Coverage of the election process and transition of power. C span, your unfiltered view of politics. Dennis mcdonough served as chief of staff and Deputy National security advisor under president obama. Next, he outlines president elect joe bidens policy priorities which include Coronavirus Response, the economy, Climate Change and Racial Justice. He also talks about the current president ial transition period and associated National Security challenges. The center for strategic and International Studies posted hosted the event. Its 50 minutes. This week, u. S. Elections, bidenharris transitions and their implications for korea and northeast asia. Our guest this week, perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues with not just implications in washington, not just implications in seoul, but implications around the world and we are lucky to have mr. Dennis mcdonough, former white house chief of staff. Cabinet rank, we have broke therein cabinet rank ceiling here
Iowa has been seeing a rise in cases which recently led the governer to issue a statewide mask mandate. From des moines, this is 30 minutes. Governor reynolds good morning. Over the last seven days iowa has seen an increase of more than 22,000 new covid19 cases and an average statewide Positivity Rate of 17. 5 . This is a decrease from the seven days prior when new cases totaled 36,000. And the average Positivity Rate was 28 . At a county level, were seeing that Positivity Rates are beginning to stabilize in maybe areas and these many areas and these are welcome signs and while we may be cautiously optimistic, we have a whole lot of work to do to bring the numbers down to a level where we can safely manage the virus while getting life back to normal. Hospitalizations remain high across the state. But yesterday was the first day and weeks where we saw a slight decrease in the overall number of iowans hospitalized. So this gives us hope as well. But one day is far, far, far from a downwa