Relations in washington, d. C. Good afternoon, everyone. What a cheerful looking group. I am Judy Woodruff with the pbs newshour and im delighted to be here with all of you at this council and Foreign Relations meeting with senator mark warner who truly needs to introduction. As you know hes vice chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. Im going to be presiding over this discussion. The meeting is the annual kenneth a. Moscow lecture on Homeland Security and counterterrorism. This is an annual lectureship that honors the memory of kenneth a. Moscow who was a long time member of the council with a distinguished career in the Intelligence Community. Further details on his life and his many professional accomplishments can be found in the booklet that you have at your seat. I do want to extend a special welcome to the members and guests of the moscow family who are here with us today seated at the center table. Welcome to you. So without further ado, ill just say i will in
As you know hes vice chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. Im going to be presiding over this discussion. The meeting is the annual kenneth a. Moscow lecture on Homeland Security and counterterrorism. This is an annual lectureship that honors the memory of kenneth a. Moscow who was a long time member of the council with a distinguished career in the Intelligence Community. Further details on his life and his many professional accomplishments can be found in the booklet that you have at your seat. I do want to extend a special welcome to the members and guests of the moscow family who are here with us today seated at the center table. Welcome to you. So without further ado, ill just say i will invite senator warner, he will speak for about ten minutes and then ill have the opportunity to ask him questions for about 20 minutes and then at 1 00 we will open it up for questions from members. So without further ado, senator mark warner. Thank you for that int introduction
You get people saying, well, but the increment to china gdp is so large that ive been trying to use National Wealth as an alternative indicator. Its hard to we have a great series. If you want to know how the u. S. Economy is doing, look at the Federal Reserve series on net National Wealth or net worth of households. Its more informative than gdp. Its hard to do that for some other countries, especially large countries like china. If you use their data, they say from the end of 2013 to the middle of 2018, chinese wealth grew 26 to near 52 trillion. Thats a 4 1 2 year period. In the previous fiveyear period which included a chunk of the financial crisis, the larger chunk of it, the chinese wealth grew 130 . Not my data, right . You might say im biased, trying to find chinese stagnation where i look. They do this independent of me. I send them emails all the time. 130 in the previous five years, 26 in the last 4 1 2 years. Thats more like whats happened to the chinese economy than the of
We are expecting Bernie Sanders in just a few minutes. There are hundreds of supporters here at guadalupe a river park to hear him speak Ernie Sanders ran for the democratic president ial nomination in 2016 against hillary clinton. He was considered a long shot but one onto minsky 23 primaries before conceding to clinton. He is running again as a democrat in 2020 even though he is an independent in terms of his party affiliation. With his Current Office as a senator from vermont. He is expected to lay out his platform including plans for expanding medicare for all. Increasing the minimum wage to 15 an hour. And free tuition at public colleges. We love bernie. We supported him in 2016. We feel like the movement is growing a little bit now. We are more confident than ever. I think it will be helpful to bernie in the long run by winning in california. It will give him a great lead for the rest of the other primary events. Reporter sanders is currently second in the most recent California
Capitol grounds during the day of the insurrection. Until now. Today photos and videos emerging that appear to place an architect of the fake elector plot, kenneth chesebro, in a restricted area outside the capital on january 6th. Cnn breaking this, New York Times reporting on it. Chesebro named an Unindicted Coconspirator by special counsel jack smith charged with seven counts of conspiracy. Here it is, everybody. This video from outside the Capitol On January 6th that appears to be chesebro on your screen in a red maga hat and dark jacket. Hes captured in several clips along with infowars host and fake tan enthusiast alex jones. Some of the photos and videos, quote, stop the steal organizer allie alexander. We have not seen any evidence to suggest he went inside the Capitol Building or that he committed any violent acts. Youre looking at a freeze frame of one of the clips. Chesebro in a grassy area in the red maga hat at the center of the frame. Hes holding a phone up and appears to