Fight the wildfires. In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations, so very quickly, because we want to get this thing taken care of including Fire Management assistance grants to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighterrers and First Responders are combating the fires in california, oregon and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire, and thats the largest fire in california. Thats the biggest. Yep. And we want to thank all of the brave fighters. We want to thank these incredible people, the First Responders, Service Members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, to their lives and extreme danger. Lou and the president is now on his way to phoenix for a Campaign Round table with latino voters there. It will be his seventh state that the president has visited in as many days. And where is joe biden . Well, well find out later in the broadcast. And
Welcome, everyone across myriad platforms and around the world and live on cspan2 to Atlantic Council front page 4 the hash tag for the twitterratti among you. Its our honor to host the 70th secretary of state mike pompeo, former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. Israel and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. And theyll sign with the u. N. And ba bahrainy foreign ministe. We have a lot to discuss in the half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Allian
Day. There have been two Peace Agreements with israel in the last 72 years. This is now the second Peace Agreement that weve announced in the last month, and i am very hopeful that there will be more to follow. I can tell you theres tremendous enthusiasm on behalf of other countries to also join. Theres more countries as more countries normalize relations with israel, which will happen quite quickly, we believe, the region will become more and more stable, secure and prosperous. In the meantime, were pulling most of our soldiers occupant. So were doing it the opposite way. They were doing it with nothing but fight and blood all over the place. The sand was loaded up be blood, and now youre going to see a lot of that sand is going to be loaded up with peace. Lou the president s announcement coincides with the arrival of secretary of state mike pompeo in qatar. The secretary of state set to participate in peace negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government. Those talks will
Yes, that is a correction. The dow down only 5 or 6 . That is not a correction. Jonathan correction emits massive rally correction amidst a massive rally. Tom i will get you something from tiffany. Jonathan i look forward to that. Data coming later. Lisa i am very curious to see with the jobs picture will be. To toms point, this is not a fullblown recovery where people are looking at a risk on feel in the markets. We will get the july job openings data, which is the leading indicator for jobs growth. Selling 35, billion of 10year notes. Also today, congress is taking a look at the u. S. China economic and security review commission. Very interesting to hear what the bipartisan proposals could be about legislation to potentially penalize china for transgressions. I really want to emphasize the bipartisan aspect of this. Youve got President Trump coming out against tiktok and wechat, and former Vice President joe biden coming out today with a proposal to levy taxes on u. S. Companies tha
Day. There have been two Peace Agreements with israel in the last 72 years. This is now the second Peace Agreement that weve announced in the last month, and i am very hopeful that there will be more to follow. I can tell you theres tremendous enthusiasm on behalf of other countries to also join. Theres more countries as more countries normalize relations with israel, which will happen quite quickly, we believe, the region will become more and more stable, secure and prosperous. In the meantime, were pulling most of our soldiers occupant. So were doing it the opposite way. They were doing it with nothing but fight and blood all over the place. The sand was loaded up be blood, and now youre going to see a lot of that sand is going to be loaded up with peace. Lou the president s announcement coincides with the arrival of secretary of state mike pompeo in qatar. The secretary of state set to participate in peace negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government. Those talks will