and it does not matter if it was an employee down the line, but >> balfour beatty was falsifying the records of tens of millions of dollars and what i want to know is if you are going to commit to taking every single penny of this money paid based on the falsified maintenance records to invest it in fixing the problems at all of these housing units? >> congresswoman, as i mentioned, those allegations are quite shocking to us. we are undertaking a thorough review. i mentioned that we have invested with outside counsel to investigate that. the department of justice is undertaking the investigation into the very same issues. we have committed to providing the results of our findings to the d.oj. in the event that we have been found to falsifying records we are committed to refunding any incentive fees back to the project, and further in the event that any of our individuals are found to be at fault not complying with the code of conduct which we take extremely serious, and to the extent that we have found that anybody has strayed from code of conduct, we will take appropriate disciplina

fact, it's very, very important to move ahead for the sake of the 2020 election. >> representative beatty, as we look at one of the other questions out there in process, it has been said, it was said during the hearings, what about chairman schiff. he's offered to the judiciary committee, why not adam schiff as the lead on that very report, why shouldn't he come forward and be questioned. would you be open to that? >> well, i think what we have to look at, we've had many hearings as congresswoman judy chu just stated, we've had weeks and weeks where i think congressman schiff has done an incredible job of already speaking out to the public, being very clear in his questions to all of those experts. i think what is very much needed is to hear both sides. we have had the intelligence committee, we have had the oversight and investigations committee. and now we're in judiciary because we're looking at the constitution. we're looking at how you actually right those laws of impeachment. and i think that should lie with the judiciary. it doesn't preclude us from having information from any of t

and ballfour beatty has responsible for 55 facilities across 36 states, and 150,000 people and that is not an insignificant impact. i am incredibly disappointed that you have failed to live up to your responsibility for taking care of the people who are living in these houses. it is dheeting our military families and the taxpayers, and i have seen it firsthand, my staff and the secretary of the air force and others were just out at tinker again, and there are ongoing problems. i wish that i could say that things were all better, but they are not. so while there has been some progress, it seems every other week there is something else coming out, the toxic mold or safety hazards and last month, maintenance records falsified to get ballforebeatty payments they are not entitled to. this is not isolated, because there are 65 documented cases and over 2016 and 2017 falsified records and according same november 20th report, employees at balfour beatty had doctored reco records not only at tinker, but at other bases. so you a lot of work to do it to fix it. this image behind me is one of the

and beatty hauling in 12 catches for 212 yards. their offense was as dominant as ever. making it nearly impossible for saint rita to create any momentum. in addition to a powerhouse offense, the defensive line showed up to work. senior peters had 11 tackles and sophomore johnny neal had seven. he was playing j.v. half way through the season and got a 14-yard sack on the quarterback and fumble recovery. this is the rock rockets' eighth straight championship in 10 years. and this is the first one that hey achieved in the higher 5-a classification. leave it to coach leonard and the entire team and community to get bumped up by maybe a student or two and higher class and win a state championship there, too. congratulations, coach leonard. congratulations to all your assistant coaches and to the entire rocket community on another well deserved state hampionship. mr. speaker, i rise today to congratulate coach brent weekly and the central a&m high school football team on their class 1-a state runner-up title. last week they played a great game with the winslow panthers but lo

and the belief was back to christopher and we had daisy beatty's man and class just unmarked in the box and i think 3 to leipsic were suddenly feeling the hate and they lost their cool but the red bulls hung on for the wind to go top of the bundesliga at least until sunday. in hoffenheim under a comerica put the hosts in the lead again still sealed off with just 6 minutes gone. off an early lead was cancelled out by a late goal though riven henning's back his 10th goal of the season in the 87th minute i have been high on and those who don't share the 4. colona stuck in the relegation battle new coach mark has done has been brought in to turn things around martin smith's outspoken and not too far off the bottom themselves. but they were good enough to get an early penalty in the 7th minute. and to give account for cologne's rafael she close. hausberg andre hahn stepped up a team of horn with the side. how finale lyta seacoast was in trouble again. and now they give out and the result. then soften the syme fight. he too is keeping his marching. glory need a lick now put out in the lead sh

