Thank you. I dont know of anybody else who would be doing this, madam chair. Youre unique in all of history. Wow. Now, to my six friends, i have a question for you. If you find that your Bank Owned Slaves or accepted slaves as collateral would you publicly atone for this seminal sin . Mr. Solomon, a person of good will, would you publicly atone if you found your Bank Owned Slaves or accepted slaves as a collateral . Yes or no sir . The bank has never owned slaves so i dont think its something im in a position to opine on. Well, lets just assume you could be in error, sir. We were established in 1969, sir. Well, sometimes things happen. We were established in 1869, and through our history we never owned slaves, we had no involvement with slavery. If you found that you did, would you atone . Im not going to speculate on something thats not correct, sir. Quite regrettable, sir. Quite regrettable. If you found that you owned them or had slaves as collateral, would you atone . Yes, congress
Inadvertent background noise. Members are also reminded that they may only participate in one remote proceeding at a time. If youre participating today, please keep your camera on, and if you choose to attend a different remote proceeding, please turn your camera off. Additionally, i want to announce that for this hearing, it is my intention to recess the committee for five minutes every two hours. Lastly, before we begin, id like to take a moment to recognize congresswoman items who is celebrating her 75th birthday today. Happy birthday, congresswoman adams. Thank you, maxine. Happy birthday. Thank you so much. Thank you. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Good afternoon, everyone. Today, this committee convenes for a hearing entitled, holding mega banks accountable, an update on banking practices, programs, and policies. And of course you know, testifying before the Committee Today, we will have the ceos of Jpmorgan Chase, Citi Group, morgan stanley
they say it most likely spread through an intermediate animal host, possibly a wild animal captured and raised on a farm or a direct transmission from an animal known to carry a similar coronavirus such as a pangolin or bat. the report says it s not likely to have come from frozen food, and the least likely source, they say, a laboratory leak. well, from more on what s in that report, let s turn now to cnn s kristie lu stout who joins us live from hong kong. so what else did this report reveal about the origins of covid-19, and how reliable are the findings given the restrictions placed on the w.h.o. team one year after the pandemic started? reporter: you re right, rosemary. a lot of concerns about the timing, about the access, the process and methodology that went into this investigation. cnn has obtained a draft of this 123-page report by the world health organization, looking into the origins of the novel coronavirus. there s a lot of detail in there as you can expect, b
they ve been pulling the ever given from the bow and the stern in different directions in an attempt to dislodge it from where it has been stuck for seven days now. now, it does appear the stern is dislodged from the bank as you can see in this video, but not clear at the moment if the bow has been freed. this latest effort being executed during high tide, which could present the best opportunity to get the ship moving again. ben wedeman joins me now live from cairo with more details. so what are you hearing on efforts to get this sorted? tell us more about this video and what we re seeing in it. reporter: what you re seeing in this video is the ship early morning in the canal, and it does seem to have moved. keep in mind, i mean, when you look at that video, you can clearly tell that it is no longer completely sort of straddling the suez canal. it seems to have moved. now, in the video in arabic, you can hear somebody who is clearly not getting a lot of sleep and smoking
tower blocks on m estates have now failed fire safety tests since the grenfell disaster. earlier the communities secretary, sajid javid, told breakfast that money will be made available to councils that need it. they have to do whatever it takes to get their buildings safe and any necessary works they do, if they need support from the government, we can work with them. good morning it s saturday 24th june. also ahead. the leader of the commons, andrea leadsom, tells broadcasters they should be more patriotic in their coverage of brexit talks. morning, it s advantage all blacks. the world champions are already 10 0 ahead at eden park where they haven t been beaten for 23 years. and 20 years since their first headline set, we ll get reaction after radiohead played the pyramid stage on the opening night of glastonbury. and stav has the weather. good morning. big difference in the weekend this weekend to last weekend. fresher this weekend, very windy in the north. details in 15