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The new system and we have a staff update on this this morning. So looking forward to that. In short, d. B. I. Is still fulfilling its motion on behalf of the his. I want to thank you to our hardworking and dedicated professionals for their absolute terrific jobs they are doing and have been doing. Under the enormous stresses caused by this virus. This continues to require multiple adjustments in very reduced timeframes and under challenging conditions. And we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. On top of Everything Else, the entire department is moving its offices to 49 south van ness. The move will start on july 23rd and take place over two weekends. It will mean that the Curbside Services are unavailable for a few days and again staff will provide more details on this later in the morning. The city, as you know, is keeping a very close eye on the resurgence of the deadly virus. Well keep you updated as changes occur and we have steps that are designed to k
Every federal agency in washington feared the notoriety of being o called out doctor coburns and no report of government access known as waste book he led the fight that ended congressional earmarked better known as project spread will others created credit for getting new inprograms he took on the thankless job of trying to unravel the maze of duplicates of an overlapping programs and redundant and inefficient bureaucracy. The loan he offered requiring the gao to identify duplication within federal programs has saved our taxpayers more than 260 billion to date. I think the head of gao said it best, this law is quote the gift that keeps on giving and it will for a long time,. This effort is not just saving money it is making government more efficient and other important ways. An egregious example found as a result of duplication law is there are ten different agencies with 23 different overlapping and fragmented definitions for Sexual Violence. If we cannot even define the problem, how
Reopen america and put this great nation back to work. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. President . [inaudible conversations] elizabeth okay. Okay. This is the im elizabeth macdonald, welcome to the evening edit. The Coronavirus Task force just now wrapping up. Okay, heres whats happening, we have more than 50,000 in the u. S. Now dead, 26 million out of work. Oil is rebounding. Jpmorgan chase is telling Small Businesses, hey, apply with other banks because theres fears of fresh funds from the new program money that just came in will run out. Lets bring in former cia station chief daniel of match. He is basically hoffman. He is basically former station chief for afghanistan and pakistan. Sir, first i want to jump to this its great to have you on. Governor cuomo is now saying the World Health Organization was too little too late, that its basically that the critics have been saying that the who is in the back pocket of china. This is still an underlying controversy. Your reaction to
Wish we were together again. So the word unprecedented is getting quite a workout over the past month or so. Jack, it certainly applies to what was happening in the Energy Market over the past week. Right at the start of the week the Energy Markets you know what . Lets get weird. I know you think youve seen weird, but how does 37 sound on a barrel of crude oil . Does that mean i can go to a gas station, theyll pea me to if fill up the car . Thats not what it means. In the futures market, each contract has to do with a specific type of Oil Delivered to a specific place at a specific time, and on april 20th when that may west texas intermediate contract came due, you better have had a pipeline and storage tank willing to accept your oil in oklahoma or you got closed with next to zero liquidity. Most people didnt have it, so so we had prices go sharply negative. Now jack if you have a boat that holds oil, thats a nice thing. Funny you mentioned that because on my street wise podcast for b