About the transition to a biden presidency. This is live coverage on cspan2. Political aspects that are still unfolding but were facing a lot of challenges that require that the kind of continuity that a country is known for, one government can hand over to another government, the landscape in the tools that are necessary to do with these issues especially in the middle of the pandemic and our hearts go out to all those who are affected around the world by the pandemic and we hope the 2021 would be a brighter year. Thank you for joining us and i will turn it over to toni. [inaudible] as we wait for toni i will just say that all the presenters that i have described have deep reservoir of experience on the legislative side of the aisle. Theres toni right there. Welcome. Shes actually at reading right and were delighted to have you join us. So over to. Thank you. Thank you, stewart. I really appreciate its an honor and privilege to be here. Meridian has been very much a part of my persona
Speaker who we aree so honored o have with us, senator tammy duckworth. Senator duckworth probably needs no introduction to most of you watching. She is an iraq war veteran, a purple heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the u. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and napa yes, senator for the state of illinois. For both of us working in our security, certainly for those of us who are women in National Security, when you think about people who are breaking down barriers ahead of you, store duckworth is the top of the list when the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom cup first u. S. Senator to give birth while in office, and particularly relevant to todays event the firsts member of congress was born in thailand and the first asianamerican who was elected to congress from the state of illinois. In addition to the work shes done of defense and Veterans Affairs, senator duckworth spent a lot of time thinking about the military cha
Update on what the surge means for your holiday plans. Dont gather. Its not worth the chance of losing the life of a loved one. Theres more covid around the community. Its more prevalent. You are more likely to get infected with covid. Just because its more available. This comes as record numbers are reported across the state. Over 15,000 new cases confirmed in california. Another rortd breaking day in santa clara. 512 new cases. Some shoppers are already acts like its black friday. Big crowds despite warnings and restrictions. Life from the shopping out lets in liver more. Those are always crowded. But during the holiday, its a mess. Youre right. This year is so surprising. Its so early. The beautiful Christmas Tree behind me. This parking lot has been packed. You can expect to see long lines and a long wait at many stores. Its jammed in the middle of a pandemic. From above you can see a busy day of shopping. Long lines and shoppers hoping to catch a great deal. Save 50 off and additi
Progressives once at that, pushing people to go ahead to vote in georgia, become temporary residents and then leech. That is against the law. You cant do that there. Well find out how widespread that is. The read from the secretary of state says it is more widespread as you know, but none of this was going on in the big election a month ago. Jackie deangelis following all the biotech news and remedy news and vaccine news and how soon do we see it news. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon, neil. Things are moving quickly indeed. Pfizer biontech filing for covid19 vaccine approval in europe. Boris johnson is talking about administering the vaccine in the uk in a matter of days. This morning the fdas stephen hahn at the white house, the white house is concerned that the fda might not be moving fast enough. President trump tweeting yesterday, moderna now applying for emergency vaccine approval. Usfda must act quickly. The next steps are these. Fda outside advisors will meet on december 10th, n
Massachusetts. To, ae mayflower fullscale reproduction of the original ship. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv today on cspan3. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker warned lawmakers that the recent announcement by the Trump Administration to withdraw troops from the country would give up leverage their. Members of the Armed Services committee asked him and others about the drawdown, relations with nato, and advice for the Incoming Biden Administration. This is 2. 5 hours. Call the committee to order. Call the committee to order. Our full Committee Hearing today is on the u. S. Military mission in afghanistan and the implications to the Peace Process on u. S. Involvement. We are doing this hearing both with some members present and some members remote. Remote. We also have two of our witnesses that will be remote. So we are its the first time weve been back for a full committee meeting, house Armed Services committee since the covid outbreak so i urg