Leadership as at all other interAgency Meetings on this topic of which i was aware the National Security Community Expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest at the july 26th meeting there was also a discussion of how ukrainian anticorruption efforts were making progress do you do you reiterated what we had said and our earlier certification to congress stating that sufficient progress in defense reform including anticorruption had occurred to justify the usa i spending. I and others at the interAgency Meetings felt that the matter was particularly urgent because it takes time to obligate that amount of money and my understanding was that the money was legally required to be obligated by september 30th the end of the fiscal year in the ensuing weeks until the hold was released on september 11th i pursued 3 tracks 1st starting on july 31st and an interAgency Meeting i made clear to the interagency leadership my understanding that once
Welcome, everyone, to the four this afternoon. Im alex savage and im cristina rendon. That indictment brought by the special counsel investigate the january 6th riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Lets get right to our political reporter, greg lee, whos tracking these developments greg. Christina . Alex, this marks the third criminal indictment against the former president. Todays federal charges the result of a Justice Department investor into mr. Trumps alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment, filed by special counsel jack smith in Federal District court in d. C. Smith also led the investigation into trumps handling of classified documents in this case, federal prosecutors accused trump of being determined to remain in power and peddling conspiracies and lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The unrest ultimately leading to the january 6th, 2021, attack on the capitol. As part of the investigation, prosecutors interviewed Elections Officia
Silenced or turned off. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments anytime, emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our conversation this afternoon is david burton, our senior fellow for Economic Policy and heritages institute for economic freedom. Mr. Burton before joining heritage served as general counsel at the National Small business association, also been chief Financial Officer and general counsel of the alliance for retirement prosperity, and was a partner at the argus group, a Public Policy and Government Relations firm. Please join me in welcoming david burton. David. [ applause ] well, thank you for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce to you commissioner michael piwowar. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president obama and was sworn in in august of 2013. He was designated by trump to be acting chairman of the commission and served in that capacity from january 23rd of this year to may 4th. His term expires in jun
Looks like 1856 is the level we are at now. It looks like heading to the lows of the session right now. We will see a little bit of suspense here. Lets talk about the big three stocks we are watching into the close of trading today. The first one is monster beverage. The company has been leading the s p 500 in terms of percentage gains. The companys earnings per share missed estimates but sales keep going up for monster beverage and the shares are going up as well. Sales beating estimates with a gain of more than 10 . Second starch we are walking is wereds stock watching is deckards. This Company Coming out with a negative forecast. A lot of people talking about the harsher than typical winter weather, saying that could have benefited them. Like thehead, it looks momentum will not continue necessarily. Shares, salesforce. Com, sharply down by 6 . Even though the numbers look relatively strong, there were disappointments in its Earnings Report so those shares are taking a hit as a resul
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