The reality is that this is what washington, d. C. , looks like. You have a third barrier that is now being constructed right here, but it is not just these three lines of fencing that are going up. Essentially, washington, d. C. , the whole heart of washington, d. C. , is shut down from here to the white house to the lincoln memorial. The streets look just like this one, outside of some pedestrians and folks on bikes, this place is essentially shut down here now less than 100 hours until Inauguration Day in large part that is because of what we saw on january 6th in the insurrection, in the violence that was directed to Vice President pence, the leaders of congress and to the rest of the congressional the rest of congress. I just think we should put into focus here, you know, the House Oversight committee, along with three other committees, Just Announced in a letter today that they are going to be conducting their own review of what took place, writing, in part, to the fbi and the di
And thats why, for the first time in history, im going to be elevating the president ial science advisor to a cabinet rank, because we think its that important. As Deputy Director of the office of science and Technology Policy and science science and society, i appoint dr. Nelson. Shes a professor at the institute of advanced studies at princeton university, president of the social Science Research council, and one of americas leading scholars, an awardwinning author and researcher, exploring the connections between science and our society. The daughter of a military family. Her dad served in the United States navy and her mom was an army cryptographer. Dr. Nelson tinkered with codebreaking equipment that every kid has around their house that she grew up with in her home. When i wrote that down, i thought to myself, how many kids, you know . Anyway. And that passion was a passion forged a lifelong curiosity about the inequities and the Power Dynamics that sit beneath the surface of Sci