Pleasure, but obviously the reason that brings us together is not fun. Thank for inviting me. Is one overriding apply from your book, to to 20 20, what would it be . A pretty easy question to answer. Tell the truth. People in authority need to be transparent and tell the truth. The countries that have done that have done pretty well, not only Asian Countries like south korea and so forth, but also germany, austria. There are some countries that have done this right, and there has been much less confusion, much better organized, much better results. Much fewer deaths. Host what were the biggest mistakes of then president Woodrow Wilson in 1918 . Was entirely focused on world war i. The disease, the second wave, the serious wave in september 1918. He was not going to be distracted by anything, and he did not want anyone in the country distracted. He thought it would hurt the war effort. He never made a single Public Statement. They had created a propaganda , it was fake because they were
Weekly caucus meetings. Republicans are meeting with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin this afternoon about the coronavirus response. We expect to hear Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell address reporters at 2 p. M. Eastern. The senate will gavel back in at 2 15 eastern and, of course, well have live coverage here on cspan2. Up next, a conversation on the coronavirus pan dem sick and public trust in pandemic and public trust in government. We hear from this forum hosted by the Atlantic Council. Good morning. This is fred kemp from the Atlantic Council, and thank you for tuning into this timely, unfortunately timely conversation on Public Trust Institutions and the coronavirus epidemic. First of all, i want to thank ours. Speakers who are here tody and everyone whos joined us online whos being responsive to the call for social distancing. We actually dont think that social distancing contradicts common cause, and thats the way were going to run the Atlantic Council during this period
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We will hear from japanese epidemics at the center for strategic and international studies. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I am mike green and a professor at georgetown, we are delighted to have all of you join us in discussion over the next two hours with four of japans rising academic thinkers on Foreign Policy and economic affairs. This is the seventh cohort we have invited under a program called strategic japan. Eight years ago we discussed with the Prime Ministers Office how to expand Strategic Thinking dialogue, planning between the us and japan. One thing to think about which was new for japan was the need to go beyond the traditional bureaucratic sources and to tap into the growing expertise among japans academic experts on issues that affect foreignpolicy and to bring more academics into the tent in japan and expand the dialogue with the us and to make sure japanese scholars who are making an impact in japan are sharing their ideas with the us, getting reactions and re
Some have moderated a little. We trade at 68 59. Gold went above 1600 an ounce. We come off the high a ten year yield did get to a 170 breaking a trend line that weve been in since september but now down to two basis points on a 180 handle on that. Looking at dollar yen though that comes off a little bit. Unchanged there on that currency pay. European equities in the red but a reasonably muted move also what were seeing in u. S. Future. One point we saw it drop as much as 1. 7 but we recouped ome of those losses. This morning we begin with the retaliation from iran against the u. S. For the killing of its top general. The nation firing a series of missiles at Iraqi Air Bases Housing u. S. Troops. The escalation coming hours after President Trump says the u. S. Was totally prepared for an attack. Irans foreign minister saying tehrans is retaliation. It adds it isnt looking for war but will defend itself. Also this morning shortly after takeoff a boeing 737 bound for ukraine crashing in