To address the economic fall out from this and what the fed is looking forward to more greatly address the mainstream issues here the fed is focused on trying to get trade going smoothly markets functioning smoothly especially in the treasury and fixed income markets but bringing rate dous down to try o help where it can. Theres very little Economic Activity lower rates will not be of tremendous help. The best the fed can do is try to make markets function more smoothly what the white house can do, what the fiscal side can do is address more in a detailed way, in a more pinpointed way the economic pain that individual industries and individual workers will feel. All right well be looking for those, the targeted and targeted measures this afternoon thanks thats going to do it for us lets get to the judge in the half thank you. Welcome to the Halftime Report so good to have you with us today. Were trying to make sense of all of this. Our show will look differently in the days ahead. Our
Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think the first photo is ready. Everyday our overhead line unit performs preventative maintenance and keeping our Service Running safely. Theyve also been one of the teams thats been pivotal in really taking advantage of the extended maintenance window and have replaced thousands of feet of overhead wire and i think removed over 30 slices from the system. But they also have a responsibility to respond to emergencies and addressed quickly as possible so we can get service that going. That means theyre working between trains, sometimes that means that theyre working on hours or under tremendous amount
[roll call] you have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devises. The ringing of use of cellphones and pagers and sound producing electric devices are prohibited and the chair may over the removal from the room of any person responsibility for one going off in the middle of the meeting. The minutes of february 18th, 2020 regular meeting. No members have turned in a public speaker card. Public comment is closed. We have the minutes ill entertain a motion. Move. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Consider those approved. Clerk communications. Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think th
A michael local welcome to d w special coverage of the Munich Security Conference the annual event brings together World Leaders top ministers and experts the 1st day of talks have already shown potential progress talks between the u. S. And the taliban may lead to a fresh Peace Process for afghanistan and an unprecedented meeting between chinese and vatican diplomats has taken place for the 1st time in decades one topic has dominated the conference fears that the western powers could be losing their unified front on friday germanys president warned that a lack of western solidarity was fueling global insecurity todays panel is set to tackle that topic with nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh joined by pretentiously the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov we also. Understand that mark esper the u. S. Defense secretary may also be at the talk today at the event in munich we have de w. s chief Political Editor me. And here in the studio im joined b
Time it recognizes that our 2nd tier parties are rogue states such as north korea and iran and finally dealing with violent extremist organizations will likely be an enduring threat for years to come being in europe i know that there has been much discussion about the challenges from russia so this morning i want to focus on the pentagons top concern the peoples republic of china next year will mark the 20th anniversary of a decision that fundamentally altered the course of International Affairs chinas admission into the World Trade Organization i was working in the United States senate at the time and 2 competing arguments over chinas membership dominated the public debate. The prevailing notion of the day was that if we allowed the p. R. C. In the b. T. O. And other multilateral institutions china would continue on its path of economic reform and eventually become a market oriented trading partner more broadly increased engagement with the liberal world order would also spur politica