Speaker who we aree so honored o have with us, senator tammy duckworth. Senator duckworth probably needs no introduction to most of you watching. She is an iraq war veteran, a purple heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the u. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and napa yes, senator for the state of illinois. For both of us working in our security, certainly for those of us who are women in National Security, when you think about people who are breaking down barriers ahead of you, store duckworth is the top of the list when the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom cup first u. S. Senator to give birth while in office, and particularly relevant to todays event the firsts member of congress was born in thailand and the first asianamerican who was elected to congress from the state of illinois. In addition to the work shes done of defense and Veterans Affairs, senator duckworth spent a lot of time thinking about the military cha
Ofodollar getting a bit traction. The dollar is going down. This is part and parcel of the yellen trade, which seems to be getting reaction now. It will be interesting to see how she works handinhand with the fed chair. Minutes,e last few crude went through 45. This is wti. We are backing off the little bit, but that line in the sand is the highest level we have seen since march 6, which gives you an idea of the turnaround we are seeing. The big question, is it running too far, too fast . Alix some analysts starting to scratch their heads a little bit, particularly as they look at the curve. President elect joe biden said to announce his selection of former fed chair janet yellen as secretary of the treasury. Joining us as michael mckee, Bloomberg International policy and economic correspondent. What about this appointment is giving confidence to the markets specifically . Theael janet yellen ticks most important box for investors, she makes them money. Take a look at what happened whe
A very warm welcome to all of you us drug for modern us says its applying for emergency approval of its covert 1000 vaccine in both europe and the united states. Well that could lead to distribution in the u. S. As soon as december, the company says full trial results show its vaccine was 94 percent effective with no serious side effects while the filing this stuff mcgurn is product to be the 2nd vaccine likely to receive special authorization after the one developed by by sir and beyond tech. Well joining me now is yanis announces he is with the european a Public Health alliance and is a board member of European Medicines Agency is known as e m a, which is dealing with murder and as a request for authorization. A very good evening, sir. Why do you think were there now will be granted approval by the way. Good evening. It is hard to tell and obviously i dont speak on behalf of the agency, but i will. My message would be that we need to let the regulators do their job. We need to let th
Efficacy, but also on their safety profile. And this is why i think this needs to be properly communicated to citizens in europe and beyond. And is that infrastructure here in europe . How and who will deliver these vaccines throughout the European Union . Yes, as i said, governments are already the and how been working with the companies in the past few months to make sure that whenever these projects are authorized because we need to this is not a minor detail lander stand and there is a lot of political pressure and all sorts of pressure to get to the point of the authorization. But as i said, we need to let the regulators do their job properly and take their time in assessing these data, which is something that by the pharmaceutical companies. And then i think we see in the coming months the Production Capacity is already strengthened. And therefore, depending on the company, depending on the vaccine pounding date, i think we will see before the summer and depending on when the sta
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