Together. Im grateful to have been and katrina and all of you for this wonderful most really full program and worthy of the David Stockman tradition. Anyway, when i was growing up on small town montana, pretty rural and a community picnic, one time, the sole timer who was a homesteader. We back when was reminiscing about the family farm in wisconsin, and i asked how come he moved out to montana . And he said, well, there was free land out here and land was 20 an acre back in wisconsin. So he said he came out here for free land, which was the most expensive land he ever bought. So this panel was a dream of mine. Amy lauter is going to talk about the free land, socalled free land and i ive been looking for years and my search of 19th century illustrated stereotypes or stereotype ups of. And we have a panelist today who has figured out how to get a handle on that, which i never did. And so im excited about that as well. Hes our second presenter. The john coward our third presenter is the
For israeli hostages. President joe biden had said a pause in fighting could begin as soon as monday. The talks will try to reach a Ceasefire Agreement that can be implemented before the start of ramadan, on the 10th of march. The draft framework would include a 40 day pause in all military operations. Reports suggest 400 Palestinian Prisoners which israel says are serving sentences for terror related crimes could be exchanged for forty female and elderly israeli hostages. Under the proposed ceasefire, hospitals in gaza would be repaired, while 500 aid trucks would enter gaza each day. But the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, has vowed to go ahead with an assault on gazas southernmost city, rafah, regardless of any agreement. 0ur middle east correspondent Yolande Knell sent the latest from jerusalem. The scramble to survive. Hungry crowds gathering on the beachfront in gaza city after Hearing Aid Lorries were heading there, loaded with flour. Translation there is no food fo
Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
We are going to move on to our second panel. Very excited. My good friend has been at the fda for a number of years to reach structure offices and one of the private sector whos been willing to do the hard work of others are unwilling to do and continuing, we have doctor mark who ran to federal agencies including serving as fda commissioner so we are going to spend time talking about organizations. We eventually got them out into the community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately operated largely inh un a silo, fragmented across localities, states, and the fed. And then as we think about agencies come with three primary agencies. We had the cdc, the fda and the nih, and they all functions very differently duringda the pandem. And so my hope was to spend sometime talk about how the fdas successes, it was not perfect but it did a pretty darn good job, and what we can learn from that thinking about how to fix this cdc and the nih Going Forward and make a a more robt Public Heal