Intelligence Committee Heard from former ambassadors and diplomatic officials. House committee on intelligence, first remote hearing. Before we proceed to where were topic today, the impact of the covid19 pandemic in Subsaharan Africa, i want to address some housekeeping matters. Todays session will be conducted on an unclassified basis. Urged tonts are inrain from presenting compliance with House Resolution 965 and resolutions for remote proceedings. Like many of you, i would have preferred to hold this in person in washington, d. C. , but because of the threat of covid19 we remain serious and widespread and are proceeding remotely to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff, and the public. I was hoping that todays hearing would be bipartisan. Unfortunately, our republican colleagues have decided not to dissipate. I hope they will not to participate. I hope they will join us in the future and im committed to continuing our work notwithstanding the pandemic, and both sides o
Other Department Officials testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the agencys response to the coronavirus pandemic. Secretary wilkie provided an update on the care the v. A. Has provided through the pandemic and talked about some of the challenges moving forward. This is 2. 5 hours. A military briefing for a full year. When my dad was the artillery commander, they asked the second airborne to come visit. He was troubled. So i have touched royalty. Secretary wilkie is here for important testimony. Do i have the mic on . I can officially call the subcommittee on military construction, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies to order. I would like to welcome secretary wilkie, who is our witness this morning, joining us. Since this is our first hearing with some numbers participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work, in order to benefit both members and the public. First, this hearing room has been configured to maintain th
Including chicago and los angeles as the unrest targets, temporarily closes Stores Across the nation. The hang seng pushes higher after President Trump stopped short of sanctions over beijings new security law. Asian pmi shows chinas recovery continues. A warm welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. 86 00 a. M. In london. Annmarie hordern joins us. We have got to understand, the ofgers on the streets america, the danger to human life, the danger to reopening, and the death rate. Real,mentum is really very palpable, we need to understand how markets post price those. We have more unrest this evening after a weekend of protests across the entire nation, coasttocoast. Chicago, new york, boston, d. C. Some starting peacefully but ending with quite violent scenes as you have seen displayed across the news. I want to give you a sense of what the new york papers lead with this week, the new york times, spreading unrest leads nation on edge. Completely up in flames, some of the cities. The daily
Roll out some responses to Chinas Hong Kong law as the showdown with twitter gets escalated around the minneapolis protests oil near 33, the focus is squarely on twitter and this rule violation that the president s account got slapped with, and then the white house account, the official white house account retweets were all kind of confused, as marc benioff, who is against this obscure regulation that gives these companies an exception todo this, many are confused it seems President Trump wants to create his own enemy with if you start regulating these Companies Rather than having the exception, theyre always going to have to put a counter to what President Trump wants. I think what he may not understand is free speech is nasty. What he had until this was a great run of things. Its going to make it tough for him to be aggressive on twitter. He doesnt have press conferences that work because of all the displeasure he had with regular reporters. Hes disintermediating himself from the pub
Hotspot. Australias relations with china somewhere further. Beijing is turning the screws on their 13 billion education there, saying studying may not be safe. We are seeing u. S. Futures at the moment Holding Steady after we saw u. S. Stocks finish mixed. The s p 500, falling a tense of 1 , falling today after 8 10 of 1 , falling today after raising its 2020 losses. Concerns that rebounds could be overdone. Briefly topping 10,000 for the first time ever. Apple, jumping on a report that it is preparing to announce a mac computers. Take a look at the dollar index. We are continuing to see weakness. Losses,ine sessions of the longest losing streak since 2006. We have both seasonal trends and a dovish look. Lets see how things are shaping up for asian markets. After sevenday gains for the kiwi stocks are edging slightly higher. We could see a lower open this wednesday across asia amid signs that the 5. 6 trillion rally is looking stretched. More than half of the regions forecast they bare