The president s total budget request for next year 4. 1 trillion. Live coverage here on cspan3. This hearing will come to order. This morning the committee, once again, welcomes secretary of state john kerry to consider the departments budget request. When secretary kerry last appeared before us, he was presenting the Obama Administrations Nuclear Agreement with iran. In the seven months since, the administration got its agreement and the middle east has been transformed and not for the better. Now, with access to 100 billion in unfrozen assets and sanctions wiped away, iran has instantly become the dominant country in the region. The revolutionary guards, already irans most powerful economic actor in the words of the treasury department, will only grow more powerful with international investment. The committee has deep concerns about the way the Obama Administration and apparent indefinite rei indeference to it tehran has chose on it ignore a bipartisan law ending visa travel for thos
National hero, and when it comes to the reverbiations, the National Security issue and they, for the most part, want to see it in the economic sphere. Theyre really hoping, as rouhanis Campaign Promises indicated and hes continually said so, some of this sanction relief is going to be a breath of new breath of fresh air for the countrys economy and hes sticking with his Campaign Promises which, for the most part he has a the of promise is but very heavy handed when it came to Economic Relief it is unclear, for the most part, where he stands when it comes to domestic, political and social reforms. Promises have been made, some minor, achievements have taken place, but for the most part it is unclear if hes going to allow the deal to be used kind of reform the politics domestically as well. Lastly, the opposition, i mentioned, reformist factions in the Civil Society, they view it as an unprecedented achievement. Theyve shown a great amount of patience and support when it comes to sidelin
The impact as the twoday meeting starts. Dagen michigans capital under siege. Protests over right to work. Connell should we call it an apple tax . On average, families are spending thousands of dollars a year on apple products. Dagen it is not a tax, it is a choice. Top of the hour, stocks now and every 15 minutes. Nicole all right, dagen and connell, take a look at the markets. The Dow Jones Industrials up triple digits. The dollar has been lower. They have talked about the gains that we have been seeing over in europe. The euro top 50. That is very interesting, as well. This is the environment. It bodes very well. Another winning day here on wall street. Drug stocks, bank stocks doing well. The vix, the fear index, is to the downside. Lets take a look at urban outfitters. Taking a look at their quarterly sales. They are looking better than expected. Under their umbrella is a name brand that a lot of the teenagers know very well. They had a good block friday. Urban outfitters is up o
What didnt you learn from kung fu panda. Thank you for the reminder yet again. You should see my move off center for my grab and kick and im built like a kung fu panda. I could have walked right in but in honor of your birthday, youre welcome. That is your gift. Thank you very much. Have a good night. Go watch the movie. Have fun. This is cnn tonight. Im laura coats in for don lemon. We have breaking news tonight on multiple stories. The coronavirus death toll in this country passing 160,000, and the governor of ohio who was scheduled to meet with the president today tested positive for the virus then testing negative on his second test. So two tests in one day, two different results. It tells you a lot about where we are with testing in this country, doesnt it . Theres also news tonight about just how much worse the virus could get in this country. Researchers behind the influential university of washington model are now projecting that the u. S. Death toll could reach nearly 300,000
Reaction, very short, brandnew reaction from joe biden. President trumps comment today regarding holding up funding for the Postal Service ahead of a lot more ballots being mailed than usual. Lets go, lets go, come on. The democratic ticket has not left delaware, theyve spent the last 40 minutes or so getting a briefing from Public Health officials about covid19. We do expect more formal remarks from biden and Kamala Harris in the next hour or so and Kamala Harris was pretty prolific during her own candace t to my candidacy but nothing like weve seen in the last two days, she broughto megan her first 24 hous the running mate. Yesterday we had our best grassroots fundraising day of the campaign, more than double our previous record. And in doing so we set record for online political fundraising and i think i know why. So i hope, i hope you will join us as well. Both biden and harris are going to deliver their convention remarks next week live from delaware on backtoback nights. As harri