In june of 1973 during testimony before the Senate Watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself in the watergate coverup. He later pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. Discovering the tapes system, was it lucky or inevitable, is what were looking at. The nixon taping the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. Its taken me years to gather and find out what happened. Since its one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think its important to get that history straight, and were going to try to do that in a very summary fashion today. Before i start, though, i would like to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with franklin roosevelt, who used a when they first went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system that was put in the oval office that was recorded. Im going to try a very, very quick sam
On cspan2 at 9 30 a. M. The Dc Circuit Court of appeals heels oral arguments in the perjury case against Michael Flynn and at 1 00 a virtual townhall with virginia senator mark warner and representative gerry connolly. Next a look at efforts to combat fraud and exploitation during the coronavirus pandemic with officials from the Justice Department, fbi and us secret service. They testified on price gouging, the hoarding of personal protective equipment and the filing of fraudulent applications under the paycheck protection loan program. The Senate Judiciary hearing is just under two hours. Good morning, thank you very much for attending the hearing and more will come in throughout the morning. Mister craig carbonito, phil hughes, associate attorney general, assistant director of the criminal investigative division, fbi, the assistant director of the office of investigations of the United States secret service. We are talking about this before, fraud related to the cares act, scams agai
You can go and get a microphons are your questions can be heard. Please join me in welcoming john barry. [applause] thank you very much. Its kind of funny to be sitting here in a Community Room of the Louisiana Legislature talking about this subject largely because although you might not think it, politics is very involved in the story of the pandemic i cant think of a better place to talk about politics in the legislature. When you read about the 1918 pandemic in the newspapers these days you say the death toll was over 20 million. That estimate comes from the first of the disease thats fairly accurate for the western world but wildly inaccurate for the rest of the world. In a Nobel Prize Winner that spent most of his life studying influenza concluded that the death toll was a minimum of 50 Million People and possibly as many as 100 million. All this was in a world with the population 28 the size of today. So, if you adjust the population, the death toll on 1918 was between 175 to 350
Next, a Public Health official looks at efforts to improve. Vaccine and develop a universal flu vaccine. This house, science, space and Technology Committee hearing is about 2 and half hours. This hearing will come to order and without objection, declare a recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to our witnesses. Todays hearing on science and innovation, the worlds population, killing approximately 300 Million People in the 20th century alone. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio, 33 cases reported worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Every day it save lives especially lives of children and other vulnerable populations. There is no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. Unfortunately there is a wellfunded Disinformation Campaign targeting the public and weakening Public Health laws. School vaccination requirements have been commonplace in the us for gene
Human services unaccompanied Children Program. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. And maxwell, the office of Inspector General department of health and Human Services, Jonathan Hayes, director of the office of Refugee Resettlement department of health and Human Services and jonathan white, commander Public Health service commissioned. This hearing is part of our oversight responsibility which we take this hearing is really part of our oversight responsibility which we take very seriously. Taxpayer resources are at stake and something even more precious is at stake and that is the mental and physical wellbeing of children. That is why the office of Inspector Generals report was so alarming. It confirms our worst fears that intentional policy choices by this administration created what i would call a Mental Health crisis which the office of Inspector General said health and Human Services and the office of Refugee Resettlement failed to address. It is a crisis of deliber