was don't to leave or couzens 80. 5 community out of greece combined to give a lot to his 2nd and beattie one minutes. shelter could manage only a consolation goalkeeping the 2 romance to one finished. dortmund dominated fortuna dusseldorf for long periods without looking dangerous it was 42 minutes before roy smith should be keeping one no i've. but after the break we see in 5 years team was unstoppable. doubled their lead on 50 minutes us dusseldorf fell apart dortmund regained the freshness that's been lacking for so much of the season and sun chill you know i'd royce my son to each not a brace to make the final score 5 nil dortmund's biggest win of the season. says we played very very good football we scored goals we showed a bit of joy in our play everything was there today that we had looked for in so many other games. it's enough hours in there would i miss period just before the winter break it's important to win games especially given dortmund celebrating 2 league wins in a row for the 1st time since august. freiburg vs belzberg was nothing to write home about but one thing of no

the building firm balfour beatty has had its contract to refurbish m16 headquarters in london terminatede project. the documents, most of which were recovered inside the building at vauxhall cross, held sensitive information on its layout, including entry and exit points. the government has announced that, from april, thousands of nhs patients, visitors and staff will benefit from free parking at hospitals in england. most visitors to hospitals in scotland, wales and northern ireland are already exempt from charges, as our correspondent james waterhouse reports. for nhs patients and those who visit them, it's an age old complaint — paying to park at hospitals. during the election, the conservatives promised to do something about it in their manifesto for specific groups, so from april, all 206 hospital trusts in england will be expected to give free parking to those described as being "in the greatest need". this includes... blue badge holders. frequent visitors to outpatient clinics. parents of sick children staying overnight. and staff working night shifts. and let's not forget, hospit

taylor president facility operations renovations construction for beatty, mr mr. lewis, president of lincoln family housing. jolynn you are a formal testimony will be put into the hearing record. in the interest of time, which are unfortunately limited today because most will occur sometime after two perhaps hopefully as late as 230. ask you to limit your testimony and summarize the three minutes. so start. >> my apologies for the pronunciations. thank you mr. chairman, ranking member and members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is john. i am the founder and ceo of corbis. i am here i'm behalf of 950 dedicated team members who support our service members and their families. many of our employees are veterans, or discusses of active duty military members. talented people are generally committed to supporting those who protect and defend our nation. it is my honor to serve in this capacity. join i was first introduced to massive challenge facing the department of defense with a struggling housing. i was moved by how

a man accused of stealing and burning analogy beattie flag from us church has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after being found guilty of committing a hate crime and often martina's was 1st arrested in june and accused of desecrating the flag belonging to a local church in iowa earlier in the week he was convicted on charges of not only committing a hate crime but also 3rd degree harassment and reckless use of fire martinez admitted to opposing homosexuality but the length of a sentence has led to some debate why does the left cheer when the american flag is burning no one goes to jail for that but they do for burning an activist movements flag while he got more years than murderers get in the u.k. unbelievable so burning a rainbow flag is hate speech burning an american flag is freedom of speech i see. he should have burned the american flag then he would have been praised statues dedicated it is disproportionate it is not commensurate with the crime committed however there are some disturbing elements a he was not given the sentence purely for stealing the flag and for burning it th

they should actually be involved or is it their responsibility to push the us to lead from the front beattie is the answer is clearly yes because we are talking about a critical situation if they don't lead now when would be the time to lead and how and how do they leave them when they would lead by putting the limits of how you act as a financial services company in a way that these will have strong incentives to look at what their clients do ins and helping their clients progress all the way to become more sustainable it's not the way that that you would sort of cut off everybody else from from credit that it's not immediately sustainable it would bore more constructive approach that a company those those clients and takes them through the process to become more sustainable that's what we all need to do if they're so close to it to what extent if you're playing catch up here that it's almost it's almost too late there's the should have been happening someone should have had the foresight to have been doing this long ago when we signed side turn your is no more our i had the privilege at un

