, tripleheader line up this morning, people who were in the make the newsg and eliminated it for us. Business tech, media, politics, our events follow the same format. They are quick and we start with what happens and why it matters. Thats the formula you always get in the axios stream when you go on axios. Com. Every story starts as one phone screen, and in that whats new, whats happening, white matters why it matters to make you smarter faster. Id like to thank my axios events colleagues for pulling together this fantastic event. Thank all of you for being here. Were going to start. We have three guests today, and our first guest this morning who has seen 35 addresses to congress, or states of the union. Representative from the Fifth District Prince Georges County maryland House Democratic whip congressman steny hoyer. What an honor. Thank you so much. Thank you, mike. [applause] so we were just talking with sen. Collins stage. 3536 state of the Union Addresses to congress. He was di
Le we have the editor of the book report thanks for joining us were going to check on markets see how were set up heres the futures dow down 15, nasdaq down 20. S p down 5 coming off the huge rally to close on friday, another strong week of gains for wall street. How about the tenyear, 2. 65 last week. We begin the week at over 2. 7. Did you see that i think the futures are down. Thats a sticker shock to people tenyear at 2. 72. 30year, just a hair under 3 fiveyear under 2. 5 twoyear, 2. 15 wow. Lets get you caught up with stories were watching perhaps the biggest over the weekend, saudi arabias prince alwaleed has been freed. He was detained. We talked about it for the past two months with the corruption crackdown. Several other officials and saudi royals were rounded up and they were at whats known as the ritz prison. Youll get to see it the ritz prison and alwaleed described it as a misunderstanding there are no topics its just a misunderstanding its a key position we had it was a d
Recommendation so you had already made the decision. I was going to fire regardless of recommendation. In that exclusive interview President Trump called ousted fbi chief james comey a showboat an grand stander. He said he would have fired him regardless. There were a lot of story lines that came out after the fact one was that Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein had allegedly suggested he might resign because he was unhappy that it was insinuated he was the sole reason behind it. Keep in mind about 10 days ago sean spicer had said the president had full confidence in jim comey and then Sara Huckabee sanders at the briefing the other day said that, well, you know, reporters were misguided. I mean you know we did see a lot of different headlines, corrections. I believe even the Vice President came out and said the president acted based on these recommendations so today a little bit of a different story there from the president. Meantime on capitol hill the man who replaced Comey Andr
Reckoned with when it comes to issues affecting childrens health. Sokily for us, she is passionate about the health of our nations children that she is willing to spend some of her very limited free time playing an Important Role on our campaign. Which has a growing roster of celebrities are willing to show young people how much they love eating your favorite fruits and etched with. Ladies and gentlemen, without further do, i give you the remarkable and fabulous and yes beautiful, ms. Cindy crawford. [applause] ms. Crawford that was quite the introduction. Good morning, i am delighted to be with you today and to be amongst such an Amazing Group of speakers. For most of my life, i have been involved with organizations working to improve childrens health, particularly those that fight childhood cancer. I lost my little brother jeff to leukemia when i was just 10 years old, and that experience ignited in me a lifelong passion to ensure that no childs life should ever be cut short due to i
Director andrew mccabe, cia director mike pompeo, director of National Intelligence dan coats, and nsa director admiral michael rodgers. The answer questions about the rush investigation and the firing of james comey. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Coats. Or dan 2 20 s sen. Duckworth sen. Burr i would like to call the hearing to order. I would like to welcome our Witnesses Today. The director of National Intelligence, dan coats. Good to see our former colleague. Director of the Central Intelligence agency, mike pompeo. Director of defense intelligence, vince stewart. Director of the National Security agency, mike rogers. Director of Geospatial Intelligence agency, robert cardella. And acting director at the fbi, andrew mccabe. Thank you for coming in on such short notice. Since 1995, this committee has met in an open forum to hear about and discuss the security threats facing the United States of america. I understand that many people tuned in today are hopeful that we would focus s