i.t. resources in this case. that they need to roll this package out effectively without major hiccups. again, like we experienced in 2009. before i yield to ranking member rourke, i want to focus in on the i.t. measures i just listed. i have questions about this. since joining this committee, it's always been clear that va's i.t. systems are often so convoluted that when congress makes changes to the gi bill, or reform needs to be updated the patchwork system of upgrades is not able to keep up which can cause significant delays for student veterans. the subcommittee has been told during multiple hearings in the past that the plans for these systems would insure agility so that the va could quickly address changes that were made in the law as we have seen, however, that just hasn't been the case. directing i.t. systems to education programs is not often a focus of the department. i hope this practice does not continue, especially for something as important as the forever gi bill. i look fo

the law requires a significant i.t. effort with 22 of the 34 provisions requiring i.t. modifications and an estimated $70 million. oit has committed to providing solution for the most pressing provisions section 107501 with monthly housing benefits. they will assure timely processing of additional claims and will stand up new initiatives such as the edith north rogers stem scholarship by establishing specialized teams using processors and by hiring 202 additional temporary employees in the field. they have taken focusing on the 13 provisions affect that i date of enactment and executing expensive and multifaceted campaign to highlight and promote the improvements to affect beneficiaries and other stakeholders. specifically va has promoted extensively for a new webpage social media, outreach activities as well as frequently asked questions. the va has posted multiple updates on his g.i. bill face but page and holidays forever g.i. bill and participated in a satellite media tour conduct being interviews with radio reaching 4 million viewers and listeners and then out thro

head of the dnc, hezbollah, njd i.t. workers. a report of possible connection. >> a classic money laundering operation. >> shannon: we investigate with congressman ron desantis. rich lowry explains why some never trumper are partying with the president. welcome to "fox news @ night" ." i'm shannon bream. as the most sweeping changes to the tax code and more than 30 years make their way to the president's desk, we are learning about new challenges to the tax cut. new indications is already having a positive impact. blue states like california, new york, new jersey are already looking at taking legal action trying to stop tax reform before it becomes law. the bill hits those states hardest with high incomes, high property values in a high state and local taxes. bloomberg reporting about this effect on wall street. "one trader sipping a blooding mary on a flight said he's gonna stop registering as a republican." phil murphy says everything is on the table. >> many thousands of dollars. this is an awful bill for america, an awful day

awan, his wife, brothers, making 160 grand a year doing i.t. work. that's equivalent to the highest ranking staffers, chiefs of staff. awan was a little older. one of his brothers was in his early 20s, working at mcdonald's part-time. this whole thing right there. what happened to all this money and really there's no good explanation for it other than this is money incorporated sent overseas. they had deep relationships with people in pakistan. the first $100,000 for the car dealership was given to them by in a rocking with ties to hezbollah. what was going on in the house, why didn't see what any -- and why didn't anyone see what they were up to. where was the money going? >> shannon: there were allegations they were logging into accounts of members they weren't working for. if you read that piece in "the daily caller," talks about the car dealerships, businesses that don't seem to make sense. the financial trail is fuzzy and the expo nations are strange. here's what luke said about what this looks like. >> this was a used car dealership, classic mo

i for one don't have the subject matter expertise on all this including the i.t. fix and i.t. problems. i just know from past experience gao has been so helpful to me in understanding and providing an academic and third party scrutiny on the commitment and performance and hope we can get work on gao, not in any way to say i have a lack of confidence because i don't. you all have been very helpful and professional. i think given the group of veterans we're talking about and success implementing this successfully i want to make sure we have the greatest oversight possible to help us to do our job. thank you, mr. chairman for letting me go over. >> absolutely. i understand the doctor doesn't have any questions, is that right? okay. you're recognized for five minutes. no questions? i have one question and then i will ask the ranking member if he wanted to make any more comments. the question is for miss moakler. in your testimony you described a situation where some students are demanding payment -- the schools are demanding payment of tuition and fees and the v.a. has delayed in

i.t. compliance staff has been working to update the forms required of the ethics and se censuring training to make sure they're in one document. and then to proposition t, as you may recall, those are two ordinances that go into operative effect on january 21, 2018. our i.t. staff has been working dill -- diligently to update the process for the forms. the proposition t would ban lobbyists giving gifts to city officials. i.t. staff is testing an electronic filing database. the same is true of the payment ordinance. i.t. staff is working to update forms and to implement a disclosure database that we hope to have ready for the january 21 date. moving on to the whistle-blower ordinance. we heard a member of the public speak on this item earlier today. we have continued to work with the city attorney's office and d.h.r. to make amendments and review the ordinance. and we can begined to move forward with that process. we're keeping tabs on the process as it's formally scheduled with that emplo

or programmers web designers and i.t. specialists the jobs that will be hugely in demand in our digital future but here in the european union there's a shortage of qualified workers or one hundred thousand positions have been filled career training hasn't caught up with demand we've met two entrepreneurs who've taken that as an opportunity. but are fila hine runs a company that offers online courses in web design. demand is strong people call up all the time to register. well the need is just fine almost and if you look anywhere at the big car companies in the big media companies all companies go online and that's a total right. and in order to do that they need people who actually know how to go digital how to design a great online experience or how to build a website she and her business partner set up career foundry in berlin four years ago it now has a start for forty they don't have classrooms all the courses are conducted online and are self paced with real time mentoring. big companies such as apple and bank of ame

got an email from ukraine the other day business owner thirty five runs an i.t. company recently decided jeans and t. shirt don't cut it anymore not quite sure how to make that change over to business that i work common problem but solve it. ok vlad listen up the basics you need two suits make that three one navy one of it of a lighter blue and one gray like this one. no stripes no problems make sure it's good quality will take them to a tailor have them altered to you. easy next you need six three white ones three in different shades of blue. no patents no stripes leave that for the ties you need six of those two plan ones one red one blue. stripes check it dotted down. now do the math this will give you thirty six different combinations that means you couldn't go to work for nearly two months without wearing the same outfit twice two or three pairs of decent shoes oxford's broke so buy the best you can afford. one more thing take your time when making the change from sloppy to smart start wearing a suit maybe twice a week and slowly increase the frequency that

earlier this year the i.t. subcommittee explored the kremlin's efforts to use social media to influence voters. today we're looking at another part of their effort to undermine our democracy by hacking our voting machines and election infrastructure. a year ago we held a hearing entitled cybersecurity, ensuring the integrity of the ballot box where we looked at state and federal preparations for cybersecurity on our voting machines. today we're discovering still new facts. in september dhs notified 21 states that hackers affiliated with the russian government breached or attempted to breach their election infrastructure. in my home state of illinois the hackers illegally downloaded the personal information of 90,000 voters and attempted to change and delete data. fortunately they were unsuccessful. while we continue learning about the full scope of russia's election interference one thing is clear. there will be another attempt to manipulate our elections, whether it be russia, another nation-state or a non-sta

they have huge i.t. corporations themselves.: talk about airport and what the airlines themselves are doing. the infrastructure at the airports and how something like this could happen? but a: not so simple, simple issue of the electricity goes out and nobody can operate and move planes. what we have seen in the past with delta in atlanta last year, they had a multi-day problem with their data center went out and they were forced to build a new one. a huge amount of money and put that in northern suburbs. last week, the ceo said that cannot happen again with us the way we set up our i.t. operation. atlantan april hit which caused a three day problem. we have seen a recurring series where airline technology has been a fault . in response, there has been a huge amount of investment in that area so we have places like delta and southwest, they have both spend hundreds of millions of dollars to really get the reliability in that system. when they go down, you are talking about more people than they have had in the past, more planes

i think ultimately we determined in consultation with our wonderful staff at the state i.t. agency and their assessment that we wouldn't be in a position to do that with the equipment we were using. without the independent verification, the paper ballot, there would be no way for us to do that. i think that ultimately was the moment where, you know, decertification moved forward and we decided to have paper ballots statewide for this past november. our local election officials had less than days before the election. -- less than 60 days before the election. frankly, less than two weeks before the start of absentee voting to deploy new equipment. they did a phenomenal job, using exceptionally limited resources that they have and working with not only in partnership with us , but also in terms of the , voting system vendors to get equipment deployed, get ballots printed, do training, do voter education, all within that window. they pulled it off successfully. and so it, you know, give a lot of credit to our local election officials across the state for being able to do that. >

so we have enabled a hybrid i.t.tomers figure out the right mix where the workload should live. and that is a capability we are growing. and that is what our partner does. help figure out where the workloads go to enable the future. and the edge has as much pressure and it is growing like weeds. emily: has that put a big chill on m&a a little bit side of the wheel house? or do you think eight pe will still be creative when it comes to thinking about doing deals? meg: yeah. i think we had some post-traumatic stress syndrome, and we did not make any acquisitions until aruba. and we had to be very thoughtful. we took due diligence to an extreme. i said, i'm sorry about this, but you are the first acquisition after autonomy. but aruba has been an incredible acquisition for us. and i think we have got our momentum back around m&a. the has been fantastic -- aruba has been fantastic. so, i think we now know what acquisitions work for us and it is complementary technology that we can put to our fantastic distribution system

up next, the hezbollah connection to the obama iran deal and some shady i.t.orkers for top democratic lawmakers, how it ties together. we will explain. beyond our borders, as the european union's top court says court says uber should be regulated like a taxi company. uber argued it's a technology firm but lost. the company says it will affect its operations in four countries. spanish catalonia votes tomorrow on a new regional government in october, residents voted to break off from spain, prompting the government to take direct control of the region and put pro-independence leaders in jail. disgraced former boston catholic archbishop has died in rome. he was the spiritual leader in boston for 18 years. he was brought down by the scandal over his failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood. he was 86. some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. gher risk oe due to afib,r risk oe a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. but no matter where i ride, i go for my best. so if there's something better than

and then on hybrid i.t., we are really interested in the software.interface and put it on the most prevalent server in the world, the dl 380. and so that is turning out to be a winner for us as well. but you can count on acquisitions, if we make them, only in those three areas. we are going to stick right to those three areas, because we think there is a lot of room and making hybrid i.t. simple powering the intelligent edge,, and making services that happen for clients. emily: we then discussed the political landscape. we began with one of the hottest topics -- tax reform. meg: i think we appreciate the reduction in corporate tax rates, although we pay below 35%, as do most corporations. but it will help on the margin for sure. we like the territorial tax system where we could bring in cash that is trapped overseas back. and we would make investments back in the united states. so there is a lot we like about it. i think being a californian, it is going to be challenging for people who live in california, new york, new jersey if that state income tax

thereen you look at 2017, are i.t. stocks driving that recovery.o continue to see the recovery and he see the banks do well. rishaad: should. will be the top markets looking into the year? i will that be the case. >> 2018 is looking to be a very solid year for china as well as india. india's side, we talk about valuations. it we look at earnings growth. india is turning things around. expecting seeing anywhere from 17% to 18% earnings growth for corporate india in 2018. and in china's case, valuations are still quite attractive. and evaluations are quite high but earnings growth when you look at chinese companies is roughly 15%. .ocus on asia in particular it does look like a very attractive country as well. who are you looking at? >> we do tend to sort of want to avoid some of those countries and these markets have done well over the last few years. rishaad: he is in asia portfolio specialist. at the other side of it, the next question about bitcoin. cryptocurrencyhe , stunning december and the .hanghai market open that is coming up after the brea

we have split offer i.t. department this summer, and these models are predicated on this idea that we can capture,, we can harness the for-profit drive, the great entrepreneurial resource that is part of our economy and our american dna to create these companies. that at scale on day one given our size, , our i.t. department has 100 employees. there are not very many employees who have 100 employees in -- we can put entrepreneur led into the for-profit structure and go these companies. all of those companies are owned, , controlled and managedy our nonprofit, umuc ventures which i am the ceo of the river national board. we are doing a seed funding to help encourage and think carefully about how we can expand this market and to provide services to the higher ed unity. all of the profits we learn from these processes will go to scholarships. that's our public mission. that's why we exist as a state university and that's what all of this activity while i was to do as we gain the financial benefits, channel 50 no

chinese equities have been very good domestically, plus the i.t. stocks.s had impact, but i think we must not forget that it has been the tech which are global companies, but the technology user in asia is changing at a faster pace than the rest of the world. the demand for technology products is going to remain incredibly strong. peoplewrote question is think about them as uncorrelated assets. they are not. ashok: that is true. a large part of the index is correlated to the main markets, but there are markets which are also driven by their own domestic stories. it depends on what kind of portfolio consumption you want to build. how much diversification you want to build into your portfolio. 2017 has been one of those years were global liquidity has driven assets around the world. ashok shah sticks around, up next, i want to talk about saxony ppi. ♪ is this a phone? or a little internet machine? it makes you wonder: shouldn't we get our phones and internet from the same company? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you get up to 5 lines of t

minister narendra modi it connects the southern part of delhi with the satellite city of noida is an i.t. hub the rail cars feature wife on a u.s.b. charging point and state of the art safety features. britain's railways are mostly closed for repairs over christmas but one of the country's busiest terminal stations euston has been opened to people who normally hug the shadows there two hundred homeless people were given christmas dinner along with warm clothing socks clubs and lucky that the charity event was funded by a total of forty five companies. for and staying with christmas in scandinavian folklore santa claus doesn't live at the north pole but in the north of finland in lapland a small village there styles itself as the home of father christmas to attract tourists and with its grottos reindeer and plenty of snow it's a dream come true for the young and the young at heart. it's a winter wonderland at santa claus village just outside the city of rovaniemi more than three hundred thousand tourists come here each year with high seas and in december here in northern finland they can

when johana vite comp lifts the baton she lead sixty accountants engineers an i.t. specialists they have all swapped their computers for cellos violins flutes and bassoons they are the s a p orchestra maybe not as well known as the company's corporate software products but an important part of the business none the less. zero vehicle so it's a talk and a company that wants to advance and be successful it's very important that people are in harmony with each other that they're able to work in a team and cooperate. with there's no activity in the world where you have to react so quickly to each other and work together so well as in an orchestra. i'm accustomed that's because musicians have to depend on each other to achieve that perfect harmony they have to listen to each other respond at the right time and be well trained and prepared. gives you an essence of the. sense that you have to practice if you want to get false right. it also like teaches you that you cannot wait until the last. s.a.p and schubert bosh and ah yes the german auto parts maker has its own orche

i.t. specialist kamikazee has to get up at the crack of dawn to get to work on time. it is that there is about twenty kilometers. boyd sometimes takes about two hours to get to more than two hours to get. lagos is now home to an estimated twenty one million people the city's rapidly rising population is proving a headache for urban planners. so the government has to deal with other quick paul quick water sanitation your plan for certain population and the end of the plan before you even start implementation that number has increased if the numbers continue at the rate that people have mentioned right now in terms of people community leaders on a daily basis in twenty five years from now with the crisis the city's infrastructure is ready proving inadequate and with relatively few opportunities elsewhere in one thousand the population of lagos. it will only continue to soar. business update here in w. thanks for keeping me company for more find us on facebook or follow us on twitter . for business. sometimes you just have to pump up the volume. to sing for the day. when

thousands of hackers and internet experts gathered in leipzig for the chaos communication congress i.t. vulnerability was one of the hot topics at the annual meeting internet experts warn that new technology is being rolled out without adequate security for users. take a look trick cars touted as the next big thing for environmentally friendly a transportation that experts say that data infrastructure for a vehicle is vulnerable to hacking in germany for instance customers at public charging stations are open to fraud because transactions and encrypted researchers say that's because companies are placing other priorities ahead of security. these companies are growing very quickly simply because they want to have the best location for their charging infrastructure and they are trying to. build the infrastructure right now and have the profits later so they acquire growing more quickly instead of focusing on the security side of things data protection in general was a major focus of the meeting experts criticized that companies don't have enough incentive to protect their customers dot u

energies do they use hazardous chemicals can their products be recycled or easily repaired chinese i.t. giant lenovo could do better with regard to renewables involved places hewlett packard the u.s. specialist for printers and computers make sustainable products that can be easily upgraded so that the environment suffers less. in third place is dell the u.s. computer manufacturer has taken a liking to colors and it's gone green it makes devices that are easy to repair offices but down the whole supply chain on the other hand when apple devices no longer work they often end up on a rubbish heap and cannot be recycled. fair phone is that number one the dutch phone maker went for a simple modular concept when parts are broken they can be replaced but like other tech giants fan phones also use harmful chemicals so there's still room for improvement. was this week's rankings and now gaming in schools not everyone likes school so some teachers have started using video games in their classes to improve motivation and learning if students do well they can go up a level the idea was introduced

a lot of the language of the policy is oriented toward i.t. and it's not the intent that it's the full scope of it. when we first talked about this, it was really aimed more at the operating side. and some of the challenges are in the operating side. people who are busy operating don't often have time to keep up with technology. so i would be very interested in how this is reflected in the day-to-day life of people in the operating departments. >> i think the main thing, this is a tool that can be used so that we encourage our operators when they're working on certain projects and utilize this working with stanford or water and have a dialogue to capture it and we can do lessons learned. >> and this was reviewed with the executive team, who are the members of the technology council, puc, so they approved this tool and support the operationalizing of the policy. >> in addition to sharepoint, does the utility use google drive? >> we don't use google drive. we're more microsoft-based. we don't really use google. >> okay. anyone else? okay. we had

back in 2015, he was a lawyer and represented hillary clinton's i.t. staffer justin cooper. cooper is the one who personally put in the secretary of state's private illegal server in her home. congressional investigators sought to meet with cooper but they were stonewalled again and again by him. documents that we obtained today show the frustration of homeland security and government affairs committee in trying to get to mr. cooper. he telephoned homeland. security staff to inform them that cooper had chosen to cancel the interview.he in the letter to cooper, congressional investigators complained, "we are troubled by your attorney. his complete refusal to engage the committee in a discussion about how to further assuage her concerns." take that in for a minute. a lawyer who played a defense role in the federal investigation into hillary clinton is now playing an offensive role in a federal investigation against president trump. this is not the first time the mueller probe has been dogged by questions of partisanship. also an fbi employee peter strzok was demoted following

once was the personal lawyer of hillary clinton's i.t. guy. would he hire an obvious partisan for a job like this? >> if this whole thing screams conflict of interest along the way. the whole thing was asked of director wray. he has a tight rope he needs to walk. the question was essentially, did you have a criteria in order to be part of the team or did director mueller have one or was it happenstance? >> tucker: what's so ironic is that part of the statute is to reassure the public that the investigation is about politics. that's why it was taken out of the hands of the doj leadership. he would think mueller would go out of his way to make certain no one on his team would be accused of partisanship and all of them seem to have ties. >> if not everyone. i thought trey gowdy made a good point. every day in america, people are called together, 12 peers sitting there and they are forbidden from even deliberating on the evidence in front of them onto the last evidences and then they get their jury instructions and go back and deliberate. in this

little bit of a pickup from some of those tech players that were heavily dumped yesterday, but the i.ts a whole still lagging. brent crude up by 1%, but falling back of course from that $65 level. we have a look at that graphic on the index? this shows you what is moving in terms of the big market players. the big front runner today up by bid for4% after that the shopping center giant. jpmorgan saying a competing bid cannot be ruled out. the stock trading just under their target of $10. you are seeing that retail holding company under pressure. having a look at the regional picture, health care stocks leading the gains. i.t., as i mentioned, still under pressure and material .8%,s off by about resulting in a loss of about .1% on the overall regional index this wednesday. ♪ emily: this is the "bloomberg technology." i am emily chang. back to our top story. toshiba and western digital have announced an end to a legal spat that threaten derail the $18 billion sale of toshiba's memory business and cut the company all from a future supply of vital products. western digital is dropping arbit

when you talk about i.t., engineering, accounting. these areas we are seeing upward pressure on wages. but particularly in the service sector we are still seeing a significant lack of upward momentum in wages. i think we'll continue to see that upward pressure as technology replaces these skilled workers. charles: how important is it that the tax bill pass and how important is it that we have a 20% corporate tax rate. >> the fed is trying to see if the unemployment rate will breach below 3%. other areas of the market are suggesting it's two more rate hikes, then they need to pull back on the throttle. charles: two of my favorite economists. i appreciate you taking the time. stay with fox business tonight. we have special coverage of the president's 8:00 p.m. rally in florida. a two-hour edition of "lou dobbs tonight." after being slammed for alleged improper discussions with russia, attorney general jeff sessions may not be wrong after all. more media mistakes when it comes to the trump administration. we'll be right back. ♪ [vo] prog

if we take a look at what is moving in the market, you can see these i.t.leading gains by 1.4%. let's have a look at the stocks we are watching. tencent raising the overall hang seng index. tencent said to be investing in yonghai superstores. we are counting down to the reopen in china at the top of the hour. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. in 2014, amazon introduced the echo, a new category of device designed around your voice. the echo and alexa were initially made available only to invited amazon prime members. that changed in june, 2015, when both the echo and alexa were introduced to the public. bringing ai into our living rooms and sparking competition between tech titans. we caught up with the vice president of amazon and head scientist of alexa to ask how many skills alexa will have in five years. >> the skills will continue to improve daily convenience as we know it. everything is changing in terms of the behaviors of how we interact with alexa. you set your alarms and timers through alexa. you listen to

are you seeking to press charges against the i.t. guys, and the rules being violated in pretty strange ways. >> is it luke? >> yeah. >> go back and you should research your facts. you've got them wrong. i understand that this matter is still under investigation. and we have cooperated with the authorities, both within congress and within the federal government on this one. but you should check your facts because you stated a number of things that were incorrect. >> what have i said -- >> i would just urge you to go back to the folks on the investigation, check your facts, you cited a number of things that were not correct. >> i would like to comment on the facts of california for the tax reform. will it increase taxes for california, for new york, and is there anything that you're thinking about doing? and also today, the house is voting the project that the reciprocity carry permit that it would allow people to use their carry permits for guns anywhere in the u.s. if this was approved, do you intend to challenge this law? think abou