Address the problem. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. I want to go through our usual housekeeping matters. Todays session will be conducted on an unclassified basis. All participates should refrain from discussing any classified or other information protected from public disclosure. Second, the committee is conducting this virtual hearing in compliance with House Resolution 965. It is being broadcast live on the committees website. Because of the threat posed by the covid19 pandemic remains ongoing, were proceeding with this hearing remotely in order to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and public. While we wish we could return to all standard inperson events, health and safety protocols dictate we find alternate means of carrying out our oversight obligations. Okay. So let me remind members of a few remote hearing procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Membe
Roll out some responses to Chinas Hong Kong law as the showdown with twitter gets escalated around the minneapolis protests oil near 33, the focus is squarely on twitter and this rule violation that the president s account got slapped with, and then the white house account, the official white house account retweets were all kind of confused, as marc benioff, who is against this obscure regulation that gives these companies an exception todo this, many are confused it seems President Trump wants to create his own enemy with if you start regulating these Companies Rather than having the exception, theyre always going to have to put a counter to what President Trump wants. I think what he may not understand is free speech is nasty. What he had until this was a great run of things. Its going to make it tough for him to be aggressive on twitter. He doesnt have press conferences that work because of all the displeasure he had with regular reporters. Hes disintermediating himself from the pub
225 pulling back after the rally we saw last week. Infections in tokyo hit a daily record on friday. The sti, keeping a watch on banks right now. Dbs said to be among which filed for protection. Flipping the page, the bloomberg dollar index. It does look like investors are looking for havens. New york crude down by 13 . Gold lower as well. We have President Trump upping the ante, suggesting china may have deliberately caused the coronavirus pandemic, saying there will be consequences if the country is known found to be knowingly responsible. Beijing saying the u. S. Is trying to shirk its responsibilities. Another move to ratchet up tension between the two nations and the handling of this pathogen. Tom absolutely. Every markable uturn from the u. S. President. He was praising china handling the coronavirus crisis. Trump see me to suggest the chinese seeming to suggest the chinese may have released theycoronavirus, saying if are knowingly responsible, they will face consequences. Debora
Which means. Rain and the yellow meaning even more rain john trouble in the Weather Center now with the very latest on all of that good morning john. And good morning to you guys to is such a calm morning, its hard to believe that later on today were going to be seeing such inclement weather but thats exactly the case big switch up right in the midst of your day. So right now Golden Gate Bridge looks nice and clear we are seeing calm conditions, sunny conditions in some spots but also some cloud cover and others as we work our way into the afternoon. This is whats heading its way our direction this line of heavy showers is going to push on in towards the latter part of your afternoon. So we start dry, we do have a dry conditions all the way right towards lunchtime after that this is 04 00pm right here, starting to check in with some lighter showers pushing on in and then the heavier stuff begins to pick up after that. Its looking like it could get really heavy after sunset latest model
Las vegas and our hearts burst, our shoulders heave. We feel nothing but sadness. However we know it is part of a continue yum this isnt the end therell be others is it simply realistic ironically this stock market is as real as it can get. Nasdaq advancing 4. 2 all to new highs. As we quick off the Fourth Quarter i see stocks go higher as people believe in progress and people find ways to dredge through troubles waters. For example, our secretary of state is working to try to diffuse the situation of north korea, avoid a nuclear war this man, Rex Tillerson is doing everything he can to get the chinese to final clamp down on kim onun right at the moment looks like hes making process. President trumps comes out and belittles his mission and saying tillerson is waisting his time and rocket man, hell be dealt with in a different fashion. My jaw hit the concrete when i saw this we have what looks like to be a wholesale rebellion in a part of spain thats long desired its independence you go