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Second in front of the a joint session in congress. The big issues are nexts as power lunch begins right now your portfolio taking a big hit for the second day we are right around session lows, the dow and s p 500 having the biggest drop in about five months as you might imagine, the socalled fear gauge is rising a bit today. And the story we told you about taking most of the Health Care Stocks down, hospital stocks are you want and other win is as well clorox, at t and Phillips Van Heusen are among the few companies in the green thank you im Michelle Carusocabrera. Here is what else is happening Hardy Davidson shares are dipping. The shipments lowest in six years. They expect a drop this year as well apple glassing the ios plan. Home prices surging again. The caseshiller price index dipping. We begin with the market selloff were at around session lows, the dow down around 360 points bob pisani is with with more. Just off the lows 2820 was the lows, be were just above that thats a diff
The [inaudible conversations] the Committee Meets today to hear at all Mike Boettcher is. You have more titles than anybody else. The commander of the u. S. Cyber command, director of the agency and chief of the Security Service given your upcoming retirement this might be the last time you are dropping in. As the recent National Defense strategy identified renewed great power with russia and china and that kind of stands along with what the general said when he said that we are losing our qualitative and quantitative edge as we move into this 3to National Defense strategy. As we approach the eighth anniversary of the Cyber Command, we should recognize the remarkable progress made in the concept establishing the command. Later this year we anticipate the Operational Capability for 6,200 persons Labor Commission force despite the main successes, there are still significant challenges. The committee remains concerned about the hollow cyber force due to the lack of priority across the ser
The tea as a is a new creation of that but obviously there was a coast guard before that. The secret service and interaction with the coast guard and the coast guard provided, and the department of Homeland Security. My sense is the cooperation is enhanced with in the same agency. I would like to add the panels conclusion is we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform. For those issues we didnt think moving from one agency to another would address any of the issues we identified and so while we understand that was a serious debate, the focus needed to be solving the problems we had. If i could say one interesting piece on treasury was being an older guy, i remember well a lot of discussions treasury officials, wall street guys, finance guys dont understand the Enforcement Mission well, and wherever we are you think it is somewhere else. I believe it was correct to say at that point of the director of the secret service reported u. N. Assistant secretary or undersecr
To taiwan and whether china could direct military exercises towards the u. S. This is about 90 minutes. Director of the China Project and senior fellow at the center of international studies. They for joining us thank you for joining us this morning. Nancy pelosis recent visit to taiwan because escalated tension in around the taiwan straight. The chinese conducted a largescale surrounding the island after her visit. Chinese missile test splashed down time once territory waters. We gathered together to analyze the militarys efforts for Speaker Pelosis visit. What does behavior mean for the future . Joining me today to shed light on these pressing military issues is our five military scholars. I will introduce them in ever medical order. The first is dr. Taylor for apple. He is the author and professor of Political Science at mic. Next we have christina. She is a researcher. Next we have jaclyn hill. We have dr. Rodrick lee. Cassie at ayres university and last but not least, associate pr