Russia hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton email scandal. No redactions. And breaking this hour, the director of National Intelligence, john ratcliffe, put out a somewhat confusing statement in which he expresses his support for john durhams investigation into obamagate. Dni ratcliffe said at my direction, the office of the director of National Intelligence has now provided almost a thousand pages of materials to the department of justice in response to mr. Durhams document requests. I will continue to insure the intelligence communitys responsiveness to the doj request. We also look forward to supporting the doj in further declassifications consistent with their investigation. As the president has made clear, we must be appropriately transparent with the American People. And give them the confidence that the extraordinary work of intelligence professionals is never misused or politicized. I w recent obamagate materials declassified, by the way, include susan rices email about the Obam
[inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus head of libra at facebook. On may 9 senator brown and i sent a letter shortly after it was reported that company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using a social network. We asked space bar for more information how the system would work, access and use of Consumer Financial information and facebooks access to use of information on individuals or group of individuals for credit or insurance or housing i appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent facebook formally announced its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white paper providing information on the project. Since then us and Global Regulators have taken notice including the Federal Reserve, reserve, Uk Financial Conduct Authority and a stability board, g7 and others for the last week during the Federal
Discussion on slave refugee camps during the war. Watch American History tv tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. This past june, facebook announced plans for its own crypto currency called libra. The cocreator of Libra David Marcus answered lawmakers concerned over the Digital Currency before the Senate Banking committee. This is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks res
Individual stocks literally minutes from now. All right. Watch out, google. Peter thiel is coming after you and so is the president. Thiel appeared with Tucker Carlson last night. He wants the fbi and cia to investigate. He implies google is a National Security threat. He thinks china wants to infiltrate googles Artificial Intelligence operation. He offered no evidence of that infiltration. Now, thiel is a very powerful man and the president has been listening. About investigating the company, the president tweeted the administration will take a look. Googles stock this morning, this tuesday morning, premarket, down eight bucks at 1142. Watch out facebook and its libra currency. The treasury secretary has quote, very serious concerns about its use by terrorist financiers and drug dealers. Theres a hearing about it on capitol hill this morning. Facebooks stock this morning premarket is down only a fraction. A mere fraction. Is this a joe biden gaffe . Hes made promises about his Health
This that sort of optimism helping things out the dow futures implied to open up about 118 points higher this comes after a decline for the markets yesterday. The dow was down about 180 points yesterday you saw bigger declines in percentage terms from the s p and the nasdaq with the s p down 1 , and the nasdaq down by 1. 5 . This morning green arrows across the board. Nasdaq indicated up by 67 points the s p indicated up by 14 if you want to look at the overseas markets in asia, you will see the nikkei was actually in a situation where we have green arrows this morning in europe, but the nikkei down by a half percentage point. Shanghai down by 0. 2 . Hang seng ended higher by just over a tenth of a percent. In europe there are green arrows across the board look and youll see right now the dax is up by 0. 6 . Its the biggest advancer of the major averages there everyone looking better this morning after though comments from mnuchin look at the treasury market. Tenyear note yielding just