Coming up, im going to ask the White House Press secretary whether beyond the announcement they actually have the votes in the senate, not to mention the house. Tragedy in florida. The search right now after a deadly Building Collapse there. A boy one of two people pulled from the rubble alive. One confirmed dead so far. 99 more floridians unaccounted for. Plus, a Big Development on a lifeordeath story that weve been covering for weeks, months, years even on the lead. The white house announcing that afghan translators who helped u. S. Troops will be saved, but how many . Of the 9,000 who have completed the paperwork, how many are we talking about . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News on our politics lead. President biden making the official announcement this afternoon, there is a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. We had a really good meeting. In answer to your direct question, we have a deal. None of us got all that we wanted. I clearly didnt get all that
We now come to Prime Ministers questions. We are joined in the gallery by the number one please mr. Speaker. Mr. Peaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. I shall further such meetings later today. Thank you mr. Speaker. The u. K. Used to be a world leader but despite the calls from the select committee leading researchers, charities, and veterans organizations, and the Royal College of psychiatry, ave fallen behind on breakthrough achievements on ptsd and depression causing for millions of people in this country. Can the Prime Minister explain why it is ok that american, canadian, and australian patients can access treatment british patients cannot . Prime minister. Mr. Speaker, i understand why people suffering from distressing conditions would want to see the best possible treatment available. We are committed to ensuring the u. K. Is a world leading jurisdiction for pharmaceuticals ,f research. We have an Advisory Council on the misuse of drugs, as
Armed services subcommittee. Mr. Gallagher the subcommittee will come to order. I ask everyone to be mindful of our committee rules. We start on time. U. S. Language the average american can understand. And we stick to the fiveminute rule, including on witness responses. With that, good morning, everyone, thank you for being here today for our hearing on the department of defenses cyberspace activities. We ask a lot from the department in this space. From securely operating networks and inherently insecure Weapons Systems to assisting small and large systems. More important than anything else is how prepared and capable we are to hold our adversaries at risk. Ive expressed my concerns about the departments pace for modernizing and growing the ships, aircraft and other weapons for a fight with china. If we accept that we need more time, it is my genuine belief that our ability to robustly use information and Cyber Operations should provide us with the opportunity to buy time to maneuver
Isil. It just looted its historical sites. So all of that under consideration, of course our priority, and i said this yesterday, is defeating and destroying daesh. That remains our priority. And yet we also recognize that replacing one or replacing their by their barbaric role with assads journey is not tyranny is not a great trade off of a great solution. The Syrian People should not have to decide between isil and assad, and thats again what i was trying to convey yesterday which speaks to the fact that thats why we need to advance of the u. S. Led negotiation. We need to establish a ceasefire. We need to end of the civil war, get a Transitional Government into place, and then we can talk about cooperation against daesh. It just seems a little strange because two of the things weve heard over the last many months was, one, that assad wasnt fighting daesh proper and that he was mainly fighting the modern Syrian Opposition and thats true. And that carried over to what the russians wer
Next remarks by 40e8ds under secretary spaulding, hosted by the American Bar Association. Topics include Cyber Security operations and efforts to form stronger relationships with the private sector. This is about 55 minutes. Thank you very much, joe, thank you for once again taking the laboring war and putting together this very thank you to all of you, who are here today who have taken the time to be here, but who also, i know on a daily basis care about and in many cases work to achieve our shared objective of ensuring safe, secure, resilient communities where our this is like a class reunion. And in many ways it is, a lot of former dhs folks here, a lot of current dhs folks here, but also a lot of you in private practice and in academia and elsewhere, all of whom contribute to the solving, addressing, understanding the challenges that we face. So thank you all of you for what you do. I bring greetings from secretary jay johnson, secretary of Homeland Security who would love to have