The Foreign Relations committee to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of President Bidens nominees dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you to the senator for being here to lead of the republican side of the hearing. Its not always easy to find members that are willing to adjust their schedules to accommodate the hearings ander i think the senator for always being available to the committee to carry out our important work. Im going to have some opening comments and i want to recognize senator reid and allow him to make an introduction and thank t him for being here in the committee. Sometimes have a friendly rivalry but since i will soon may need his help thank you very much, chairman and senator. Its my pleasure to introduce kristine, assistant secretary of state for oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Anyone whos had the pleasure of working with chris knows a a c
Demonstrations against the war in gaza are rippling across university campuses. But a Dartmouth College in new hampshire, two professors are trying to help students navigate the debate. I want them to understand the shared problems. There is room for coexistence. We sit in on the class being taught by both the chair of jewish studies and the head of mideast studies, plus, medical tests are giving people the wrong results because of the color of their skin. Theyre unfair. Theyre unjust, and theyre fixable. New york citys chief medical officer joins me in studio to talk about the ongoing effort to fix a long running problem that puts lives at risk and tens of millions of families will soon start paying more for high Speed Internet. If you dont invest in broadband, you are signing somewhat of a death certificate for the area. The effort to get Rural Communities online, those stories right now on matter of fact. More than 5000 miles from israel in gaza, demonstrators have set up camp at so
Brzeski, global head of macro for ing research. Good to see you. Germany is in favour. Italy is saying it is too hard. Your thoughts . fix, too hard. Your thoughts . Complicated story once again. This is the third or fourth reform of european fiscal rules since the start of the monetary union. What they aim to do is make the rules a bit more flexible to give the more economic sense but in the past we saw the rules were simple but it did not leave enough room for investment in the future. If there was a problem, look back at the euro crisis, applying these rules really meant painful reforms, painful measures and they should not make peoples a bit more flexible and a bit more economic sensible. What can a country s economic sensible. What can a country s Debt Economic sensible. What can a Country S Debt be economic sensible. What can a Country S Debt be at economic sensible. What can a Country S Debt be at according i country s debt be at according to these rules . It seems to be the t