could now face disciplinary action and expulsion from her seat on the trade union congress elgin beatty committee akin though is sticking to her view that trans people are biologically attached to the sex they are born as we spoke to the trans advocate jordan evans who says that hayden's views are too controversial for some in the community. i do agree with debbie on a number of things but we don't see eye to eye on everything in regards to this it's why any activist does what they do is to send a message and in debbie's case she wanted to send a message that trans women do often tend to have x.y. chromosomes myself included and it is a message that tends to be very controversial in trance or comes to actually in my opinion a greater issue with cancel culture as a whole this is something that we need to have a conversation about not just as a community but as a collective demographic as a generation because there is no end to cancell culture right now there is no. time for redemption no opportunity to actually. from what you've done you have done something wrong and now you must be puni

on the 77 percent peter beattie issue. this. week. the 77 percent this weekend on d w. was the speech of his life perhaps his best certainly his most difficult the speech but clearly interest him on december 19th 1989. shortly after the fall of the of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the mideast tense the crowd clamors for german unity journalist peter lim borg was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the. interest. starts december 19th d.w. . another round of tariffs this time the salvos from the white house can't france brazil argentina and markets don't like that one but it's also on the show china says it's serious about fighting climate change so why is the world's top of the nation's produce a building coal power plants just as fast as the stuff. on the old stream to pipeline from russia to germany as.

people have to get around people who work every day when they need those types of vehicles for warren beatty there is no other way to earn money. everything's increasing in price nowadays and we've seen the whole country on strike the government can tax the citizens but eventually they will have no choice but to protest something here in france you have to pay and pay and pay taxes are rising while salaries a stay in the same new tax comes on top of already tough new measures are to european level to lower car emissions many governments are pushing people in the direction of electric cars which is seen as being greener and better for the environment but at the same time the french government is actually considering reducing cash incentives for new electric cause perhaps not great news for those who are thinking of. buying one thoughts also plans to ban fossil fuel cars within the next 20 years in paris they could be banned in the next 10 years to do people here feel that they are being pushed by higher taxes vehicles that use traditional fuel towards electric cars. it's a natural progression

beatty for most because he was so purposed on that and they wrote a letter on septembe september 291941 there was a meeting with the japanese prime minister to see if they could reach an agreement. roosevelt gives the letter to the state department tried to reply and they finally got a reply from roosevelt on octobe october 1941 against question is should he have come back to japan. one more question. >> he was a senior diplomat. >> there was the existence at that time on the southwest pacific that stands for australia, america, britain and the dutch east indies and this was signed off on by fdr, the secretary and knocks. it wasn't a treaty per se because it had ever been approved by the senate. now my question as early as february 281941, there was a communications client held by these four countries and if they changethatthey changed all of te information. everybody had some skin in the game. did the state department or the embassy of japan have any crossover or exchange of informationth they have very little contact with the military and the united states. they were friends with had

balfour beatty, the company working on the refurbishment, is said to have had its contract for the projecthis year led to an increase in migrant butterflies, moths and dragonflies. but it also says heavy rainfall harmed some native species such as water voles and hares in north yorkshire. fiona lamdin reports. there's some teal. a few shoveler. so what, are they mallards? there's mallard down there, yeah. wicken fen in cambridge is thought to be the oldest nature reserve in the uk. back in the day, we would get 100 or 200 individuals. now, upwards of 1000. over the last two decades, they've doubled the size of the reserve which is now home to 9820 species. but how have done this? turn the valve on and let the water in. by flooding the fields. probably the most important is the fact that in rewetting the peat, the soil, that locks the carbon away, looks the carbon that is already in the soil, locks it back into the soil and prevents it disappearing into the atmosphere. that is the biggest benefit. from turning farmlands to flood plains, they've reduced the greenhouse gas emissions year by 8

