This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. One year ago today, lyon air 610 crashed into the sea in jakarta indonesia. All 189 people on board were killed. A few months later, an Ethiopian Air flight departed, and flight 302 experienced problems shortly after takeoff and crashed. All 157 persons on board died. Both of these accidents were entirely preventible. We cannot fathom the pain experienced by the families of those 346 human beings who were lost. Many family members are here today and we appreciate their attendance. I appreciate many of them meeting with members of the committee over time. As chairman of this committee, i promise their loved ones were working to obtain a full answer as to how to prevent future tragedies. These families deserve answers, accountability and action. And the public deserves no less. The type of aircraft involved in both accidents is a 737 max 8. Manufactured by boeing. International aviation safety regulators began grounding
Mr. Forkner meant by the email i can tell you that certification, training materials are not determined by one individual in fact, let me just interrupt you again. In the over 1600 page original flight manual of boeing 737 max, the aircrafts new mcas Computer System was mentioned only once, once in 1600 pages in the glossary of abbreviated terms. So when boeing came to us and said it is the pilots, inexperienced pilots, you were lying to us as well. Senator, if i could try to respond to your question first of all, the premise that we would lie or conceal is not consistent with our values i know it is not consistent with values that youre articulating here. Let me since my time is limited move on. Would you agree that this system of certification and oversight is broken, thats the issue, that boeing lobbied congress for more delegation and now we have to reverse that delegation of authority. Would you support those le legislative efforts . Senator, again, i support taking a hard look at
Yesterday, the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system. Closed quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. Today our elections, the very core of our democracy, are under attack. Special counsel muellers report in no Uncertain Terms details our Foreign Government attacked our 2016 election is, the russians objections were clear, secure the election of one candidate of president over another and undermining confidence in the sbrintegritief our elections. Theres no evidence that russia affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did steal thousands of documents from american citizens that it used to influence public opinion. It also accessed voter data and gained other valuable intelligence which it may seek to exploit in the future. In short, as special counsel
, pilotsblems for boeing say they have Software Issues with other planes in the fleet. We are live here in osaka for the first way of the g20 summit here. Is big elephant in the room trade talks between President Trump and president xi on saturday, but before that, a busy day for President Trump. He just met with shinzo abe. Now, in trilateral talks as well. Those two countries have been criticized by President Trump when it comes to trade. And as a packed agenda you say, we saw President Trump sitting down with Prime Minister abe and prior to that, president xi. Also, they did highlight some of the concerns, island building by the chinese and some other tray concerns as well. Lets get you uptodate with some of the Market Action we have had self are. A midsectiong at in asia, most ending the session in green, but of course, holding back one would assume ahead of , the asiapacific pretty much flat. In terms of the futures, you are looking at a bit of positivity there, hans on teachers a
Look at where we are. This is not available, that may happen. We want to point out, this is for the assetked classes since may 6. That is one they ratcheted up the tensions when trump ratcheted up the tensions. I wanted to show you the haven place. It is up by almost 2. 7 . They were some inflows from Foreign Investors in particular. There was a drop leading this. This exposed the china and u. S. Trade were. A pretty interesting look across the asset classes. William this is on a higher tear at the moment. They did rather well against the west indies. There we go. There is the dollar against the rupee. The 10 year yield has been creeping up of late. We saw this victory in the election. This rally was really getting going there. Advantage that you had with the 10year note in india. Four basis points down. 6. 94. E up to we will look at this. This is the first word news with selina wang. The front one or for frontrunner Boris Johnson is refusing to rule out a no doubt brexit. He is being