Past several years, tell us a little bit about that. The executive chef, thisll be his 11th dinner he will be serving. He began 11 years ago and the first night working was for the White House Correspondent association dinner. We broke him in well. Our longestserving team members celebrated 50 years of the hotel. He served all 47 dinners. Tell us about the menu. He said theres a process in choosing it. What is it this year . The menu is very unique every year. We are looking to source local ingredients as much as possible from 150 miles of the hotel. Honestly, we are really interested in what is going to serve well for 2600 people in a ballroom and knowing the time constraints and the schedule that involves secret service timing, the show timing of the event and all of that. It is about what holds well and what will move quickly on to the table and what will be fresh and hot in front of the guests. Reporter how early do they start preparing . Some things a few days ahead. 4 00 a. M. On
Their young men and women providing security, increasing pride. We laid out a Campaign Objective and we wanted to be emerge with competent Afghan Forces. But as importantly credible in the eyes of the Afghan People. The polling data shows that we are consistently over 80 shows that consist way over 80 of people have confidence in the Afghan Security forces. We had a pretty sad incident take place where 21 Afghan Forces were killed. That negative was turned into a positive in the wake of that event. The outpouring of pride and support for Afghan Forces, the desire to take care of the families of the fallen, the outrage the Afghan People have felt was actually a great indicator of the developing nationalism inside of afghanistan, the pride the Afghan People have their in their country, but more importantly the pride in the Afghan Forces. That has clearly had a positive affect on the forces themselves. If the people are proud of them and what they do and they appreciate and recognize what
We begin now with some stern words over ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister accusing russia of wanting to start another world war iii if speaking world war. By russia on ukraines territory. Will lead to military conflict in europe. The world has not yet forgotten world war ii. A russia already wants to start world war iii. Highnsions are running east of ukraine as the government is carrying out what it calls an antiterrorist operation. Program russian separatists have seized have seized control of several cities. We go to Douglas Herbert who is covering events for us now. Youre just north of the eastern city. You have seen Ukrainian Special forces. Describe for us the Current Situation at this hour. Hour is really in the past that we came upon the first sign that we can see of this antiterrorist operation in kiev. We came upon a large unit of Ukrainian Special forces. These were highly disciplined soldiers that the military camouflaged. Their fingers on the trigger. These were soldiers t
President biden thank you for the introduction. I want to thank you all for being here. Today you are here because that is not because we invited you, but you are here no matter what. Thank you for your commitment to Global Health. Everyone participating in this conference, all of you, thank you for fighting for what counts. This is all about saving lives. There is no ambiguity here. Working with partners to ensure all communities are healthy and strong or at least have a shot at being healthy and strong. That people everywhere can live in dignity. It is hard to maintain dignity when you look at your child and see they are sick or ill with a disease you cannot control. It is difficult. It shocks you. It deprives you of your dignity. That is why the u. S. Is proud to be a Founding Member of the global fund. Over the past 20 years, through our Work Together, it is estimated the global fund has saved 50 million lives. And it dramatically reduced the death rate of hiv, tuberculosis, and ma
First we begin the president s effort to deceive and distract the staggering of lives in this country and his Administration Response to this crisis. Hes floating baseless conspiracy like he made against president obama and his challenger. He lied in his fight against the world of his health organization. He included a claim of the medical journals warning that the medical journal says does not exist. He fired the government watchdogs bringing a total to fiver. Three of them is just april. The president slams the media and endorsing Violent Attacks against reporters. He continue to tout unproven drugs. He says hes taking hydroxychloroquine himself to help to prevent the virus. I have taken it for a week and a half now. I am still here. Lets go to Kaitlan Collins and dana bash. Our chief correspondent, dana, you covered the white house a capitol hill for years and you cover crisis of the administrati administration. Have you seen a situation where a white house is flat out screwed up so