[ banging gavel ] this hearing will come to order. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kirstjen m. Nielsen to be the next secretary of the United States in Homeland Security. I want to thank her, her family. Our senators making introductions later on. I certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly, general kellys wife. Shes here also. Showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to significantly reduce the 30year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed over 100 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. Russia continues to destabilize its neighbors and is partnering with iran to increase both countries influence in the middle east. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior. For the worse. North Korea Remains determined to develop the cap
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The number me estimates, a dollar . 84 versus the dollar . 80. The average is about . 16. On the top or bottom line it was a mess. Obviously the iphone sales were a little bit lower than expected. Emily earnings per share did beat this is not atypical of apple. And other really interesting number is the china sales of 13. 23 billion dollars. There has been so much concern about the China Economy at the big stockmarket plunge that we saw over the last quarter. Emily what is standing out to you . Julie we have the ensemble of everything, and we can pick out what is most interesting. First of all, the companys earnings per share coming in for sense of estimates. Apple tends to be estimates. It is that i vote number. 47. 5 billion iphones in the Third Quarter, the estimate was for 48 port a million phones. Apple depends so heavily on the iphone, so if it has lower sales than estimated, that is a bubbly a problem. On the other hand, the average selling price with weeks 5991 six dollars . 59
Versus 1. 80. The average is about 1. 16. On the top or bottom line it was a mess. Obviously the iphone sales were a little bit lower than expected. Emily earnings per share did beat this is not atypical of apple. And other really interesting number is the china sales of 13. 23 billion dollars. There has been so much concern about the China Economy at the Big Stock Market plunge that we saw over the last quarter. Emily what is standing out to you . Julie we have the ensemble of everything, and we can pick out what is most interesting. First of all, the companys earnings per share coming in for sense of estimates. Apple tends to be estimates. It is that i vote number. 47. 5 billion iphones in the Third Quarter, the estimate was for 48 port a million phones. Apple depends so heavily on the iphone, so if it has lower sales than estimated, that is a bubbly probably a problem. On the other hand, the average selling price with weeks 699. 91. The ipad average selling price was below the estim