Vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 90, the nays are 7. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for arkansas. Mr. Cotton our country faces real challenges today. For example, antiamerican mobs are roaming the streets in many cities, tearing down statues of our greatest statesmen, men like abraham lincoln, u. S. Grant, and george washington, after whom this capital city is named. For the but the democrats arent doing anything about that problem. Oh, no, on the contrary, the mob is in many ways the Youth Movement of the Democratic Party. So they are perfectly content to look the other way. Or even cheer it on. I mean, have you heard joe biden, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi denounce the mob violence we see in our streets . Me either. But instead, the democrats have found another pressing issue. The house is voting tomorrow on a bill to make washing
Is one thing that i know how women capitalizing on this and also clear that this resurgence has not been in a vacuum. One thing we would like to hear from, where the rs Movement Find areas we cannot and should not vote. When the areas in which we are looking for stability. But do not seen. On land. It is clear that many of the American People are united by the fact that they want to invest in homes. But as new yorker i can tell you this the memory of 911 lives on. Not just a memory of my love 911 and how do we respect the amerin people all of the while to keep them safe. In a move on i also recognize the importance of coalition notices. Natalie watches proactively and robustly, and efficiently and effectively fight the tears. Honey find it and find it with horses. And then how do we fight the terrace threat, not just yesterday pretty were certainly in resurgence. Some appear to have stage. Some in germany were arrested after a plan to attack an air force base. Carrying out mass shootin
But complacency has set in clearing the way for a new wave of infections. And the world needs more leadership from germany was the word from nato secretary general following u. S. Plans to cut the number of american troops in germany. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program more than 600000 people are now back on the lockdown in the western german state of north rhinewestphalia authorities are imposed restrictions in the districts of goods a slow and violent of after more than 1500. 00 workers at a meat packing plant tested positive for corona virus. The districts are good to slow and found and off the back undercurrent of virus restrictions until the end of june residents. In the western german districts could only have contact with their own household just weeks after restrictions were eased schools popes cafes museums and gyms will all close again. We will now for the 1st time in germany return the whole region to the lock down the ashes that were in place a few weeks ago. B
About his recent atlantic article aboutthe end of the 9 11 era in a few minutes im going to introduce been. Ben will speak and he and i will havea conversation. We encourage you to post questions through the two and a feature. And we get to the second half of the hour i will begin to wrap up our discussion and start posing some of your questions then and we will run about one hour. So i also want to mention next week, next wednesday in fact were going to do i think our last webinar for the summer. Which will be with our partner, peter singer of near america talking about his new novel burn in which is a kind of look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare in particular so peter does a fantastic thinker and writer and i look forward to seeing that so for today as mentioned ben rhodes. Ben is former Deputy National security adviser in the Obama Administration. Lcurrent cochair ofNational Security action. Cohost of pond save the world which i highly recommend. Both organizations and
Why is the u. S. Pulling troops from germany theyve been stationed there since the end of world war 2 and now donald trump is about to cost that number by more than a quarter but why now and should u. S. Allies and nato be concerned this is inside story. That welcome to the program im Laura Brennan theyre a legacy of world war 2 a symbol of u. S. Commitment to protecting its european allies u. S. Military forces stationed in germany are reportedly going to be shot be reduced present donald trump plans to pull out 9500 american soldiers by september reducing the number 225000 troops will either be redeployed elsewhere or sent home its being seen as the latest twist in relations between washington and balin tensions between the 2 sides have been strained over a number of disagreements but defense spending has been of particular concern for donald trump he has repeatedly pressed germany to increase its military budget and his chris size nato allies for relying on the u. S. To shoulder the