T the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on ministry request for the department of Homeland Security. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare the secrei committee in recess at any point. Acting secretary wolf, you are here today on an extraordinary troubling circumstances. Americans are rightfully concerned about the coronavirus that spreads across the blue of globe and claims the lives of thousands, including at least work six here at home. Theyover are looking to their government for leadership and guidance. Ualunfortunately, the Trump Administration has not been equal to the task so far. Oin the face of this potential pandemic, the president hase toa downplayed his threat, overstated high close scientists are to developing it ad vaccine, and muzzle experts in administration who continued disagree with him. Po as a crisis unfolds, the president has continued to hold political rallies including ax. Recent one where he called the coronavirus a hoax perpetrateda
T the committee is meeting today to receive testimony on ministry request for the department of Homeland Security. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare the secrei committee in recess at any point. Acting secretary wolf, you are here today on an extraordinary troubling circumstances. Americans are rightfully concerned about the coronavirus that spreads across the blue of globe and claims the lives of thousands, including at least work six here at home. Theyover are looking to their government for leadership and guidance. Ualunfortunately, the Trump Administration has not been equal to the task so far. Oin the face of this potential pandemic, the president hase toa downplayed his threat, overstated high close scientists are to developing it ad vaccine, and muzzle experts in administration who continued disagree with him. Po as a crisis unfolds, the president has continued to hold political rallies including ax. Recent one where he called the coronavirus a hoax perpetrateda
The Television Companies, and more, including comcast. Think it was just a Community Center . No. Its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create wifi enabled lists so students from low income families can get the tools they need to get ready for anything. Comcast, along with these Television Companies, supports cspan 2 as a public service. All right, well, hello and welcome, everybody. Its good seeing you here today at the American Civil War museum. For todays program, im pleased to introduce our guest author, dr. Ken weatherford. Ken weatherford, phd, is a professor at the department of Political Science at James Madison university. He cofounded the Landmine Survivors Network, and escorted Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to visit landmine survivors in bosnia and herzegovina. Weatherford was prominent also as a leader in an International Campaign to ban landmines, which won the 1987 nobel peace prize. He has served as director of the
Information flows and there is not a lot of fact checking. Judy get my pressure up on that. I would just echo that because i think the current climate makes it so much more difficult to get your message out. And there are so many other vehicles. But i do think it is a tremendous opportunity because you can also be much more creative. And also to the Public Affairs side, i have seen more and more Public Affairs being done on the international front. That has just boomed. Frederick thank you, sarah. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for being with us this evening for this forum. I hope you have enjoyed hearing a little bit about the careers of these three fine Public Servants who are doing Different Things now than in bushs administration. We thank you for being here. If you would join me in thanking , our guests. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] frederick president s bush thank you for being wit
Israels commercial capitol. Five such batteries called iron dome are being deployed and three more are being rushed into production. In an expansion of the air war against hamas, they struck the movements of the Prime Minister overnight. Attacks were also aimed at other parts of the political structure including a building where the cabinet meets. Gaza is one of the most densely Populated Areas in the world and any escalation to non military targets carries the risk of increased civilian casualties. More tan 40 palestinians have been killed at least half civilians including women and children. This girl who was pulled from the rubble appears to be alive. Hamas releasedhis video they claim was their rockets being launched. Department buildings were hit by four of them that evaded the iron dome batteries deployed. Hamas is getting a Political Boost from visits like this one today by the foreign minister. He called on the International Community to help stop what he called this blatant ag