And questions for the Stanford University medical dean, dr. Lloyd miner, joining us from california. The phone lines are joint the phone lines are open, host [indiscernible] ,ur numbers are 202 7488000 ,202 7488001, 202 7488002 and you can join us on facebook. Cspan. We begin with the numbers from john hopkins university, now 0orldwide more than 530,00 cases across the globe, 24,000 deaths, the u. S. Surpassing china with more than 8700 cases of the coronavirus. The house and senate, acting quickly on a massive spending bill. Joining us in studio is alex bolton of the hill. Com, the Senate Passing 960 that bill, and i dont think i have ever seen about total that large. Alex i cant remember you nanas miss vote on legislation of such significance, and it is remarkable, especially given partisan fighting over the weekend and late into the night. It got acrimonious. Republicans and democrats accusing each other of politicizing the crisis, but in the end everyone voted for the bill, even th
The natural disasters in their state. Will get started right away with the next panel. Running behind schedule. But we do not want to cut these guys ashore so we will move into fortifying our future. States becoming for resilience. Whether theyre located on the coast, and the mountains, in the midwest or anywhere in between, they have struggled with the challenges, the disasters that impact the nation. A nice love an important discussion about how to defeat those challenges and how we as governors can prepare our citizens to the resiliency challenges of the future. So we will have governor of maine, california governor and in north dakota, and pleased to welcome them to lead the discussions. [applause]. Thank you. Welcome to all of you to this discussion about fortifying our futures. And states becoming more resilient. Let me start by talking about my estate. In maine, my state as one point 3m people. It is small. The most dispersed population of any state in the country. Just on the n
Activist. Uighur human rights activist. Good morning, everybody. Please take your seats. Were going to start our program. L welcome to the hasnt visited. I am nina shea, i directed the center for religious freedom here at hudson, and i went to wish everyone a happy holidays. And im also, what to draw your attention to the crisis in china against the uighur Muslim Population there. It is one of the worst human rights and religious persecution situationsth of our day. In fact, of our age. It is both a crisis of religious persecution and of Human Rights Violations of epic proportions. In we will be hearing more about that through the session today. All people should be concerned for china as a rising power, aims to make this a model not only for other groups within its borders but is exporting this model. It is of deep concern to me as someone who monitors religious freedom around the world, and i knowio it is to you hear here s room in the audience. And it is my deep privilege to introdu
Its something weve said all the time. The weakest, the thinnest, the fastest in u. S. History. Schumer admitted trying to ask for more witnesses that what happened over here was wrong. Now we have the own speaker of the house who is so embarrassed that she add mitsz the failure of this impeachment that she will not even send it to the senate. So embarrassed that i watched in her press conference she wouldnt even take your questions. That is not a good legacy to have. Shes admitting defeat by not sending it, by refusing to send the impeachment over, she knows this outcome is not good. She knows the facts are not there. Theres no basis for it. At the end of the day the American Public needs to move on. So with that, let me open it up for questions. Yes . Pelosis legacy, do you worry about your legacy, defending a man who suggested last night that john dingle might be in hell, attacked a 16yearold girl last week, is it okay to defend a man who talks like this . Am i worried about my legac
Washington post columnist David Ignatius hosted a conversation with two experts on iran. They discussed irans political future and impact on the greater middle east. This is an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, while my fellow panelists are getting wired up, let me begin our discussion of iran upheaval and repression. Im David Ignatius. Im a columnist for the washington post. Have visited iran several times as a journalist and have a longstanding interest as a commentator and analyst in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran the best in this country. Ill move from my left. Maziar bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21st, 2009, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. Youll know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like, and if you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart ca