48 handle. 38. Matt i believe it fell below that. Averages. W you major we are down across the board. The Dow Jones Industrial average off. 75 . Negative year to date. While the s p still holds on to its gain, the Dow Jones Industrial average is now down your to date. The nasdaq, still up it percent year to date. I have got the imap function up, which shows you what is going on throughout the year im sorry, throughout the day. Big loser. That same picture year to date as far as energy being a loser is off 22 year to date. I. T. And Consumer Discretionary are the big gainers year to date. Scarlet now. Alix now get to oil. Of course, falling on opec but the markets, i cannot imagine what the positions are right now adding in today. Do not know why we come to me on this one we have you on set. On crude, 3807. We have been below that. Obviously the implications of the opec meeting happened on friday. Not being able to put a ceiling at all, a lower ceiling, or any kind of ceiling. For plus,
Employee initiative. It was an employee setting up the work. Do it according to these ways. Its amazing how to compress as they felt and this is my last question. If that panel an anomaly or do you think thats a fair representation . Congressman i would refrain it does to me that would feel like if i made a comment like that would feel like i was being disingenuous about the real feelings that they have and i wont do that to my employees. Im out there not to say that i would say thats fairly typical. Just so you know from my perspective that they expressed concerns were fairly typical of what i hear out there whether they have spoken about whistleblowing or inviting in conversation. I yield back. Mr. Jolly for five minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman. General hickey thank you for your service and incredible career and i appreciate your clear dedication to your comments tonight. I have a soft spot for the kc135 so i thank you for your career with that as well. Tonight you find yourself repr
Todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recognition of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being an obligation of the State Departments Foreign Military financing and dods usai funds. In a series of interagency meetings, i heard that the president had directed the office of of management and budget to hold the funds becausf his concerns about corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset that i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended on july 26, chaired by National Security council leadership, as at all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was aware, the National Security community
expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest. At the july 26 meeting, there was a discussion of how ukrainian anticorrup
Josh earnest will be peppered by questions about this release and the timing of it. Their transfer was apparently delayed because it took this long to find two countries who were willing to take these transferees in. All five were known to fight in afghanistan and one of them was known to have a personal relationship with usama bin laden. The release meeting with tremendous anger on capitol hill. The president of the United States concluded the war and terror has reached a point where we can safe live release people from gitmo. This is insane to be letting these people out of gitmo to go back to the fight. Reporter in yesterdays appearance the president made a jovial reference to the only two years he has left in office and hes kinds of in a rush. Yesterday josh earnest made the same points when he was asked if gitmo would be open when the president left office. I wont concede that. What i will concede is members of coverage this is true of both parts why is have put in place obstacles
Breaking news. Breaking news tonight, the commander in chief reacreates n confusion in the u. S. Military to reinstate the transgender ban on Service Members. Announcing a major policy decision in a tweet declaring the United States will not allow transgender troops in any capacity. Tonight the white house isnt offering any clarity on what will happen to Transgender Americans who are serving right now in the military, saying the administration and the pentagon still have to work out a plan to implement the president s order. Also breaking, the white house insisting mr. Trump still wants Jeff Sessions to lead the Justice Department even as he continues to publicly vent his disappointment with his attorney general. The president blasting sessions in yet another tweet while the embattled attorney general was under the same roof attending a meeting at the white house. We are told multiple Top White House officials have urged the president to stop bashing sessions, advice he appears to be i