Section 702 of the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. Yesterday in the house, 19 republicans join the democrats in blocking speaker johnson from holding a floor vote on the legislation. We would like to get your thoughts on the debate. , kratz, democrats, 202 7488000. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can join us in the text, include your first name, city and state at 202 7488003. Go to facebook. Com cspan and put your reaction there, or in a post on x at cspanwj. We will get your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the wall street journal reporting the surveillance vote failed in its setback speaker johnson. That is their headline this morning. Lindsay wise reports how speaker johnsons tenuous ramp on the gavel was dealt a blow wednesday after holdup republicans, a done by former president trump, denied passage on controversial spying law. Heres what the former president wrote on his to social website. It was illegally used again
With axios to talk about the renewal of the foreign intelligence act, renewing section 702. Remind our viewers why there is a section 702 and what it is. Guest is so section 702, the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, has been around for so long. It is here primarily to give the intelligence agencies the ability to surveil nonamericans abroad. The intent is to surveil anyone who might be planning a terrorist plot, who might be carrying out cybercrime, ransomware, anything of that nature. However, the history of this program has been a bit fraught. The intention is to clog communications and text messages, emails, things of that nature about those abroad who are nonamerican. Course, im an communicating with someone abroad, for whatever reason targeted by this program, my communications will get sucked into this program. All of this information is put into a database that is then freely available maybe not freely available, but available to intelligence agencies for to intelligence a
Seemingly more stable usa. But on greece markets now well off their lows. Mary thompson what are people saying down there . While we are off the lows as you pointed out, dont get too excited and think that were past the worst of it we are not. The dow was down 166 points at the worse www. Point. Right now were down about 30. Vix which popped up 10 at the open is now only fractionally higher after pulling back. This that is a fear index we watch here at the new york stock exchange. The story remains the same. We are seeing a bid in gold a bid in the dollar and were seeing a bid in bonds today. Again, the concerns about greece continue to be at the forefront of traders minds but again they are waiting to see what happens tomorrow and throughout the rest of the week. China is also a concern and weighing on the markets. You can see that reflected in some of the weakness we are seeing in the Energy Sector down on concerns about a couple of things. Of course we had a higher rig count here in
Happens when america retreats from the region and we dont play of the role of posing a balance of power and when we let the countrys fight it out between themselves. It is not just our interest in allies and our interest in allies like jordan and israel but it is because this is throughout syria and turkey, and isis is trying to aggressively recruit United States citizens to join. It is believed that the weapons came from the turkish government. Senator cotton again, i have not seen other reports, so i cant comment on that. I did ask about if there was a mistake if we had a residual force agreement, and there was the agreement on blaming maliki on that. Why couldnt we have forced an agreement, why was that completely squandered . What was your view on that and could we have done something differently in 2011 and how do you feel as someone who served in iraq or someone who has finger on the pulse of how the military feels . Senator cotton i put responsibility chiefly with barack obama a
World, you know, the dollar is viewed as a reserve currency. We have some of the most liquid Financial Markets in the world. But of course, we are tightly linked on the trade side. How our policy cap benefit patients of our policy path are then affecting financial conditions, and of course, importantly True Exchange rate channels through a very important feedback, we have come back around in effect, u. S. Domestic conditions. In the past year, china has figured prominently in terms of global risks and Global Financial conditions as china has managed challenges on the domestic front. So, those kinds of considerations naturally have to be taken into account when we think about risk to the outlook, they naturally will effect policy deliberations and the path the policy. That is the way in which risks emanating from china, and of course, china was the really predominant source of Global Investment growth for several years following recovery. And that was a very important source of demand a