Guide our senators to live so honorably that they will bring glory to your name. Lord, inspire them to yield their allegiance to you, striving always to receive your approval. Thank you for hearing and answering their prayers, as they fervently seek your wisdom. Guide them through the challenges of these times. Lord, remind us all that we are mere sojourners in time, heading for the better land of eternity. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Under the previous order, the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senat
Up to us. And then there are things that are left up to the local level. Things to determine in a local Community Whether things should be opened or not, what kind of activities should be the activities where you draw the line in terms of crowds, much likely to be better decided at a local level by the state or by a mayor or county executive then by somebody here in washington. And then at the National Level we are moving towards our third package and the last few days to try to deal with this. The first package was about 8 billion, really focused on the Immediate Health response, supplies, developing a vaccine, trying to figure out what the right therapies were, understanding the things we needed to do to further help hospitals get ready and to further help people encouraged to go other than hospitals, all of those things are part of the first package. The package we sent to the president that the set president signed last night about 100 billion by almost any standard, a huge amount
What can we expect on a trial in the senate . Our experts weigh in and Amy Klobuchar joins us live. Plus, bloomberg launches hes taking on him. Im Mike Bloomberg and i approve this message. With the biggest ad buyin. Chris christie and donna brazil join our round table. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week. Announcer heres chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning and welcome to this week. After two weeks, 12 witnesses more than 30 hours of testimony, the public hearings into the impeachment of President Trump appear to be over. What did we learn . The evidence established a series of facts. Did President Trump launch a campaign with ukraine into joe biden . And that trumps Key National Security players knew about it. Ambassador Gordon Sondland put it starkly. Everyone was in the loop. That included secretary pompeo, right . Many people. Secretary pompeo . Yes. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney . Yes. Shadow diplomacy outside normal
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. The investigation hearing will now come to order it is sabotage trumpet administrations attack on healthcare the purpose is to examine the effort of Medicare Medicaid services for quality and Affordable Healthcare for all americans. And recognizing herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. To sabotage health care in this country to issue the executive order to dismantle the Affordable Care act. Everson said the trumpet administration has worked tirelessly to undermine aca and the role as the administrator to undermine the Nations Health care and despite the role today is the first time the administrator has testified in the oversight hearing on the house and that 25 people with affordable high quality coverage but now under President Trump the administration is determined to take us in the wrong direction. The First Time Since the aca was passedy one. 9 Million People were uninsured compared to the year before including half
I could go on and on. Growing china trade uncertainty. Things are getting a little violent right now in hong kong. For next two hours well put it all together. We say boo, you decide whether you still want to buy. See what we did there . Neil boo were down 226 points just like that. Starting off the first day of this problematic month. It is not traditionally the worst month for stocks but more memorable from some of those crashes, crashettes whatever you call them. Im not saying it will end up this way but it is starting out that way and scaring some folks. We have had big drops this month. October of 18 we can remember 1342 hit. In 081525 point hit. We could go on and on. In percentage terms the big one to beat is 25 plus hit in the dow in october of 1929. In 1987 we lost a quarter of the dows value. I only mention that, this is a spooky month. We have a lot of spooky developments were getting into. Not only widening search for subpoenas on capitol hill and people resisting those sub