I think its completely crazy were doing substantive work on the 17th of december. I cant imagine were holding real conferences here right the week before christmas, but we are, but thats because theres so much to talk about, and im so glad to have you all come. Thank you, thank you all for being here. My name is john hamre, im the president at csis. I wanted to say special thanks to Julio Friedmann who is a friend. We have known each other for many years. Hes fortunately in town serving in government more directly. Hes a government guy, hes out at Lawrence Livermore labs but were so pleased he can be here leading at a crucial time when we need to be thinking through a lot of important issues. For a very strange reason, recently i have been doing some personal reading on the history of philosophy, and i was recently reading about Thomas Robert maltous, a british cleric who in the early 18th century who was a very provocative philosopher because he had very dark views about the future of
Environment, and probably lots of others, but those are things that Everybody Knows that he has worked hard on. Throughout the years tom and i have served side by side in washington for the good of our home state. For three terms we worked together in the u. S. House of representatives. It was here in the senate our shared commitment to give Rural America a voice at the policy making table was sown. And for many years we worked together on the Senate Agricultural committee looking out for the millions of americans who choose to work and earn a living in Rural America. We worked together to advocate for Rural Infrastructure and investment, access to health care, Housing Technology and transportation. For the last three decades we have served alongside one another here in this distinguished body, the United States senate, an institution that both of us hold near and dear to our hearts. Although some of our silver tongued critics over the years may have described toms views as a bleeding
It might actually enable it. On tuesday, when you visited the house, you are asked your representative to sign a letter, coauthored by congressman reiss and ingle. It lays out the elements of a good deal. It reiterates the role of congress and highlights irans destructive regional activities. You will voice your concern and ask members to be ready to reject a bad deal. [applause] this brings us to our third message for the hill. The importance of congresss role on a matter as critical as the Iranian Nuclear issue. Congress must have a say. Congress has played a vital role in bringing iran to the table. Today, it must have a voice in the process, and it must have a say in any deal before it is implemented. On tuesday, you ask your senators to ensure congresses voice is heard. He will ask them to cosponsor the corkermen then does menendez bill. It was introduced by 12 senators just this past friday. This key piece of legislation will require the administration to submit any agreement wit
Hello and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And im anna edwards. Bloomberg report is a standing by around the world ready to deliver the stories to drive your day. Manus cranny is ready to steer latest dealings with dongfang. Covering clashes in the ukraine and Jonathan Ferro is focusing on the u. K. Ahead of the latest unemployment data and minutes from the bank of england. Givefore all that, lets you a few more reasons to stay with bloomberg this morning. We have some big interviews coming to you. We will be speaking to the ceo of the fourthlargest brewer, Joergen Rasmussen. The peugeot executive joins bloomberg, his first interview of the day. Lets look servo into lets look further into the numbers from peugeot. Theyre beating analyst estimates manus cranny joins us now with more. This is quite a bit better. The loss, 177 million euro and the market estimate was for 247 Million Euros. It looks like they have beaten on the selfmade target. Target was to reduce the cash burn by
Control in weeks. Tonight inside the meetings, the rage in some communities, the governor of georgia banning all cities and counties from requiring masks. In oklahoma the only governor to test positive for covid, he says he will not mandate masks. But tonight governors in several states who initially resisted now changing course saying the numbers do not lie. The race for a vaccine in the u. S. And the new turn tonight. Are the russians trying to steal intelligence targeting researchers right here in the u. S. . The president holding an event at the white house, the focus not on the virus but the damage control. Vice president pence putting out an image with dr. Anthony fauci after the white house targeted fauci this week. And tonight the new polls, trump versus biden and what they now show. The devastating fire on board that u. S. Navy ship. Overnight the new emergency that led to an evacuation. The investigation into the gruesome death of an Army Paratrooper from ft. Bragg. He disapp