Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Stayathome orders. Those are some of our top headlines on this monday, april 27th. We are entering the final days of april 2020. Hard to believe, may is coming. We do begin with the push to ramp up testing and reopen the country as the Coronavirus Claims more american lives. Today the governor of texas will announce his plan to end stayathome orders with some restrictions set to be lifted on thursday. New jerseys governor will also unveil a roadmap for reopening, but he says those first steps are several weeks away. Theres more progress in new york where the Navy Hospital ship comfort discharged its last patient with covid19 and is heading back to virginia this week. The state reported 367 deaths. The oneday total dipping below 400 for the first time this month. Protesters were out in san diego calling for the lockdown to end. Some of them carrying signs saying covid is a lie. More than 965,000 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus across the country. And nearly 55,000 americ
Ultimately harming consumers because then it giving access to the best information from across the internet. Watch the communiques tonight at eight eastern on cspan2. X, general mackenzie answers questions on the president 2021 Defense Budget request and how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting the middle east. Our meeting will come to order. The Committee Meets today to receive the testimony of the United States Central Command. I would like to welcome our witness, general frank mckenzie, commander of the United States Central Command. I want to add that immediately following this mornings open hearing well move to svc217 in the Senate Visitor center for a closed session which will be an opportunity for general mackenzie to answer some of the questions that might make a note of questions that come along that are not appropriate answer in the setting so that we can do it later. I would like to begin by recognizing two United States marines, gunner Sergeant Diego Pongo and captain mois
Be from the United States. The dow is down 77 points, s p down by 2 and three quarters, nasdaq down by 13 and a quarter. A stunning reversal for markets after initially falling overnight. Lauren maybe responding to no u. S. Casualties. Lets the take a look at the initial oil reaction. Wti is higher by 0. 4 , 62, 95 a barrel. Gold pierced through 1,600, but now 1585 an ounce. Cheryl stocks in asia taking a hit from news of the missiles being fired into iraq. As you can see, substantial losses, asian markets closing, we should add, before more News Headlines coming out. The nikkei losing more than 1 andahalf percent. Shanghai down more than 1 . Kospi lower as well. Lauren european markets responding to all of this right now. They are trade offing to the downside. The worst performer is the dax in germany, down half of 1 . Good morning at home. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone. And we begin with this breaking news overnight that iran has targeted u. S. Troops in
Has begun. And then visited the 9 11 memorial. Other anti american including two hours before his attack the shooter arrived at the site during the attack so the shooter arrived by himself. The other saudi cadets happen to be in the area and to take videos of the resulting commotion around the building they fully cooperated in the investigation as well as all other saudi cadets that were interviewed at the fbi and other bases around the country. After he entered the building encased the facility he proceeded to walk around to shoot down his unarmed victims in cold blood. And then to draw special attentions to Gunnery Sergeant ryan and outside the building when they heard the gunfire to confront the shooter the only weapon was a fire extinguisher and then to help save many lives to give cpr and other Urgent Medical aid to the victims. And then to navy airman blackwell the one he was shot five times. Yet he managed to jump on top of a fellow sailor to keep her from being shot and assisti