The committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning to i want to thank amy colleagues for joinin us today. Id like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing. Shawna bashard, sean cooksy and alan dixon are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections committee. As our witnesses are joining us remotely i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, its a significant president ial nomination, and significant to the work of this committee. And i know youre proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about a couple of nominees and then im going to turn to another committee member, senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Allen dickerson is the nominee to be a member of the federal Elections Commission for a term, expiring on april the 30th, 2025. Mr. Dickersons been practicing law for 20 years, primarily in
Watch tonight and enjoy American History tv every weekend. Last week, Pharmaceutical Company pfizer announced they have a vaccine for covid19 that is 95 effective. The ceo of the company and bill gates recently talked about the encouraging results from the vaccine and how they would distribute it to the public. Welcome back to deal book. It is a privilege to be with all of you, we have a very, very special conversation planned for right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible. I hope youll all join us in the comments asking questions to bring to our guests. And also planning to ask you a couple of questions. Were going to take advantage of some of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates. Somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time. And to talk to him throughout this pandemic. And he is far and away the smartes
Normalize relations between isra and the arab nations. Also middle east policy goals for t Biden Administration challenges posed by irannd the israelipalestinian conflict. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome David Rubenstein come present of the Economic Club of washington, d. C. Welcome everyone, to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th 35th season but its really not completely virtual because for the First Time Since covid has hit we are actually having live guests here today and its because its a special program and i want to thank our live guests for coming in at participating and a unique programor us because we have been doing everything virtual for almost nine months now i guess it is but our guests are here to talk out something very special, the Abraham Accords which assigned at the white house on september 15 with hea of each of these countries as well as President Trump eating there as the official host. Let me introduce our guess and i will make some announcemen aft
Myriad of platforms and around the world and live on cspan2 to Atlantic Council front page. Its our premiere live ideas platform for global leaders. Its our honor today to host the 70th secretary of state mike pompeo. Former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate and much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council. This is a historic day. Israel, the uae and bahrain are scheduled to sign the abraham accord the first such agreement between arab countries and israel. The president will attend and Benjamin Netanyahu will sign. Secretary pompeo, we have a lot to discuss. China and your recent trips to europe and their connection to china issues. Lets start with the middle east, though i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. In the region of this accord, how does th
Now on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, a five alarm fire damages several San Francisco buildings and the thick smoke seen for miles. Good afternoon, everyone. Im michelle griego. And im len keise. Lets get right to anne whos live on the scene. Reporter the fire is now out some five and a half hours after it started here. I just to want set the scene and youre looking down 14th street right now and theres some smoke coming off of basically this entire city block because it was six builds that bushed here. The fire is out and the Fire Fighters will be on scene here t video from here and a massive fire that started so people can see it for miles around right by the central freeway. It broke out at 6 30 and ickly ed depao rushin and a d operationsa bunch of ammunition but that blue up. And bringing in millions of water and one Fire Fighters is in the hospital right now. One of our teams and he just got a little knocked in the head a bit. Hes fine. We had to force him to go. Its abund