Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Hes all three. Hes about to hop off the the ways and Means Committee markup to give us the inside scoop on the amendment that was just voted down and why that carried interest loophole is still wide open and gaping. Plus, what happened to the fire and fury that President Trump threatened north korea with . Now hes offering to play lets make a deal with dictator kim jong un. Are we about to see a nuclear compromise . Ambassador Stuart Holliday here on whats really behind the president s 180degree turn. On wall street the markets are about to pull off something thats only been seen twice before in 18 years, and its not necessarily a good thing. With red on the screen were less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the countdown. Liz okay, so that market move, if all three indices finish lower and they all look to be on track for that right now it will be just the third time in 18 years that all three hit intraday record highs during the session but then finished lower. Well get to
Nomination put forward for the person who will permanently be proposed to head up the o. C. C. , joseph otting. And in mr. Otting, we have another example of somebody whose entire career has been spent working with banks and other major Financial Institutions to try to evade important Consumer Protections and taxpayer protections. In fact, mr. Otting and his bank were able to profit very handsomely from the mortgage crisis. The c. E. O. Of one west during part of that crisis was the person whos now secretary of the treasury, steve mnuchin. He was the head of one west during the foreclosure crisis. During that time, one west had what many have called a foreclosure machine in place. And mr. Otting, who is going to be in the, the head of the o. C. C. And who we would hope would be more independent as required by the charter of the o. C. C. , he was there working for the secretary treasury, steve mnuchin, at one west. And mr. Otting was there working at one west when the bank foreclosed on
Husiinger shows us with more on what one school is doing to get the message across. Reporter the next week students at Washington High School will have a conversation and choice, to sign this pledge to End Gun Violence and prevent a tragedy this school is all too familiar with. It takes a split second for a gun to change everything. One of my Close Friends played basketball here. He got shot because, like, of his friends, they were playing with a gun and they were not supposed to. Reporter accidental or intentional, the decision to involve guns escalates the violence. We have had a lot of gun violence with teens, like a lot of teens have guns and i dont feel like that is right. Its unsafe. Reporter now Washington High School is putting the topic in focus. Every student at Washington High School and every staff member are going to stop and pause and engage in very robust conversation and dialogue it. Particularly among young people. Reporter students are writing poems, essays and songs
Help you. We have to repeal and replace the disaster known as obamacare. Its destroying our country, our businesses, our Small Businesses and our big businesses. We have to repeal and replace obamacare. You take a look at the kind of numbers that that will cost us in the year 17, that is a disaster. If we dont repeal and replace. Its probably going to die of its own weight, but obamacare has to go. The premiums are going 70 , 80 , next youre going to go up over 100 . And i am really that the premiums have started at least the people see whats happening. She wants to keep obamacare and she wants to make it even worse, and it cant get any worse. Bad health care the most expensive price. We have to repeal and replace obamacare. Moderator secretary clinton, same question, because at this point, Social Security and medicare are going to run out, the trust funds are going to run out of consider a grand bargain, a deal that includes both tax increases and benefit cuts to try to save both prog