In our understa served communit and those that have had a dramatic reduction in their revenue. Tim walz is about to address the states response to George Floyds death, an africanamerican man who died in police custody. Youre watching live coverage on cspan 3. I just want to give a heartfelt thank you to a lot of people for the peace and the generosity, the kindness and the love thats been shown on our streets of minneapolisst. Paul and across minnesota over the last several days. Last evening was another example of that. We saw peaceful protests across the city. We saw memorials continue to grow for george floyd. Down on 38th and chicago. We saw beautiful interactions on the State Capitol where out of respect the National Guard troops there told the protesters out of respect they would go back away to the building and take care of those vehicles that were out front which, of course, they did. Not protesters at that point. Certainly neighbors and friends and agents of change. We saw tho
We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the conversation. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grade the federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew, around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the he ignored the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Other actions of preparedness, preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for me. I have four siblings they a
Politico playbook. Im here with my colleague jake sherman who writes playbook with me. We are with dnc chairman tom perez. Thank you so much for joining us we will be talking about the response to the coronavirus, the shift to thank you so much for joining us. We are going to be talking about the response to coronavirus. And how democrats are facing the challenges related to voting in the primaries. Mr. Sherman these briefings are among events politico is hosting in the coming weeks with journalism across the newsroom. Ross the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It i
Of several coming in the coming weeks across the newsroom. We would love to answer your questions, so please tweet us questions using the askedpolitico, and we will try to get to them throughout the cover station. Anna lets get started. Chairman, thanks for joining us. We are all super focus on the coronavirus pandemic. We are coming, each of us, from our own respective homes. How do you grady federal response so far . Mr. Perez well, the response of this administration has been one of gross incompetence. It is an utter failure of leadership. This president knew come around the first of the year, that this was a pandemic in the making, and because he is always so concerned about himself, and he wants to be the center of attention, he exhorted the advice of seasoned professionals, like dr. Fauci and so many others, and those eight weeks that were lost during this period of time were eight precious weeks that cost lives. Preparedness,of preparedness on getting ppe, this is personal for m
Podcasts. In our final program looking back for president george w. Bushs decision to increase troop levels in iraq, scholars offered their analysis of the surge. From Southern Methodist university this is almost two hours. So its my pleasure to introduce the chair of this panel who is the executive director of the center at the university of texas at austin. And he has, i think, not unique but certainly worth while perspective, duel perspective of being a person who has both studied Decision Making in the white house and been part of Decision Making in the white house. He was a valuable member of really making the Network Connections and the interviews that are the underlying factor and underlying base of this project work. Will, i thank you for. That i turn the mike over to you. Thank you very much, jeff. Im honored to be moderating this panel here with four very dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i may let i got to my head and try toint