Directors, government representatives and International Technology companies to talk about what state and local governments need to improve their systems. if you could silence your cell phones electronics i would appreciate it. Im going to take the role now. Vice chair ben hovland. Commissioner thomas hicks. We have a quorum of the commission. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today at the u. S. Election system to examine the security challenge Election Security faces ahead of the 2020th president ial election. This vital conversational providers with a better understanding of ways the commission can help jurisdictions address a variety of Security Issues including those that stem from aging Voting Technology. When Congress Passed the help america vote act of 2002 that established the eac is the only federal entity solely focused on supporting Elections Officials on the voters they serve. Part of our charge is to be the nations clearinghouse of information on the Election Admini
Id appreciate it. Im going to take the role now, vice chair. Present. Commissioner palmer. Here. Commissioner thomas hicks. Here. So we have a quorum of the commission. Good afternoon, i thank you for joining us today as the u. S. Election Assistance Commission convenes an Election Security forum for the security challenge Election Administrators face ahead of the 2020 president ial election. This vital conversation will provide us with a better understanding of ways the commission can help jurisdictions address a variety of Security Issues, including those that stem from aging Voting Technology. When Congress Passed the help america vote act of 2002, it established the eac as the only federal entity solely focused on Election Officials and voters they serve. Part of our charge is to be the nations clearinghouse on Election Administration. It is this responsibility that brings us here today and guides our Election Security efforts. Eac prides itself addressing significant issues and th
The nasdaq up by 19. Lets look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up by 1. 2 . Hang seng was up sharply it was up by 1. 4 . The shanghai was up by 0. 7 . In europe, the early trading thats taking place there, you will see a mixed picture the cac and the ftse both down by a third of a percentage point. Dax is flat. Stocks are higher in italy and weaker in spain. Then in the treasury market, if you want to check things out, the tenyear actually staying at 2. 045 President Trump arriving in osaka, japan moments ago just as the wall street journal came out with a report suggesting that progress on a trade deal Kayla Tausche is there on the ground she joins us with the latest this morning andrew, its President Trumps third g20 summit as president. His third visit to japan as president. And perhaps the highest stakes yet as he holds several bilateral meetings, not the least of which with president xi jinping where we learned that the wall street journal is reporting according
House lawmakers grilling r former special counsel robert hur on his investigation into President Bidens mishandling of classified documents. Hur faced questions from democrats on his decision to include statements on bidens memory in the report. Republicans pressed him on bidens ghost writer and his motivation to keep those classified documents. Watch. The evidence and the president himself put his memory squarely at issue. We interviewed the president and asked him about his recorded statement, quote, i just found all the classified stuff downstairs, end quote. He told us that he didnt remember saying that to his ghost writer. He also said he didnt remember finding classified material in his home after his vice presidency and he didnt remember anything about how classified documents about afghanistan made their way into his garage. My assessment in the report about the relevance of the president s memory was necessary and accurate and fair. February 8th, the white house, question, mr.
Dealt a blow this past month the nasdaq up 5 the russell up 5. 5 . The dow up 1. 5 . So goes the start of the year. So goes the rest i mean, historically, you come out of a great january and most of the time you do get followthrough. Of course nothing is perfect if it were that easy, you would set a formula and there would be no need to think i dont know if its as simple as extrapolating a good january, a good first quarter, what have you, but theres a reason why that kind of thing does tend to persist over the years and decades. The stocks change. The ceos change. The products and services that theyre selling change what doesnt change is human nature and when the indices get a good start, that generally leads to chasing and generally leads to people just feeling more upbeat and better about things and interpreting data points as bullish rather than bearish so they can stay in the game. I like the way the year started. Guarantees us nothing, but probably it does do well the rest of the