Democracy. Next, the first public hearing for the impeachment inquiry into president by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee led by kentucky representative james palmer meant for nearly six hours House Republicans at the inquiry is focused on whether biden was involved in or benefited from his familys foreign business dealings. [background noises] [background noises] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] which members are waving . [background noises] a committee on oversight and accountability will come to order. I want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection the chair may declare a racist at any time. The first order of business is to welcome the return of eight eightmember to the committee. We went to welcome from michigan to the committee congresswoman has been a member of the house. [applause] since 2019. Before that she served 15 years the Michigan House of representatives but she is a familiar face to this committee as she spent her first two t
Yeah, cold weather. Wisdom, maureen, good morning. Maureen, great advice. Extra layers this morning. It feels like Single Digits here in d. C. Even feels like below zero in a few of our suburbs. Well go through those. Well let you know how long the cold lasts coming up. Hey, erin. Right now roads are quiet but i cant stress enough, mike, it is cold out there. You need the boots, the layers, the scarves, the gloves. Whew. Backback to you guys. If youre just getting up were following a developing story from afghanistan. At least 35 people are dead after an attack on a news agency in kabul. 56 more people have been wounded. Local media reporting that the blast happened early this morning at the office of afghan voice news agency. Officials say a suicide bomber was likely behind the attack. Afghan journalism groups condemn the bombing. Recent reports show a surge in attacks against reporters in afghanistan. Former u. S. Senate candidate from alabama roy moore is taking his case to court. M
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Swings in the markets. Stocks briefly went negative this morning. They are up again. Quieter in the sense we are seeing a continuation of the much not the intraday swings that we are seeing for the major averages. The nasdaq is leading gains, up the best of the three major averages. All of the majors are up for defense straight session. The s p 500 has its best fiveday performance going back to october of 2016. This bloomberg shows the change on the daily basis, the spread between the highs and lows of the session. Almed down in terms of where we were what that swing, but we are still at elevated levels. This kind ofeing range on a typical day for the major averages. We are at the movers watching, on the earnings front, this company is an owner and operator of data centers. The company will accelerate its plans to a dress and price discount. That is after it came out with earnings that beat estimates. It is rising for that reason. Rise. E centurylink on the those numbers were not great