Do not use it to say other communities matter but to really focus on black people and be of solidarity. Watch afterwards on cspan to book tv. A hearing on efforts to regulate Virtual Currencies. With the securities and exchange commission. On actions taken by their agencies. Its just under two hours. The committee will come to order. This morning we will receive testimonies from sec chairman. And cft chairman chris giancarlo. On the growing world of Virtual Currencies and what is shown in their two currencies. Type of money that can be traded. We are used to purchase goods predominately online. They are selling virtual coins or tokens to initial coin offerings also known as icos to raise capital. Especially given that meteoric rise in valuation. Just for perspective on january it broke the 1,000 barrier and then peaked in december of 2017 as of this morning is trading at roughly 6,900. The market capitalization is a roughly 115 billion. This is an incredible rise and given that in 2013
Thats why youre going with speed, right . You are not putting this out to bid. We have not agreed on any pricing, but i can assure you before we were to sign off on a contract, we are going to make sure that this is the best value for taxpayers. Yes. Yep. Youve had a couple of questions around this, what kind of fights do you anticipate in congress when this, by [inaudible] and not having a competitive bid, there will be some pushback, right . Well, this wouldnt be washington if there wasnt pushback, but i dont expect, i do not expect anymajor fights on this. I think that the one thing i feel extremely proud about, about the way the congress has acted when it comes to veterans issues, is the bipartisan support when its the right thing to do for this countrys veterans. And i do expect that to, essentially, carry through on this. That does not mean that it is not appropriate to ask hard questions, to make sure that the Due Diligence is there, to make sure, as we said, this is a risky pro
No, mcconnell was just eaten. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes paul bettany, Laura Benanti and musical guest tyler the creator, featuring jon batiste and stay human. Now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause band playing stephen nice. Thats nice. Nice. cheers and applause hey, everybody welcome. Welcome to the late show. Imyouim im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause who watched the shark thing . I did. Any of you guys watch it over there . Jon i didnt see it. Stephen it was amazing. And it wasnt real. But it was amazing. But i like a little break from reality right about now. cause have you seen reality . Its scary. Theres blood in the water, and there are a lot of sharks circling the white house. Anyway, they lied to us. Jon oh, oh. Stephen speaking of lying, sean spicer. cheers and applause look how much they miss you, sean. On friday, spicer resigned as White House
Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes paul bettany, Laura Benanti and musical guest tyler the creator, featuring jon batiste and stay human. Now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause band playing stephen nice. Thats nice. Nice. cheers and applause hey, everybody welcome. Welcome to the late show. Imyouim im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause who watched the shark thing . I did. Any of you guys watch it over there . Jon i didnt see it. Stephen it was amazing. And it wasnt real. But it was amazing. But i like a little break from reality right about now. cause have you seen reality . Its scary. Theres blood in the water, and there are a lot of sharks circling the white house. Anyway, they lied to us. Jon oh, oh. Stephen speaking of lying, sean spicer. cheers and applause look how much they miss you, sean. On friday, spicer resigned as White House Press secretary. cheers and ap
It was literally a putrid soup of body parts and rain and mud and everything. It was just awful, i think. And your father also spoke about the horses he went into battle with. One of his horses was fatally wounded in shrapnel or something. And, this particular horse, i think he was probably quite fond of or something and he sat with it for a few minutes until it died. They werent allowed to put them out of their misery, they werent allowed to use any ammunition. Because the ammunition was all supposed to be kept for the enemy. So, your mother is believed to be the oldest surviving world war i widow. Shes coming up to 97. There was a 25 year age gap between my father and her. Obviously not well enough to be here today. So, it was quite nice to be here for her. Very poignant. Its amazing really. And ijust feel so grateful that my father survived. I wouldnt be here otherwise. It is wonderful really and i think hed be very proud. Good evening, youre watching bbc news, im 0lly Foster At The