Wolf. Today we are meeting to consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security chad wolf to be the confirmed secretary of department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. I truly appreciate anybody who is willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be enter into the record without objection well do that. Ill just keep this short because i know we have time constraints here. But a quick description of what enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department, the responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Start with the federal Emergency Management agency deals with hurricanes and wild fires and now covid amongst many other responsibilities. Border security a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem, not by a long stretch, but thiS Administration done a good job of stopping the out of control illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. This agency
To do here. I have always been reluctant to say this truly could be one of the most important things we as members of this committee do. The world is experiencing today and what the american and as is americas face is one of the most significant challenges that a lot of us will face in our lifetime. The bad news, the really bad news is that its entirely possible that it will happen again. I say this of course because the experts tell us that this virus that made the leap from one species to another can very easily happen again and if there are 2000 of these viruses out there you have no idea what they can do when they get into a human being. Thats what experts and scientists tell us have identified within their branch about 2000 different viruses. Having said that we need to look forward and i want to stress what im trying to do with this and what about all of us are trying to do, to look forward. There are a lot of hearings going on and a lot of hyperbowl going on and a lot of blame a
Good morning choose day the 2nd of june a very good morning for me kevin i would hear russia dotties world news h. Q. In moscow its me here take his through the headlines for the next half hour im going to stick around and so 1st of all a big these again this one is coming from the United States and its witnessing the worst race riots since the 1960 s. Now the nations gripped by violent protests for 7 days straight over the death of george floyd at the hands of the police at least 40 cities of impose curfews with the National Guard activated in at least 23. 00 states as well as washington d. C. So latest this morning when the mayor of new york has extended a citywide curfew as more looting erupted in midtown manhattan thousands of extra officers were sent to where there was particularly violent damage to property the governor of new york says violent protesters obscure the righteousness of the message. Next over washington protesters at a peaceful rally were forced off the streets with
Referendum on amending russias constitution which would allow him to stay in power once his term ends it will take place in less than 30 days. Good afternoon just a day here choose to the 2nd of june 2020 live from world news h. Q. Moscow russia its kevin 0 in here this hour to take you through the headlines in more detail so well the big news again coming from the United States theyre calling it the worst race riots since the 1960 s. There with the nation gripped by violent protests for 7 days straight over the death of george floyd at the hands of the police at least 40 cities have imposed curfews with the National Guard updated in at least 23 states as well as washington d. C. So 1st off the mayor of new york has extended a citywide curfew as more looting erupted in midtown manhattan thousands of a straw for says were sent into areas where there was particularly violent damage to property and the governor of new york says that violent protesters obscure the righteousness of their me
David i do not consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on a life of an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David people say running an airline is not an easy thing to do. You have weather to deal with, Energy Prices to deal with, lots of employees, but you grew up in a family of nine children, so what is easier . [laughter] david growing up in a family of nine children, or running an airline . Ed running an airline, certainly. [laughter] ed our family was great. I am the oldest of nine. And i was sharing with david earlier that when i was five years old, we already had six kids in the house, nine kids sharing three bedrooms. 1. 5 baths. My dad was a dentist, he had his practice inside our house. And my mom worked for him. David wasnt that busy a practice at times, i guess [laughter] ed he must have had some gaps in his sc