Priorities in the first hundred days. My name is neil and i am joined by my colleague paul. Paul, always good to see you. Likewise neil, great to see you. It will be fun. We both served in the Solicitor Generals Office during past transitions i think we should probably start by digging in a little bit on to what is happening in the front and how this transition might be different than past transitions. Maybe we will talk about specific cases that could be impacted by the change in the administration and you know, i think given that there is another impeachment trial about to begin maybe we should talk a little bit about that too. Maybe before getting into that carl, would you just mind introducing yourself to the audience. Sure, i would be happy to neil. Im paul clement and i will talk about two things that are relevant for todays presentation. First, just the georgetown connection. I am both a georgetown undergrad and somebody who has been teaching at the law school in various capacit
He has made this american 1st policy a priority. He talked a lot about making his goal to leave all foreign wars as part of the nationalist america 1st policy so he announced actually to withdraw american troops from afghanistan and iraq even before the nato mission is officially completed and regarding germany he. Plans in june as we just heard to withdraw close 220000 of the 36000 u. S. Troops based in germany citing a villains failure to meet its nato spending commitments but the bill we are talking about now states that Congress Continues to value germany as a strong nato partner and that u. S. Troops in germany are a central importance for supporting u. S. Missions in the countrys. Civil horn just talked about. What is likely to be the most significant change to come in the transatlantic lation share with the incoming biden did ministration. Well for President Biden its going to be a tightrope i mean he certainly does not want to be the president to send more troops bag overseas a
Chez call one takes the boys to the shelter and predator. The irish priest has been saving philippine children since the 1960 s. This estate in the countryside is a home for boys who would otherwise be in prison, under the control of the authorities. Here the boys draw about their experiences in children homes. He says one of the pictures of the children drawing about what happened to him inside is only a small little boy. And to my own credit. Oh look. Hes only here. Hes only a small boy, maybe even years old. Hes been inside the jail behind bars. And they tortured him there. He showed here that this is they gave him electric shock as a punishment. No. This is a guard. When the night he did i saw a nation room. They put them isolated as a punishment. And they have directors who want us to massage them. Some have mental illness. Just manapul a threatened you with he not at all. I mean, and i want to use a leg as she looked in the welders money of these jails for children. And they are
On mind when she confronted a partial lockdown that will remain in place until at least early january but restrictions on get togethers will be loosened over christmas although some Public Health experts warn of the consequences. Winters coming. And german chancellor Angela Merkel warned it could be a long one. If you have notion to move them up we had already made clear in november that unless there were significant changes for the better it was highly likely that the measures in place until december 28th would be extended and thats what weve now agreed to do. With the record daily death toll reported on wednesday the partial lockdown has done little to turn the tide here in germany. He said i the simplest question is whether we leave the country in this state of half sleep or if we decide its some point to introduce significantly tougher measures well see how efficient the measures currently in place are. For now the restrictions will remain in place until january 10th for the vendor
All time. We introduce you to 16 year old yusuf bubble coco and talk about his future in germanys top football league. Im told me all of it. Well, thank you for joining us. U. S. Drug giant pfizer and its german partner biotech have applied for emergency authorization for their corona virus vaccine in the united states. Now the vaccine, has performed well in initial safety trials. And based on that, the u. S. , food and Drug Administration could grant permission before testing is complete. And if it does, the 1st dozers could be administered next month for many people. The Severe Health and Economic Impact of the pandemic means a vaccine cant come soon enough. A small pub with a big history. 30 years of the albatross pub in california, once hosted intellectuals of the Free Speech Movement in the sixtys. Today, its shutting down for good due to the coronavirus pandemic. Where people, everybody hang out. Public spaces is a community space. Its, a familiar story, not just in the u. S. , b