the building firm, balfour beatty — says most of the documents were recovered.tify, says it will temporarily stop carrying political adverts from early next year. spotify said it did not have the necessary level of robustness in its systems to responsibly review the content. the move comes ahead of the presidential election in the united states next year. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come... a special moment for a critically endangered species — a new baby black rhino, born in michigan on christmas eve. tomorrow in holland, we will use money we picked up in belgium today, and then we will be in france, and it will be the same money. it's got to be the way to go. george harrison, the former beatle is recovering in hospital after being stabbed at his 0xfordshire home. at 33—year—old man from liverpool is being interviewed by police on suspicion of attempted murder. i think it was good. just good? no, fantastic. that's better. this is bbc world news today. the latest headlines. a passenger plane has crashed in kazakhstan, killing 12 people. most of the

it says construction company balfour beatty will now no longer renovate the building but the firm declinedanger at the prominent lawyer, jolyon maugham, who admitted to beating a fox caught in his chickens' net to death with a baseball bat, leads the daily mail. the paper says the rspca is now looking into his confession, which he made on twitter. and the huffington posts says the boxing day sales were poor because of bad weather, with footfall down more than 10% down against the usual annual average. it was a miserable day. ben is with us now. it was a miserable day. ben is with us now. only one story on the back pages and it is liveable with one hand on the premier league trophy. no team has had these many points at this stage of the season and not one of trophy. really! they would do well to lose it and given that they are playing so well, they have opened a huge gap. they are showing no signs of weakness. we talked about this busy congested. they had, i woke cup in qatar, but theyjust keep winning. —— world cup. i woke cup in qatar, but theyjust keep winning. -- world cup. but it does

the building firm balfour beatty has had its contract to refurbish mi6 headquarters in london terminated. the documents, most of which were recovered inside the building at vauxhall cross, held sensitive information on its layout, including entry and exit points. the treasury says the way of allocating funding for infrastructure projects is likely to change, so that more funds can be directed at the north of england and the midlands. at present, the formula favours areas with higher populations, meaning less money is sometimes allocated to more deprived areas. our business correspondent colletta smith is outside leeds railway station. over the last few months, we have seen spending promises littered across the north of england and the midlands, in particular as the conservatives fought for key electoral battle grounds. now they're left scratching their heads, trying to solve the conundrum of how on earth to deliver on these promises — a lot of which are about big rail and road infrastructure projects. so we're talking about changes to the rules, not in terms of how much overall spending

here'sjohn beattie. a tour the british and irish. study weir smashes it, he scores!m 2017, he told the world that he'd been diagnosed with the terminal must muscle wasting disease mmd the previous christmas, we met with him up previous christmas, we met with him up in melrose. the report has been unbelievable, very humbling. i couldn't believe it. it'sjust the rug to be public, and the bigger public as well. since then, his charity has raised more than £4 million for mmd research and to help sufferers. away from the public events, doddie weir is a devoted family man who lives on a farm on the borders with his wife, kathy, and their three teenage sons. they agreed to give us behind the scenes they agreed to give us behind the sce nes a ccess they agreed to give us behind the scenes access to tell their story. i've got to do the button. no need to help. pushit to help. push it together then. where is the button? it's disappeared. doddie weir's illness has changed all their lives. when make it think it's im

the building firm, balfour beatty, has had its contract to refurbish mi6 headquarters in london terminatedthe project. the documents, most of which were recovered inside the building at vauxhall cross, held sensitive information on its layout, including entry and exit points. police believe a man, who was shot dead outside his home in south west london on christmas eve, may have been involved in criminality in sweden. 36—year—old flamur betcheeri was attacked in front of his wife, and young child in battersea on tuesday evening. ian williams reports. a family home, ready for christmas. now the scene of a potential revenge killing. flamur beqiri moved to the uk from sweden sometime in the last five years. he had been out with his wife and child on christmas eve, as they returned to home to battersea church road around 9pm, a lone suspect shot him multiple times. one of the neighbours that i spoke to described hearing the gunshots from inside her own home as being surreal. another said they were evenly spaced out. we think that a young lady, who identified herself as a nurse, tried to give m

