Vice chair eaken. Here. Eaken present. Director heminger. Here. Have you a quorum. Though were legally required to have on the agenda to make its announcement because its clear were all using sound producing devices during the meeting we wont make the announcement. Approval of the october 20, 2020 meeting. Im ask the moderator to open the bridge and ask colleagues if theres amendments to the Meeting Minutes from october 20. Seeing none, is there Public Comment . Moderator is anyone on the line . Have you zero questions remaining. Well close Public Comment. So moved. Is there a second . Second. Chair borden secretary boomer please call the roll. [roll call] director eaken youre very faint. [roll call] madame chair, we can approve the minutes. Item 5, communications. Chair borden i lovely speech i get to give at every meeting. All members are participating Via Teleconference. This will ensure the safety of the sfmta board of directors and public. In the published notice for the meeting a
Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Do we ask everyone to turn on their cameras . Were getting ready to get started. The hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both ranks member mr. Hysse and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person especially when we are in session. I made a promise that i would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort. I believe when were in session protecting everybody, those who are not comfortable or physically cannot join us in the hearings room, are more than welcome to join us through web i no noor. We ask everybody when they were not speaking, to wear a mask. I really appreciate that cooperation of for members appears remotely. House rules require that we see you, so police have your cameras turned on at all times during the course of the hearing. If they can let us you can use the chat function to send a request. And if that doesnt work, you can unmute and seek recognition. These arent ideal circumstances, but we are in the midst of a pa
Decline. Biggest drop since 2009. A real freeze that has hit the manufacturing economy. Thats right. The lowest ism reading this is a kind of this 340 versus last month survey sometimes market moves are inscrutable. Yesterday, markets were up clearly just challenged this idea that the u. S. Economy was resilient enough we are constandly talking about increasing recession fears. Suddenly this data point comes along. The consumer, in 2019, are we dependent on manufacturing to the extent we used to be no. Not even close it is a great swing factor it doesnt go down that much but it also accelerates that much. You take a look at treasury yields yesterday as soon as this number hit 0 years at 2. 089 . We were above 1. 7 on the 10year yesterday. That shows you the market is saying, okay, the fed is likely to give another cut in october not a sure thing probability right now. The october adp report will be released at 8 15 eastern. Reportedly added 120,000 private sector jobs last month johnso
The latest developments in Fulton County county, the Election Interference case there in georgia, plus, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell addresses concerns about his Health Following two unsettling incidents where he froze up in front of reporters. And republican president ial candidate Chris Christie is now calling out fellow gop challenger ron desantis as the Florida Governor is slipping in the polls. Well have his comments for you straight ahead along with joe, willie and me, we have the hosts of way too early, White House Bureau chief jonathan lemire, white house editor for politico sam stein and former u. S. Attorney and senior fbi official, Chuck Rosenberg. Willie, sorry, joe. Yeah, i mean, lets get to baseball first. Lemire, you didnt stay up to see that atrocity last night, did you at the trop. The sox had tied it when i called it a day and checked the score this morning and threw my phone across the room. Geez. Tough loss. Sam, what about you . I did watch it. The sox we