Today wherever books are sold. Today Vice President pence went to dallas where he met with Texas Governor greg abbott whose state is currently seeing an increase in coronavirus cases. They held a News Conference with members of the White House Coronavirus task force at the ut southwestern Medical Center. I want to welcome everybody , and i here today especially want to welcome the Vice President of the United States mike pence. Thank you for being here today. I went like to just start by peeling back the curtain and explaining the way that mike pence has been working with the governors across the United States. We have this week we phone call that will include the Vice President as well as dr. Birx but in addition to that, probably at least once a week i will have the opportunity to visit with the Vice President about challenges are issues that may be occurring in the state of texas. Calling him. Is me sometimes late at night or on the weekend talking about i need that we have or somet
Mr. Thompson is the president s tomny to be the next inspector jen olof the cia. Congratulations on your nomination. Id like to start by recognizing your family you brought with you today. Welcome to both of you. Patricia, this is as much your day as it is peters and were all grateful for the support, the patience and encouragement youve now doubt provided him in helping him get to this day. This is most certainly a professional achievement you should both take pride in. Our goal in conducting this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful consideration of mr. Thompsons qualifications to be the next Inspector General of the cia. Mr. Thompson has provided written responses to questions from the committee from its members, and this morning members will be able to ask any additional questions they have and hear the answer directly from the nominee. Mr. Thompson is a double grad kwt. He spent 23 years as a prosecutor with the department of justice as a u. S. Attorney for the
Some specific instructions to members of the public who would like to make comment . Sure. I want to remind everyone to please [inaudible] and were hearing someone make a latte or coffee or something. Lets maouts our microphones unless were talking. Hi, even. My name is mark morowitz, the Health Commission secretary. Im going to flash the side again to explain how to make Public Comment. The phone number is 8883634734. And the access code is 2241350. Once youre on that line, you will be able to listen in on the meeting and when you want to make Public Comment, you press 1 and 0 in order yes, 10 in order to get on to the line for a specific item. For those of you who are watching on sfgov tv, a reminder that there is a delay on what youre seing from what the live meeting is. So, i encourage you to get on the Public Comment line one item before you intend to speak so that youre on in time. That way there will be no timing issues. And, again, we apologize profusely for the issues at the l
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From the very outset of the coronavirus pandemic. The White House Coronavirus task force represented here today by dr. Deborah birx and secretary ben carson. Has been working very closely with your administration, and we are grateful for the partnership that we forged. President trump wanted us to be here today with the developments over the last two weeks, the rising positivity and the rising number of cases, with a very simple message, and that is to you and the people of texas, we are with you. And we are going to stay with you. We going to make sure that texas and your Health Care System in texas have the resources, have the supplies, have the personnel to meet this moment. The governor and i also talked about the vital importance of testing. At this point, texas is testing at an enormous scale across the state, but in our briefing today we spoke about how we can accelerate testing, accelerate returns on testing and we will carry that back tonight to the Coronavirus Task force as w