America. This is just over two hours. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone and good morning. Senatorsing to have participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficult to determine when they showed up virtually, we will go on seniority. If that is agreeable, that is what we will do. Three we welcome witnesses. David stillwell, secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. The senior pacific official. Assistant to pity secretary for western affairs. Today, of course, we are going to be talking about china. Obviously, china presents us with many challenges. With opportunities also. Right now, challenges. Ofre has been a lot legislation introduced as far as china is concerned. Bill we introduced earlier that tries to bring together as many as possible. I am told as recently as today or yesterday, the minority introduced a bill of which senator schumer is the lead sponsor, i am told. In any event, this is not a partisan issue. This is an
Health, so i spoke with pulmonologist dr. Vinny job, to get some answers to your questions. We have been dealing with the smoke for weeks now, what are the longterm risks from breathing all of the stuff in for so long . Is there a cumulative effect as one of our viewers asked, is it going to be affecting us later like the coal mines did for people . We look at wildfire smoke, there is been, shown to be an increase in respiratory problems. Meaning bronchitis, potentially pneumonia, etc. , but not, not, the other things have not been shown meaning an increase in an increase in mortality due to cardiovascular effects. The jury is still out on those, the research is mixed on those endpoints. People with heart and lung problems honestly have risks with this air quality but what about the people who come you know, were otherwise healthy . How much of a risk is it for most people . If you are talking about air lein thred little bit each day, just a little bit of daily activity, then that is p
Disinformation is a major topic we need to discuss. We need to share our experiences in dealing with china. A forum where we can review all aspects of the chinese presence in europe, globally, and how we deal with that. They plan to kick this off. We are looking for a date in the near future. Trying to do scheduling. I think we are resigned to the fact that this may have to be virtual. Step in person. Just given the pandemic requirements. The deputy secretary has agreed to participate in a number of conversations. Directors of all the Member States will gather and have this on their agenda. The german presidency. That is an opportunity for Member States to engage. At both member state experiences and overall approach. I hope we can kick this off. We can see this as a longterm project. So we can really Exchange Ideas and experiences. Thank you. I dont think anyone would disagree that this will be a long project. As you know, i and members of introducettee legislation to strengthen ameri
Acting deputy Homeland Security secretary Ken Cuccinelli and the head of the National Counterterrorism center. The fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. Wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. This is our annual threat hearing. When i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think its pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings weve held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written Opening Statement be entered in the recor record. If you consider t
Out. The billionaire Tilman Fertitta will be here power lunch starts right now the dow making major moves to keep up with the changing times and the changing economy bob is looking at the moves and how they will affect the markets. Bob a bit of a shake up in the dow but the moves make some sense. Let me explain why lets take it piece by piece first we have salesforce. Com replacing exxon mobile the apple split has reduced the tech weighting in the dow and we need more Technology Sales force reflect the growing importance of Software Overall in the u. S. Economy. You dont need two Oil Companies in the dow you dont need exxon and chevron with energy only 3 of the s p one of them chevron will do. Lets look at the dow industrials. Pfizer is the lowest stock price in the dow the price would be even lower. Another reason to move it away amgen is reflecting the growing importance of the biotech space. This sounds like two industrial swaps and they are theytheon overlaps a bit with boeing now,