Assistant secretary bob cadlic here today to talk. Welcome to todays meeting. I am executive Vice President of worldwide government, legal, and Business Affairs at mcandrews and forbes incorporated. I will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading a conversation for 30 minutes, and then i will open it to questions and answers. We will end promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. These gentleman are very busy right now dealing with coronavirus. So, lets just start looking back over roughly the past decade, emerging Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it the h 1n 1, ebola, zika, and now the 2019 novel coronavirus, the threat is clearly not dissipating. When it coming to nondisease natural disasters, stafford act provides Disaster Relief fund to enable immediate response. By comparison, theres small Infectious Disease Rapid Response need more stafford acte mechanisms to enable a quicker response to research these threats. Maybe ill ta
law. and now this is how it s going. it is the sound of the police, the home of the 45th president of the united states has been rated by the fbi. nothing like this happen, before we don t know how this ends. they even broke into my safe, exclamation point. busy news week on, monday the fbi spent more than nine hours searching donald trump s mar-a-lago home and now, we actually know what they found after judge publicly released a search warrant. according to the list of items, agents removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some that were labored either secret and top secret. the documents are a part of the investigation, and a possible violations of the espionage act. another loss of course. it is not clear if trump himself is under investigation for those charges were not. earlier this, week the washington post reported that fbi agents were searching for documents related to nuclear weapons. we are down gonna talk more about that later. the paper cited sou
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that
Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that
elimination of second amendment rights to the united states constitution. . unbelievable. senator feinstein down the hall when questioning brewer who was not and senator feinstein said we have lax laws, this influences the a.t.f. in how they approach the problem as to whether they have political support or not, but i think these numbers are shocking and i think when you know the numbers of deaths these guns have caused, cartels against victims, it is literally in the tens of thousands. the question is what can we do. and i really rather concentrate on the constructive rather than other things. as the question comes, do you believe that if there were some form of registration when you purchase these firearms, if that would make a difference. again, a deadly program that would kill innocent people is put in place by the justice department s a.t.f., people are killed, and then people around this town want to use this horrible program s results to justify taking away second amend