Time frame for when the committee would conclude its inquiry but aim to release findings before the end they have year. This is 40 minutes. Hello. How is everybody today. Thank you for being here. Its a busy day around the country. Mark and i recognize the tragedy of nevada this week and at this point am glad to say it doesnt seem to have a terrorism nexus. Thats not always the outcome but our hearts and prayers go out to all the individuals who were affected both directly and indirectly and can assure you that from an Intelligence Committee standpoint and the agencies, theyre providing as many assets to local Law Enforcement an to those people that are tasked with investigation of this unbelievable act. Senator burr were here to update you about the investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election. When we started this investigation on 23 january of this year, we had a very clear focus. We were focused on the evaluation of the i. C. A. , the Intelligence Community assessment,
Joins us from the imf fall meeting in washington. Also kara swisher. Kara, good morning to you. Hi, how are you doing good. A lot to get to. Our top story and the growing backlash against big tech. Amazon is suspending roy price on allegations of mismanagement, Sexual Harassment, and allegations of his close relationship with Harvey Weinstein as rose mcgowan called out the amazon executive, saying price acquisitioned her in 2014. Heres just a sampling jeff bezos, i told the head of your studio that Harvey Weinstein raped me over and over i said it, he said it hadnt been proven, i said i was the proof. I was ignored, deal was done amazon won a dirty oscar jeff bezos, im calling on you to stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers i love amazon, but there is rot in hollywood New York Times saying tech giants once seen as saviors, now viewed as threats. Theres, obviously, a lot to unpack here, kara, but lets zero in on amazon to start with. How disruptive is this well, you k
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our 10th lecturer. Tinguished the name sake is joseph story. He was a remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional before joining the Supreme Court, he had quite a career of his own. He was a congressman. He was a state legislature. He was a speaker of the massachusetts house of representatives. He was also while he was on the Supreme Court, a professor law chool. When he was 65 years old, that particular year, his book royalties gave him twice much money as his salary as a justice of the Supreme Court. As many of you know, he became, when he was appointed, at that time, the youngest justice to serve on the Supreme Court and one of the youngest ever to serve, he was appointed by president madison in 1811 and was actually took office in following year in february of 1812. As most of you know, im sure, he made a significant mark on american l
There we are back to it. Technical difficulties. The dow is there but the other averages are not quite there. It is peak day. We have some were coming after the close of trading. The s p dream is earnings season about 0. 4 . The transportation average is up about 0. 9 . Outperforming what we are seeing from the major averages due in part to earnings. Increasesand price coupling to help Union Pacific make up for revenue that was lost in storm disruptions and also auto and carloads drop in those. Fell. They climbed in the third quarter, which was more than double an increase for a year earlier. Hey had a bigger gain actually, we will have to toss it back to you, abigail. Abigail thank you. Good stuff. President trump is due to deliver remarks were the Opioid Crisis shortly. Another pressing issue is in focus today, tax reform. House republicans adopted a resolution to cut taxes by the end of the year. This budget we passed in the house today brings us one step closer to historic tax refo
Saudi arabia over the last two weeks. Feels like these days if you want a look at the implications in the oil market you need to be a geopolitical analyst at the same time and know about the ins and outs of the mideastern policy do you think its really just a geopolitical risk premium added to the oil markets is that actually something, the saudi arabia situation, that could impact the balances overall . Well, what were seeing leaving aside the geopolitical tensions for a moment is that there has been lower Production Output in Northern Iraq because of the situation there and we saw, as we said in the report, lower than expected production in one or two other places, algeria, nigeria, venezuela, mexico, lower growth than expected in the u. S added to the fact that stocks are falling as we also see in the report and demand in reasonably strong. There are some underlyingfu fundamental factors that help drive prices, but the situation in the middle east has added further momentum in the u