Since the 1987 black monday crash this time caused by investor fears over handling of a covert 1000 crisis. Are broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is R T International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us right several countries have declared an emergency on friday in response to the outbreak of covert 19 spain joined a number of other european nations which are struggling for containment measures and now donald trump has announced the u. S. Is stepping up its risk level and response. To unleash the full power of the federal government that the separate today i am officially declaring a National Emergency. 2 very big words. The action i am taking will open up access to up to 50000000000. 00 of. Very importantly. A large amount of money for states and territories are these in our shared flood against this disease and we heard from trump you speaking in the white house rose garden surrounded by mike pence and other officials explaining the dramatic measure
The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say the equipment and services that make up a Communications Network. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Today we will hear from mr. Steven berry, president and chief executive office of the competitive carriers association, mr. Jason boswell, head of Security Network Product Solutions at ericson, ms. Asha katie, Corporate Vice president and general manager of next generation and standards at intel, mr. Mike murphy, chief technology officer, americas at nokia
Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas Opioid Crisis. He also oversees the the office of the Surgeon General and u. S. Public Health Service Commission Core. His office leads many Critical National initiatives including a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic in america the physical afnght tbliens for americans, National Vaccine plan, with and across Agency Effort to improve th
Thank you very much for being here, and i want to thank him because he graciously allowed to have the subcommittee hearing and for me to be able to chair it. This is a discussion really important to so many of us here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly, hes used as a weapon. Democracies like ours require a well informed electorate, but our enemies are increasingly trying to undermine that principle through socalled disinformation campaigns designed to mislead voters. Malign actors like russia systematically exploit social media, radio, television, and print to twist facts to suit their needs and distort the truth to an unsuspecting populous. Its not just about elections. We see it today with regard to the coronavirus and misinformation thats being spread. Its an interesting tactic because its inexpensive and yet can be very effective. It has a high degree of deniability. Its anonymous almost always and if
Complaint. Florida senator rick scott joins me to discuss the Senate Impeachment trial to begin this week as articles being sent. A lot more right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Maria begin in the middle east this morning. The Trump Administration is ratcheting up sanctions against iran after tehran targets american troops with missiles. Protesters are now rising up in the streets of iran, against the ayatollah, after iran admits mistakenly downing the ukrainian airliner. Meanwhile in asia voters in taiwan reelect the incumbent president supporting her tough stance against mainland china. We look ahead to this weeks signing ceremony for the phase one of the u. S. China trade deal. All of this coming amid a record stock market performance. More signs of job growth in america. Joining me exclusively this morning is treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. Mr. Secretary, good to see you this morning. Thanks very much for being here. Thank you, maria. Great to be with you. Maria