A next brenon talking with experts. Policy good morning everybody in d. C. , good evening to nerve korea, welcome. This week on the capital cable, global threat. The bidenharris transition and the Foreign Policy environment theyll inherit. Tension, issues posed by dprk, china, and interpreting all the signs around the region. Our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are lucky to have him here today. He needs no introduction but let me go through it. Former director of c. I. A. , former director of former principal advisor assistant to the president for counterterrorism and Homeland Security in the white house to president obama, former director of the National Counterterrorism center, career c. I. A. Officer, arabic speaker and author of the bestselling and i would add having read it myself, very interesting book undaunted my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad, he is someone who sits at the nexus
Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs and was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, and that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity, nita lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women for chair of the appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, following in the footsteps of another new yorker, eliot engel. And the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to be the chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of the great leadership of collin peterson. Greg meeks is also africanamerican. Pretty historic. A woman and africanamerican. In contested races. Throughout our leadership, half of the leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. There are more chairs to be announced, but these ar
As secretary of state, i have worked to secure the vote for all georgians. On day one, we outlawed ballot harvesting. We strengthened signature match through the g. B. I. Train and moved toward an audible paper ballot system. I am the first secretary of state to implement a drivers license requirement for online absentee ballot applications, which strengthen the security of our absentee ballot process. Whether it is the president of the United States or a failed gubernatorial candidate, disinformation regarding election administrations should be condemned and rejected. Integrity matters, truth matters. Today the secretary of States Office will be recertifying our States Election results. Then the states harbor under the United States code to name electors is tomorrow and then they will meet on december 14 to officially elect the next president. While we will continue our investigations to their conclusions, and where prosecution is necessary, we will work with the state election board
Administration or a new term of an Old Administration depending what happens, but in time for the stocktaking going around the world on how to open the economy when the u. S. Has behaved as it has for the past four years, but also equally importantly, when we are all facing the vulnerabilities that came out of the pandemic. Before introducing my colleagues that will be speaking today to the National Economic council and the economic advisers and trade policy and industrial policy about the u. S. , china dialogue, let me say a couple of words about the rebuilding project. We come from different classes but they reinforce each other paid we went through decades in which they went handinhand, the International Peace and posterity. That has not gone well since the Global Financial crisis and the pandemic has intensified those actions. Face, real risk we all Climate Change, technological slowdown and oppression and disinformation and the loss of privacy are all rising in a world in which th
And joe santoli. Joe and andrew are off today with the storm and everything going on, thank you for being here it was one nasty storm. It did a number when you think about businesses dealing with a lack of power, it is like the plague coming down well start this morning with the markets. Nasdaq with the fifth straight positive day up 22 for the year to date. Pretty good day for the dow and s p. S p indicated up close to 20 points the dow up close to 200 points and the nasdaq up as well. The treasury story has been incredible yesterday, the 10year note at a record low this morning, the yield is at. 526 it seems the context is the same, which is the dollar weaker you see that downward pressure foreign treasuries can buy our equity yield we have bond yields below inflation. That means huge tech stocks that means gold and bonds b. What are the implications for this market and the companion market corporate wise, you have earnings better than give uptype forecast analysts could have a good