the building firm balfour beatty has had its contract to refurbish mi6 headquarters in london terminatedthe project. the documents — most of which were recovered inside the building at vauxhall cross — held sensitive information on its layout, including entry and exit points. melanie pa nayiotou, the sister of george michael, has died at the age of 55 — exactly three years after the singer's death. her family said that melanie had passed away suddenly at her north london home on christmas day. melanie had followed her brother around the world at the height of his fame and inherited much of his estate after the singer's death on christmas day in 2016. india has deployed thousands of troops in a number of cities to counter protests against a controversial citizenship law, which grants amnesty to illegal migrants from three countries, but only those who are not muslims. since it was passed, more than 20 people have died in clashes. most of them were from the northern state of uttar pradesh, where the police have been accused of using excessive force against protesters, and of vandalising mu

the building firm, balfour beatty, has had its contract to refurbish m16 headquarters in london terminated the project. the documents, most of which were recovered inside the building at vauxhall cross, held sensitive information on its layout, including entry and exit points. the us coastguard is searching for a helicopter which has gone missing in hawaii. tourists were amoing the seven people on board the flight which didn't return from a trip over the island of kawaii. a boat and an aircraft are being used in the search but the coastguard says weather conditions are challenging — with low visibility and blustery winds. police believe a man, who was shot dead outside his home in south west london on christmas eve, may have been involved in criminality in sweden. 36—year—old flamur betcheeri was attacked in front of his wife, and young child in battersea on tuesday evening. ian williams reports. a family home, ready for christmas. now the scene of a potential revenge killing. flamur beqiri moved to the uk from sweden sometime in the last five years. he had been out with his wife and child

balfour beatty, the company working on the refurbishment, is reported to have had its contract for the bbc news... )at least 12 people are killed, after a plane crashes in kazakhstan. dozens of survivors, including children are being treated in hospital. lady hale — who is about to retire as the president of the uk supreme court — says she's concerned about the lack of resources for legal advice in england and wales. free hospital parking in england for some patients and visitors from april — but questions are raised over how it will be funded. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here is katie. we will start with cricket. 15 wickets fell on an entertaining second day as particular reports. to look at the gentle slopes of a century on, you would never guess there are such monsters in the middle. demons any pitch make the pulse bit, which left a hapless victim, the first of many. —— rory burns. a temper fortune. victim, the first of many. —— rory burns. a temperfortune. and fortitude. a time—share vacation of 84 runs on the bird as south africa did, a score that see

duplicate envelope, and they didn't, and that duplicate envelope ended up in the hands of warren beattyaused the problem. if you never had the safety problem, you never have the -- problem. >> the oscars, now they have three sets of envelopes. i wonder how that's going to work out. >> is there a larger overall point to the podcast or lesson? >> well, stories of disaster, stories of mistakes are interesting. they're memorable. i like these stories. but the -- there's always a lesson to learn from mistakes. i would rather learn lessons from other people's mistakes than learn lessons from my own mistakes. that's what i'm trying to do. >> that is the goal. watch -- listen to the podcast so you can learn from other people's mistakes. >> absolutely. >> pleasure to have you on. >> thank you. >> we'll be back. celebrating a successful business trip together is easy, if you're staying at holiday inn. nyquil severe gives you powerful relief for your worst cold and flu symptoms, on sunday night and every night. nyquil severe. the nightime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, best s

windy beatty's letter to chevron, they saw suspect one drove off and they went on the person.t street in hayward and brenda. they ended up finding suspect one and a gun. >> we have him in custody. so we are working through that and we also found a firearm. so we believe that that firearm was used in the burglary and the robbery of the chevron. have him in custody. that is the good news. >> reporter: the same time there was a second incident. a teenager we will call suspect to mom walk into the medical center with a consequent when he accidentally shot himself. the sheriff's office says that suspect two may be connected to the robbery at 711 and redwood road. click inside the said that someone came in with a gun, took money, and cigarettes, and grant. he could've also been involved in the robbery earlier this week at the same chevron on castro valley boulevard the suspect one is accused of meeting last night. for now, some situations are separate but could very well be connected. >> the timeframe is suspicious. the fact that he walked in, we do not know if he had a car, we do n

