Paying more than 1 billion australian to settle a Money Laundering allegation, the largest corporate find never levied in australia. Tiktok drama turns another page, owner bytedance asking a judge to halt the ban in america, Chinese State media slamming u. S. Dirty trip u. S. 30 tricks. We heard from larry kudlow in the last few minutes, downplaying expectations we will be getting any more fiscal stimulus through the pipeline, larry kudlow saying he doesnt think the u. S. Needs another stimulus package and that they will be doing targeted measures only and need to be smart about this measures. This comes after course of fed officials, including chair powell, saying there is a long way to go for the economic rebound, we heard from several others, all saying there is further need of more fiscal stimulus to do that heavy lifting. And that comes after congress ended its pursuit of a bipartisan spending bill and are now focused on replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the supreme expected thisin
Max, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on the impact of the coronavirus on the economy. This is two and half hours. This hearing will come to order. Todays hearing is a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between senators, witnesses witnesses and otheren individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely a few videoconferencing reminders. Once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise please click the mute button until it is your turn to speak or ask questions. If there is a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I again remind all senators and our witnesses that the fiveminute clocks still apply and you should, those remote, stall, box on your screen labeled clock that will show how much time is remaini
This hearing will come to order. Todays hearing is a hybrid format. And the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommendedf foot social distancing between senators and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing which we have kept to a minimum. For those joining remotely a few videoconferencing reminders. Once you start speaking there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the screen. To minimize background noise please click the mute button until it is your speak or ask questions. If there is a Technology Issue we will move to the next senator until its resolved. I, again, remind all senators and witnesses that the 5minute clock still applies, and those of you remote should all have a box on your screen labeled clock that will show how much time is remaining. Well try to give you a gavel reminder when your time is almost expired. To simplify the speaking order process senator brown and i again have agreed to go by sen you arty for this hear
The steel dossier and foreign interference in u. S. Elections. This is three hours and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming and we will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act s a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back t to the 70s, iand its been used a lot. Its been used in tariff cases when wee suspect someone of beig a terrorist under the Foreign Intelligen
Amnesty international condemns the french fortys for their code in crackdown on peaceful demonstrators. Good morning thanks for joining us here on r. T. And. Media and azerbaijan have both rejected calls for a ceasefire and ruled out peace talks are still ities over disputed border territory and 5th day these images here were released by azerbaijan they show the destruction of Armenian Military vehicles in the golan account about region both sides of released a number of videos to back up their claims of military conquest. Is in the conflict zone and reports now on the impact the hostilities are having on local communities. Nagorno karabakh is sandwiched between the territorial ambitions of armenia and azerbaijan but as commanders in chief are deploying platoon after platoon to the frontline its often civilians who end up in the crossfire on both sides or in a small town in the disputed nagornokarabakh region the front line is about 5 to 7 kilometers that way and thereby johnny shell f