Comparison to the United States. I think comparisons across europe may be a little more challenging to make and put in a positive light. That has certainly been the focus and the delay to locking down the country certainly was an area of real criticism for the government. I suppose this morning, we are also focused on what is going on near to you in terms of hurricane laura building across the atlantic and a ready to make landfall. We are watching louisiana, watching texas. We get this red headline across the bloomberg from the Hurricane Center saying laura is seen rapidly strengthening to category four hurricane. This is new information this morning. That is a big number. Hurricane 4 is much bigger than a hurricane 2. 4 is getting very, very serious. This is the acceleration north , west the gulf of mexico of new orleans as well. In new york city, always quite good with our first word news. On the second night of the Republican National convention, speakers tried to humanize President
Activity and turmoil going on around us. Many of us are back in washington today. Were holding this committee virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This authority has allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families, and the Broader Community safe. We have all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. Weve got to keep track of you even if you step away from the proceedings. Please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally, as you know, we may have votes during todays hearing. It looks like theyr
All ideological views. All backgrounds. Predictable, some of them. It comes from all over except from Donald Trumps white house and allies. You all knew it was coming. You could have set your watch is to it. Donald trump has started his attacks, calling kamala quote, nasty. Mean toout how she is his appointees. It is no surprise because whining is what donald trump does best, better than any president in american history. Is anyone surprised donald trump has a problem with a strong woman or strong women across the board . We know more is to come. Lets be clear, if you are a working person worried about whether or not you will have a job to go to, whether or not you will be able to pay your mortgage, pay your rent, worried about the poison in the air you breathe, worried about your civil rights, even your basic right to dignity, which is under attack with this administration, Kamala Harris has had your back and now, we have to have her back. She is going to stand with me in this campaig
The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi
House hearing on the lessons being learned from the coronavirus and how its affecting critical supply chains. Live coverage here on cspan3. Community safe, all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. Weve got to keep track of you even if you step away from the proceedings. Please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally as you know, we may have votes during todays hearing. It looks like theyre going to be later. If we do have votes, it would be my intention not to recess. Members should vote when their group is up and come back immediately. If your turn for questioning comes up while youve stepped away, i will get back t