Connecticut, new york and vermont. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal father, the source of light and life, we praise your holy name. Because of you we live, and move, and have our being. Remind us that we are not adequate for our daily tasks without your strength and abiding presence. Lord, empower our senators this day to think clearly, speak wisely, and live faithfully. May they strive to do their best and then leave the results to you. Eternal god, we are trusting you to fulfill your purposes for our nation and world. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. M
Witch hunts in washington. All that and more on the jampacked making money. Charles markets edging higher in part to great economic data. Im sure you havent heard it today. Overall stocks moving in a pedestrian pace. Investors waiting for the next catalyst. We almost in fact pot got the catalyst from President Trump. He was on fox friends talking about the china trade deal. He said potentially were very close. Take a lessen. We have a deal potentially very close. He wants to make it much more more than i want to make it. Im not anxious to make it. Were taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. We never took in 10 cents. Were not paying i told president xi, this cant be like an even deal. Were starting at the floor and youre already at the ceiling. Charles joining us four vision funds district tore, heather zumarriaga and. Jim ben. The vision group. Investors are saying wake me up when something happens for real. To a degree there is built in to the latest leg of the rally.
But trump remains defiant insisting he wanted nothing from ukraine and that the inquiry should and. Also students is still under siege at a Hong Kong University as the u. S. Congress approves a bill demanding china respect human rights and a new symbol emerges to represent the diverse groups of people behind the protests in chile. So more dramatic testimony has been delivered on the 4th day of the public. Pietschmann inquiry into u. S. President dont trump and just the past few hours weve heard from the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense laura cooper also david hale the under secretary secretary for Political Affairs but when asked what they knew about u. S. Military aid being withheld from ukraine now in her testimony cooper mentioned that ukrainian officials are asked about the stalled a as early as july 25th contradicting President Trumps defense that they had no idea anything was on hold my staff showed me 2 unclassified emails that they received from the state Department One wa
Look at the lights and you see a little moisture around here. San francisco 52 some 30s in the north bay, santa rosa 44 oakland, wind is calm Miles Per Hour at sfo but look at the direction of the wind, a little bit of an onshore flow this morning and that is bringing in moisture and unfortunately causing some visibility issues in petaluma. Down to zero so be careful there. Foggy into marin county. The onshore flow will stick with us today and that means relative humidity levels are pumped up and that is great because we have High Pressure in control and that High Pressure is going to keep us dry and not letting any rain in over the next week and a half. Today will be warm with lots of sunshine again today and low 70s at the coast so very mild. Low 80s as we head inland. After another sunny day lets head over to sell to see how the traffic is. So far it doesnt look too bad if yowestb highway 580. Pardon me a little tickle in my throat. 80 from fairfield all the way up to vallejo looks
Allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Before i ask for the roll call, the fans are on for a couple reasons. The building engineer is in route but not here yet. Please be prepared to speak louder cheese are all recorded both audio and video. Please speak louder today. The next genral item now before roll call is item 13 is pulled. It shall not be discussed today. We will notify people in advance before that comes back on the calendar. Now we will start before Public Session we will have the roll call. roll call . We have a quorum. The rules for general Public Participation will be in effect. If you want to speak, please submit your name but limit to two minutes when we get to times to speak on items in general or a particular item when called. We will go to closed session. Do we have a motion from the board . Motion. Second. All in favor say aye. Motion passes.