Administration, from britains top diplomat in the us, sir kim darroch. Two years of his secret e mails leaked. In one, he wrote. On Donald Trumps recent state visit to the uk, he said the president had been dazzled by the queen, but cautioned this is still the land of america first. And on foreign policy, trumps sabre rattling over iran, approving air strikes and then calling them off, was described as chaotic. Here, serious questions are being raised about the leak. The thing with diplomatic cables, and i used to work at the Foreign Office, id be quite careful about what you say which is on a personal basis in those cables, because its all very well talking about the substance of the relationship, the policies, but i think some of that may, in retrospect, be regarded as unwise. Put in a statement, the Foreign Office denied it would have any long term impact. As for the future, the ambassador compared it to a roller coaster which could lead to disgrace and downfall, but cautioned about
And ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim cb, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission, and jennifer homendy, Member National Transportation Safety board. I continue to be a strong supporter of our real industry both freight and passenger. Rail service is safe and efficient. It also reduces congestion on our highways and spurs economic growth. In mississippi, for example, we have 26 Freight Railroads, 2,400 miles of track, five of the seven class ones, two longdistance amtrak routes, 10 stations, and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vital to mississippi. I have been a tireless advocate for the restoration of the gulf coast Passenger Service, which was suspended in 2005 after hurricane katrina. With funding support from dot, amtrak, and the states, i am pleased to report that mississippi, louisiana, and alabama are likely once again to have this amtrak route and that will give mississippi a third amtrak route. Restoration of this
Russian troops are about 7 kilometers away from who counts right now and Ukrainian Military installations. There are already within range of the artillery of these advancing forces. Now, russias Ministry Defense also released some new information in terms of ukrainian losses in terms and we saw how it said that theyre saying that theyve suffered 55 losses in casualties over just 24 hours. And theyve also lost a number of western supply. The Armored Vehicles as well as artillery pieces in total 7 ukrainian attacks had been repelled there as well as in the neighboring russian region of the guns of peoples republic. On top of that, weve got new information as well on the, on how things are going on. The done yes, from the Russian Defense Ministry Report said that 17 ukrainian attacks have been repelled there and the Russian Forces have launched 2 major strikes, both on ukrainian Decision Making centers in the den. Yes. Peoples republic and on a warehouse as well over the span of 24 hours.
Incredible month where you saw stocks continue to climb add that to year to date dow up 7. 3 . The s p up 19. 5 the nasdaq is up a whopping 37 . Lets put that in historic context. The year to date, you were talking about the nas ddaq with the best first months since 1975 held on to gains gave some back in the second past of the year up 30 by the end of the year. If you look at the s p, up 19. 5 . That is the best performance since the beginning of 1997. That year, s p up 28 . It ended up 31 . Adding to gains, mike, throughout the things. You look at this and look back the pattern in history is that markets that are consistently strong with five months up in the s p 500 happens in the context of generally continuing uptrends. It is not a fluke. That being said, it has happened eight times in the last decade it happened 40 since 1949 the dow was up 100 points in the last minute of trading yesterday. A lot of stuff that gets done at month end. In general, the market has answered most of t
These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair may call recess at any time. Without objection, so ordered. I recognize myself for Opening Statement for five minutes. Todays hearing examines the current and future state of amtrak. The Infrastructure Investment and job act gave historic funding to railroads with a large portion of that money going to amtrak. Amtrak is a federally chartere