute, this is your conversation. I want to start by talking about the book and then were going to turn to other things. And
Communist party. He was 34 years old when he passed away of coronavirus. He had a wife and young child and another young child on the way. His whole life was ahead of him. Widowed, hisife is child has no father, and his second child will never know his father. He knew, when you become a doctor, you pledge to care for the sick and the dying, whatever the hardships, whatever the risks to yourself. When patients with a severe pneumonia again appearing at his hospital last year, he sounded the alarms to fellow doctors. The Chinese Communist party responded with lightning speed, not to contain this epidemic, but to intimidate dr. Lee and attacked his reputation. Local communist goons paid him a visit a few days later, forcing him to apologize for socalled illegal behavior. China state media piled on, get lee and denouncing other whistleblowers as fear mongers. That has been the pattern of the Chinese Communist partys response to the coronavirus from the very beginning. Usershinese internet
When he was chair. Told them hem and that fisa was not used of thely, that the power government overstretched their the other ven when elements of government says, no, even when others told us everything was fine with fisa, it was not until the Inspector General got his report and the truth was known. And i want to thank congressman nunes for being the truth and telling it to the American Public and staying with it when others wanted to lie. Thats why we are here today. Thats why this will never continue or happen again. You know, madam speaker, at the heart of our constitution is a simple idea, the idea of checks and balances. These principles protect americans freedoms by providing safeguards by governments overreach of power. Unfortunately in 2016, those checks and balances were not in place to stop individuals at the highest level of the f. B. I. And Justice Department from spying on carter page, an american citizen, who could have been one of us, but used the secrettive fisa court
We are down across the board these would be losses for the week that will end four weeks of gain weve seen up to this point. Does this count as the first week of 2020, even though it is only two days . We could look at the fiveday thing and if it is up, we could say that is the first week this is up as we see crude oil prices jumping we see that wti is up 4. 1 the gain to 63. 72 a barrel ice brent up by 4. 3 Natural Gas Prices up. Crude is the real focus as tensions are on the rise in the middle east. The market is up 30 from last year that is a place for people to look this year as for gains. We are moving crude from 60. We are not moving from 62 but based on the tensions rising you think about the heighten tensions and what this will mean for the potential repercussions in the middle east the idea of additional strikes of any ships going through the straits of hormuz, people will be watching that closely theyve been blessing with the Oil Production for months. We always look forward
Thats across Bloomberg Television and radio. Manus nejra, very good morning to you. Its daybreak europe. There is only one topic. What is going to be discussed in davos in regards to Climate Change . Theres a wonderful piece. Central banks, does this week set the table for Central Bank Policy . What will the shift in gears from the ecb really tell us about the outlook for inflation in europe . Nejra yeah, theres a fantastic piece on the uber talking about peak decade. This is something that will be talking about peak globalization, peak cars, lots of different topics where we can get some direction, not just for 2020, but the whole decade ahead. Looking forward to those conversations. Us go inside the markets. To the dollar, first of all, and this is the important part. Ch bears are back in arge. Theyre pushing short positions back to the highest levels since may, 2018. Is it the end of u. S. Exceptionalism . Do you fight back against yield differential . We have a major story were tra