These past few days have been painful and hard, and i, like you, have been heartbroken. Justice ginsburg was a giant in the law, a champion of justice ad equality, and she was also treasured member of the Georgetown Law Community for many years, beginning with her husband martys joining the faculty. She was remarkably generous with her time. I will never forget walking into on so many occasions. Every year she spoke to our first year class. Walking with her out onto the stage, looking out at hundreds of students, many of them wearing notorious rbg tshirts and seeing their faces light up and uploading ecstatically as , eventered the room though her Security Team always told us that she would leave right after her talk, she always stayed to talk to students and since friday, i have received so many photos from our students of the selfies they took with her. Notes about what a wonderful memory it was. It has been so lovely to see them. It is so hard to believe that she is gone. Askednight
The Senate Committee held a confirmation hearing for several underground divisions including Inspector General and deputy undersecretary for intelligence and security. Some of the topics covered the Committee Hearing included whistleblower protections, election interference and servicemember misconduct. The meeting will come to order, we consider the nominations of mr. Jason, Inspector General of the department of defense. Mr. Lucas to be assistant secretary of defense that Nuclear Chemical biological and defense rooms and mr. Lewis to be assistant secretary of defense special operations. I think everyone for being here today, let me briefly say these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the mission they are accommodated for. Senior advisor, u. S. Customs and border protection, you have extensive experience leading litigation as part of the Inspector Generals offices for the federal Housing Agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban Dev
Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
Gains in the region today. The csi 300 has been up 6 in the past five days, the biggest months. N four margin traders have returned and the stock rally is kicking off. The hang seng up 133 points. We are seeing the dollar slightly weaker, but marginal. We are watching the aussie, in t he red here now. They are all over the place. Aussie, j. P. Morgan saying expect low 60s. It is difficult to model the recovery we are seeing. Number more positive. We are watching oil, coming off of a four month high and likely to end the month in the green. Gold with four weeks of gains. Tom the u. S. Senate has given final approval to legislation that would impose sanctions on chinese officials, cracking down on dissent in hong kong. Page in his warning a strong countermeasures if the u. K. Act in response to the National Security law. Warning a strong countermeasure if the u. K. , australia and the u. S. Active response to the National Security law. In the measures appropriate the senate at this point
U. S. Took preemptive action in terms of export controls for the city. Yvonne the one thing the chief executive has said is u. S. Sanctions will not scare us. That is the latest response from carrie lam. Given what weve heard from the u. S. Recently when sanctioned chinese officials over the security law, and also now as you mentioned, paring back trading benefits that hong kong has enjoyed with the u. S. As well. The market seems to be overshadowed by better data. Pretty early when it comes to pmi data in china that came out at the top of the hour. It seems like at this point its really about the fundamentals more than the politics that is driving this rebound we are seeing in risk assets today. Look at the asiapacific benchmark, up 1 . Set for the best quarter since 2009. Still, asian stocks have not really recouped most of the losses we saw in the First Quarter, but certainly u. S. Futures pointing positive as well. The hang seng still up 194 points despite what we have been hearing