Human services. The Health Committee holds a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, the finance committee receives paperwork, it will vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement and former secretary and former governor of utah Michael Leavitt who we welcome today, good to see you and have you back and senator young who is a member of this committee will introduce alex azar after his testimony then senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have a lot going on in the senate today but we have a good turnout so i anticipate a good, vigorous questioning period. Alex azar, if confirmed will be did the of health and Human Services, you will be running 1. 11 trillion organization, that almost equals the total of 12 Appropriations Bills Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You will be overseeing medicare and medicaid, the nations government run Insurance Programs f
Against disgraced media giant matt lauer, the question is how is this going to impact men and women and their relationship in the workplace. And, a bit of a misleading headline, or why was it . The governor of new jersey is requiring volunteers on his Transition Team to sign a nondisclosure agreement and whats that about . A bold new plan. A new way for you to get to work. Train, buses, new tunnels, all of it on the table. This is chasing news. As more accusations are leveled against disgraced media superstar matt lauer, he came out with his own statement admitting some of the accusations are true. Ashley johnson has the whole story. What you got . A day after nbc announced the firing of matt lauer, he issued an apology and broke the silence of allegations of sexual misconduct. He is accused of multiple women of Sexual Harassment. Three women have filed complaints with nbc. His statement starts, there are no words to express my sorrow and regret for pains i have caused others. Some of
Crude is rebounding a little bit after a couple of days of a selloff. The euro is weakening against the dollar because the u. S. Dollar has been strengthening so much over the past few days. That yield curve spread is actually widening for a change. Its up a little bit. I have been watching this. The greek has come down. It has gone down about 4. 5 . David that is remarkable. It is jobs day. We are going to get those u. S. Jobs numbers for november. Spacex will be launching a falcon 9 rocket to deliver cargo to the International Space station. When bitcoin day it comes to wall street. Futures contracts on the cryptocurrencies, the banks are figuring out how theyre going to respond to all of this. Its time to our first take. We discussed the top three stories of the morning. Up first is the deal on brexit. Theresa may got the goahead it. The second story, the rise in the u. S. Stock market pointing to more gains through the end of the year. , u. S. G news coming out jobs numbers for nov
Offer its analysis abouts whats ahead. Then well have conversation with best selling author j. D. Vance, his book hillbilly elegy gave america a candid look at our part of the country that turned the election for President Trump still hopes he delivers its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation. John is off today, im Major Garrett. 2018 is already arrived spin parts of the world, here in the u. S. Americans are getting ready to ring in the new year despite extremely cold temperatures in some parts of our country. Security has been increased as you might expect at new years celebrations across the country. But with temperatures expected to be in Single Digits or very low double digits in places like times square, record cold could be more likely than record crowds. Weve got lot to get to today but we want to take note of the situation in iran. Antigovernment protests continue for the third day. These are the largest demonstrations in the country in almost
Ahead. Then well have conversation with best selling author j. D. Vance, his book hillbilly elegy gave america a candid look at our part of the country that turned the election for President Trump still hopes he delivers its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning, welcome to face the nation. John is off today, im Major Garrett. 2018 is already arrived spin parts of the world, here in the u. S. Americans are getting ready to ring in the new year despite extremely cold temperatures in some parts of our country. Security has been increased as you might expect at new years celebrations across the country. But with temperatures expected to be in Single Digits or very low double digits in places like times square, record cold could be more likely than record crowds. Weve got lot to get to today but we want to take note of the situation in iran. Antigovernment protests continue for the third day. These are the largest demonstrations in the country in almost ten years. Two protesters were