Lansing. She addressed the covid19 pandemic and her goals for getting residents of her state vaccinated. This runs 30 minutes. I am honored to welcome all of you for my hometown of detroit. Last year was tough. Theres no doubt about it. But when our backs were up against wall, we saw some truly remarkable things and michigander stepped up in incredible ways to help each other. When we do things together, we are unbreakable. Thanks for the to the conviction and work ethic that fuels the soul of every person in our state. Now it is time for us to look Forward Together to write our next chapter. As president of the 101st legislature, i officially called the 2020 one state of the state address to order. Please an out of me to introduce my partner, the 49 governor of the great state of michigan, governor gretchen whitmer. Whitmer is addressing her state of the state address. This is different because it has to be. Tonight, it is tonight is just me and a few speed a few people in my capital
Will be spending quite a bit of time together starting shortly and i very much support that. But today first i have the privilege of introducing for the first time to this room the 71st secretary of state mr. Tony blinken. Thank you good afternoon. Let me start by saying they first ambition is to be known as the man who brought the price to the state Department Briefing room. That at least is mission accomplished. In all seriousness, thank you everyone for joining me here today, this is my first full day on the job as secretary of state and to restate what i said before it is an honor to be in this job and im gratified the president trust me with his responsibility. Im incredibly excited about the work ahead. Especially working with limited women about the state department. I serve the American People and represent our country to the world. I want to spend a few minutes with all of you today right from the start, how important i see the work that each and every one of you does. Some of
In salyut age. On tuesday january 26th the longtime washington d. C. Yes man and didnt blink it was sworn in as u. S. President joe biden secretary of state approved by the senate to name a landslide 78 to 22 vote lincoln took to twitter to announce his exuberance at being given the reins to u. S. Foreign policy writing quote my career has come full circle i started at the state department in 1993 and today its the honor of my life to lead the departments women and men as the 71st secretary of state. How sweet how sweet naturally blink in the rest of us corporate medias conveniently purposely forgotten by blinking his role as iraq war cheerleader when he was the democratic staff director for the u. S. Senate Foreign Relations committee under then chairman joe biden during that lovely little run up to the exercise in the u. S. Quagmire building known as the iraq war or as code pink Medea Benjamin elegantly tweeted out so we will have a president who supported the invasion of iraq and a
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