Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testifying remotely. We appreciat
California not far from l. A. At least 90000 people evacuated as high winds and dry conditions create whats being called the most dangerous fire conditions this year. And german chancellor Angela Merkel is going to really planning to announce strict new voices to slow the surge of coronavirus daily cheeses in germany are expected to take 20 down to 6 by weeks end. Welcome to the show we began with the widening backlash against french president and. Anger and the muslim world is growing over a controversial comments he made about islam following the brutal murder of a french teacher since then massive anti france rallies have been taking place across moslem lunch already countries with protesters calling for a boycott of french goods. The target of their anger is clear. Here in pakistan protesters in karate and islamabad accuse the french president of attacking islam. For asking the behavior of the french government is actually an insult of billions of muslims across the world its open
Since 2016, what Public Policy issues are motivating voters this week and take a look at Political Trends that can give us clues. And we go live now to hear about u. S. Relations with china from assistant secretary of state for east asianing and pacific affairs, david stilwell. The events hosted by the Hoover Institution. Pacific affairs, david r. Stilwell, who is joining us from tokyo today and will address the theme of todays session, covert, coercive and corrupt, counterrerring Chinese Party malign influence in free societies. Following his address, he will engage in a conversation with two leading china scholars, orville shell and arianna movstro. But first, its my pleasure to introduce condoleezza rice. Im delighted to open this session of our project at hoover on chinese sharp power. And i especially want to welcome assistant secretary of state for east asian affairs, david stilwell. This project, i think, is one of the most important that were engaged in because we face an extra
With us tonight, sol wisenberg, ken star, joe mcchin tock, and joe concha on todays big headlines. We have now what democrats are threatening to do, retaliation, consequences they have been talking about against republicans for putting judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court. We got who is saying what and planning what. We have this, a big bellwether county in an important swing state is now asking Justice Barrett to recuse herself on its election case as more election cases continue to roll in to the Supreme Court. Were going to show all of that. Plus we got more bombshells coming to night. In the hunter biden selling access controversy. His former Business Partner, Tony Bobulinski will reveal audiotapes on Tucker Carlson tonight. We have a preview for you. Now this, republican senators joining gop republicans in the house saying yes, attorney general william barr appoint a specs counsel to get to the bottom of this. The bidens leveraging their most important asset, selling acces
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