At 211 a share, now its 213 up again, those two Companies Amazon and microsoft have huge and growing cloud operations. That is a big part of their stock rally. Now look at tesla, 142, yesterday closing 1600 a share and this morning its up 11 bucks, 1654 but it is up again, are these tech stocks a bubble, is it like the dog, the late 90s, ive never seen anything like this before. Now look at the overall market, the Dow Jones Industrial going up again, maybe 150point of the opening bell, the s p of 21 points, two thirds of 1 . Look at the nasdaq, a half percentage point and more because a big tech again. The market is also getting help from the europeans who reached agreement on a near trillion dollar rescue plan that helps and they are still negotiating a plan for the United States as of right now. Bottom line, big tech in the market going up again today. A different story in our cities there is a confrontation going on on one side local largely democrat mayors on the other federal auth
Was still there. During an oval office event yesterday, President Trump called the coronavirus the invisible enemy, and said he views the virus like a war in other words, safely from thousands of miles away. Thats right, President Trump called the coronavirus the quote, invisible enemy. But to be fair, thats also what he calls the little piece of lettuce they try to hide in his burgers. Nice try, invisible enemy. After declaring yesterday National Nurses day, President Trump met with a group of nurses in the Oval Office Said trump, i just want you guys to know, you are my favorite category. German chancellor Angela Merkel announced yesterday that the country would begin the next phase of reopening from the coronavirus pandemic and this is cool, she might finally get to see her hairstylist. If we cant i know, but if we cant joke about that now, i dont know what else is there for us . Secretary of state mike pompeo is reportedly planning to travel to israel next week for a 24hour visit a
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
You ask me, israeli unnecessary. Matt goldich wrote a joke whose punch line is israeli unnecessary. Mothers day is this sunday. So now all i have to do is figure out when sunday is. Is today sunday . Hmm. Ceo of grocery chain kroger said yesterday that americans will have meat during the coronavirus pandemic so long as they are quote, flexible. Although isnt being flexible on meat what got us into this in the first place . So tomorrow is no socks day good, because im starting to feel creepy Walking Around the house wearing just socks and finally, Budget Airline Allegiant Air has begun offering customers free health and safety kits on all flights to stop the spread of coronavirus. That story again, some airline you never heard of is offering you more help than your president. That was the monologue, everybody. And shout out to my son, ashe, who promised he would be quiet the whole monologue and he did it good job, buddy. Thank you seth we got a great show for you tonight. She a coach on
Everyone. Im jason your may president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. Id like to give you a very warm welcome to todays event focus on the evolution of the american presidency over the last two decades. I emphasize the warm welcome because when Public Health realities forced us to make this a virtual event. I made the compelling argument that there were warm days in february and maybe we should just go for it and get a tent and a couple of heaters. And as usual the thoughtful staff at the bpc prevailed and so here we are virtual yet comfortable my pleasure to set the kind of contest for todays discussion. The Bipartisan Policy Center is really primed to focus on durable National Policy that we believe requires the engagement across a broad ideological spectrum and as a result, we normally focus most our attention on the congress. It has occurred to us and in recent months that the congress is a somewhat less dynamic vibrant deficient enterprise and at once was and in that vacuum the p