About the transition to a biden presidency. This is live coverage on cspan2. Political aspects that are still unfolding but were facing a lot of challenges that require that the kind of continuity that a country is known for, one government can hand over to another government, the landscape in the tools that are necessary to do with these issues especially in the middle of the pandemic and our hearts go out to all those who are affected around the world by the pandemic and we hope the 2021 would be a brighter year. Thank you for joining us and i will turn it over to toni. [inaudible] as we wait for toni i will just say that all the presenters that i have described have deep reservoir of experience on the legislative side of the aisle. Theres toni right there. Welcome. Shes actually at reading right and were delighted to have you join us. So over to. Thank you. Thank you, stewart. I really appreciate its an honor and privilege to be here. Meridian has been very much a part of my persona
Virtually with frontline workers to discuss their experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. This is just one hour. Putting together a covid19 plan unless there was a proper transition process with the trump administration. Look, thanks for doing this and for being willing to share what youre going through, because i want to know firsthand. I dont want to know about reading about it in the press. This crisis has shown the nation we couldnt survive without now. I mean that sincerely. You have always been essential, even if most of america hasnt learned that term until recently. Youve been protecting our communities for months and being called on once again as the virus surges across the nation. In each of your areas, i think its basically doubled. Its not enough to praise you. We have to protect you and pay you. You deserve leadership that listens to you and works hard for you, because you are in your own communities, you know the people youre caring for. So i want to hear from you to
So were going to be reducing our forces in germany some will be coming home and some will be going to other places as ever we cant say what the plans are with a vague system told i had to train my important during the next couple. Earthshaking changes to why i think we have 3 new American Leadership the future is going back to head of the table but of course the u. S. Presence in germany is the sort of old lethal and let him go back were going to back in do you. Also on the day its crunch time again and post press that negotiations between britain and the European Union this weekend could be crucial oh not we had expected. A fast process of negotiation its the 1st time we thought that we would we will have a clear day which for the end of the decision we will see what will happen in the next. Welcome to the day we start in the u. S. Where lawmakers in congress are preparing to block President Trumps order to withdraw u. S. Troops from germany in july the pentagon announced it would pul
Addition to the pandemic relief and fighting the coronavirus, what else should be a priority. Republicans, one line, democrats, one line, independents and others,. One line you can also send us a text. Include your name and where you are texting from. And onter, cspanwj facebook. We will hear from a couple of members of Congress Later in the program. We will ask them both about the status of a potential pandemic relief bill. We will also show you some of the highlights from last nights cnn interview. First, a piece from page of washington journal using data from johns hopkins. The whole front page, if you go online, you will see the interactive map showing the spread of the virus across the country. The april 17 spring peak, july 25 at summer peak, the low point between the summer and fall of september 19. So far, in the fall, the fall peak to describe, two weeks in november, over 2 million cases. Over 12 million cases. The bottom line is how the surge engulfed. They write today, about
Yesterday, we approved 18 chairs was pretty exciting for us. We had three contested races, that included congresswoman rosa delauro, now chair of the Appropriations Committee, footsteps of he the first woman to serve in that lowey, paving the way. All three candidates were women appropriations. The chair of the Foreign Affairs ommittee, greg meeks of new york, greg meeks of new york, footsteps of he another new yorker, eliot engel. Chair of the ag from tee, david scott georgia, the first africanamerican ever chosen to chair of the agriculture committee. Pretty exciting. Following in the footsteps of leadership of collin peterson. Africanamerican. Historic. Africanamerican. Contested races. Throughout our leadership, half leadership were women and people of color in chairs of the committee. Here are more chairs to be announced, but these are the nes that related to rules and budget related to the steering and policy committees. Two of the speakers announcements that i made. Others will