Committee held a confirmation hearing for chad wolf to formula become head of the Homeland Security department. Mr. Wolf has been serving as acting dhs secretary since november of last year. Answered questions on election interference, domestic terrorism, and Human Trafficking, among other topics. This is just under two hours. Meeting toe are consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security, chad wolf, to be the confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with
Confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with hurricanes, wild fires, and now covid, amongst many other responsibilities. More security is a huge issue. Hes done a pretty good job of establishing the out of control, illegal entry we are experiencing were experiencing over a year ago. The department is concerned about cybersecurity, election security, the security of our Critical Infrastructure. As we just witnessed, some of the protests have sprung into riots, was a protec
Scandal. Government buildings are being targeted. 2020 race with less than 100 days to go to election day, major Bernie Sanders supporters say they cannot get behind former Vice President joe biden, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley will join me on more on 2020 race. Bringing critical supply chain back to america. Assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing, pete navarro with big announcement coming up plus latest tensions with china. Folks on earnings this morning, we will hear from 3m, mcdonalds. Jetblue among the names reporting before the name this morning. Futures searching for firm direction, we are expecting decline at start of trading, dow futures down 75, nasdaq down 40 and the s p lower by 8 and 3 quarters. U. S. Markets kicked off the week with gains yesterday finishing with near session highs as vaccine trials moving forward. Dow industrials up 115 points and nasdaq up 173 and s p higher as well, covid19 slamming the sports world meanwhile days into th
Interesting and newsworthy highlights. These points of interest markers appear on the right hand side of your screen when you hit play on select videos. This makes it easy to get an idea of what is being debated and decided on in washington. And now a hearing on the state of assisted living facilities. One witness of a Family Member in assisted living details the poor Living Conditions and cost of care. The Senate Hearing is abetted one hour and 40 minutes. The Senate National committee on aging will come to order. As chairman, my top priority is keeping our promises to Older Americans the Senate Special committee on aging will come to order. As chairman of the ag committee my top priority is keeping our promises to Older Americans and to americans with disabilities. We owe it to every person with a disability, and their family, to have the necessary information to decide when, where and how to receive care as they age. That has motivated by advocacy, for example, for home and communit
But it did not close above that level. We saw the major averages give back by the end of the day some off the morning highs well keep a close eye on this this morning green arrows indicated once again this morning dow futures up by 57 points. S p up by 4. 5 points the nasdaq up by 8. 5 points. Look at asia, the nikkei gave back some grounds. Hang seng up by 0. 7 the shanghai was up by 0. 9 . Then if you check things out in europe, its a mixed bag ftse up by a quarter percentage point. The dax and cac are weaker stocks in italy are down stocks in spain slightly higher. Check out crude oil prices you will see that crude oil looks like it is up about 29 cents. 47 57. 45 for wti. We are watching a couple big stories this morning were learning more about that deadly amtrak crash in Washington State yesterday three people were killed, nearly 100 more injured when the train derailed the ntsb confirmed that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30mileperhour zone the crash left sev