Good afternoon, everybody. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on oversight and Management Efficiency will come to order. The purpose of this hearing is to examine the risks posed by north korea to Homeland Security and recommendations for the department of Homeland Security to be better prepared to mitigate these risks. The chair recognizes himself for an Opening Statement. It is no secret that kim jongun and his maniacal resegime have ramped up tensions. With missile tests on a dozen occasions between february and september of 2017 including tests of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Many Americans and allies around the globe remain on edge. However, americans may rightly wonder about north koreas ability to threaten the home land directly. Intelligence from the hermit kingdom is often times inconsistent and limited. Despite these intelligence challenges, information that has been gathered is reason enough for alarm. For example, according to media reports, two north k
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Electromagnetic pulse attacks. Good afternoon, everybody. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee. Will come to order. The purpose of this hearing is to examine the risk posed by north korea to Homeland Security and recommendations for the department to be better prepared to mitigate these risks. The chair recognizes himself for an Opening Statement. It is no secret that kim jong un and his regime in north korea has ratcheted up tensions with thenitis at an alarming rate. With the knowledge north korea conducted over 20 missile tests on a dozen different occasions between february and september of 2017. Including test of Ballistic Missiles. Many americans and allies around the globe remain on edge. However, americans may rightly wonder about north koreas ability to threaten the homeland directly. Intelligence from the hermit kingdom is inconsistent and limited. Despite the intelligence challenges, information that has been gathered is reason enough for alarm. For example, accor
We will have the latest, but first, lets check in on the markets with mark barton. Mark e. U. Go. Look at the right hand side of the chart. Look at the map. Tories 315. 326 is the number they need. They are not going to get that number. This is not a brexit type of exit. European stocks are rising. Ftse is gaining because of the weak pound. Biggest decline since june 27. Sterling two day chart. That is when the exit polls came out at 10 p. M. Last night. Wed be down as much as 2. 5 . Vote, the expectations were if we got a Hung Parliament, sterling could fall as much as 1. 20. The median forecast. The 10 before the Vote Deutsche Bank set if we get a labour victory, the 10 year goes up. If we get a tory, small majority we go down to 90 basis points. Fascinating times, but its ver y much a localized Market Reaction. Francine thank you so much. She promised strong and stable. But we have this morning is anything but. The snap election gamble has backfired. Losing seats rather than gaining
Bloomberg. This is what im seeing across the board. Theres a little bit of sidewayson moving for these equity movements. They seem to be tracking gains across asia. Traditional assets, the Dollar Strengthening the crude oil will keep an eye on that at just below 48. What could straight to the bloomberg first word news. On for thisame north korea this after kim jongun threatened to do just that. Any military action would require his nations approval. The German Economy extended its growth to the Second Quarter. That is just below the estimates in the Bloomberg Survey. It will come as welcome news for Angela Merkel. Asked hownt trump has china handles intellectual property. Beijings ministry of commerce responded by saying any protection would damage economic relations and hurt the business interest of both countries. And bill dudley says it is reasonable to plan next month. He also said he supports another Interest Rate increase this year if the economy evolves at we continue to monitor