Perhaps if my colleagues had taken a more active approach to resolving their concerns, we would have avoided this situation in which additional capabilities were needed to respond to the elevated threat this emergency situation that has been posted by iran. Mr. Speaker, there has long been a consensus in this body that irans malign activities in the middle east are a threat to the United States national security. And to our partners. In the past three years alone, we have passed legislation responding to irans support for terrorism, growing Ballistic Missile arsenal, and human rights abuses. The Iranian Regime has not backed down from these malign activities and it is my sincere hope that this body will not back down from its resolve to counter irans destabilizing agenda. Unfortunately this resolution and the other joint resolutions of disapproval for the 22 sales are very much a step in the wrong direction. And with that, mr. Speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro
Restarting next week thathelped things in asia. In europe, its a bit of a mixed picture. The dax up by 0. 1 you do see red arrows for both the cac and the ftse the ftse, well talk more about Boris Johnson who will become the Prime Minister there today ftse now down about 0. 8 stocks are flat in italy and in spain. If you check out the treasury yields here in the United States, you will see this morning the tenyear is yielding 2. 057 the big story of the morning, shares of Big Tech Companies like google, amazon and facebook, theyre under pressure after the u. S. Justice Department Said theyre opening a broad antitrust review of Technology Firms the review was scrutinikru desie if these companies are stifling information and harming consumers. The Justice Department does not name specific companies, but it is likely to encompass google, foos facebook this is the real first shot across the bow by william barr and the doj. You know you have the democrats, you have the republicans also afte
Wrote, you wrote as defined in legal dictionary, collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as thats set forth in statute 18 usc 371. You said at your may 29th press conference and here today, you choose your words carefully. Are you sitting here today testifying Something Different than what your report states . What im asking is, if you can give me the citation, i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is. Let me clarify. You stated youd stay within the report. I stated your report back to you and you said collusion and conspiracy were not synonymous terms. That was your answer, no. In that, page 180 of volume one of your report it says as defined in legal dictionaries, collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as the crime is set forth in general conspiracy statute. You said you chose your words carefully. Are you contradicting your report right now . Not when i read it. So you would change your answer to yes then . No. If you look at the language im reading you
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Us this morning i hope you are having a good morning. Im Maria Bartiromo friday, august 18, 8 00 a. M. On the east coast hot topic of the hour President Biden is hosting januarys Prime Minister south korea president today for first leader summit at camp david all about china importants aggression expected to dominate the conversation a fox poll finds 55 americans disproovr of bidens Job Performance on Foreign Policy, 41 say they prove that poll find Foreign Policy ranks last in a list of issues on voters minds of their priorities, with 2 saying it is most important one facing the country right now joining me for hot topics Frances Newton stacy, and daniel garza, it is interesting to me that Foreign Policy ranks so low in terms of importance on polls your reaction. It should not that is disappointing, especially when you consider, that china embedded cog in Global Economy i understand they take up 20 of the worlds economy, russia, 2 in comparison, they dont play by the rules. They are a