Isterms of how the president able to use his authority and military force. Crippling. Said it is is it crippling on the ayatollah himself . I do not think of him is getting his American Express card out. Is this more symbolic . Evin a little bit of both this is where gets interesting. The u. S. Has already sanctioned virtually every sector of iran. There are not that many additional sectors or even individuals for the administration to target. On one hand, this is very much symbolic. Alsoe other hand, it is maybe even a sanction of last resort. David Michael Mckee is here with us. We have seen sanctions of all sort from this administration and other administrations. What is different about this one . It does strike me as different. Michael only that is the head of government. We have sanctioned about a thousand different entities in iran since this began, including individuals, companies, even ships and aircraft. They have stopped the flow of oil from iran. As kevin says, theres not mu
This first portion is just under three hours. The Senate Committee on health education, labor, and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. Very important votes will be taking place. Democrats will be meeting in their caucuses, so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of bristolmyers, chris verner, we thank you for being here. The ceo of merck, and the ceo of johnson and johnson for being with us this morning. Thank you very much. There is a lot of discussion in our nation about how divided our people are on many issues and that is absolutely true, but on one of the most important issues facing our country, the American People, whether they are democrats, republicans, independents, conservatives, progressives, could not be more united, and that is the need to substantially lower the outrageous prices of
District council, the tech policy summit with live coverage. That event is already an progress and just got avoid tn social media where we did nothing for 25 years. The good news is Speaker Mccarthy to together a task force to do this. The good news is that speaker johnson and checking jeffreys ours putting together the Informal Working Group soon. Theyre trying to get some major ai bells done this year. Among them are the create the ai acts. Even some people like ibm do not have enough resources to compete with the huge databases of openai, of google, microsoft. We need databases that are available to businesses, researchers. This creates a large database, probably not as large as if you scrub up 6 trillion words, maybe 40 of them are not true. There will be all kinds of stuff about nazis and qanon theories. The idea and a Community Dataset is you let scientists of a curated data set is you let scientists build them for us. Another basic part of ai safety is the notion of not allowing
This hearing will come to order. Apologies for beginning a little bit late. We have another vote at about 5 30. I want to thank the four individuals or Witnesses Today for being with us. And i would like to thank as well my friend, senator johnson, for his cooperation and support in moving forward with this hearing. A lot going on of historic magnitude before the United States senate. But the issue before us today is truly of the store consequence in president ial and practical import. The issue is in fact whether four companies sitting here today, represented by very able leadership except their obligation to respond to congressional subpoenas. The apparent refusal to do so in full is not only unprecedented, but it threatens opening a door to other u. S. Companies cloaking themselves from scrutiny whenever they work for a foreign government, or even a foreign state owned enterprise. This potential shield invoked by these four consultants risks blocking not only the subcommittee, but a
Back down immediately after the jobs number was stronger than anticipated. Tenyear closed at 4. 79 . Crude oil is picking up. Joe mentioned the spike, but below the levels from recent weeks. Gain of 3. 5 to 85. 69 for wti. Brent is 87 a barrel. The dollar has strengstrengthen. Euro the euro dollar is down a bit. Lelts get to the latest on the breaking news. Israeli declares war after the hamas strikes over the weekend. We have Kelly Cobiella with more from the ground in tel aviv. Reporter good morning. A rapidly changing situation and we are getting information by the minute. You hear the air sirens in tel aviv. We have heard three rokckets fallen on three sites in the south and in the grader tel aviv area as well. We have not been able to confirm that. There are casualties involved in the strikes in the south. Israeli Defense Forces say they hit hundreds of hamas targets overnight in gaza. A difficult situation for civilians. Gaza Health Officials are saying they are struggling to rea