Remarks and then i will ask questions. You can submit questions as well. But first your opening remarks. Welcome. Thank you for the introduction but i want to welcome aei for inviting me to be here today earlier this month i have reflections on the last 50 years of the epa and laid out our plan for its future at the Nixon Library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past four years how we will get to this future. It is incontrovertible today the environment is in better shape under President Trump and we found it. Since 2017 air pollution in this country has fallen 7 percent. Last year superfund sites the most in a single year since 2001 and b will list another 27 this year the epa is trying to finance more than 40 billion of clean Water Infrastructure supporting 7100 projects and 27000 jobs during President Trumps first term and they have recovered more criminal and civil appointees them the Obama Biden Administration did and their first term. The
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And a 2020 launch. Facebooks Cryptocurrency Libra is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libra and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. The ecommerce giant posted its largest advance on the s p 500 index on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but the statement backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spencer, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. Spencer in terms of their statement, we didnt learn much. Every year is another record for amazon and ecommerce. What we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their oneday shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. I think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. Everyone was wondering how they would do this year. Ta
A term to disrupt russian gas supplies to europe the us senators warner Swiss Company the crippling sanctions will put it out of business if it doesnt start work on the almost completed now stream to. Buy the great have you with us this is r. T. International. Russias Investigative Committee has released the identity of the government who opened fire outside that corps of the federal Security Service building in central moscow on thursday evening 39 year old you again even you were off lived in the Moscow Region and killed an f. S. B. Officer before being shot dead himself another officer died later in hospital 5 other people including one civilian were injured and the moment investigation into the possible motives is still ongoing there are reports the russian Investigative Committee has searched the home of the suspect and interviewed his family and friends we spoke to the neighbors and father of the shooter. But lately he became very secretive and also got some kind of strange easto