Billion. Tripoint is backed for gary sternlicht. Andrew, good morning. Theres some synergy there, as they say in the merger business. Also, we have some corporate buzz. The New York Times reporting that u. S. Authorities have expanded the probe into jpmorgans hiring practices outside of china across the asian pacific. Theyre focusing on south korea, singapore and india. The d. O. J. Was exploring other areas. We talked a little bit about this. Jpmorgan is the one that actually went to the d. O. J. And started talking about these other hiring practices and now theyve expanded their probe. There they are. Good news, in the i. P. O. Space, october was the busiest month for u. S. Offerings since 2007. 33 companies raised more than 12 billion companies. Finally, a new cnbc Associated Press poll is finding that the social Network Faces skepticism from potential investors and broader publica head of its initial public offering. Kayla is going to join us with more of those details in a minute.
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I am not a lawyer. I have come to learn of the term sui generis. The olc memos released after the president came into office were released because the program was terminated. Olc will counsel opinions, and those opinions were looked at in a different way because of the sui generis circumstances. Both are essential for the ability of congress to carry its oversight responsibilities. Finally, the intelligence reform act and terrorist prevention act of 2004, with which you are very familiar and which i was a coauthor, requires the director of National Intelligence to recommend who the cia director should be to the president of the United States. I am aware of general clapper the dnis letter, endorsing your nomination, which is different from his actually recommending to the president that you be chosen. To your knowledge, did general clapper recommend to the president that he be nominated for this position . I know for certain that he made a recommendation, but i would defer to general cl
Taking place. When i later found out that you had rpgs and there was an attack, there was no question in my mind. My position would be they knew that at the time because i have talked to several people that have stated they knew it. Unequivocably that would have been a terrorist attack. The thing i am getting to come and do you agree that it was a terrorist attack . When i appeared before this committee three days afterwards i said it was a terrorist attack. That is what the john brennan said. I have to say we have to understand someone has to ask a question. If that was true and we knew all of that at that time, the presentation by susan rice, before all of america, said we have the fact was this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. I will not ask you to respond to that but i think it is important people understand that everybody knew on that sunday it was a preplanned, premeditated attack. Thank you for your tolerance. You can see the rest of the hearing on cspan 2, or in our v
In this area to say what has not been dealt with. You are exactly right, fannie and freddie is not dealt with under doddfrank. But lets talk about doddfrank for a moment. There have been reforms to our financial system, but there needs to be significantly more. One thing about doddfrank is it sets up a framework. But ultimately not all of the rules are implemented. There are very important standards that need to be set by the regulators and treasury. Because what we are worried about is trying to protect americans in the event of another financial crisis. We do not want to be in a situation where one of the companies can bring down all of these losses in american jobs and american pensions and mortgages. We cannot be in one of those situations again. So, we are going to continue to raise the alarm and say there has to be more work done. And it is not going to be easy. And there is a lot of heavy lifting. One of the things to me quite disgusting is you have all of these companies to tak