times, is the part of our irene schwartz speaker series and is always i like to thank mr. schwartz for his great generosity which is enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage. [applause]. i would like to recognize the chair of our executive committee i d like to thank you rick, for all of the very many things you do. on behalf of this great institution. thank you. [applause]. and want to thank all of the chairman counselor to who are with us this evening as well for their great support of new york historical. tonight news program is about is lasting about an hour there will be a question-and-answer session. you should have received no card with a pencil on your way into the auditorium this evening and if not, my colleagues are going up and down the aisles with no cards and pencils. no cards with your questions will be collected later on in the program. the program there will be a book signing tonight. this will be in our ny history start and copies of ambassador
wake of natural disasters, and the sea opening statement are limited to the chair and the ringing member and to hear more from her witnesses and provide all members with adequate time to ask questions in a small note, this hearing was scheduled before we knew that this was going to be a short week we will be they will be called again and members will go to roll in mr. allen s has agreed to come back and continue the hearing so we can have every witness testified. so i now recognize myself for making an opening statement today were here to examine the response to the impact of natural disasters in the diverse challenges our schools face on the road to recovery. we need to know what has gone right, what has gone wrong and what needs to improve for the sake of her children and their schools. because we do know it s a question of when not if the next storm will hit. our distinguished witnesses will share the harrowing experience of communities in the wake of some of our countries
for six years i have been a target of the unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter? well, here s my answer, i am here. all this just hours before the house is set to vote on launching a formal impeachment inquiry into president biden. meanwhile, for first time today, at the white house, the president is meeting in person with the families of american hostages taken on october 7th as israel wages its war against hamas. and breaking from the supreme court, it will hear a major case over a widely used abortion pill, we ll break down what is at stake. and millions of teslas under a software recall as the company warns of a defect in its auto pilot technology. we begin with breaking news involving president biden and his family. the president s son hunter apparently defying a subpoena to appear before the house oversight committee for a closed door deposition, but did appear on capitol hill this morning to repeat his demand for a public hearing and to blast
president zelenskyy and that country s desperate need for more weapons, while talking tough about another leader, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who s losing support globally over the mounting civilian casualties in gaza. among other things. meanwhile on capitol hill, house republicans are doubling down on partisan politics, with a vote today on an impeachment inquiry into president biden, it comes as the president s son in standoff with house republicans over a public versus a private hearing and we re keeping an eye on wall street ahead of fed s expected decision this afternoon on the future of interest rates. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, december 13th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. james stavridis. president emeritus on the council of foreign relations, richard haass. we have so much to talk about today. i mean, willie, i xwot the say, we also have a poll by the way, these polls go back and forth. we
economy. yes, this is nail-biting time. and political correctness, we cave to iran, the markets cave and anchor babies. varney & company is about to begin. all right, let s get at it. the selloff on the markets that s coming in 29 minutes. look at futures pointed to a triple digit loss for the dow jones industrial average then certainty about janet yellen and interest rates. global slowdown, all of that not added up for stocks. oil is at a 6 1/2 year low. 40.77 a barrel and we re swimming in the stuff and new concerns about slowing growth in china that will hurt demand. we re watching to see if oil goes to $39. gas, yeah, it went down a little bit. the national average moved down to 2.65 for regular. that s commodities and that is stocks now. look how valiant is going to open. this is a canadian company and it s offering $1 billion for the maker of female viagra. $1 billion. doesn t that seem like a steal? there are fresh polls out this morning from three swing states. th