I want to thank the panelists for your patience. Thank you for being here and being with us and were looking forward to your testimony. Rather than go through the record well start. Thank you. So first of all, id like to thank the committee for the extraordinary work that you did with all of the stakeholders to get a longterm faa reauthorization bill passed. It had been a long time since that had happened and everyone came together, and the votes that you received, we are 393 in the house and 93 in the senate. This is a clear mandate to move forward with very important safety provisions for our Aviation System. Among those was our issue of ten hours rest for Flight Attendants. Now, this is an issue of safety, health and equality. Safety, we had been raising the flag on this issue for more than 30 years, identifying Flight Attendant fatigue, getting through other faa reauthorization bills the commission of fatigue studies, seven in fact that determined that Flight Attendant fatigue does
Holds, ten year yield, getting in the area of 9 the road map begins with the trade rally. Future points to new record, china says it has agreed to hold back tariffs plus, takeover offer, getting my latest reporting on xeroxs bear hug of hp. Warren proposes a sitdown with the microsoft founder we will begin with futures fresh hopes of a trade agreement, giving stocks a boost. Chinas commerce says the u. S. Have agree ed to phase out the tariffs imposed during the trade war. They dont actually say a deal has been reached multiple reports from this one on qualcomm. Yeah, i dont trust them. Yesterday, they said the talks were elayed. Honestly, these people were members of the peoples republic it might as well be run by the 8th army can i tell you what might matter they signed a death warrant for someone who pushed fentanyl to us and two life sentences for their colleagues they did a twoyear stay of execution on the leader of this. But this is what President Trump is waiting for far more im
A very big summit and a very crucial speech for the chancellor what can we expect her to say about brets today well this is as you said one of the policy speeches that she regularly gifts in the german pod them and its what she does to give the members of the parliament a general auslan on how shes going to handle the different topics that are going to be talked about at the pin commission summits but in regards to backs it will of course be the overlying topic of the overshadowing topic of this has now been reports that sort of an agreement has been reached between the e. U. And the United Kingdom but moguls law and on brecht it hasnt changed and we will see probably that shes going to stick by what she has called or as her redlines she doesnt think the u. K. Can cherry pick in terms of how to leave the European Union and also that there should not be a hawesville of its fee in ireland and north and ireland and thats been doesnt that been a very. Porton issue the irish border the bord
Back with a discussion on the economy and how its going to affect the 2020 election. Joined by the president of the Economic Policy institute and joe griffith, research fellow, finance and regulations at the heritage foundation. For both of you economy what do we see the economy playing into the 2020 elections. Lets start with you. Jesse. K you, i think in the past, the economy has been a pretty good predictor the outcome of president ial elections. In other words, in the economy is trunk the incumbent tends to reelected or the incumbent party and if the economy is weak, the opposite tends to be case. I think this year might be a little different for a couple of reasons. One is the economy is kind of quite ased, its not cut and dry like its good, its bad. News from such different places best for two bill clinton, defeating an incompetent, bush. S george h w he had won the gulf war. We entered a mild recession. President clinton want. 1996, bill clinton one despite having a lot of havin
Into place. What about the december 15 ones . Our colleagues have reported that is a Sticking Point for china. They have had a stay of execution on october, but they want the december tariffs on the remaining 150 billion worth of chinese goods moved. So far that has not happened. When we headed to the summit in chile, that will be a part of the problem. David President Trump said he wanted to sign something with president xi by that point. Do we know who is doing the talking . The vice premier is involved in the talk. That sounds like more than drafting. We have had that report out of beijing with a high level of involvement. I guess it will be all of the above. Clearly we need more detail. The clock is ticking ahead of the summit. Theres a lot riding on whether they can agree on a truce. Guy a rare treat, hear from conch on. Treat asian economics correspondent. Now we go to emma chandra in london. We thought they were in the final stages of a deal on brexit, now we heard from Michel B