Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Tell us one of the worst daily death tolls models a g. P. S. System to try to track infected people a controversial idea we put that up for debate. Like you have g. P. S. Tracking for the 1st time for implementation by the way weve. Got to get back to work now because they could not come back so if we let this continue much longer im worried that were. Storing up lots of problems for ourselves weve got to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going to get people back. Is just turned one of the afternoon this friday january very good day for. The next 30 minutes with the latest from our Side International news that hundreds of thousands of doses of a vaccine to latin america. There is 1st as the region increasingly bets own the russian job for argentina its the 3rd delivery of the russian show with 5000000. 00 doses in total expected by the end of the month bolivias received 20000. 00 doses the u. N. Secretary general saying now that support the very
Latin american states to get hundreds of thousands of russian coated shot doses as the head of the un harold the bold but the feat and play in the battle against the pandemic. Good evening am i happy friday to you all this is our 2 International Coming to you straight from the russian capital welcome to the program. We start with some breaking news the European Union is imposing export controls on coronavirus vaccines made in Member States amid a row over supply shortages brussels has also just given the green light to the drug at the heart of the dispute made by british firm astra zeneca we can now cross to our to charlotte n. C. And paris charlotte to major announcements from the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency talk us through whats happened. Well as you mentioned the European Union has confirmed that it is taking this extraordinary step of introducing export controls on vaccines this means that any that scene that is manufactured within the block thats the 27.
Was begging everyone to cancel their thanksgiving travel plans. Now they would like to see everyone canceling their travel plans for the foreseeable future. I traveled a lot during the pandemic. Tons of safety measures. Many passengers drifting through the Oakland Airport were not traveling for pleasure. Im traveling for work. Well airport staff was busy hanging stockings the cdc was, again, asking everyone to cancel their Winter Holiday season travel plans. Given the state of things i can understand limiting travel for Recreational Purposes or leisure purposes. So what exactly does that Winter Holiday travel mean . Listen to how Robert Redfield describes the nearterm. The reality is that december, january and februar will be rough times. I actually believe they will be the most difficult time in the publichealth history of this nation. Largely because of the stress it will put on the healthcare system. I dont think people will go for it. I think it has gone the complete opposite way.
Contributor, karl rove. Futures are pointing to another rally, extending yesterdays gains of 315 points on the dow futures right now, all three major market gauges finishing in the green yesterday, boosted by positive news on the vaccine front from astrazeneca this time. Best buy, burlington and Dicks Sporting Goods are reporting this morning, all the numbers as soon as they hit the tape. Were keeping an eye on the Holiday Shopping season thats largely shifting online. How you can protect yourself against cyber criminals looking to hack the holidays. And replacing an icon, or trying to. Jeopardy will be seeing a show alumnus as its new interim host, making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. New york, concrete jungle where dreams are made of. Theres nothing you cant do. Dagen weve got a rally on deck here in the United States, same story in the european markets. Gains across the board, up about 1 in england, france and germany at the moment. In asia overnights, mar