You are looking at a live shot of the room where u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions will testify before the Senate Intelligence committee, expected to kick off in less than 30 minutes. Pressers are expected to him on president Donald Trumps role in the investigation into russias interference with the u. S. Election and get his side of the story on the firing of ai director james fbi director james comey. We will bring his full testimony as soon as it begins. In the meantime, lets go to the west coast for another bloomberg scoop on uber. Ceo Travis Kalanick will be taking leave from the Ridesharing Company after a slew of workplace scandals. Eric, great to have you on. Welcome again to it feels like we say this to you a lot. He is going to be leaving, the ceo, and indifferent defendant about the time away, it seems. Right. Initially there have been this question of the threemonth leave of absence. Now it is indeterminate how long. It comes right after his mothers funeral on friday, an
You are looking at a live shot of the room where u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions will testify before the Senate Intelligence committee, expected to kick off in less than 30 minutes. Pressers are expected to him on president Donald Trumps role in the investigation into russias interference with the u. S. Election and get his side of the story on the firing of ai director james fbi director james comey. We will bring his full testimony as soon as it begins. In the meantime, lets go to the west coast for another bloomberg scoop on uber. Ceo Travis Kalanick will be taking leave from the Ridesharing Company after a slew of workplace scandals. Eric, great to have you on. Welcome again to it feels like we say this to you a lot. He is going to be leaving, the ceo, and indifferent defendant about the time away, it seems. Right. Initially there have been this question of the threemonth leave of absence. Now it is indeterminate how long. It comes right after his mothers funeral on friday, an
You very much. I am thrilled to be here. Thrilled. And if you think that was an easy trip, youre wrong. But i am thrilled. 19th boy scout jamboree, wow, and to address such a tremendous group, boy, you have a lot of people here, the press will say its about 200 people. It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record today. You set a record. Thats a great honor, believe me. Tonight, we put aside all of the policy fights in washington, d. C. Youve been hearing about with the fake news and all of that. Were going to put that were going to put that aside. And instead, were going to talk about success, about how all of you amazing young scouts can achieve your dreams, what ive been thinking about. You want to achieve your dreams, i said who the hell wants to speak about politics when im in front of the boy scouts, right . There are many great honors that come with the job of being president of the United States. But looking out at this incredible gathering, of mostly young patriots, mos
You very much. I am thrilled to be here. Thrilled. And if you think that was an easy trip, youre wrong. But i am thrilled. 19th boy scout jamboree, wow, and to address such a tremendous group, boy, you have a lot of people here, the press will say its about 200 people. It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record today. You set a record. Thats a great honor, believe me. Tonight, we put aside all of the policy fights in washington, d. C. Youve been hearing about with the fake news and all of that. Were going to put that were going to put that aside. And instead, were going to talk about success, about how all of you amazing young scouts can achieve your dreams, what ive been thinking about. You want to achieve your dreams, i said who the hell wants to speak about politics when im in front of the boy scouts, right . There are many great honors that come with the job of being president of the United States. But looking out at this incredible gathering, of mostly young patriots, mos
Reserve vice chairman for bank supervision. Idaho senator mike crapo is chair of the banking committee. Thank you very much. And would the witnesses for our hearing please come and take their seats and while theyre doing that, senator shelby cant be here for his questioning time and so hes asked for just like a minute to make a quick statement. Ill be real quick today. I just want to say i wont be here. Ive got to preside over a appropriation hearing. But i believe that president has sent twous two good nominees. One we waited a long time for the vice chairman for the supervision of the fed. I think these are outstanding nominees. I hope you the hearing goes well and we can expedite the nominees and get them in place. Thank you. Thank you, senator shelby. All right. The hearing will come to order. This morning well consider the nominations of mr. Joseph otting to be comptroller of the currency and randal quarrels to be a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system an