Virtual podium over to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for joining me on a friday afternoon or evening depending on what time zone youre in. I want to give a special. Thank you to dr. Paul quigley and dr. Carolyn newhall for creating this event and inviting me to speak to you all. So before we kind of get into the bulk of my talk, i wanted to kind of lay the foundation and kind of set us all on the same page. A lot of what were going to talk about today is what happened in the civil war during the along the Mississippi River and usually when we think about the Mississippi River and the civil war we start with general Winfield Scotts famous anaconda plan, and im sure some of you have seen the map with the giant snake on it kind of highlighting the two Component Parts to the anaconda plan where hes going to blockade the confederacy along the Atlantic Coast and the gulf of mexico and then theyre gonna gain complete control of the Mississippi River and the Mississippi River is the
War. And of course thats what tonights talk is going to draw upon. I think thats all i need to say. So now i want to encourage you all to join me and giving a warm welcome to dr. Davis to the virtual podium over to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for joining me on a friday afternoon or evening depending on what time zone youre in. I want to give a special. Thank you to dr. Paul quigley and dr. Carolyn newhall for creating this event and inviting me to speak to you all. So before we kind of get into the bulk of my talk, i wanted to kind of lay the foundation and kind of set us all on the same page. A lot of what were going to talk about today is what happened in the civil war during the along the Mississippi River and usually when we think about the Mississippi River and the civil war we start with general Winfield Scotts famous anaconda plan, and im sure some of you have seen the map with the giant snake on it kind of highlighting the two Component Parts to the anaconda plan w
National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
Reporter good afternoon to you, melissa. Lets look at the market as theyre settling out. The dow looks like it is finishing down by 524 points. You mentioned the s p 500, that is important too, down 8 1 2 from the record high on september 2nd. 3580. You see the s p closed to 3236. You mention what dragged us down, it was selloff in tech late in the day. Well get to that in a moment. There was optimism early on in the session with respect to coronavirus vaccines, Johnson Johnson entering the latestage three trial that was a little bit positive for investors to get their heads around but again look at these dow losers here. Sales force. Chevron. Apple was one of the big ones, amex and boeing. On nasdaq, losers, fedex, amazon, netflix, align and liberty global. It was a rough day when it came to some of these stocks. It was sort of stock specific and then dragging all the indices down together. Remember this has been choppy for the last couple weeks right now as were heading in and gettin
Big mistrust of big tech the u. S. Congress questions that heads of apple Amazon Google and facebook on anti competitive behavior how the internet giants become too powerful and is that a need if the new laws to regulate them this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program on amazon apple google and facebook for companies that have changed the way we live work shop and stay in touch with our friends and family but the american tech giants have long been accused of abusing their power to drive out competition and mishandling user data the u. S. Congress has been investigating their Business Practices for years old wednesday politicians question the firms chief executives as they consider changes to antitrust laws will bring in our guests in a moment but 1st this report in washington d. C. You know as the Ranking Member of fittingly the tech giants appeared virtually to face questions the subcommittee chairman making clear he sees a problem their dominance is killing Small Businesses