You dono not aim with filthy rih politicians. This is what we perform and we should. Lets dig in. Why doesnt matter that politicians are given the they are allowed . I think the reason it matters is it is eroding trust and elected officials and we have lastthe correlation in the four or five decades between delected officials and average americans. At the same time we see the erosion of trust and elected officials. It parallels a loss of trust in institutions thatbu politicians are congress, so thats why the book matters. Always been . I think clearly politicians in general have been people who are richer and if you look at president George Washington was incredibly wealthy and roosevelt prosecutor and a long list. I think the difference is the lower chamber. Members of the house of representatives since about the time i was ten years old, there will is double and the wealth of the average person has been a flat line and have gone down. Right now the average member of congress is about
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60 points after the dow closed at a record level yesterday. The s p closed lower yesterday all the major averages moved off the highs of the session this morning the s p is indicated up by 5 points the nasdaq up by 10. This came after the feds decision and after if looked clear that Republican Leaders reached an agreement, at least in principle, on where theyre headed with the tax bill well talk more about that green arrows across the board this morning in asia, the nikkei looked like it was down by a quarter percentage point similar declines for the hang seng and shanghai. This morning in europe, with some of the early trading, you will see that there are some declines across the board. The biggest loser is the dax down by a half percentage point. Cac in france is down by 0. 4 . We have the bank of england and the ecb going to be releasing some policy statements today check out crude oil prices which were lower yesterday crude oil at 56. 59 couple of big economic reports on the agenda
Live house coverage when that happens or cspan. House of commons. And todays session here at George Washington University Part of our inquiry into fake news and disinformation. And we are thrilled to be here and absolutely delighted to be welcomed by George Washington university and helping us putting this on. This is the first time the select committee has taken live evidence. Im grateful for everyones work and making the logistics possible. Ash i thank the witnesses. People who are unfamiliar with the work of congressional committees, it is understood who s taking part answer questions honestly and truthfully. Im not suggesting that eye witnesses would do that. But we dont ask them to swear an oath but i hope they will be telling a truth. We have a number of questions to get through today and we do that in good time and good order and i ask them to direct their questions by the panel. And the witnesses, too, because of the time constraints, i would ask the witnesses to answer the que