Committee on alleged russian bounties for u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Announcer defense secretary mark esper and general mark toley were on capitol hill testify on defense department. They were also asked about alleged russian bounties over u. S. Troops and military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification for maintaining a coram participati
Million. America saw 60,000 cases in a day for the first time. Hong kong and tokyo also reporting record tallies. Singapore heads to the polls for an election overshadowed by the pandemic. Disposable wear gloves and observe distancing roles at the ballot box. Lets get to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for the latest. Sophie after u. S. Stocks closed in the red, we are setting up for a lackluster start to this friday morning. Futures are mixed. Kiwi stocks added. 4 so far this morning. S p eminis nudging slightly higher with rising virus infections in focus in the u. S. As well as in asia and on the ecoagenda today, we are watching out for japanese pbi ending acree output and the philippine trade plus chinese credit growth data for june could be released from today. Singapore offline for the elections to be held. Asian stocks could pare the weekly advance but still set for the best five day stretch given the chinese stock rally we saw this week. Flipping the board, china futures have se
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