3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going
Reporter neil, good afternoon to you. Start with astrazeneca. That is the top headline. It is covid19 vaccine as you mentioned having a good immune response in older results this is a phase two trial. Heefficacy will not be done untl they resume phase three trials you mentioned pfizer around biontech, they will file for their emergency approval with the fda form for the covid19 that tells us they are on track for the timeline they promised. Johnson johnson ready to have its vaccine ready for approval by february of 2021. Like i said, a bunch of different choices here. New york city in a little worse shape. Public School System is shutting down as of today. The stiffs Public Schools are taking a break, excuse me, because the coronavirus test Positivity Rate of 3 has been at that level for a seven day rolling average. It was reached on wednesday. The decision impacts over a Million Students and their parents and the city is trying to manage these cases and the weight that is placed on th
Banks, airlines all up while faangs are taking a bit of a break. If you ask me whats the best Case Scenario for the market to the end of the year, i would say this whole narrative about how its like the top five stocks driving the market, i would like to see that come to an end and Everything Else play catch up and start to participate and that is literally what weve seen take place. We had a breadth thrust a week and a half ago where almost every stock broke back above its 200 day. We now have more s p 500 components that are up on the year than down on the year for the First Time Since march i think alphabet is the most recent performer but the faangs are not part of this the whole narrative out of the window that this is index fund money and only microsoft driving this is gone now you have a broadbased rally, not based on nonsense, companies have rising earnings expectations, almost every sector weve even got performance at companies that six months ago you could have made a case to
Good to be here with you. Spinal tap thing behind you. Matt it is relegated to the basement and this was the lightest corner i could find. It gets a nine on room rater i want to talk about the walk up to the election, but i think everyone is most interested that you resigned after chris was fired at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure agency. Walk us through two weeks before the election before the firing and what it was like to be cisa. s eisa inside the election was four weeks ago today and we knew that the results process would be protracted because of the mailin voting. So we were gaming out some of the contingencies that we wanted to be prepared for. We get through the weekend and before it was called for biden, it was the day before when politico dropped a piece about a Government Agency that you have never heard of that is countering the president s lawyers claims about impropriety and fraud. That night, i saw at first. I saw it first. I said if this doesnt get you fired, nothing w
And the vote is set for 11 eastern advancing nomnation for the u. S. Court of International Trade. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. Thpresiding officer the senate will come to orde the chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray holy god, continue to be our strength and shield. Extend your powerful hands to aid and deliver us. Lord, inspireur senators to bieve that you continue to work for the good of those who love you. Let your favor shine upon our lawmakers, and sustain them with your unfailing love. Lord, release to them the pleasings you have stored for those who honor you. You are our god, and our future is in yourands. Remind us al to seek first to understand before we stri to be understood. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and