House democrats held a News Conference where they introduced legislation that would impose new checks on president ial power and toughen enforcement of ethics rules and congressional subpoenas. Speaker nancy pelosi, Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff, along with the chairs of several committees addressed recent actions by President Trump. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Im pleased to be joined today by the speaker and my fellow chairs to announce the introduction of the protecting our democracy act. In introducing this landmark bill, the house is taking another vitally important step in our determination to protect our democracy. Since taking office, donald trump has viewed the constraints on his power and the demand for basic transparency and accountability as an inconvenience. He has claimed extraordinary power, bent and broken the law and purposely undermi mined the rule of law. Hes bound only by norms for which he has no interest. Where he has found weak
Release. More on fight for freedom. At 8 00 a. M. Congressman devin nunes and we will go inside of the investigations of the origins of the russia probe and find out what the House Intel Committee is doing and who could be held legally responsible. At 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Senator rand paul on stimulus battle and concerns about our rising debt. This morning markets are trading mixed. Take a look at futures right now indicating a decline at the start of trading, nasdaq futures down 7 and s p down 3 and a half. This after a big rally yesterday. U. S. Markets rallied strong with the s p 500 closing at 6 points away from a fresh record high. Dow industrials up 289 points at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets are negative. Red across the board in europe. Cac quarante in paris down 7 and dax index in germany lower by 26. The u. S. Announcing it is keeping tariffs on 7 and a half billion of european and uk products. All that coming up this mo
Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an
Of the surge in new cases. Ill have more on that in a moment. We are getting new information on the twitter hack. It wasnt just a handful of celebrities. 130 accounts were targeted and it appears to have been an inside job. That is serious stuff. Im not sure that Twitter Twitter is up, thats right. Im thinking of another stock. Okay, twitter is up just a fraction. It is serious stuff about twitter. Weve got an analyst on the show who says it might have been a test run for something much bigger. Time to drop your twitter account . We will ask the question and get an answer. More on that coming up, too. Lets get to the market. This week we have seen a shift away from big tech and towards smaller companies. The russell index of small cap stocks, for example, up 3 this week. The dow industrials, down just over 2 . This morning, we will open with a nice gain for the dow, up maybe 100 points, 26,600. Look at the nasdaq. Theres a bounceback for you, up 100 points at the opening bell. All righ
Shoomt have to do. Going, going, gone. How will we strike out baseball. And breaking myths while pushing ahead. Good job this is the cbs cbs overnight news. Good evening, every. Im Major Garrett in washington. History will record when american application return to its pandemic pause, it did so in tulsa, president trump, the headliner, the crowd, large by conventional standards, small. Masks were treated casually. The president said little about racial tepgss policing or reconciliation. He did defend that beautiful heritage of ours. Heres more from tulsa. Getting ba n downtown tulsa is prum whirlwind t. The president chose tulsa, oklahoma, for his First Campaign rally since early match when the pap democratic halted campaigning in the country. President trump revved up the crowd. Joed bidens record can be summed up as four decades of betrayle and calamity. The oklahoma rally happened during the surge of coronavirus in the sooner state. The president contests the only reason the numbers