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The concern about the stronger currency, not to worry just yet. We saw that euro jump. Ist weakness on brexit sparking a rebound in the dollar. Your offshore renminbi, we are set to break six weeks of gains. 683 right now. That is below 40 right now. We have copper also and gold on the back foot. Oil prices on track for the biggest twoweek drop since what we saw back in april. Lets get to the first word news, we have Karina Mitchell. Senate democrats have shut down a relief plan proposed by republicans. They failed to get the 60 votes they needed. Estimatedican plan is at anywhere between 500 and 700 billion dollars. The democrats are proposing to. 2 trillion. 2. 2 trillion. Boris johnsons government refused to scrap plans to reignite the divorce accord. The eu is threatening legal action if the u. K. Does not drop the legislation within three weeks. Thes president has painted an optimistic picture. Economic data suggests a strong rebound. They kept policy on hold for Economic Contract
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Today, we are very pleased to be joined by acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security, chad wolf. Secretary wolf, thank you so much for taking time out of your incredibly busy schedule to be with us today. Mr. Wolf thank you, suzanne, for having me. I appreciated the opportunity to discuss these important issues with you today. You are right about the important issues. The scope of your responsibility is quite daunting. I was thinking about what i knew as a layperson and also preparing to talk to you today, reading about that scope is remarkable. So many facets of our nations security, from aviation, infrastructure security, to cyber security, immigration and border protection. As a chamber, we think about these issues because they are so linked. Economic security and National Security are so linked. We know we cant have one without the other. We are always delighted to find someone with your talent and experience to share with us what is really going on in efforts to keep
The scope of your responsibility is quite daunting. I was thinking about what i knew as a layperson and also preparing to talk to you today, reading about that scope is remarkable. So many facets of our nations security, from aviation, infrastructure security, to cyber security, immigration and border protection. As a chamber, we think about these issues because they are linked. Economic security and National Security are so linked. We know we cant have one without the other. We are always delighted to find someone with your talent and experience to share with us what is really going on in efforts to keep our nation safe and secure. We know these efforts have taken on a huge level of complexity even this pandemic, and we appreciate your efforts to keep our country safe and secure. Really, that is kind of where i want to start this conversation. We talk about a whole government response to this pandemic. Could you talk to us a little bit about what it is like on the task force coordinat