About the blockbuster revelations about hunter biden, biden got a pass, the network fix was in, beat up trump, give biden a pass. We do have news on the stimulus. A little give on the part of the white house, Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin have agreed on the democrats Virus Testing strategy. It is not much, a strong report on retail sales just came out, a halfhour ago, big loss for the stocks yesterday but a rebound today in part on the back of the retail sales report. The dow is up triple digits 130 points, the nasdaq, 93 94 points higher. Censorship are very much in the news, social media may be in trouble after blocking coverage of the bombshell allegations against hunter biden, the authorities are taking a close look at facebook, twitter and other social media liability immunity after four years of obvious media biased in social media censorships and is there any doubt that you are blocked so frequently from seeing or hearing conservative opinion. We will get more on that com
For new restrictions there too. What will the president do if we experience a second wave . I will ask him. Look at the market, stimulus stall and europes second wave is pulling down stocks big time. The dow is looking at 300 point loss. S p down 42. The nasdaq close to a 200 point drop. Big tech way down today, following a report in the Financial Times, some governments over this in europe, theyre gearing up for a major antitrust attack on American Technology companies. A dispointing jobs report. 898,000 new jobless claims. Not good. Down goes the market. On the campaign trail the president let loose in iowa last night. He put on a maga hat. Took off his tie says joe biden has been blatantly lying. That the revelations about hunter in the New York Post are a smoking gun. I will ask the president about todays allegations that hunter made millions from china. There is a new allegations out today in the morning post. Tonight, there is dueling town halls. The president appears on nbc. Som
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Madame clerk, are there any other things any other agenda . That is all, chair. Chair yee the meeting is adjourned. Thank you, everybody. Really going to miss you two on this committee. [laughter]. Good morning, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday october 1 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Supervisor gordon mar, im the chair of this committee, and im joined by vicechair, supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor matt haney. Thank you to the clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any an announcements . Clerk in order to protect the public, Board Members and the City Employees during the covid19 health emergency, the legislative chamber and the Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to all local, state and federal orders and declarations and directives. The Committee Members are attending through Video Conference and will participate to the same extent as if physically present