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What we had seen with the weakness last month. Overnight in asia, the nikkei actually was down almost 1 . The shanghai was up by a half percent. In europe you will see the dax is flat. So is the ftse cac is up. There are green arrows across the complex of stocks. The treasury markets this morning will be closely watched. The tenyear at this point is yielding above 2 . We want to start with some developing news. The New York Times reporting that President Trump approved military strikes on targets in iran that would be in retaliation for shooting down a surveillance drone but the mission was ca...

Opioid epidemic. After that, a border oversight hearing. Yesterday the United Nations called for the lift on the u. S. Embargo against cuba. Several Defense Department nominees testified at conformation hearing earlier. Well hear from mark esper asked about Army Readiness and Sexual Assaults in the military. The Senate Armed Services committee is chaired by arizona senator, john mccain. Good morning. Senate Armed Service s committe meets to consider the nominations of mark t. Esper for secretary of the army. Personnel of red naez. Joseph to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And gu...

Service, has been tested. Routinely theyve proven their courage, skill and determination. The burden imposed on our soldiers only gres as threats to our nation increase and sequestration remains the law of the land. Given current operational demands, restoring readiness must be the armys First Priority. Weve made some progress this year towards improving ready brigads ready for deployment. But the army still does nautd plan to return to full Spectrum Readiness until 2021 at the earliest. Meanwhile, the army is woefully behind on modernization and our soldiers are increasingly unprepared to con...

And so we continue to move to make progress, but we have a lot of Unfinished Business. We have a lot of Unfinished Business in the area of Economic Justice as well. And it starts with the minimum wage. Nobody who works a fulltime job in this country should have to live in poverty. [applause] and what we see all too frequently are people working hard and falling further behind, people who have to make choices between do i pay the mortgage, do i pay the rent, or do i pay for my daughters medicine . Those are choices that we should never have to make here in america. I applaud the san diego city ...

Thank you all. Today on cspan3, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee authorizes a measure to use military force against isis. Beginning at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Then at 2 00 eastern, former, current and future chairman of the Republican Study Committee talk about conservatives in the newly elected congress. Watch live coverage from the American Enterprise institute here on cspan3. The white house ebola coordinator around head of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases gave an update on the west africa update and funding for the u. S. Government response. They spoke at g...