The House Oversight and the m subcommittee on Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on the strategic hear from ockpile to the person in charge of keeping it filled. From estifying, officials the Defense Department and health and Human Services. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Mr. Clyburn today, our select holding a hybrid hearing where some members will appear in person and others will webex. Remotely via since members are appearing in person, let me first remind veryone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all ndividuals attending this hearing in person must wear a Face Covering. Remove themw you to s you see me doing in order to speak. I know a bit about how your and then t fogged up you dont see where youre going. Wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and recognized to speak. So when youre not speaking, we you to have the facemask orwell not recognize you. Or we will not recognize you. Make a few reminders about hyb
The lost history of president s black family, you can purchase it directly in the link in the chat box to the right of your screen and the link provided on the Atlanta History Center website. As betty and i are talking, we invite you to commit your question to the q a portion of your screen and ill try to get to them as time allows. Doctor Betty Kirsten is a retired physician and denominated us yet, the other madison is her first book and it follows a nearly 30 year quest to confirm her lineage, the reviews call it group for new generation, thank you so much for being with us. Im very happy to be part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of james mattis as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights, what did you think or what were you told about him going out . I was told what everybody else was. He was an important figure in American History but i was also told that he was my great, great great
Of this screen and theres others at the atlanta History Center. We will have q a on your screen ill try to get to them, as many as them as time will allow. Doctor Bettye Kearse as a retired physician, geneticist and nominated essayist for the other madison is her first book it follows a nearly 30 year quest to confirm her lineage. It was called roots for a new generation, Bettye Kearse thank you so much for being with us. Im very happy to be part of this program. Host most of us grow up thinking up as james mattis, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights, what did you think . What were you told about him growing up. Guest well, i was told mostly what everybody else was as you said he was an important figure in American History. But, i was also told that he was my great, great great, great grandfather through his relationship with one of his enslaved cooks, her name was karine. So he was my ancestor. And reminded of this, always remember you are a madison you
Interesting timing in all of this as well. They are seen here leaving federal court in boston last summer, were charged in connection with that vast College Admissions bribery scheme. As other parents in the same scheme did time for bribing and cheating to get theres kids in prestigious colleges as athletic recruits. They refused and said they would go to trial. Today we learned both agreed to plead guilty to wire and u. S. Mail fraud according to u. S. Attorneys office, laughlin could get a twomonth prison sentence, he five months, except because of the coached pandemic, nbc bay area legal fears of Coronavirus Infections in prison. I think Lori Laughlin has a very likely scenario that she may not even do the two months because she could be released early because she could not be a defender. Not only is it a good deal when you look at it relative to another defenders in this case but based on the timing. Because she may not actually face significant jail time at all. Now, the pleas wil
Steering us through this confrontation that could have ended up in a terrible nuclear war. Later it was revealed we had actually traded outmoded missiles in turkey and a promise not to invade cuba for removal of the soviet missiles but that wasnt disclosed at the time. It was a deft communication strategy. My concluding point, kennedy, unflappable, the guy, completely misread, failing in his own defining moment that kennedy really understood the stakes involved in the risks that were taken but he pursued in the end a crude and sensible way of dealing with this and is given credit for that. Lyndon johnson takes over after kennedy is assassinated. This is the vietnam war photograph from the tet offensive in 1968, a surprise move, the north vietnamese and the vietcong, basically the United States and south vietnamese won most of the battles. The problem was we were a long way from winning in vietnam but even though president johnson said they were there was light at the end of the tunnel.