Remember this gem from a couple of weeks ago . [inaudible conversations] one vanilla, one chocolate. But i wanted to get what we call black and white, but were going to [inaudible] gerry withering questioning. This week there was this shocking expo is say from from e new york times. How the candidate is dealing without being warm and friendly to people because of the coronavirus. Helping a candidate over the line will, in fact, be successful. Later well talk to a couple of pollsters. But first, encouraging news on the economy this week even as coronavirus causes continue to rise and fears grow of another lockdown. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 33 in the three months through september. Now, of course, that followed the dedecline of more than 30 in thes previous quarter. Arithmetic tells us that doesnt mean its back to where it was. In the final days of the campaign, both candidates talked about their economic plans. Joe biden insisted he would take measures to keep th
Remember this gem from a couple of weeks ago . [inaudible conversations] one vanilla, one chocolate. But i wanted to get what we call black and white, but were going to [inaudible] gerry withering questioning. This week there was this shocking expo is say from from e new york times. How the candidate is dealing without being warm and friendly to people because of the coronavirus. Helping a candidate over the line will, in fact, be successful. Later well talk to a couple of pollsters. But first, encouraging news on the economy this week even as coronavirus causes continue to rise and fears grow of another lockdown. Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 33 in the three months through september. Now, of course, that followed the dedecline of more than 30 in thes previous quarter. Arithmetic tells us that doesnt mean its back to where it was. In the final days of the campaign, both candidates talked about their economic plans. Joe biden insisted he would take measures to keep th
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Concern spreads from italy to iran, but the World Health Organization says the outbreak is not yet considered a pandemic. The business case. Mastercard and United Airlines, the latest companies to issue profit warnings amid the operate. And, sticking to the script. Cleveland fed president Loretta Mester says the virus is a threat to the u. S. Economy, but does not justify a change in rates. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe and in the u. K. Lets take a look at futures after the big drop yesterday. We saw in some cases the biggest slide in european stocks since the brexit vote. As a result, we see a bounce in futures today. Maybe investors saying it is time to buy in the dip. You can see that dax futures are up 8 10 of 1 . U. S. Futures are also showing gains today after the biggest drop in two years on the s p and dow. You can see we swap over to u. S. Futures, they will be showing green arrows as well. Lets take a look at whats going on in te
I want to start by thanking our witnesses secretary esper and chairmans a joint chief of staff for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss our policy in syria, particularly in light of the events that happened win turkey invaded and drove the kurds out of portions. Our first hearing since the congressman from new york joined the committee. I want to thank him. We have a lot of new faces in this committee that are a year into it. They are not new faces anymore but good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving. The purpose of this hearing is to look at events around syria. A whole bunch of questions and the other big issue is the ability of memories of this committee to ask questions of the key policymake is in an area of importance to the committee and to give them an opportunity to learn more about the policy and express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and it is enormously important