Good evening and welcome to Hudson Institute policy center. Im john walters, the chief operating officer and i like to welcome our audience here out of pennsylvania avenue headquarters and our cspan audience to our first ever podcast keeping, that is both live and marks the Second Season premiere of podcast of the Second Season of the realignment hosted by hudson media fellow marshall kosloff. We are proud of the realignment here at hudson. Podcast launched last year and i recommend aspersion for those of you who have been following it that you take a look at the episodes from last year, particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, josh hawley, micah gallagher, Michael Doran and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people who put it together and their ability to bring up topics and to move the argument along. We couldnt be prouder of the work they have done and i want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with m
Im Francine Lacqua in london. These are your markets. 0. 4 . An markets down a lot of the market put a position that the economy and a lot of the earnings would go through the coronavirus. Not so after the apple news yesterday. There is more concern about the deadly coronavirus trade looking at treasuries, they are rising. Americans reopening after a holiday. Yesterday was president s day. Jumping as much as 24 after unsuccessful bid for the small arrival. This may be the kickoff of banking consolidation in italy and then further into europe. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, our exclusive conversation with the hsbc Financial Officer on the banks job cuts. First word news. Viviana hsbc is set to slash 80 of its workforce. The lender taking more than 7 billion of charges and suspending buybacks as part of a restructuring plan. Plans to exit some businesses and cut costs. Hsbc still hunting for a permanent chief executive. We also spoke to the lender cfo about the coronavirus outbreak
plus an explosion kills the daughter of a key ally of vladimir putin. raising questions about whether the ally himself was the target. in confusion reigns as florida school year starts with the don t say gay bill in full force. we will have a live report ahead. next hour, the two democratic candidates hoping to unseat governor ron desantis. the man behind that bill, it will join me live. nikki frieden charlie crist ahead of their tuesday showdown. you don t want to miss this. we re going to begin in georgia this hour way circuit court of appeals. a short time ago, temporarily blocked senator lindsey graham from having to testify before a fulton county special grand jury on tuesday. this blocking comes just two days after a judge had denied graham s attempt to delay the testimony. fulton county district attorney fani willis whose investigating possible election interference in georgia during the 2020 race wants to question graham about the calls he made to georgia secretary of
More houses here tend i have tainted by lead paint than all 88 counties. Somebodiberg. Now they have failed to do something to fix. There backlog of 3,000 cases with much of the data not even inputted so it is difficult to track. Has there been mailing to tenants that they live in a house that has had a lead issue . The answer is, yes. As have land lords notices were mailed back last he week but there must be i had due caution comments disstink shun had that needs to be made lead paint. That discs shiver thun slum land lowered and low income homeowners what programs, or what steps will rebe taking to work with those folks to try to help them if we can . Likely, federal grants will help. But in past is city has been lacks pursuing them. During the session. Keoineman zack reed was writtal administration. Saying there no resolve to get this was you know the white kids that are dying or being affected by lead, we erat cade it we do something about it. These are poor, black kids living in t
Health care. In the coming weeks, we are going to get it working as smoothly as its supposed to. Weve got people working overtime 24 7 to boost capacity and address these problems every single day. So heres the plan. The white house has enlisted the help of jeffrey zients. The Washington Post describes him as one of the president s goto guys when he wants programs to go smoother. Private contractor Quality Software systems responsible for two components of the website is assigned to lead the fix. Most issues are expected to be repaired by the end of november. Open enrollment has been extended till march 31st. Heres how republicans responded today. Over the months leading up to the october 1st launch, Top Administration officials and lead contractors appeared before this committee. Looked us in the eye and they assured us repeatedly that everything was on track. Except that it wasnt. As we now know all too well. Texas senator ted cruz is again saying the Government Shutdown over obama c