Thanks for those watching at home. This is being closely watched not just here, but across the country. Serving thembents house and the senate, a challenger with seven years under his belt and the house, and as for the rules, there are no rules. No opening statements, no closing, no time limits, although we will be keeping track of speaking time to keep things relatively even. We want to cover a lot of ground, so brevity is appreciated. Feel free to talk to each other, we encourage it, and since we are asking our studio audience to not applaud during the debate, we would like to give senator ed markey and. Ongressman joe kennedy a hand. [applause] thank you for joining us tonight. It is all yours. Supportersmarkeys have criticized u. S. An opportunist in this race. Why are you running to unseat a man who has 70 policies that you support . So many policies you support . Thank you for moderating, and thank you for tuning in around the country. This time around, so much of what we care ab
Think about, you know, possible strategies for moving forward. There is one piece of good news that ill mention, that in the recent appropriations package to talk about threats to Global Health could not be more timely. I am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations meeting. I am frances townsend, the executive Vice President of Worldwide Affairs at mcandrews inc. And i will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading the conversation for 30 minutes, then i will open it up to questions and answers. We will end at 1 30 p. M. These gentlemen are very busy, as you can imagine, dealing with the coronavirus. By looking back , emergingast decade Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it ebola, the zika virus, and now the novel coronavirus. The threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters the stafford act provides funds to enable Immediate Response by and by comparison there are s
Of the 75th anniversary of the start of the battle of iwo jima, we will head to the National Museum of the marine corps. First, a 2006 interview with woody williams, honored for actions on iwo jima. In this clip, he talks about the moment the American Flag was raised during the battle. Up, we had flag went no idea what was going on. We had no idea what was going on. To pay too busy attention to what anybody else was doing. I didnt know what was going on. I guess i had my back to mount sarah bocce. Raised up, around me jumped up, and started firing their weapons into the air, screaming and yelling and that kind of stuff. And i really thought everybody had lost their minds for a second. I could not figure out what was going on. And then i caught on what was going on because they were on the mountain and i looked, and there is old glory on top. I jumped up and started doing the same dumb thing they were doing, firing my weapon in the air and jumpingnd screaming. A weapon. Ying i jumped up
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. You saw a live shot of north korea last hour, not south korea. We know the difference it is important to know the difference now a new year in hong kong, beijing, and taiwan. Heres a live shot of celebrations in hong kong. Theyre having a light show. No explosions in hong kong the last trading day of the month, the year, and the decade. I am jon fortt with me at post nine, again, Morgan Brennan and deirdre bosa. Carl has the rest of the decade, carl, take it off. If youre going to have a light show, hong kong is the place to do it with all of the buildings. Yes well begin with whats been a record year for tech it is on pace for the best year in a decade with the nasdaq crossing the 9,000 mark earlier. Household names like netflix led the charge, up more than 4,000 in the last ten years. What stocks are poised to make their own run in 2020 . Joining us now with some answers or some guesses, gene munster of luke ventures, john freeman of cfra
Alshabaabs safe havens and assets last year and our forces continue to provide training and counterterrorism support to our east african partners at the airfield to help them in the fight. Moving to iran, at this time our Top Priorities remain first the safety and security of american personnel and our partners. And second, our readiness to conduct operations to respond to iranian aggression. Since the strike i have spoken to commanders on the ground to ensure they have the resources they need to protect their people and prepare for any contingencies. As a result we have increased our force protection postures across the region and will continue to reposition and bolster our forces as necessary to protect our people, our interests, and our facilities. As i mentioned to you yesterday, we have received widespread support for action from our allies and partners in the region and well continue to work with them to protect our gains against isis. I have been in constant communication with m