In this portion a group of Business Leaders discuss the future innovation and competitiveness environment in the u. S. Good morning. Since the councils beginning in 1986, weve seen over and over and time and again how technology has transformed our lives, and unleashed new challenges and opportunities as we think about a new future for the United States. 2003 was such a period of change. 17 years after our founding, our Council Members recognized that the nation stood at a florida infliction point. We needed significant chance to enhance our innovation capacity which lead to the pioneering work of our National Innovation initiative it, and now another 17 years later here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Throughout the day as debra mentioned in her opening remarks well hear stories about the changes as they are foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by t
Cspan2. Former state department and National Security officials testified on the Trump Administrations iran policy before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Secretary of state mike pompeo declined an invitation to testify on the president s decision to kill iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Committee chair representative eliot engel threatened to subpoena secretary pompeo in order to obtain information on the u. S. Drone strike. Subject to limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to make the big announcement that todays mr. Mccalls birthday. So happy birthday. Im 35 years once again. Me, too. Pursuant to notice were here today to examine Trump Administration policy towards iran. I welcome our panel of distinguished witnesses. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We had hoped to hear from secretary pompeo today, as well. After we invited him, he announced that he would instead be in california. Thats unfortunate whether you agree with this administrations ap
Potential changes to the u. S. Political system which he writes about in his book. [video clip] for this for ready anything whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way. Yesterdayident trump flanked by white house officials reassuring americans about the response to the coronavirus. We want to get your thoughts on that. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Ndependents, 2027488002 text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488001 or you can go to twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. Before we get to your calls, lets begin with more of that News Conference from yesterday. The president rom talking about the state of the coronavirus. [video clip] earlyhave through decisions, closed our borders to flights coming in from certain byas, areas that were hit the coronavirus and hit hard. We did it early. A lot of people thought we should not do it early and it turned out to
Week on the communicators. Mr. Purdy, what do you do for huawei as chief Security Officer . Guest my primary role is interval although ive been doing more extra things in the last six to 12 months but my responsibilities have to do with sharing a committee of the key parts of the company in the United States that tries to assess and manage and control risk, help support our overall ethics and Compliance Program so we can make sure we protect huawei, protect our customers and continue to do business and manage cybersecurity privacy risk. Host what is huaweis legal and commercial status in the u. S. Right now . Guest its kind of the moving target. We have National Defense authorization act. We have pending rulemaking pursuant to an executive order. Right now we cant sell to the u. S. Government. We cant sell to use contractors, and theres pressure for our small carrier customers, wireless and wireline customers, to rip out huawei gear. So theres legislation pending that would provide fun
Prize if you did not write a book would you . Easterny night at 8 00 on cspans q1 day. President trump is holding a Border Security event today. We are planning coverage and will have it for two later on cspan. We are going to show you this weeks Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing with state department at officials on a Security Assistance to mexico. Members question the officials on how the u. S. Is working with the Mexican Government to combat trafficking by cartels. Humanitarian crises in the country and handling around cases of american citizens being killed in mexico. We are going to get started. The reason for the early hearing is we have votes and people go back to the district today. I want to make sure i got this hearing in. I will begin. Other members will be walking in as the hearing is progressing. Order. Aring will come to assessing u. S. Security assistance to mexico. We focus on evaluating the extent to which u. S. Assistance has been effective in has been effective in