This hearing will come to order. Todays hearing is a hybrid format. And the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommendedf foot social distancing between senators and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely a few videoconferencing reminders. Once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise please click the mute button until it is your speak or ask questions. If there is a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until its resolved. I, again, remind all senators and witnesses that the 5minute clock still applies, and those of you remote should all have a box on your screen labeled clock that will show how much time is remaining. Well try to give you a gavel reminder when your time is almost expired. To simplify the speaking order process senator brown and i again have agreed to go by sen you arty for this hear
Cleveland, the debate received a second highest rating for a president ial debate on television in history. The president made it clear today, he is happy with the ratings and how the night played out. I thought the debate last night was great, weve gotten tremendous reviews on it, were hitting what people want, law and order which biden was unable to talk about because the radical left followers, i dont think theres too many of them left. But i thought it was a great evening in an exciting evening and i see the ratings were very high and it was good to be there, its all very comfortable. I appreciate all the good words. Lou tonight we will be taking a President Trump debate performance with Trump Campaign Senior Advisor jason miller and President Trump last night taking out the Obama Biden Administration plot to undermine his presidency. Today fired fbi director james comey testified before the house Judiciary Committee, comey seemed hellbent on dodging any responsibility for his role
Been configured to maintain 6 foot distances between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely, a few Video Conferencing reminders. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise, please click the mute button until you ask questions. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next senator until its resolved. Again, remind all senators and our witnesses that the fiveminute clock applies. Those of you remote should have a clock on the screen showing how much time is remaining. Well try to give you a gavel reminder when your time is almost expired. To simplify the speaking order process, senator brown and i have agreed to go by seniority for this hoogerheide. With that we welcome our witness steven t. Mnuchin, secretary to department of treasury an honorable jerome powell, board of governors of the Fe
Thank you for joining us. I appreciate it. Last nights debate President Trump slammed the Obama Administration and the deep state for their years of trying to subvert and overthrow his presidency, this is tonight lou dobbs quote of the day. When i listen to joe talking about a transition, there has been no transition, i won the election and if you look at crooked Hillary Clinton and all the different people, there was no transition because they came after me trying to do a who in trying to spy on my campaign, they started from the day i went and even before i went in the day came down the escalator with our first lady. They were a disaster and a disgrace to our country, we have caught them and we caught them all. Lou caught them all. We would like to hear from you with all of this, share your comments and follow me on twitter at lou dobbs and follow me on instagram at lou dobbs tonight. Tomorrow we will be joined by devin nunes and davis hansen, we hope you will be with us as well. Up
The markets. Ashley, first to you. Ashley well, guys as we say good riddance to september where all the major indexes posted a loss we embrace a new month but we havent come exactly flying out of the gates although green across the screen. The dow finishing slightly higher as you can see, about 1 10 of a percent after being down more than 100 points. S p up half a percent. But it was nasdaq showed the best performance of the new month up 1 1 2 . Like Charlie Brown with a rain cloud over his head investors are frustrated by congresss inability to agree on a new stimulus bill. With the markets going up and down with each competing headline from nancy pelosi and the treasury secretary and everybody else. As a result we saw stocks move for the most part today sideways in somewhat flat trading but as i mentioned the big tech stocks did manage to give the Broader Market some impetus. Amazon, microsoft, facebook, Alphabet Google all managed to make nice gains today which you can see gave the