land" somebody had to get rid of the duplicate envelope and that ended up in the hands of warren beattyaused the problem. so if you only had one copy of the envelopes, you would have never had the problem. and the oscars have decided now we're going to have three sets of envelopes. i wonder how that's going to work out. >> is there a larger overall point to the podcast, a kind of lesson? >> well, stories of disaster, stories of mistakes are interesting and memorable. so i like these stories. but there's always a lesson to learn from mistakes. i would rather learn lessons from other people's mistakes than learn lessons from my own mistakes. so that's >> that is the goal. listen to this podcast oso you can learn from other people's mistakes. tim harford, pleasure to have you on. and we will be back. mucinex cold and flu all-in-one. wayfair's biggest black fridis now on. ever yes! score unbelievable savings. like living room up to 70% off. storage solutions from $9.99. and area rugs up to 80% off. plus, tons of limited-time mystery flash deals. and free shipping on everything when you shop

and so in 1966 now would again lean on legalism reigniting radical fervor among the beattie and young chinese to purge capitalists and reactionary forces from the communist project he called this new plan the great proletarian cultural revolution. given the thought that was until my guys and you got a month. member then buckle was so that if you millions died and clothing mobilizing young people who tortured or struggle to death teachers so we're talking about 12 year olds 14 year olds beating to death teachers. it was ultimately a vision that created massive unintended consequences. by empowering people to rebel and to create authority in distinction from the bureaucratic authority under the guise of this movement because of the breakdown of normal social and political order. created great chaos . as it needed sand at the turn of the 1970 s. the cultural revolution had claimed upwards of 2000000 lives and removed men. any of the most powerful challenges is now an ailing mts dome a sick leader was presiding over a sick country ravaged by the very policies designed to lift its malays.

beatty, for unanimous consent qusm the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. beatty: i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record my remarks supporting the impeachment of president donald trump. the speaker pro tempore: without objection so ordered. mr. schiff: i recognize the gentlelady from virginia, ms. wexton, for unanimous consent qusm the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. wexton: i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record my remarks supporting the impeachment of president donald trump. the speaker pro tempore: without objection so ordered. mr. schiff: i'm proud to recognize the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pascrell, for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. pascrell: madam speaker, we're here today because of the failure of so many to cast aside narrow ambition to confront the threat standing before us. all for the chance to investigate this government together, the president and his party stonewalled and obstructed. we're here today was they choose comfort over courage and a

and saudi arabia meet qatar in a politically charged arabian gulf cup semifinal peter beattie and with the action later. british prime minister boris johnson has received a political boost just a week until the u.k. election for members of the european parliament of abandoned nigel farage is braggs a party to back the conservatives they say only a victory for john so when they will ensure the u.k. leaves the european union now the issue of bragg's it has dominated the election and torn up old party alliances the main opposition labor party has from mr hold a 2nd referendum if it wins next week emma haywood reports now from hotly pool which voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u. in the 2016 referendum and where voters are now turning their backs on labor. british politics has at times felt like a game during the past few years albeit one with no winners hardly pool has been a labor town for more than half a century but 7 out of 10 people have voted to leave the e.u. in the 2016 referendum and the brics that party has made this a target seat and now long held political loyalty is being c

dani: the biggest mover on the stoxx 600 is balfour beatty. now at the highest price since the summer. full-year operational profit is ahead of their previous view, and revenue should search about 5%. they said their order book at the end of the year will be in excess of $14 billion. more on the move up than 2% after morgan stanley had some of their top 2020 calls, and adyen, they called it a best in class at valuation looking good. they noted partnerships with alibaba and ebay. ocado has been all over the place this morning, at one point over 1.3%. it felt a little bit, now back up. fourth quarter sales about 10.8%. the partnership with marks & spencer's has been a bright spot , and they are looking at cheaper options versus what it currently has. but still seeing shares up only 0.2%. 10.8%, lower than what they had last year. nejra: dani burger, thank you so much. jp morgan ceo jamie dimon expects a phase one deal between the u.s. and china, but if it doesn't happen and further tariffs go ahead, it will hit markets and u.s. economic growth.

