Impacts much of Silicon Valley print our guest reporter is Emily Birnbaum of the protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host congressman, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district right now in washington . Guest well, i think on one hand there is a lot of positiv positives. If you look at the polling the Tech Companies pull about 60, 70 of their approval and there is a sense that these are companies and some are working on vaccines and companies are working on antivirals and they are allowing for remote work, for remote calls that they are engaged in allowing us to have good medication in the time of a pandemic and allowing them to get groceries or information but that said there are a lot of other ethical issues in a sense of essential workers being paid appropriately and are these doing enough combat hate speech and Voter Suppression and are they d
Task force held a briefing at the department of education to discuss the latest efforts to get schools reopened in the fall. The briefing came shortly after President Trump tweeted he disagreed with the cdcs guidelines for reopening schools which led to a response from cdc director dr. Robert redfield at this briefing. Vp pence good morning, all. The White House Coronavirus task force met here at the department of education, part of our ongoing effort to focus on a mission to save lives and meet the needs of our states, healthcare workers, to protect the vulnerable and safely reopen america and reopen americas schools. As you will hear today from admiral brett giroir, we have tested 139 million americans. Among those a million americans have tested positive and 1. 3 million americans have recovered. Sadly more than 133,000 americans have lost their lives and our sympathies are with all of the infected families. Those whoourn with mourn, but it has of the extraordinary work on the count
Not for the first time, tonights speaker, thank you for helping us keep the conversation aloft in down all. The program can be viewed in its native habitat on crowd test and facebook and youtube pages, those who want to watch with Close Caption go to youtube, the cc button in the bottom of the player and the video will be available for rewatching immediately following podcast. The presentation will allow 30 to 45 minutes. After words he will take your questions, please up in your questions using the apps button on crowd test and neil shubin will take them at the end of his talk. Cant guarantee what he will get to every question but we will get to as many as possible. Maximize your time. Science and society, include a look at the nuclear site featuring bob ferguson and Tom Carpenter but Anthony Townsend on the future of driverless cars. And the uw science series, by grad students, by michael shermer, jillian andrews, that is not true, kurt bloodworth, tomorrow evenings program, samantha
Filing season and the irss. Andling of challenges at the 2020 Filing Season got off to a typical start. Since then, this Filing Season as been anything but typical a result of the National Health emergency stemming from the ongoing pandemic. Almost all regular tax filing and tax payment deadlines have been extended. This includes the individual and Corporate Income tax filings and payment deadlines, which were pushed back from the normal april 15 to july 15. There are some rumors they might be extended again. I dont know. I have heard that at least once. Extendedhese deadlines, the tax Filing Season continues with many taxpayers still filing taxes as usual to get their tax refund. At the same time, consistent with the Government Shutdown orders and cdc guidance, the irs limited much of its work to essential services, closed a number of facilities, and instituted telework policies where practical. Shortstaffed irs during the busiest time of the year. Understandably, that meant to taxpay
General at the office of the Deputy Attorney general where he oversaw investigations conducted by the dojs Law Enforcement agencies. In 2003, president george w. As theminated mr. Wray assistant attorney general for dojs criminal division, where he oversaw major investigations in the domestic and International Criminal activities. The dojsersaw counterterrorism Counter Intelligence and export control sections. In they was instrumental dojs efforts to combat terrorism, cyber crime, and espionage. Today, he joins us to discuss chinas ongoing efforts to interfere in the United States Domestic Affairs through espionage, disinformation campaigns, intellectual property theft, and monetary theft. It is my pleasure to welcome director wray to the Hudson Institute. [applause] mr. Wray thank you. Good morning, everybody. I realize it is challenging under the current circumstances to put on an event like this. I am grateful to the Hudson Institute for hosting us today. The greatest longterm threa