The hearing on the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning, and thank the senators and our witnesses or joining us from around the country at various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing, and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on her weight in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we returned to our witnesses for their statements of about five minutes each, if they could please summarize them and oh, there it is. And senators will each have five minute rounds of questions. We have a vote at 11 40, so we we will need to finish this hearing about noon and hopefully all the senators will have by that time a chance to ask the questions. The question for administrators of 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in
Yesterday, a headline said china planning to surprise trump and negotiators with a last minute plan for phase one to remove september tariffs this has never been talked about. Delaying future tariffs was the most we were going to agree on trump was getting traction because of the bite. This has never been on the table. China will get it done then i read it today it said these are now part of the negotiation. The way it was cast is that it was almost like an appeasement or throwing in the hand. Is it negotiations or are we backing down the deal is likely to get done each side wants to say we got what we wanted now, if that happens, the markets will be like that. Thats the big question, does the market care if it comes without any teeth. Do they just want a truce and no more ramped up sort. For phase one, do they want to give up what they were working to force them out of the table. I think what the market is really looking foreGoing Forward is if you are going to continue conversations.
The bank of englands Monetary Policy committee, the nine economists who decided Interest Rates, they dont meet every month. They meet eight months a yeah month. They meet eight months a year. The fact that they have been held, it is disappointing for lots of people who want to remortgage their house. They want to see Mortgage Rates come down, its also disappointing, of course, for someone called rishi sunak, who is betting hes bet the ranch , bet the tories bet the ranch, bet the tories entire strategy for this election, to the extent they have a strategy on playing the long game, on waiting for Interest Rate cuts on getting more tax cuts in. Weve had two so far, those National Insurance reductions, tory high command wants to get another one in before the general election. So i dont think therell be disappointment in downing street because they knew this was coming. They knew there wasnt being an Interest Rate cut today. Now, when i take my eyes away from the camera and manage to read,
co-defendants. and another confirmed sighting of danelo cavalcante. the convicted murderer who escaped prison last week, there have been nine confirmed sightings in the last nine days and yet the pennsylvania escapee is still on the run. 3,400 feet beneath the surface, an american is alive in a deep cave. we are learning when the rescue operation could get him out. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. this morning we could see the full report from the fulton county special grand jury in georgia investigating the election subversion case there. the one that ultimately led to the indictment of former president trump and 18 co-defendants. we have been waiting for this for months. a reminder, this is different than the grand jury that returned the indictments last month. of this is the special grand jury that investigated efforts to overturn the 2020 election last year and recommended charges. grand jurors heard from over 75 witnesses over seven months. in
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the fbi investigation into new york city mayor eric adams, his connection to the turkish government and what the feds might have been looking for when they seized his cell phone and ipad, a reporter following the money will be here. one of the most upsetting videos from october 7th, which says a lot. it shows a kidnapping victim being taken out of a hamas jeep. her pants are bloodied. her mother will talk to us about why that video was so important for the world to see. leading this how, the world s reaction since the mms attacks, divisive, ugly, even leading to deadly demonstrations. some people ripping down posters of children kidnapped. anti-semitism reaching dangerous alarming rates worldwide. also a spike in islamaphobia, anti-arab and anti-muslim incidents. not just in the united states. let s start with the ongoing conflict fueling this. a u.s. official telling me american intelligence backs israel s showing terrorists are usin