The Senate Committee held a confirmation hearing for several underground divisions including Inspector General and deputy undersecretary for intelligence and security. Some of the topics covered the Committee Hearing included whistleblower protections, election interference and servicemember misconduct. The meeting will come to order, we consider the nominations of mr. Jason, Inspector General of the department of defense. Mr. Lucas to be assistant secretary of defense that Nuclear Chemical biological and defense rooms and mr. Lewis to be assistant secretary of defense special operations. I think everyone for being here today, let me briefly say these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the mission they are accommodated for. Senior advisor, u. S. Customs and border protection, you have extensive experience leading litigation as part of the Inspector Generals offices for the federal Housing Agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban Dev
Defense department. This is live coverage on cspan 3. Mr. Louis bremer to the assistant secretary of defense special operations. We thank everyone for being here today. Briefly say who these people are and i think we have a great bunch that is certainly qualified for the admissions that theyre nominated for. Mr. Abend, youre presently the southeastern adviser to the u. S. Customs and Border Protection and you have extensive experience leading the investigations part of the Inspector General offices for the federal Housing Finance agency and the u. S. Department of housing and urban development. Youve been former secret Service Agent with in the winter of the 2015 council of Inspector General award for excellence. Mr. Hansell, you are currently an associate director of the Boston Consulting Group in its north American Public sector, having previously served as the special assistant to the president for National Security affairs and a senior director for national threats, transnational t
We are answering your questions about the crisis from Small Business owners to individual investors, tweet me at cb payne, all that and more on making money. Charles stocks are down as effort to combat coronavirus taking a serious toll on our economy. I mean, losing 701,000 jobs in march, thats the worst monthly lost since 2007. The market held up better in recent weeks, but few folks believe that the worse is over. Get this, there have been 20 s p bear market rallies of 15 or more. How do we know if a bottom has been reached if any of the moves are higher temporarily and do we go back down. I will bring rob luna alicia levin. Alicia, let me start with you. This week i will figure out what the market did monday through friday for the last 3 weeks, i would argue they are probably up but the friday sessions have been reminders of just how dangerous this territory is and how much of the unknown is out there. How are you assessing it all . Alicia right, i think we can call coronavirus frid
The funeral. You always do the black. I have the same 25 suits i wear all the time. That way i dont have to think of what to wear. Its the jobs anyway. 25 shirts, 25 suits, 25 tie, every morning i say, i wonder which one im going to wear . Are they all adent cal . They are. I like to travel with plaque, it doesnt wrink him or you are cant see the wrinkments its a crisp look when you talk about money, you should wear a jacket andrew, hint hint loose, ill put the jacket back on. Respect the capitalist way. No question laying it on very early this morning. Lets give you a look at where stockmarkets futures are at this hour we had a positive close t. Major averages avoided a threeday losing streak. Can you see we are green arose for futures. The s p would open up shy one. T. Dow would open 31 points to the upside t. Nasdaq would open up about nine points. Of course, this follows some fairly positive trading overnight in acia. We saw better than expected retail sales in japan. We seen yen s
Lets look at shares of lumd ber liquidators, up 12. 5 today, up more than 4, picking themselves up. Stock up big after a bigger drop brought on by a 60 minutes report questioning tox itty in the adhesives in the countrys product. The founder completed a Conference Call a short time ago. Details coming up and, of course, we look forward to the appearance tomorrow with scott on halftime report. Absolutely. Straight to the trading action, and bob is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Despite retail sales or maybe because of them because of the implications . A little bit, yes. This was a surprise on the open. Let me show you the s p 500 right now because the premarket trading did not indicate the kind of very strong open that we had, so all the sudden the s p 500 put up the intraday on the s p, literally, 15 minute the rally today happened. See that . Unusual there. Let me tell you why i think it happened today. We were all surprised by it. Number one, we did see, and i think th