Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 65, the nays are 28. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to legislative session. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 655. The presiding officer question is on the motion. All those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of defense, victor g. Mercado of california to be an assistant secretary. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion.
We are going to open up regional lines for this conversation this morning. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. In mind, you can always text us your opinion at 202 always3, and we are reading on social media. You can reach us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Again, the idea and concerns about government surveillance has been on peoples minds recently. Infact, there was a story nbc today that i wanted to read to you that talks about some of the concerns about government surveillance. The unsupported claims that President Donald Trump has made for two years about the fbis russia investigation, calling it a witch hunt cooked up by his political opponents, the conclusion by the Justice Department watchdog of the that the probe was justified was big news. But the other major findings of the Inspector Generals rep
And their currency is under siege. Our problem is a Federal Reserve too proud to admit their mistake of acting too fast and tightening too much and that i was right. They must cut rates bigger and faster and stop the ridiculous quantitative tightening now. Which gets us to the markets this morning, jim. We have been talking about negative rates, they only continued to worsen. It is a strange phenomenon to be sure but it is also a worrisome cycle people believe because you have negative rates that auger for weaker Economic Growth or a lack of growth you have what are it becomes selfreinforcing you have the global coordinated monetary easing going on right now. And you have the first time people talk you about the possibility of rates here falling dramatically from where they are now have you ever seen a ten year whipsawed as much in yield in the half hour period as we did this morning almost as if someone wants to get ahead of even lower yields there is a big short position in bonds. Th
it was president biden that spoke out about the issue from the white house yesterday. here s what the president had to say. [video clip] i am concerned, because i have been speaking about this for the last couple of months. i think it is very troubling, and while there may be no connection on the motivation of the killer, we will get an answer from that as the investigation proceeds from the f pi and from the just from the fbi and the justice department. so, i will have more to say when the investigation is complete. [end video clip] host: down to capitol hill, this is judy chu the chair of the congressional asian-american pacific caucus said that it was clear that asian-american women were targeted during the attacks. [video clip] six of the eight victims were asian-american women. it appears that the shooter, aged 21, a white male went to a spa called young s asian massage. the fact that he went to that one with that title gives you a clue as to what he was thinking.
Released by the whichevered today. Police held the News Conference an hour ago. Some of the new information that theyve revealed, more about the victims. One of them dr. Amanda cruise a woman with martinez had a relationship and a daughter together. The 6 month old daughter was one of the victims. As was martinez mother and the two other victims doctor cruises sixyearold daughter and a fiveyearold girl who was a distant relative who was at the home for a play date on saturday. Police revealing for the first time information about mr. Martinez revealing that he has been a murder suspect before. Dr. Cruise twoyearold son christopher riply died in october under suspicion circumstances while under martinez care. The pat olgy report just calm back on thursday. The cause of death in head injury. The manner of death die dew to homicide. Police point out that they had not shared this information with mr. Martinez yet. Heres what they had to say earlier today. We did not drop the ball on this.