Mr. Obrien thank you for having me, and thank you to the Atlantic Council for hosting again. Always great to be back with such a Distinct Group of policymakers and academics and public intellectuals. It is nice to be here with you, and especially with you, a former colleague. Look, what we have seen with china over many years now, something i have been writing about for well over a decade, is an increasing assertiveness and aggressiveness in the world. Some of it is very malign. You talk about the South China Sea. China has made the decision with a ninedash lie to annex a vast swath of the western Pacific Ocean and claim as chinese territorial waters, almost like it was talking like lake tahoe being there, internal waterways or something. It is ridiculous. It has been rejected by all major countries, seafaring countries. And now china is engaged in military exercises in these waters that they consider domestic, which no stretch of the imagination or domestic. The United States reserves
To our viewers the most prominent voices and decisionmakers shaping the National Conversation over key issues of world affairs, including the rise of china and reemergence of great power competition, energy security, cyber warfare, the global economy, and the collision between democracy and autocracy, to name just a few. Our viewers can find the latest lineup of speakers and sign up for each of them on the Atlantic Councils website, follow us on nticcouncil, and engage in this conversation. We are truly delighted to have with us Robert Obrien from National Security advisor to u. S. President donald trump. He has in this capacity since september 2019. Prior to holding is important position, ambassador obrien served on the front lines of u. S. Diplomacy as President Trumps special envoy for hostage affairs. Ambassador obrien, thank you so much for joining us today. We are delighted to have you here. Let me start with a question. According to news reports, china has protested and alleged
Dangers this he way to get one day of hot temperatures like this ok you get to not so bad you get for your 5 days that begins to wear you down a bit today records in the San Francisco at 95 degrees. 101. Very impressive record in oakland today, a 103 a record in san jose 82 right along the waters edge in Half Moon Bay very impressive for record there a 106 smoking hot napa 105 degrees in santa rosa all around the bay area just scorching temperatures a 107 the hottest i could find in antioch but everywhere he went even inside the bay places usually dont see those really hot temperatures it was smoking not 101 degrees in mount view 103 degrees in hayward it even 95 in the San Francisco, 105 in the bottle so certainly hot temperatures to be found everywhere numbers but beginning to cool down a little bit but these numbers going to stay way up overnight tonight. We still got triple digit right now 104 in little more one 05. One of 5 little more 104 in dublin, one 05 in concord look at pitt
Should be prepared. The shut offs are being ordered by the state of california so pg and he wants everyone to know this is not the Public Safety shutoff switch happened during high fire threat conditions. The outages are due to a combination of the extreme heat that were experiencing and high energy usage. Chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow joins us now to tell us the records that were broken today and how long this hot weather is going to stick around for years, you can imagine all the people trying to turn up their abc today. These temperatures easily, the hottest of the summer so far and records all around the bay area, not just in a few spots we smashed into many places in the San Francisco 95 degrees that is very hot. Downtown San Francisco. Look at oakland, a 101 degrees a 103 in san jose that was a record in san jose, Half Moon Bay right out there on the waters edge 82 a record a 106 scorching heat in napa one 05 in santa rosa. We were done there more records falling redwood ci
The brewing giant refuses to offer guidance for next year the pace of recovery, as you point out is uncertain and is very local infin yan shares jump as they point to a recovery in the chip maker. The outlook is improving within automotive, we have seen recovery. Also korea we expect that the worst is behind us. The threeway deal, President Trump says the u. S. Treasury should be paid a substantial amount of money for facilitating the part of the bid of the chinese app tiktok i think maybe a deal is going to be made it is a great asset but not in the United States unless they have the approval of the United States a very warm welcome to street signs. Lets get right to the Market Action trading has been under way about 60 minutes and has been a very turbulent hour currently about 25 basis points below the flat line. We have crossed into and out of positive territory the results front, some companies actually offering a fairly optimistic recovery on the outlook. Getting investors confide