Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Ashamed of us right now. Roll credits Warner Brothers bypassing theaters and going direct to your tv. Can Movie Theaters survive blow announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. We are on the doorsteps of that dark winter that Health Experts have been warning us about the beginning of that promise is going to be immeasurable, even with a vaccine on the horizon. We know this because yesterday the United States reported more than 2800 deaths, the most in a single day since this pandemic began according to johns hopkins. So far its killed more than 275,000 of our fellow americans. Another will die in 30 seconds and another, 30 seconds later. All of them far more than just a number among the victims a 70yearold nurse who came out of retirement to teach a couple married 47 years who died on the same day and a First Responder who served us on 9 11. Experts expect the deaths to keep rising. In part because the Halftime Report
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Hearing. Shana broussard, sean cooksey and Alan Dickerson are the presidts nominees to be members of the federal electio commission, as our witnesses are joining us remotely, i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, is significant president ial nomination and significant to the work of this committee and i know youre proud, your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit aut the nominees and then ill turn to another Committee Member senator cruz to talk about the thd nominee, Alan Dickerson is not th nomin to be a member of the federal Election Commission for a term expiring on april the 30th 2025 and he has been practicing law for 20 years primarily in the areas of First Amendment and campaignfinance sin 2011 mr. Dickerson has been the lal director of the institute for free speech, a nonprofit organizati that litigates First Amendment and campaignfinance
Map showing e spread of the pandemic, that april 17th brin peak, the july 20ifth summer peak, the low point between summer and fall of september 19th and so far in the fall, e fall peak two weeks in november over 2 million cases, the total at that time 12,772,000 total cases but the headline is how the surge, inside usa today they write about that and a quote from matthew fox, professor of epidemiology at Boston University school of Public Health, he says it was inevitable it was going to get to the mountain states and when it got there there were so many susceptible people it was ready to take off. Matthew fox said we learned this time and time again in a reaction that pays off, wait until the spread is already substantial at that point your measures to contain the virus are really shutting things down completely. He also said it would be foolish to try to pin widespread outbreaks on single events such as the sturgis motorcycle rally, rather he said small get togethers make the spread