Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Welcome to csis online. The way we bring you events is changing, but well still present live analysis and Award Winning Digital Media from our ideas lab. All on your time, live, or on demand. This is csis online. All right, good moing, everybody in washington, good evening everybody in korea. Go day to everybody around the world. Welcome to the 15th edition of the csis capital cable brought to you by the good folks at kia motors. This week on the capital ble, u. S. Foreign policies u. S. Elections, bidenharris transition and for korea and northeast asia. Our guests this week perfectly positioned toddress this critical and evolving set of issues with not just implications in washington, not just implications in seoul, but around the world. And we are lucky to have mr. Denis mcdonough, former white chief of staff, capital rank, weve broken through the capital ranks here. And hes someone who sat the desk for foreign policies, u. S. Communications and he knows a Little Something about nort
Filming. Also, if youre wondering what all the equipment is in the back of the room, its cspan, so make show your nicest smile, brush your hair, get ready, just in case you get a cameo. And when we get to the q a part, there is a microphone in the back of the room, and well let you know when its time for that, and well ask you to line up this to ask your questions. In a politically restive time, its always worthwhile revisiting the documents that set us apart from british rule and created the framework for our government. Tonight, our guest speaker, kermit roosevelt, explores these documents and shares his interpretation of their meaning and relevance. Professor roosevelt teaches constitutional law at the university of pennsylvania law school. He was born and raised in d. C. And attended Harvard University and yale law. Before joining the penn faculty, he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David souter. His book, the myth of judicial activism, making sense of Supreme Court
Small caps having a pretty good day as well. The commentary seems to be the market feels a little tired. Is that how you see it yes i do suspect that the market is fatigu fatigued certainly on monday mornings consecutively weve been greeted with excellent news for society as it relates to the vaccine but markets dont seem to be responding as positively as they did two weeks ago. Scott, you began the show by suggesting that we have a potential end of year run. For there to be an end of year run, we are going to need a catalyst and i suspect its not the vaccine, its not earnings, and it really falls back to washington, d. C. And the ability to try and offer some form of fiscal bridge to get us to the other side in the absence of that, i would just highlight december 15 the and 16th, you have a Federal Reserve meeting. Theres a wild card scenario there where the Federal Reserve steps in and enhances some of the landing programs and provides the bridge in the absence of fiscal policy maker
Electoral votes donald trump has 213 remember 270 is the magical number the number needed for victory we are expecting donald trump to be speaking from the white house shortly but we can in the meantime while we wait for him speak to a correspondents can we might kind of who i mean whether or not mike hanna is in wilmington delaware where joe biden spoke we will go live to him shortly but 1st to kimberly in washington d. C. Near the white house really well extraordinary how tight this is become the blue wave has never happened we heard from joe biden earlier donald trump the president he responded via tweet but now were going to hear from him live. Thats right weve been anticipating this for several hours we know that the president has a lot on his mind he seems to to kill or allay the happy by the fact that he believes that this is very close to that he may have even have won this but instead it is being called too close to call in so many different states so we are watching very care