Assistant hhs secretary admiral brancheau walk and stephen hahn. Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committ
We have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. In the last few weeks, we watched the barbaric murder of george floyd by vile, racist Police Officers. We watched Ahmaud Arbery get gunned down by white spr supremacists. Study after study shows that white people and black people are not only more likely to commit crimes, they think that we feel less pain. We have a less nuanced feeling, and less worthy of protection, so we often have to fend for ourselves. Racism is definitely a police problem, one that is as old as our entire nation, but lets be clear no ones off the hook. Racism is an america problem. Trayvon martin, Ahmaud Arbery were killed by citizens. The overwhelming number of hate crimes are committed by ordinary citizens. Every Single Member of this commission is committed to rooting out bias in this Police Department, and after seeing the murder in minneapolis, after seeing the recent video circulating of what appears to be neck restraints used here in San Francisco in janua
Good morning. The committee will please come to order. Administrative matters based on the advice of the attending physician, after we consulted with the department of health and Human Services and the centers for Disease Control and prevention, individuals in the hearing room are at least six feet apart. As a result theres no room for the public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleagues. The hearing may be watched online. Unedited recording will be available on the committees website. Witnesses are participating in Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators including the chairman are participating via Video Conference. Senators, weve been advised may remove their masks to talk into the microphone when theyre in the hearing room as theyre six feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, Committee Staff, and everyone all for their hard work to k
Identity of americans private phone conversations without a constitutional warrant. Your reaction to this breaking news . My reaction we knew something was not right through this entire process. We knew, that this was an act that had made its way all the way to the white house, and into the oval office. Now we see from the list that yes, indeed obamas inner circle including his chief of staff in the white house had been making the requests for the unmasking. Elizabeth it is hard to see any scenario that obama and biden can now say they did not know what was going on with Michael Flynn. To your point, yeah, this chief of staff is on the list. So says man that power. You know, aside from the household names on the list, why is it that lower level staffers were asking for access to Michael Flynns conversation . Like Energy Department executive briefer, a u. S. Political advisor to nato, lower level treasury officials, to name a few, nato officials . Feels like it is out of control. This i
In the drop on record ppe data. Some similar things, but hasnt really captured what we are seeing in terms of covid19 yet. European stocks rolling over. The telco sector is doing reasonably well. Vodafone leading the charge there. Good numbers. Retailers are doing well. Real estate, travel and leisure, insurance is where we are seeing weakness today. We have seen the u. K. Going to the syndicated market today. Usually u. K. Sells debt via auctions. A rare trip there. Absolutely staggering demand for that debt. We continued to see yields going higher in italy. Keep an eye on that. Crude catching a bid. We are up by nearly 2 today. Vonnie also, we are awaiting testimony by dr. Anthony haoching today from the nash dr. Anthony fauci today from the of infectioustute diseases. Lets bring in Bloomberg White house reporter josh wingrove. Will know yet if dr. Fauci say anything that will be troublesome to the administration . Josh i think it could be interpreted as it, but i would expect it is