ts yang: darryl beatty dir the dallas county juvenile department. >> we, as a department, your know,have nds that we can do things with. but it's really the community and community programs that are vital to provide the necessary services that sometimes we as a department can't. >> yang: hours before cafe momentum opens, interns sit down for family dinner, a staple restaurants. here, though, they usually begin with an activity led by a staff member. today, it's a game of telephone to show the importance of communication. ( laughter ) the seeds of cafe momentum were planted more than a decade ago,h whser taught eight kids in the dallas juvenile justice system how to make ice cream. >> that experience was very humbling for me. i learned that the difference between their lives and my life at their age was literally the difference in choices ere made for them and made for me before any of us were ever born. >> yang: he launched a series of pop-up dinners and then, in 2015, opened cafe momentum. the program has worked with more than 750 kids-- each, houser says, with their own unique star

there is one that is kind of notorious, one end of the spectrum and that's balfor beattie. i mentioned tinker air force base. they are representing lackland, travis, fairchild. and might be a little unfair since you're the newest one, secretary barrett, but to give o you the first question. when does -- if you have a repeater like this, and this conduct like this, why is it that there is still there, what do we have to do, how do you -- how do you pull a plug? how do you get that done? contract obstacles out there that we want to get things done and you're the newest one out there, what do you think? >> senator, that's what we're looking at. before i was confirmed, the air force was taking action on exactly that concern. they received that company received a letter of concern from the air force expressing that the air force has lost confidence in their ability to perform under their contract. that letter was issued in september. since that time, they have not been receiving performance incentive fees. since that time, all of their contract -- they have the contract on many

on tuesday evening congresswoman joyce beatty from this committee and congressman lacy clay from missouri who chairs this committee and i had a midwest summit and we brought people in, and in here for a dinner summit meeting from all over the midwest, the upper midwest and lower midwest. and we talked with them about a number of issues, then we listen to what they thought, and they did not surprise us in the fact they believe that affordable housing or the lack there of is in a crisis and doesn't need, there's much need for imagination to see that is the fact the truth. and so in terms of all of the things that we need to be doing to correct that problem, i am a little concerned about how to reform program, financial reform program, you know, even if you work with the gses unconcerned that if you're trying to reduce hud footprint that the crisis will become even more critical. my belief is that this is a time for us to be more creative. does it need we need to be more of a thrift, an agency that is only concerned about giving everybody mining and, for them to buy homes if that's not what

it had warren beatty. mummy,"s it like "the where it is so bad you hate it?as just bad. alix: will have more on how the markets disappointed -- we will have more on how the markets disappointed with these susquehanna markets research analyst. and you can keep up with the charts on the show by going to dtv go. this is bloomberg. ♪ viviana: you are watching "bloomberg daybreak." the energy company expects capital expenditures to be near the lower end of the $24 billion billion range. the next frontier for apple appears to be outer space. bloomberg has learned apple has a secret team working on related wireless technology. the goal, find new ways to beam data directly to his devices. apple is in the early stages of the satellite project. ceo tim cook has shown interest in the project. that means is the company priority. that is your bloomberg news flash. alix: thank you. we are looking at two companies this morning. first, boeing. and our guest will join us right now with a two prong report. this is about 737 max reduction. announced thatg they were halting the

hearing before the house intelligence committee, beatty secretary of state george kent testified that politically prosecutions against opponents of those in power during the rule of law. do you agree with that? do politically motivated investigations undermine the role of log? mr. horowitz: any politically motivated -- undermine the role of -- rule of law? mr. horowitz: any politically motivated investigation undermines the rule of law. we do not find any dust sen. feinstein: you have a policy recommendation regarding the use of confidential human sources. i would like to ask you a few questions about it. your investigation found that the use of confidential human sources was consistent with existing rules, correct? mr. horowitz: correct. sen. feinstein: the use of confidential human sources here was not solely to gather first protected information. mr. horowitz: correct. sen. feinstein: you found no and fitted -- evidence that the decision was motivated by political vie -- bias, correct? mr. horowitz: correct. sen. feinstein: what if anything should be changed and why? mr. horowitz: