you don't have deputy secretaries in key posts, undersecretaries, or assistant secretaries.ou have a secretary of state traveling to mexico, leaving home alone. the lack of staffing at the nsc, which are not for confirmable post. the departure of mike flynn so soon, which many people think was a good sign. the departure was within the first month of your national security advisor. there's a lot of catching up they have to do. jon: mike, when you talk to people around the country, are you seeing that this is getting beyond the bubble, getting beyond the mainstream press, the mainstream political class? do you think that folks in boston -- i share andrea's viewk -- andrea's view. i suspect you do, too. do you think folks do, too? >> i think folks are exhausted by what has happened over the course in a little over a month of this presidency. obviously people who voted for donald trump are somewhat pleased because they regard everything that has happened as something he had promised would happen. he is conducting his presidency in that manner. the level of exhaustion in the coun

undersecretary for health at the department the president trump has now called on you to lead. qualifications, your compassion and professionalism voterise to the 100-0 confirming your nomination. [applause] we know you will be of great benefit. not so much to the department of veterans affairs as to our heroes across this country. men and women who serve in uniform. to whom we owe a debt our nation will ever -- never be able to fully repay. we are grateful for your continued service. president trump that i have full faith you will honor the service of these american heroes and fulfill our nations some of -- solemn oath. if you will join me in front of the flags i will administer the oath of office. left in on the bible and your right hand ready. i do solemnly swear. >> i do solemnly swear. >> i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. faith andl bear truth allegiance to the same. i take this obligation freely. mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and i will well and faithfully just ours -- discharge the duties

n convic >> be undersecretary of health. >> right now that is someone in enacting position the undersecretary was recentlyy confirmed. >> q report to that person? when somebody is caught stealing drugs and making them available what action was taken quick.ne >> it depends on the us circumstances. >> you call the cops? >> yes. what sort of actions recently have taken place that is responsible for the abuse? >> affair number of people they brought to the attention of law-enforcemente p. that are serving time and we would be happy to get you will list for the record. >> integrated services networks. do a be >> all over the country including alaska and hawaii.w so it is the span of reach the system is organized into these networks what does the integrated service networks do?e reggae's provide oversight. >> also to make sure they have us good head count. >> there are those in your area? but what about the consistency? how do you fix that problem? >> there is one facility that we looked at and what was going on there was a commitment and leadership right down to the inspector. >> so there is an ex

and kristine warmuth, former undersecretary of defense. thank you both, welcome. rick stengel, first to you. how difficult is it for the secretary of state, the secretary of homeland security to be headed to mexico after that unfortunate phone call with the mexican president, he canceled the visit, all the talk about the wall, and now these, these crackdowns on undocumented immigran immigrants. >> a trip to mexico by the secretary of state is like a lay-up, when a big ten school plays a small college in preseason and wins by 40 points. this shouldn't be a hard thing. the president made it very hard. one of the things about dploek diplomacy, in those circles you don't negotiate in public. trump is negotiating in public and pro xhizing his representatives when they go to mexico. the last couple days complicate that trip where they'll be on the defensive. that's not what we want for america's diplomats. >> kristine from a military perspective you've got the national security council has not had a formal meeting yet. supposedly there might be

that's his confirmation of undersecretary. i said, let me just give you this card i just received from my office from an anesthesiologist. would you call him if you get a clans? i got to the office the next morning, dr. shulkin had not only called him but called him and spent about three hours on the phone with him. when i got to the office i had a call from dr. shulkin to let me know he talked to him and a call from the anesthesiologist to know that dr. shulkin cared him to call him. in a job like veteran's health care, that type of service and attitude is important. i want someone to remind david of what he did that day. that's my first day i knew if i could cast a good vote for him, i would. secondly, these remarks, all of the members will have questions later on and i know john will make remarks after i do. it is very important we complete the task of getting open accessibility to veterans to health care but make everybody understand we are not about privatizing health care for veterans. we're about making health care more

care lynn clancy, deputy undersecretary for health for organizational excellence. she is accompanied by dr. micha michael valentineo. we also have mr. nick doll, depsy assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations. he is accompanied by miss amy, health system specialist for the office of health care inspections in the office of the inspector general. finally, we have mr. randall williamson, director of the health care team for the government accountability office and dr. keith berg, consultant and an steezology and chairman of the mayo clinic enterprise wide medication diversion prevention committee. i ask that the witnesses please stand and raise your right hand. do you sol lomly swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony you are about to provide is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? please be seated. let the record reflect that all witnesses have answered in the affirmative. dr. clancy, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> good afternoon, chairman bergman. ranking member custer and members of the sub committee. thank you

he currently serves as the va's undersecretary for health. this is 2 1/2 hours. [ gavel ] >> we're in the midst of what may be as many as five votes on the floor. in order to keep the committee moving quickly and have this hearing over with as expeditiously but as thoroughly as possible we're going to start off and we're going to start off in a little bit different order. we'll introduce senator toomey from illinois to make an introduction of dr. shulkin. an an opening statement by a ranking member an opening statement by myself and then begin the hearing with the members present. is that satisfactory? is that okay with you, john? >> you bet. >> that said i introduce the senator from pen for the purposes of remarks about the secretary. >> thank you very much, chairman isaacson, ranking member tester, members of the committee. i appreciate this opportunity to briefly introduce dr. shulkin before the committee. washington, d.c., has long been a city that focuses a lot on titles. when dr. shulkin arrived in washington to help take charge and ref

does he have to go through the white house to get permission again for an undersecretary or deputy. he said one knocked off. >> i think the irony of the question is, you mentioned baker and bush. it was pretty much baker who suggested tillerson. tillerson came out of the gates, connede rice, baker, texas troy ka, so i think he might be talking to them. >> but wouldn't you think that the last, the thing that andrea one second. the thing that baker would have said to him would be the key thing for you is you have to be this close, this is what jim baker does when he describes it, right? and do we have any sense, mike, andrea that tillerson has attempted to forge this relationship with the president? is the president reluctant? is there, or is it just chaos? >> andrea? >> i would vote for chaos, just based on my reporting. look, jim baker and bush 41 had such a tight relationship. that was almost unique, really, in the annals. george schultz and ronald reagan had a pretty close relationship except for the disputes that were coming in from the pentagon those days and the disputes over t

trump nominates david malpass as treasury undersecretary for international affairs.med, his first job when be to guide currency policy. he would bring extensive government experience to a team that has little public service background. he previously served as deputy assistant secretary in the treasury and state departments. a special prosecutor questioning jay y. lee under allegations of bribery and embezzlement. the de facto head of the samsung group was called in for questioning this morning along with two other executives, including samsung electronics president. the move potentially deals another blow to south korea's against a business empire. iron ore will defy forecast for a price collapse as china's economy remains strong and boosts demand for higher quality imports. that is according to christopher lynch speaking to bloomberg daybreak australia. it is thatthink dramatic. the key at the moment, the consensus prices below the spot price, that is obvious. that is unusual, but that can cut from two directions as well, so i would not since going to fall off a cli

he was the honorable undersecretary of the veterans administration. yet there is another title which i think is more important to him, and by which he is very well known in pennsylvania and that is doctor. despite the challenges which he has faced and with which he's been entrusted, he's never forgotten his focus on medicine, his focus on serving others. as a fellow pennsylvanian, it's an honor for me to be able to introduce him to this committee today. you know, pennsylvania has a very large number of veterans. nearly a million across our commonwealth. we have eight v.a. medical centers, 31 v.a. community-based outreach clinics and i've said many times our veterans should be first in line for the best quality health care in america. in pennsylvania and across our country, in recent years, that has not always been the case, but in recent years, the v.a. and congress have worked to address some of the challenges and issues and we've made progress. there's more work to be done. it is my hope that after confirmation, dr. shulkin will be leading that char

the undersecretary was recently confirmed -- >> you report to that individu individual? >> yes. >> when someone is caught stealing drugs and selling them or making them available to folks that shouldn't have them like the veterans that were working so hard to help, what action is taken? >> it depends on the specifics. >> do you call the cops? and what sort of actions recently have taken place in the system that you can share about people being held responsible for this abuse? >> you've probably seen from newspaper articles that a fair number of people leapt out of the intention of law enforcement have been convicted and are serving time and paying their debt to society and we would be happy to get a list. >> that would be great. thank you. integrated service networks, how are they involved in this? >> we have hospital clinics and so forth including alaska and hawaii and even a clinic in manoa and so forth so the system is organized into these networks. >> what does the integrated service network to? >> they manage and provide oversight. >> so they are responsible for mak

feel very, very privileged to sit up here with the former deputy secretary of defense, former undersecretary during the gulf war as well, to say thanks what you have done with the whole efforts and what you did for s.i.v. veterans while you were in the pentagon. after that, i remember the weekly state dinners, the incredible number of years, the incredible number of visits to walter reed, support for the g.i. bill, support for a whole host of veterans' benefits that we take for granted but which at the time were not always the easiest of votes for folks on the hill for some reason to pass. so thanks to you for that. and thanks for hosting this. i want to start actually by asking first of all those who served in u.s. uniform or as a development or aid worker or contractor or c.p.a. or whatever it may have been, if you would just stand up and see who we have here, please. [applause] general petraeus: and then i want to ask those who served as translators, for some of us or others who are here and came to our country under this special visa process, please stand up as well. [applause] general p

does he have to go through the white house to get permission again for an undersecretary or deputy? he's had one knocked off. jon: you mentioned baker and bush. it was pretty much baker suggested tillerson. tillerson came out of the gates, the texas troika. you might be talking to them. jon: wouldn't you think that the thing -- the thing that baker would have said to him would be, the key thing for you is you have to be this close -- this is what jim baker does when he describes it. that have any sense tillerson has attempted to forge this relationship with the president? is the president reluctant?is it just chaos ? andrea: i would vote for chaos, just based on my reporting. had such and bush 41 tight relationship. that was almost unique, really, in the annals. george schultz and ronald reagan had a pretty close relationship, except for the suits that were coming in from the pentagon in those days and the u.s. and soviet relationship. condi rice and 43, obviously a very tight relationship. less so 43 and colin powell. there's always a bit of space between the secretary of state in

ambassador to afghanistan and a former undersecretary of state, talking about the ongoing contact this conflict between u.s. role in afghanistan. it is hosted by the center for new american security. good afternoon, i am the ceo. we are delighted that you could join us today.

thomas murphy, who is the acting undersecretary of -- for benefits. he is accompanied this morning by mr. willie clark, the duty -- deputy undersecretary for field operations, and mr. ronald burke, the assistant deputy undersecretary for field operations. i want to remind the witnesses that your completed written statement will be entered into the hearing record. mr. murphy, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> good morning, chairman. ranking member esty and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the implementation and progress related to na's national work quoou. the nwq is a workload prioritization and distribution tool designed to match claims assignment capabilities with va capacity regardless of geographical boundaries. this tool provides the means necessary to ensure veterans receive a more timely decision receive a more timely decision on their disability claim. captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac -- and allows for efficiency and areas for improvement and this n

thep plans to nominate former bear stearns economist to be treasury undersecretary for internationalcording to persons familiar with the matter. he served in two previous republican administrations. to report axpected write-down on the nuclear reactor business tomorrow. it will cover cost overruns. the $5.4may clip billion that toshiba paid in 2006. it has already forced the company to try to sell a significant stake in the flash memory business. that is the bloomberg business flash. francine: thank you. the fed vice chairman is certain about uncertainty. he spoke out and he said there is significant confusion about fiscal policy. >> i don't think anyone knows what is going to come out of the process, which involves both the administration and the congress. policyding the fiscal and a variety of other things. so at the moment, we are going strictly according to what we see as the responsibility, according to the law. francine: we are back with christopher granville and themos fiotakis. you do stanley fischer tell about how many hikes the fed will do this year? themos: as a house, we

of defense for policy under bush 43 doug feith with us undersecretary good to see you.ining us. >> glad to be with you. >> the president says he wants the u.s. to be better prepared if called to fight what is your take on expectations, that he wants to raise military spending by 54 billion dollars? >> well, the defense budget was pretty he severely slashed throughout the obama administration, and united states continues to have large worldwide defense about responsibilities. but we have not had a budget in recent years that allowed us to allows us to actually have the kind of military capabilities that would allow to us fulfill responsibilities. >> you want to see more spending on military then. >> i do, i think it is an important thing, i think that -- we have large parts of our infrastructure there recently there have been some attention paid to how nuclear infrastructure for example has are a deteriorated greatly enormously dangerous if countries around the world depended on united states for decades for their security because of our nuclear umbrella begin to worry a

you need those bodies and you need those deputy, those undersecretaries in place. when he's traveling, when he's not at the white house, when the secretary of state or the secretary of defense is out on the road, they're the folks back at those departments making sure the machine continues to run. i don't know if they've taken a strategic look at all the positions and said this is duplicative, this is unnecessary, we can streamline this department or agency to maximize the benefit. i don't get the sense that has been a part of this. i just think they're having a hard time getting boldyes because of the loyalty test that you referenced earlier. they have a hard time getting by because people don't want to serve so that's why a lot of the vacancies are there. that's a convenient response. >> in particular at the meant gol michelle furnoy has apparently rejected their appeal. >> it would be nice also to listen to them. you talk to military people they don't think foreign assistance for example is expendable. they think it's absolutely essential to create hopeful alter

s undersecretary for health, leading the nation's largest integrated health care system with more than 1,700 sites serving almost nine million veterans. a physician himself, he has held numerous chief executive roles at morristown medical certainty, the atlantic health systems accountable care organization, and president and c.e.o. of beth israel medical center in new york, sitty. he has been named as -- city. he has been named as one of the most 50 most influential physician executives in the country by modend health care. please give a warm american legion family welcome to the secretary of the veterans affairs, dr. david shulkin. [applause] dr. shulkin: thank you. it's great to see all of you. commander, thank you for that warm welcome. i don't think the commander has been home in a long, long time. no one works harder, traveling the country, caring about visiting people. i want to thank you for everything you're doing. i wanted to recognize and say hello to mary davis and jeff green and bill oxford and mr. clay. it's great to be here. the american legion is such an important organi

unanimous support from the senate after spending the last two years in the obama administration as an undersecretary in the agency. he's the first nonveteran to lead the department. >>> now to the crisis at one of the nation's biggest dams. emergency repairs are under way right now to shore up the emergency spillway of the oroville dam in northern california. meanwhile, the main spillway is showing few signs of erosion reducing the chanc catastrophic collapse that would wash away nearby communities. nearly 200,000 residents of the towns were suddenly told to evacuate. >> we slept in the car. oh, it was miserable. we didn't sleep. we were awake. there was people walk and people talking and all night long. >> we're kind of on the safe sound. we won't go back until they tell us it's safe. >> there's no word yet when that might come. california governor jerry brown has asked for federal disaster assistance. >> meanwhile, more storms are heading for northern california later this week. >> they don't neit at all. cam tran with the details. >> reporter: good morning. it's going to be quiet out across the w

president trump's pick for va, the agency's undersecretary for health david shulkin, was unanimously approved by the senate this week. he has a big job in the wake of veterans dying due to long waits for care, and widespread reports of mismanagement. today, we investigate allegations in a lawsuit against a va contractor getting taxpayer millions but accused of cheating our vets. born in iran, david vatan attended medical school and came to live in the u.s. david vatan: this country, i believe based on my observations, is one of the best countries in the world. sharyl: he got a job in california working for a va contractor under lockheed martin, qtc medical services. vatan's job was to review medical files of vietnam vets to see if they're eligible for orange, a toxic herbicide used to remove leaves off trees in jungles where the enemy hid. vatan: by reviewing their files, i was honored and i felt that there is a purpose in what i do and at the end of the day every day, i felt so good if i reviewed a file and i found the evidence that could benefit our veterans. that's the least i cou

and not having in place the people in the cabinet agencies down the line, deputy secretaries, undersecretaries, to be able to create a process where they can do some of the multilateral work , some of the communications work, staffing work to make sure you get it right the first time. some of the communication and the narrative. we are just seeing the administration getting its feet on the ground. were an ambassador to nato and i'm sure you talk your former colleagues in nato countries. how concerned -- i'm picking up on marsha blackburn's point on consistency. what i'm hearing these people are concerned because they don't know what this administration -- >> they don't know what. what i hear from nato allies is over a grand bargain with russia -- katty: overriding issue? >> that is the overriding issue. frankly, you have not seen that. there has been open body language with russia. we want to get along, we don't want to be in a conflict. there is not been reaching into the bag and figuring out what we can offer russia to appease that them. that has not been happening. it is more a change in th

he served as undersecretary for two years under former president obama. >>> later in the half hour the trump administration is facing criticism for its handling of north korea's latest missile launch. we'll hear what the white house is now saying about the incident. >>> to the west coast now and the waiting game at the oroville dam in northern california. officials are waiting to see if the bags of rocked dropped into the breach by helicopters like this one will stop the erosion. the state is waiting to hear from the federal government about disaster relief money at the same time and nearly 200,000 residents were evacuated suddenly because the two spillways might let loose a flood of water. now, they have to wait a little longer to find out when they >> we slept in the car and, no, it was miserable. we didn't sleep. we just -- we were awake. there were people walking and people talking and all night long. >> we're kind of on the safe side. we won't go back until they tell us it's safe. >> it's hard to understand how people have been able to evacuate so quickly and the disturbance to th

i remember when i was undersecretary i wanted to understand. i was having a hard time understanding something about afghanistan. one of the first people we would reach out to. to start the panel discussion with giving chris a few minutes upfront to summarize. we will turn to ambassador newman for commentary. we will go back and forth on the discussion for a while and open it up to your questions and comments. >> thank you everybody for coming. i can't thank michelle enough for giving me the opportunity to serve in afghanistan when i finished my to her as a commander. or thed up the pentagon personal people and said i would really like to keep working on afghanistan and washington dc. can work onu afghanistan but not in washington dc. or you can go to washington dc but you can't go and austin again. administration was coming in and michelle was getting on boarded as the secretary defense for policy i got directed to go down and brief michelle about afghanistan. they did. after the conversation she said what you doing now. working in the army sta

treasury undersecretary for international affairs. guiderst job will be to currency policy. he would bring extensive government experience to a team that has little background in public service. he previously served as deputy assistant secretary in the treasury and state departments. ceo says the balance sheet is in great shape. rio tinto announced a bigger than expected dividend. announced a 500 million share buyback. the ceo does not see a dramatic reversal in iron ore prices. momentink the key at the is that consensus prices are below the spot price. that is obvious an unusual. say thisot necessarily fallen off a cliff or anything like that. be --: the uae is up upbeat. has hit 90% of compliance, the best rate in history. they want to see the cuts continue in the coming months, especially from non-opec members. they want to see oil inventories decreased and further price rises. they have rejected a plan for cutting corporate taxation. opponents argued it would strain the public purse and increase the strain on tax payers. they are under international treatment to end pres

undersecretary for field operations and mr. ronald burke, assistant secretary, undersecretary field operations. into the be entered hearing record. mr. murphy, you are recognized for five minutes. >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the implementation of the the aelated to workload. it is designed to match claims and capabilities with me a capacity regardless of geographical boundary. this provides the means necessary to make sure veterans receive a more timely decision. it uses sophisticated capabilities for electronic claim inventory and models for -- and allows for efficiency and areas for improvement and this new environment allows the va the capability to move claims around the country and has the capacity to take the next step and assign work to the right person in each facility. one of the principals is doing -- is to ensure veterans are treated in goalie regardless to where they live. in 2015, in many instances the timeliness of the decision was impacted based solely on the state of which the veter

>> he was the secretary of the navy and heavy testing relationship as his undersecretary.an you say something about that conflict because one was an imperialist and one was not. what extent did they set us on a course with japan? >> those are two big questions. the governor of massachusetts and secretary of the navy when theodore roosevelt became assistant secretary. he was so dynamic and his physical behavior. we had a few dreams of body eight and electric massage they went off and spend the day testing the new machine and theodore roosevelt arrived and realized he was alone. they called henry cabot lodge and said let's start sending a telegram. .. assistant secretary of the navy is not a big job but it was huge then. the navy was our connection to whole rest of the world. as for japan, this is not a topic i cover in this book but its the subject of this spectacular book called "the imperial crew" by the same guy who wrote "flags of my father. "poe -- about his father who died on iwo jima and then the question about why we were fighting japan and traced back to an episode

we have no undersecretaries, none of them have been confirmed yet. this is a white house operating on a short set of people who have authority to speak for the president. and you end up with the president having to take the spears and arrows for everything that happens. i don't think you want to be in a situation where the president himself is the focal point of all of this negative incoming. kennedy: the president did make himself the focal point today during the unpress debited press conference. -- this unprecedented press conference. was this a way of distracting from michael flynn and andy buz- andy puzder and a couple of losses. >> maybe that's what he has to do. decompress the tension between him and the press. doing this sort of thing would help with that. but that's not going to make these questions go away. somehow that is going to have to be resolved. you made a good point about it being different from 1974 when the washington post showed up on your steps in the morning. why are we talking about dan rather? dan rather raises watergate. soci

similarly, when i came in as governor, the person who is undersecretary of department of workforce developmentis that the federal department of labor, the person said bush should be my measure of success because my predecessor measured how many more people can sign up for unemployment insurance. i was bringing federal money into the state. i said your measure of success is the opposite. how many people no longer need unemployment insurance? not because he kicked them out, because we help them get a job. [applause] that's a consistent theme music from republican governors. the other part of your question was what part do you think the federal government should get out of. i think the better question to that was what part should they not get out. today, other than the military and maybe preserving things like social security and medicare, and just about everything else is done by the states. i reached in my pocket and i say another word you say is federalism. most americans actually think that means more federal government. i tell people take a dollar out of your pockets, out of your wallet or p

. >> and those jobs, by the way, at the state department, there's no nominees for the undersecretary jobs. he excluded tillerson from meeting that by all rights the secretary of state would be there. there's a very simple reason they're having trouble getting people in those jobs. people think it's a career ender. that are afraid of working for donald trump, they're afraid of what it will mean for the rest of their career. >> you made a really interesting forward looking point there. people always say the stock market is pricing in what is expected to happen. it's not always right but you're seeing an indication of what they think the future is and you're telling us that some experts see it that way. >> there's no evidence, none, that it will be a happy ending. it will be a career ender. you have a white house that lies, makes mistakes, produces confrontations and alienates allies in the first four weeks, that's a worrisome set of signals. >> on the one hand that sound ominous. on the other hand, your reporting suggests we've dug deeper in into than a k.t. mcfarland security meeting?

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it is on that day, january 25, the white house made that decision for two officials at the undersecretary level and four at the assistant secretary level. there has never been an official explanation on why exactly those officials were asked to depart. course,t unusual, of for the new administration to put their officials into place. i absolutely accept that the new president has the right to appoint his people into those jobs. what was unusual about it was positionsof these key out of the top two levels of the state department were simply empty by the white house without a new person appointed or even anbody ready to step in in acting capacity. that is what concerns me. i am happy to be retired after 35 years of working very long hours. i am concerned that if you empty out the management and policy leadership of the state department without having a replacement ready to go, it does two things. number one, it means you cannot increment the policies that the new president wants. number two, and this is i fear potential, it is a signal from the white house that they are going to do all of t

by 1977 as undersecretary of defense for research and engineering secretary perry brought the united states military into the stealth area, not only equipped with smart weapons and gps, american forces were preparing to stand tall in the face of adversaries. in 1994 secretary perry became the 19th secretary of defense and the first enlisted man to serve in that role wp with a range of expertise drawing from his experience as a soldier and his time in the highest ranks of the pentagon, he was instrument al in the dismantlement of 8,000 nuclear warheads, 4,000 in the united states and 4,000 in russia. throughout his career secretary perry has devoted himself to protecting our nation's interests. his book "my journey at the nuclear brink" chronicles his endeavors with equal measures of eloquence and startling alarm. he also continues to generously share his wisdom with the next generation of nuclear non-proliferation advocates. this commitment to the cause is steadfast and unstoppable. secretary perry has received countless awards and decorations from the heads of state around the world

rex tillerson has to name more than two dozen undersecretaries and assistant secretaries.on in will not meet fiscal surplus target, the fund says the greek budget surplus will rise to 1.5% over the long run, half of the forecast from european creditors who took part in the bailout. the imf has said it will consider making a new loan to greece but only if it's debt reduction plans are credible. scotland is taking its protest over brexit to the next level, the scottish parliament will debate the proposal that the brexit trigger bill being debated by british lawmaker should not proceed without scotland, wales, northern ireland being consulted, scottish first minister said that scotland opposes what she calls the catastrophic hard brexit. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalist and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am courtney donohoe. this is bloomberg. mark: the two major oil companies reported earnings today, statoil chief executive says where he sees the price of oil in the next couple of years. >> we had impairments this quarter of 2.3 billio