Members of the board of governors and the presence of the 12 reserve banks meet eight times a year, most recently a couple weeks ago to decide the stance of Monetary Policy. It is a negative assent, a magnificent, rather imposing room, with 26 foot ceilings, a monumental marble fireplace, and a 1000 pound brass and glass chandelier. It has seen a lot of history since frank was about dedicated this building Franklin Roosevelt dedicated this building. Through the decades, our Federal Reserve predecessors grappled with financial turmoil and the economys up and downs. When my colleagues and i take our places around this table, the history lends a certain formality, perhaps even stuffiness, to the proceedings. As we kick off this, the 12th of we hopeisten events, todays meeting is anything but stuffy. Candid and serious, yes, but not stuffy. The board and Federal Reserve banks have been Holding Meetings as part of our comprehensive Monetary Policy tools and munication is. Almost and communi
To secretary. It is in calligraphy. Secretary pompeo in the white house. It may have come from the white house, it may have not. We dont know. Series of folders which all come from. Folder after holder. I dont have time to fully scrutinize everything in here. A packet ofally propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories. Those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. Apparently, the material came in may of this year. It coincided with the moment in which the ambassador was recalled. It was clearly targeting her and other people. The Inspector General turned it fbi and has not done anything else internally with the state, as far as we understand. When the whistleblower report came out, he thought he needed to turn it over to congress. We are now in possession of this packet of began to and disinformation that was circulated in may. I mentioned a number of people planning to see, most notably ambassador jovanovich. Secretary state pompeo is trying to b
Everybody please join me in welcoming p. E. Moskowitz and george ciccariellomaher. [applause] thank you for being here. Im glad to be with you all, to help represent the case against free speech the First Amendment, fascism, and the future of dissent. My pleasure of being here has several aspects. The first is p. E. Moskowitzs wonderful friend, comrade, but also because they are the one of the most acute observers of our contemporary condition. Writing a book that cuts to the heart of things many of us have been grappling with for the past two years. This book is the book that people need to read to think through what has happened since 2016 and what is happening in 201718 thinking about emergence, proliferation of the powerful movements rallying around theresidency of donald trump and reading in 2019, 2020, and thinking about how to fight back, push back on this emergence of fascism and how to break it ultimately. This book is a tool for thinking about the past. It is a historical ana
Mark sanford discusses his 2020 primary challenge to President Trump. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host the congressional point person on the impeachment of president is california representative adam schiff, the chair of the house Intelligence Committee, which is leading the inquiry. House Republican Leadership has stepped up criticism of congressman schiff, some calling for his resignation. It is washington journal for thursday, october 3, 2019. We are going to ask how confident are you in congressman schiffs ability to lead the impeachment inquiry . Epublicans, 2027488001 democrats, 2027488000. Independents and all others, 2027488002. You can text us your thoughts. That is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from and on twitter, we are cspanwj. You can post your thoughts at facebook. Com cspan. Congressman adam schiff has been in congress for 10 terms. He is a california congressman
Because of the popularity of these programs the reality is they are dramatically oversubscribed. New era is four times oversubscribed which i believe shows how important this program is to electric cooperatives across the country and how important it is to see this long overdue investment. Its great to see this and highlight the excitement of the rural coops across the country. Mr. Secretary for new era, can you share an update on how we might see application start to move forward in the process . We are in the process of completing the evaluation of approximately 70 projects of the number that was submitted. As you indicated it was a very Popular Program and oversubscribed. In an effort to determine which of these programs are feasible from a technical standpoint and from a financial standpoint. Once those evaluations are done, those projects will be ranked. And then well basically compare those rankings to the resources available. And begin a more detailed conversation to assert whet