Hello everyone. Good morning and thank you for sticking around we are thrilled to have the governor of colorado back for the second year in a row i am an Energy Reporter at politico. We have a limited time so we will have a speed round on a number of topics for governor hogan. Colorado has very ambitious climate goals. Can you outline those for us. Yes i ran for office with a goal of 100 Renewable Energy by 2040. We already had several communities that stepped up with more aggressive goals the first was pueblo, colorado our industrial heartland with a goal of 100 Renewable Energy by 2035 also to cities that have already achieved 100 aspen and now glenwood springs. We look forward to have the statewide story. We have a variety of utility providers and number of municipals, some are leading the way, some are lagging that were looking forward to work with everybody to achieve that. You talked about 100 renewables in just 20 years but the plan you put forward has no enforcement mechanism s
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, it has been two years now as they say in d. C. , the days are long, but the years are short and i can certainly agree with that. Its abouten quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and understanding of what we need to do. If i can get my slides up, please. Well, when we get our slides up, thats okay. So i am the 16th assistan
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for Sickle Cell Disease. Dr. Giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. Lead america to healthier lives. I want to thank Africa Worldwide for partnering on this. With that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Mr. Giroir thank you v
That. 70 percent of people today say the Healthcare System is broken. Right. I really think it is the number one domestic policy issue and in our recent poll from gallup said 35 percent of American People pulled Way Healthcare is extremely important and 53 percent of americans support singlepayer with no coverage but now 65 percent support the public option which is a Government Insurance plan to compete against the private insurance and that is what i call a steppingstone approach. You would think the proof is in the pudding if you look at the last election cycle two years ago, i guess one year ago, my party, the Republican Party was ousted as the majority in the house many people would make the argument the reason why is healthcare. Many of us campaigned on repeal and replace unfortunately we did not get that done for ago that showed at the ballot box. It was unfortunate because in the house and the senate to say it is access to obama care and it is a disaster turning the Healthcare
Of defeating jihad, why we fight. And most racially, the war for americas soul. The aand most recently. In your 2018 book, why we fight, you write the most significant threats we face today to not emanate from the world of nonstate actors. They come from old nationstate adversaries who have seemingly learned from the change wrought at the end of the 20th century and to understand the only way to defeat us is by using irregular or indirect means of attack. Could the assassination of general solar fit into that theory . It could because of who he was his official title. Thanks to having me on the show. He was the shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in a regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle for you face off in combat and everything is aboveboard and you know where everybody is. This isnt the battle of the bulge or the first gulf war. He used proxy forces including in the u. S. And the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage warfare by using means that th