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Announcer this is Washington Week. Corporate funding is provided by [music] for 25 years, Consumer Cellular has been offering no contract wireless plans designed to help people do more of what they like. Our u. S. Based Customer Service team can help find a plan that fits you. To learn more, visit consumercellular. Tv. [music] announcer additional funding is provided by the estate of arnold adams and koo and Patricia Yuen through the yuen foundation, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. Robert good evening. And welcome to Washington Week. President elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris continue to face mounting challenges tonight with President Trump refusing to concede and blocking them from both transition funds and highlevel intelligence briefings. Now while some republicans
Message in the market that we need to Pay Attention to i think its interesting because last weeks the markets were so weak and everyone felt so despondent that this week was going to be just a replay of last week. I think that as the election is here today, people are settled, i think, into the fact that we will have a result i thisnk the market thinks we will have a result in the next 24 hours i think we all have fatigue from this election and i this i just havi i think just having a decision is what the market is pricing in now and after the decision, well go from there. I think the market is positive for clarity. It may not be clear but well see tomorrow what actually happens. Unless the market is getting ahead of itself. If you go by our cnbc states of play poll, only one in five think youre going to have an answer tonight on election night. The market seems to be acting over the next couple of days like were going to go to bed knowing who the next president will be or donald trump
She started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, rose to be the cfo, and was recruited away to be the cfo of google and now alphabet. She has enormous influence and has done a great job in making certain their Balance Sheet works well and they really are better organized. I have no doubt she is going to be a power at alphabet, unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of treasury. She will be a terrific candidate for that position. During this time google has done quite well and alphabet has done well. Your stock is up 20 and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap over 200 . Done quite well under your leadership. Im curious, are more people looking at doing searches during this covid19 time than ever before or are people not spending as much time searching . Ruth people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searches every year. It is the nature of searches that change. Early in the crisis peop
[laughter] one of the most powerful women in the Business World is ruth porat. She started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, rose to be the cfo, and was recruited away to be the cfo of google and now the cfo of alphabet. In that role, she has the normans influence at the company and has done a terrific job of making sure their Balance Sheet works well and that they are much better organized in the financial sense. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for some time unless the next president of the United States says i would like her to be secretary of treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for the position. During this period of time google has done quite well , and alphabet has done well. Your stock is up 20 and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap over 200 . Then quite well under your leadership. But i am curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 time than ever before or are people