Later, jeff mauer will discuss world oil and gas prices. Washington journal is live each morning at 7 00 eastern. We also take your phone calls Facebook Comments come and tweets. At the same time Hillary Clinton was speaking at the center for American Progress this morning, ted cruz announced he is running for president. He made the announcement of Liberty University in lynchburg virginia. [applause] sen. Cruz thank you so much president falwell. God bless Liberty University. [laughter] [applause] sen. Cruz i am thrilled to join you today. At the Largest Christian University in the world. [applause] today, i want to talk with you about the promise of america. Imagine your parents when they were children. Imagine a little girl growing up in wilmington, delaware. [applause] during world war ii, the daughter of irish and Italian Catholic families, working class. Her goal ran numbers her uncle ran numbers in wilmington. She grew up with dozens of cousins the kaiser mom was the second young
Conversations from the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas and how drones are being used in the individual and commercial airspace. Here is a look. We are doing a fun product. From five years we are doing jones for the consumer market. You can see the brandnew ones back there. It is safe and secure. You have a front camera. It is 180 degrees. You can take a picture of 180 degrees or you can record a video with an 18 degree field of view. You can stabilize the video. You move the window and then you have a very stable video. You said you are doing this for the consumer market. For people who may like to play video games . Not for business. It is for people who like to fly. You can have the video what youre doing. Host all of that conversation and more on the communicators. It reairs on monday. Lets get one more call, one more thought on the use and regulation of commercial drones. From texas, go ahead. Caller this is really an interesting debate. A very timely issue, in my view. Some
And so we require there to be mandatory ethics training on that acquisitionrelated interaction so its clear what you can and cannot do. Secondly on Acquisition Strategy, we require every Program Start out with an Acquisition Strategy. It has to be done in writing and upfront and dated as needed. This strategy would consolidate at least six different requirements into that upfront strategy and has to include what is the most appropriate type of contract for this particular acquisition. This is another area where one size clearly does not fit all. It has to consider whether multiyear is appropriate and include Risk Mitigation strategies just like commandants have to have war plans, and we need to have it for our plan. And it has to consider incentives. So, for example, one of the things we want to consider is shared savings on Service Contracts, which are not currently allowed. And the third area, we want to simplify the chain of command tore acquisition decisions. So a number of require
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Threat of coronavirus. In fact, the inverse. Why would you down play a pandemic that is known to disproportionately harm lowincome families in hi minorities . Yeah, well, i didnt down play it. In many ways i up played it in terms of action. What i did was with china, i put a ban on. With europe i put a ban on. And we would have lost thousands more people had i not put the ban on. So, that was called action, not with the mouth but an actual fact. We did a very, very good job when we put that ban on. Whether you call it talent or luck, it was very important. So, we saef saved a lot of lives when we did that. There were holes in the ban and the european ban didnt come for another month. If you have somebody in china thats an american citizen, we had to let them in. All right. Theres a lot in there. Lets start with this that he said he up played, it, never down played it. That is obviously not true. Here is President Trumps own words on this issue. Now its turning out its not just old peop