Nuclear arms race and president ial power. As many of you know, doctor perry served in the Clinton Administration and a worldrenowned expert on foreign policy, national security, defense policy, arms control and a long distinguished history here at stanford. And he is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution oslo and the codirector of the center for International Security and cooperation from 1988 it is impressive to me because i didnt get to stanford to be an undergraduate or graduate student and now the Professor Emeritus at stanford facilities great to reconnect with you, mr. Secretary. We also are thrilled to have doctor perrys coauthor, tom collina, the director of policies. He has 30 years of washington, d. C. And nonproliferation issues hes been directly involved in the efforts to tom head of the e degree of International Relations from cornell he emphasizes 15 distinguished lecture at and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Before coming to stanford, the deputy secretar
Rally yesterday dow futures are now down. Nasdaq futures lower by 64. Nasdaq up 190. Now this, former Vice President joe biden and the ukraine scandal back in the spotlight, an investigation Just Launched overseas after phone conversations between biden and then ukraine president are released. Meanwhile u. S. Senate taking a major senate in probe of Hunter Bidens role of Barisma Holdings and tesla tapping the brakes in battle with california, dropping the lawsuit after plant is allowed to open. Mornings with maria begins right now. And Global Markets this morning red cross the board, take a look at european indices as u. S. China tensions rise, the cac quarante is down 48 and dax index in germany lower by 174, there are sign that is the european economy is slowly coming back. The euro zone purchasing manager index coming above expectations this morning. In asia overnight, markets mostly lower. Take at the numbers in asia, worst performer half percent lower shanghai composite in china.
Conversation. The phone lines are open. The death toll is now at 143,000 around the world. Total confirmed cases, 2. 1 one million. Over 675,000 cases in the death toll is over 34,000. We want to introduce you to dr. Peter li from the university of houston. He is an expert on east asian politics and wet markets, which is one of the reasons we invited you one. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate the photos you sent us. You have been to the socalled wet markets, believed to be the source. What are they . They are a small section likee regular marketplace, the Seafood Market. It is a 5 of the business space. Live where you can find chickens on live ducks and they slaughter them for you. It is where you get warm meat. Traditionally, these are everywhere but in the last 40 years, they have been going down. Arisen,w wet market has which is water wet market. In china in the 1980s i never saw these. It is new. , the Seafood Market has a huge marketplace where you can but one corner is call
Reporter in San Francisco neighborhood, dozens traded unwanted guns for cash. 100 for handguns, 200 for assault weapons. Theres no questions asked. You dont have to say where you got the weapon or if you have any more left. We just want to get the guns we can off the street. Reporter partnered with the sfpd on the buyback. 317 turned in including 93 rifles, 75 revolvers and even a few antique pistols. Im surprised but only says they wish to be wishing to save lives as opposed to being promotors of taking liveles. Reporter gilroy hosted it, the first in 25 years. People were running from the festival right by our front yard. Reporter last summer, shooting at the garlic festival prompted his soninlaw to turn in 15 guns. He and his wife wanted to make sure these got off the streets. Everybodys been strongly influenced by what happened at the gilroy garlic festival. Reporter we just learned gilroys buyback collected almost 500 guns today. Live in San Francisco, Cornell Barnard, abc7 news.
The publicans are hoping to hear from more witnesses. What you will see from the senate is something that is designed complete that we are not going to leave beat and pieces we are going to be if it takes a while it takes a while. Silver lining in of the ordeal impeachment prox processes ive gone through the roof. Fundraising for the republican party. It has gone through the roof. Moral responsibility to the president is accountable. It sends a message to the president it you need to be working and not interfering. And money using money for political and personal gain is not okay. Aside from impeachment the white house another controversial issue about next year thats gonna be over the president s tax return. Supreme Court Announced on friday that it is deciding whether it has to release those returns and is expected to come, next summer. At the white house, fight fox news. New jersey congressman was a democrat switch parties as soon as next week. Representative jeff andrew is been out