The House Select Intelligence Committee hearing is nearly three hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chairman to click a any time. Today, we come together to discuss the intelligence communities to 124 annual threat assessment. We begin with an open session and is been broadcast live and stream on the committees you tube channel. The open session is entirely unclassified, all participants are reminded to refrain from discussing classified information or other information protected from public disclosure. On the conclusion of the open session we were recess and resume in the closed session in the Committee Hearing room at two p. M. Or immediately following the first vote series currently scheduled from 1 30 that you can come pick it his intention to proceed with us and without any disruptions. Any disruption of the committee will result in the United States Capitol Police restoring order and the protesters will be renewed and arrested.
The House Select Intelligence Committee hearing is nearly three hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chairman to click a any time. Today, we come together to discuss the intelligence communities to 124 annual threat assessment. We begin with an open session and is been broadcast live and stream on the committees you tube channel. The open session is entirely unclassified, all participants are reminded to refrain from discussing classified information or other information protected from public disclosure. On the conclusion of the open session we were recess and resume in the closed session in the Committee Hearing room at two p. M. Or immediately following the first vote series currently scheduled from 1 30 that you can come pick it his intention to proceed with us and without any disruptions. Any disruption of the committee will result in the United States Capitol Police restoring order and the protesters will be renewed and arrested.
Lets see what happened overnight in asia. The flnikkeiclosed down. Hang seng down by 5 points the shanghai composite up by a third of a percentage point. In europe in some early trading, looks like the dax is up by a third of a percentage point. The cac is up bay half py a half percentage point finally check out crude Oil Prices Crude Oil yesterday down by 1. 4 on some questions about u. S. Supply and also doubts about whether russia is going to be cutting output whether it will stick with that. This morning down 1 couple big stories were watching japans softbank offering to purchase shares of uber at a valuation of only 28 billio 4 . Thats a huge drop of the most recent valuation of 68 billion. Ubers board approved the investment in october. It would expand the board and cut the influence of founder travis kalanick. Big question about whether people will tend near this offer. The consortium is led by softbank, and they plan to take a stake of 14 in uber if they dont get it at this pri
Obamacare and why some people hate it. What did you find . John dessner well, its really a story of two families. Because if youre fortunate enough to qualify for subsidies, you do get a lot of help. But if youre unfortunate enough to fall off of this what we call a subsidy cliff and literally that could mean earning an extra 200 per year, then you get no help. Sharyl and this week, we take a look at the annual capitol hill drama of the budget. Rep. Buck the reason they always have the omnibus bill right before christmas is they hold it over our heads and say, were gonna shut down government, this is gonna be terrible. Sharyl and we ask a few of you about handling the budget. Are you more of a spender or a saver do you think . Saver. Sharyl what do you think about the way the government is handling its finances . Its pretty incredible that they cant keep to a budget. I mean its absolutely asinine. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its
South korea. This includes former defense officials discussing research and Development Efforts and opportunities for investment. Posted by the center for strategic and international studies, this is just over one hour. Thank you for joining us after the coffee break. I hope you had a chance to refresh yourself chats a little with the new person you met today. My name is sandra and im senior fellow at the center for strategic and national studies. We focus on defense acquisition and on Defense Training for the corporation that we have with our allies and partners. I will introduce our panel and kick off the question and answer session with this group. Our panel is divided into two folks who are presenting it into who will speak to the presentations and other issues under this topic. The topic is finding opportunities to facilitate republic of korea, u. S. Defense r d cooperation. We have a strong panel to present on this topic. To my left is steve who recently completed service as the