The francis prize for outstanding books on American History 1997. He is current New York Times bestseller is the great influenza. Hes here to talk about that with us today. Hes currently a consultant with the World Health Organization on the subject of influenza. When hes done speaking, if you would like to ask questions, there will be two microphones in the back of the room. 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 we
Thank you very much we just attended a very important Task Force Meeting on the virus, that everybody is talking about all over the world no matter where you go that is whats on peoples minds and we are going to take care of it happened to be taken care of the American Public and the american economy, we are going to be asking tomorrow we are seeing the senate. We are going to be meeting with past republicans rich mcconnell everybody, and discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief substantial relief very substantial relief it is a big number. We are going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help so that they can be in a position where that nikki never miss a paycheck. Will be working with companies and small companies, Large Companies a lot of companies. So that they dont get penalized for something that is not their fault. It is not their fault, our countrys fault. This was something that we were thrown into and we have been handling it very well. The big decision was
State university. We are very grateful not only to have one of the mentors of kennesaws tom scotto over here, but david parker is a good representative from my department. Thank you, david, for coming. And thank you to all of you for being here, and thank you to our speaker for making it here. Because we had actually planned for him to come to a Different Event some time ago and the weather got in the way. This time, the weather did not prevent him from arriving and we are so excited to have Steve Woodworth. Stephen i do go steve and i do go a long way back. He taught for eight years at toccoa, so he has some good georgia roots in that area, and he went on to texas christian university, where he is the powerhouse. Different people who say, who should i study with . He is one of the first names to come up for them and for me. One of my first books of steves was Jefferson Davis as general. It wasnt an area that did not have his name associated with it. I picked of volume that had a thoma
That hopefully will get some important answers to. This issue could not be more urgent. Three weeks ago the New York Times article revealed that the fbi arrested Seven Members of an Organization Called the dangerous White Supremacist Group. Neonazis, the base is an acceleration list agonistic, and Arctic Antarctic group whose name speaks to the admiration for al qaeda and isis. They hate jews and africanamericans but they dont like President Trump or the United States either. Their goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States. Societal collapse, a sick fantasy but the reality is that domestic terror has claimed more lives than International Terror since 911. Lastly, fbi director, told the Judiciary Committee that he was elevated racially motivated and violent extremism, to a National Threats priority. That the same man with homegrown violent extremism and isis. Our enemies especially russia, exploit these racial tensions to divide and weaken American Soci
Okay. The hearing will come to order once again. Id like to welcome our second panel. We are joined by mr. Garry reid, director for defense intelligence, office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And stephanie miller, director of expressions policy, office of the secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Mr. Joe ethridge, chief criminal intelligence division, and mr. Christopher mcmahon, executive assistant director, National Security directorate the naval criminal Investigative Services, and finally, mr. Robert grabosky, u. S. Air force, office of special investigations. Mr. Reid, well begin with you. Thank you, madam chair and Ranking Member. On behalf of the entire team here, i would just like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and for the committees support to the department in getting at this problem. If you would allow, madam chair, i represent the Background Investigation piece of this process, and in a logical order, i would like ms. M