Good morning, welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc this morning. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and kelly evans. Becky is off today lets show you where futures stand at this hour maybe 12, 15 hours after President Trump returning to the white house. The dow looks like it would open down marginally about 63 points off, nasdaq off about 83 s p 500 off about 15 points. Lets also show you treasury yields as we speak, well show you the ten year yield right now, you are looking at 0. 763. Meanwhile ill pass it over to kelly. Thanks for joining us this morning. And youve got the news on President Trump. And before we get to that, joe, we were just joking about, you know, you and me we could banter and we were in studio and andrew wasnt and now, you know, were all no, you are in studio still im still here. Ive been here since april and i like it here there is no delay. Is that are you wearing orange or that red i think that were in sync sort of yeah, it was an orangey red
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting has now come back to order. With us in i understand that admiral will have a hard stop at 11 ha 45678 thats 25 minutes from now. We will go into a second round of questioning but we will recognize that you will have to leave and we appreciate that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Im going to begin the second round. Referring to while, yield myself five minutes. Okay. Thank you. Now, President Trump just tweet out a statement that im going to quote. In reverence to my chart about the comparing the cases. He says that the United States has far more cases than europe and because we do much more testing than any other country in the world. If we had no test organize bad test it would show very few cases. And dr. Fauci, do you agree with president s statement or too you stand by your previous answer that the difference is caused by multiple factors including the fact that some states did not do a good job of reopening . I stand by my
Quorum call the presiding officer the senator for mississippi. Without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. A senator i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second. There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any other senators wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 556789 the nays are 42. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator follow alaska. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , i
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting has now come back to order. With us in i understand that admiral will have a hard stop at 11 ha 45678 thats 25 minutes from now. We will go into a second round of questioning but we will recognize that you will have to leave and we appreciate that. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Im going to begin the second round. Referring to while, yield myself five minutes. Okay. Thank you. Now, President Trump just tweet out a statement that im going to quote. In reverence to my chart about the comparing the cases. He says that the United States has far more cases than europe and because we do much more testing than any other country in the world. If we had no test organize bad test it would show very few cases. And dr. Fauci, do you agree with president s statement or too you stand by your previous answer that the difference is caused by multiple factors including the fact that some states did not do a good job of
There has already been one Tornado Warning north northeast of Corpus Christi. There could be others arise and its always to be anticipated and expected in the course of a hurricane coming on shore. In this regard, and also with flooding, it is so important that everybody in the region affected by the hurricane stay tuned to local News Agencies and local alerts so you can be aware of a potential tornado in your region, potential rising waters in your region, so you can take the action recommended to make sure you can be as safe as possible. Already, in response to this issued a, i have governors disaster declaration for 32 counties in texas. This provides the governor the ability to waive administrative rules that may hinder the response of the recovery. This declaration provides texas the ability also to ask the federal government for assistance in response to hurricane hanna. Im also issuing a federal emergency disaster declaration request. This request is for public assistance, direc