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Calling the committee to order of the budget cycle we are pleased to be joined by acting secretary chad wolf. Named after acting secretary november 132019 before taking on the challenging task he developed coordinated strategies and policies for the Homeland Security mission protected the public through his leadership role through strategy and policy as a recipient of the secretary distinguished Service Medal for International Terrorism and throughout the duration of his career. Thank you for that. We are continuing to consider the budget request 2021 and look for further insight from you. Som...

Philadelphia Semiconductor Index and the transports were higher. Aboutw transports up 0. 3 . Wellnot a huge selloff but off the highs earlier. That chip rally not enough to keep the nasdaq in the green. Romaine tesla up 4 today. The biggest mover of the day, apache. They found a bunch of oil. Deeperive a little bit into the action with our markets reporters. Abigail apache having its best day in almost 50 years, all the way since they ipo din 1980. This is based on the Oil Discovery off the coast of serena, of suriname. There is a Short Interest of about 7 . Some of this could be a short squee...

And a 2020 launch. Facebooks Cryptocurrency Libra is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libra and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. The ecommerce giant posted its largest advance on the s p 500 index on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but the statement backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spencer, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. Spencer in terms of their statement, we didnt learn m...

The university of washington history professor Margaret Omara discusses her book the code. You have the biggest of Big Government programs, the space race. The militaryindustrial complex, that becomes the foundation for this flywheel of an incredible creation and innovation and wealth, private wealth creation, and an industry that considers itself that built itself up on its own, that has become invisible to many people who are in silicon valley, who are the creators of these companies. They think there is not a world, but there is. That is part of the magic, that it is a government out of sig...

Years now. We watched this in the aftermath of exposures about a collection by nsa itself, the agency unfamiliar to most americans and as we take off our 2019 conference, we find now even intelligence oversight is very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kick off by reports from the Intelligence Community Inspector General. You have forthcoming next week, allegations and misuse of the surveillance act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings from the house Intelligence Committee. Even intelligent overseers now are the center in the way that the intell...