Do we have remote people . E td okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The hearing will come to order. I believe we have some of our colleagues who are going to be remote. Opening eally have anit. Statement. Well hear from judge wilson here in a bit and well let our two colleagues from mississippi introduction. But ill defer to senator feinstein if she wants to say anything first. Hear fro i will, mr. Chairman. O a thank you very much. Today, as youve stated, were going to hearr from cory wilson nominated to a mississippi seat on the fifth Circuit Court of j appeals. Stated during the nomination hearing for the view District Court in january, i am interested in judge wilsons views on a a number of issues including health care, Voting Rights, womens reproductive afo rights, gun safety, and the rights of lgbt americans. His record of opposition to the Affordable Care act is troubling, particularly because wereorte concernedd ju with co. I hope he will straighten us out on that. A it has been reported that
Fires rockets at u. S. Military base its. Tehran says it doesnt want war. Boeing737 jet crashes in a ron shortly after takeoff due to stateat stadia media describes as technical issues. All people on board were killed. Carlos ghosn says nissan used him as a scapegoat to block further integration with renault. He speaks out in a press Conference Today in beirut. We are also getting german factory orders in the economic data. It does not look good. November factory orders dropped 6. 5 yearoveryear. November manufacturing orders dropped 1. 3 month over month. That we haverders been waiting for here in germany just dont look good. You want to pull that up on your bloomberg, type ego go. Pull down on the german flag. The picture is fairly dire. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Before the factory ders came through, they were bad enough. Now you can see, dax futures are down even more. 1 . More than double the losses that we see on ftse futures. In term
Bullish. Ty the kiwi also in focus today. Saying theng through belowill avoid it dipping . 60. Trading indian futures and showing a move to the downside. Reflected in the session on friday when we saw a move to the downside again. The rupee holding on to some of the strength that we have seen and that is down to the decision, the surprise decision not to do anything about Interest Rates. There, 6. 6 . Ing up one rate cut had been factored in and it did not transpire. Let us find out what is news. Ing first word su the latest on japanese gdp. Japan moved faster than expected. Ratedl investment was higher. 1. 8 in september. Much quicker than the initial reading of 0. 2 . And three times as much as what the commoners were expecting. Continued strength in business investment. Downplayingt is recent missile tests in north korea saying the north Korean Leader is too smart and has too much to lose if he acts in a hostile manner towards the u. S. The envoy said talks on denuclearization are o
Will voters go for that . And how the media is now pivoting from rid of the Electoral College to get rid of trump and trump of the 25th amendment to russia probe to saying reception is coming to latest. You wont believe what the media and can democrats are now debating and what theyre talking about and something just happened in the vital economic sector that is not happen in 40 years. It has a sector that democrats now want to shut down. So massacre that shocked the world, why spread condemnation weve got the updates on the arrest after a mormon family of nine slaughtered in a drug cartel attack south of the border. Stories pouring in, a child survivors also children saved by the courage of their mother. Tonight, should the Trump Administration designate mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. The president had thought about that and this was coming in. Congress now forcing trump to back off of his border wall funding. And the gloves are off it is now Elizabeth Warren, versus biden
Instead of rallying the whole world, rallying a coalition, maybe getting us back in the Transpacific Partnership where we could have a coalition of countries that could deal with china he has done it all by himself and america has paid a big big price for that, youve got to bring the world together to fight china. You sign tpp, what do you do . Absolutely would rejoin tpp in a heartbeat. During the Campaign Candidate trump said we cant join the Transpacific Partnership because it would be dominated by china. He is so incurious and so ignorant about Foreign Affairs that he didnt know china is not a member of tpp. The whole idea was that we would have a consortium of 12 pacific nations, some in asia and some in the americas without china at the table. It would be our beachhead in asia. All the treaties he has ripped up, even a treaty with iran he is scrounging around trying to get back to where he was at square one before he ripped up the 2015 deal with iran. I think the relationship wit