A front row seat to democracy. Good morning everyone. We will come to order. And i want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, for participating in the invitation to you, and the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that we have distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how brutal, reclusive regime can buy influence and even take over a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. It is a regime that has reportedly killed journalist, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen and supported other terrorist activities, including the nine 9 11 attack on our nation. Today is about sports but also about hypocrisy, how fast sounds of money can induce individuals and institutions to betray their own values and supporters or per
Good morning everyone. We will come to order. And i want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, for participating in the invitation to you, and the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that we have distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how brutal, reclusive regime can buy influence and even take over a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. It is a regime that has reportedly killed journalist, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen and supported other terrorist activities, including the nine 9 11 attack on our nation. Today is about sports but also about hypocrisy, how fast sounds of money can induce individuals and institutions to betray their own values and supporters or perhaps reveal a lack of values fr
A front row seat to democracy. Good morning everyone. We will come to order. And i want to thank the witnesses for attending today. I want to thank my colleague, senator johnson, for participating in the invitation to you, and the collaborative approach to this hearing and our inquiry. And to all of our staff for their hard work on the memorandum that we have distributed with documents which i will put into the record without objection. Todays hearing is about much more than the game of golf, it is about how brutal, reclusive regime can buy influence and even take over a cherished american institution. To cleanse its public image. It is a regime that has reportedly killed journalist, jailed and tortured dissidents, fostered the war in yemen and supported other terrorist activities, including the nine 9 11 attack on our nation. Today is about sports but also about hypocrisy, how fast sounds of money can induce individuals and institutions to betray their own values and supporters or per
Yields our top story is the u. S. Stock market officially falling into correction territory in yesterdays session. The dow was down by 1033 points. Thats a huge drop weve seen one earlier this week as a result were on pace for the worst week since 2008. The nasdaq was off by 275 points since the slide began back on january 26th, nearly 2 2. 5 trillion in market value has been wiped out from the s p 500. When you look at Global Markets they lost 5 5. 2 trillion over te last two weeks well, you add that up and you look at the u. S. Equity futures, the good news is that things are stabilizing a bit and even turning around after that big decline. Thats not what we saw earlier in the week. Right now it looks like the dow is indicated up by 270 points. If we were to open here, the s p would open up by 33. The selloff we saw yesterday continued in asia. The nikkei was down by 2. 3 . The hang seng was down by more than 3 . The shanghai was down by 4 . European equities in some of the early tra
Goldman sachs on deck. Still up 7 10 of 1 . Front and center, will they disappoint . The banksides earnings, Mitch Mcconnell yesterday pulling the bill he had been working on to replace obamacare. Instead he says he will try to repealing the Health Care Law that keeping it in place while Congress Tries to figure out what comes next. Joining us now is Kevin Cirilli. , he develop in washington wants to repeal obamacare, will it happen . Kevin unlikely. With several sources that say that it is unlikely that despite Mitch Mcconnell and President Trumps assertion that they would like to see the senate and the house vote on the 2015 repeal bill the votes might not be there. Route, do go this starting the clock on a twoyear timetable for lawmakers to come together to try to come up with a new alternative to obamacare before it would be fully repealed in two years. That said, i spoke with a senior aide to a republican member, one of the four lawmakers who opposes this bill and i can tell you,