inappropriate behavior. that is the latest individual that cnn is reporting on, anderson. we ll have more on this shortly. right now a first for the first time in a long time, the covid milestone we crossed today was neither a cause for sadness as it was for half a million fatalities or an occasion to remember what our world used to be like a year and a day ago. instead, this latest marker for where we stand signals better times ahead. today the country crossed the 100 million vaccination mark. tonight more than 101 million shots have been administered. the goal was reached on the day president biden signed the covid relief package. day 52 of the administration. days ahead of the schedule he set and eight days ahead of the original version he revised last night. when i came into office, you may recall, i set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. i said i want to get 100 million shots in people s arms in my first 100 days in office. we won t meet that
Peace process. Turkey pounds Kurdish Militia positions in Northern Syria as Ground Troops roll across the border for a second day the kurds hit back with rocket fire on turkish town. And in the book this league of runaway leaders by munich forced to work hard to not have things all the roadway against about a claimant but they are champions for a reason. Fellow im terry Martin Thanks for joining us a glimmer of hope for german chancellor Angela Merkel after four months of political deadlock the social Democratic Party has voted to enter a formal Coalition Talks with merkels conservatives to form a new government but the chancellor herself says negotiations will be no easy task just a slim majority of the s. P. D. Rank and file backed the move but that could help the s. P. D. Demand more concessions from the conservatives who dont want to lose another grand coalition. It was a nail biting finish to our long debate with three hundred sixty two voted yes with two hundred seventy nine zero
And authority on the subject with the iraqi ambassador, senior researcher. Im sure well have a great discussion with lots of important insight. On top of hudsons Live Streaming that we always do we have the honor of having cspan2 this event so another reading to the viewers out there. Reconstructing iraq and the good news from iraq is the military defeat of the terrible terrorist organization, isis, by the Iraqi Military with international cooperation. The task ahead is daunting. Iraq needs to rebuild and heal the communities. Challenges remain from funding, stabilization efforts in the even larger resources needed for reconstruction the coming years. Responding was one of the goals of the regions iraqi reconstruction conference in kuwait which secured around 30 billion from private actors. Significantly the gulf countries except in quite to the conference which is interesting testimony with its own troubled history with the iraqi nation back in 1990. Congratulations to the kuwaitis fo
So why isnt it easier to finance these huge need for infrastructure and that someone unless countries. What is the seem to be a kind of chronic i would not useecular stagnation but the difficulty in getting the firms that actually exist to do their work. And anything and anything else you want to say. Thank you. Thank you for a very inspirational talk. I do think you know, when the music changes and you have a different dance i have different dances that come out of this dance around infrastructure spending. The reserve has shown that we had a long time for the public capitol stock essentially infrastructure has come down as a percent of gdp in low income countries, Something Like 40 percentage points, 20 25 years . So it is not a shortterm phenomenon that Infrastructure Investment i think it has been a longterm phenomena. We have tried to rely for a long time on the private sector, private business to deliver the infrastructure and i think now what we are realizing what is really impo
And let me tell you what dishonors our soldiers. Let me tell you what is a dishonor to their memory and their service. It is to fly that flag i want everybody to remember this, im talking to all of my colleagues who think we must keep it up there because of heritage. Oh how i wish how i wish robert e. Lee general lees portrait is in the senate, i wish he was here right now at this podium he would tell you all, it is an abomination for his flag to fly as a matter of fact his very flag was furled it was furled when they surrendered at appomattox and it has never been unfurled and to do so dishonors those who fought and died and it violates the terms of surrender. General lee, when it came time, and the cause was lost, he called everybody to come back work, be good citizens and build a country together. Many times he was called to start start a gorilla war. The flag is furled. Maintain your soldierly honor, go back and serve your country. Never, never, never let the flags fly again. And y