additional military aid to ukraine and meets at the white house with the german chancellor. republicans continue together for the conservative political action conference just. headlines include nikki haley and other conservative leaders and president trump will speak and give what he calls a monster speech on saturday night. this morning, we want to begin with your thoughts on the top news story of the week. a lot happening in washington. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. text us with your first name, city and state to (202) 748-8003 . go to facebook.com/c-span to post or send a tweet with the handle @cspanwj. in washington this week, we have several hearings on competition with china and national security concerns and there was the first hearing in primetime of the new china select committee and also cpac and the gop 2024 split screen, with republicans having competing conferences, cpac in washington and the club for growt
so if you have been following pandemic related news and the united states over the past few years, and i am guessing that if you are here or watching it online most of you have been, you will have noticed a focus on the u.s. center for disease control and prevention, or cdc. if you have looked at the headlines at all you will have seen a great deal of criticism from a range of publication types over the agency s response to the covid-19 outbreak. why the cdc botched its coronavirus testing from the m.i.t. technology review in march of 2020? cdc, slow cautious messaging on covid-19 seems out of step with the moment from 2021. cities he criticized for failing to communicate promises to do better on npr, in january of 2022. cnn, in february of that year, the u.s. still is not getting the covid-19 data right. and in august of last year, even as the cdc director, rachel walensky, announced along the findings for the moving forward initiative, the cdc admission of dysfunction mis