Meet the new flu, same as the old flu, except it spreads faster and more easily the dow gaining 116 points,. 47 , and the nasdaq. 87 , record highs. But you know what, you know where the real action was, it was in the highest of flyers and the basis of speculative stocks. Thats what withe need to focusn partly because of the coronavirus and the old guys will say, this is the top i dont think that but im giving them their due what am i talking about, Virgin Galactic, plug power, and countless others that have become the darlings for younger investors. Look at my twitter feed. Read reddit, rather than reading the register for the news hour. Speculation, i think its good, even essential, essential to speculate on stocks, just part of your discretionary market youve got the retirement money, of which is completely wrong to speculate on, then you have a mad money portfolio, a group of stocks, within that group of stocks, you can have speculative stock. One or two i wont try to talk you out
On capitol hill the January 6th Select Committee about to share striking never before seen testimony and evidence all with the Focus On Former President Trump and the central role the panel says he played in the attack on democracy. Welcome to cnns live coverage of the January 6th Hearings. Im anderson cooper. Im jake tapper. This is the final hearing. Committee members are promising to hammer home their urgent argument that donald j. Trump remains in their view a Clear And Present Danger to American Democracy as trump continues to push false claims about the 2020 election. Committee aides tell us the hearing today will zero in on trumps State Of Mind on and around january 6th. Were told well see and hear from Cabinet Officials, and other new witnesses who have recently been interviewed by the committee that could potentially include former Secretary Of State mike pompeo, former treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and elaine chao. Some coming from the Secret Service. They have turned over
The committee will come to order. Without objection, chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time. Secretary ross is with us, hell be joining us momentarily. Ill recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then my friend from maryland. The census is constitutionally required. It is what insures that just as every vote should be counted, every person should be counted. This is a conditioned precedent for accurate redistricting and accurate reapportionment. The census is not only important for purposes of constituting our government, its also important for apportioning the resources and services of our government. So the census is vitally important for a number of reasons. It is also eminently predictable. There are a few things that can be foreseen quite like the census. It happens every ten years whether youre ready or not. So its incredibly important beginning with the fundamental truth of counting every one of our fellow citizens, and we know well in advance when its coming. S
Then policy counsel for the group demand progress. Telling about the efforts to limit Group Surveillance under the fisa act. Pres. Trump i have great relationships with actually many senators but in particular with most republican senators. And i am not going to blame myself, i will be honest. Host that was President Trump yesterday at the white house before hosting Mitch Mcconnell for a private lunch. He then held a press event in the rose garden. We are nearly nine months into the Trump Administration. The republican controlled house and senate has yet to achieve a major legislative victory. As the calendar creeps towards 2018, we are asking our viewers who you think is responsible for the lack of legislative maneuvers. Or republicans, 2027488001 for democrats, 2027488000. For independents, 2027488002. You can also chime in on it twitter and facebook. We want to hear from you this morning about who you think is responsible for the stalled agenda. As can start calling in now we show y
Surveillance with the fisa inin particular we have sean vitka from demand progress so remind our viewers what demand progress is and your action what they do and how they are related. It is to arms so demand progress is part of the same arm. What is the work you are involved in . I served as counsel across the country we are active on that neutrality and surveillance issues in particular mass surveillance something we have dedicated time to. Remind us to where it comes from. Section seven 02 is the of fisa amendment that passed in 2008 to allow for the programmatic surveillance of targets intended for those other overseas and not u. S. Persons but today the debate is americans that are swept up in a surveillance we know it is a large number and what people will bader except that. Why dont we know the exact youll remember we have from the government comes from 2011 with 250 Million Communications per year. So the reason weav dont have a cleaner never so those number of americans that ar