Role in changing the map of the United States. Nph Steve Inskeep on his book imperfect union, how jessie and john fremont mapped the west. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. And next former ebola czar ron cane and others evaluate the coronavirus response. The house homeland subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, response and recovery hosted this event. From yesterday, this is about an hour and 40 minutes. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness response and recovery will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on Community Perspectives on Coronavirus Preparedness and response. Without objection the chair may declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. Without objection, members not sitting on the subcommittee will be permitted to participate in todays hearing. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Good afternoon. We are here today to discuss the coronavirus, also known as covid19. We are at a critical point in responding to the Coronav
Susan steve inskeep, your book is entitled imperfect union how john and Jesse Fremont helped cause the civil war. Why did you believe the story of a 19thcentury power couple would have resonance today . Steve it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States than that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological change. Cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closest together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people
Earlier today at democratic parental candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to reporters in vermont about the primary elections yesterday and how he plans to stay in the race. Thank you overmuch for being here. Let me begin by reiterating of what i have said from day one of this campaign. That is that donald trump is the most dangerous president in the modern history of our country. He must be defeated. Tragically, we have a president today who is a pathological liar and is running a corrupt administration. He clearly does not understand the constitution of the United States and he thanks he is a president who is above the law. In my view, he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, and a religious bigot. And he must be defeated, i will do everything in my power to make that happen. Last night, obviously was not a good night for our campaign from a delicate point of view. We lost in the largest state up for grabs yesterday, the state of michigan. We lost in mississippi, missouri, and i
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The gentleman from illinois mr. Foster is recognized for five minutes. Thank you, madam chairman. Mr. Scharf, iraq with the concerns my colleagues on this committee about the extensive shortcomings of west fargo over a number of years past and do hope you are as committed and as successful in turning your dash as you stated in your testimony. Id like to bring up the issue of dreamers. This is ang issue that hits cle to home. Last summer a dreamer from illinois filed suit because he was wrongfully denied an auto loan because of his daca status. I was glad to see some of the changes that wells fargo has decided to implement recently including its plan to provide Daca Recipients with credit products, education loans and mortgages. I cannot emphasize enough how important this commitment is and hope you worked work diligentlo implement this new policy. Because this release is one
The virus to start putting together diagnostics and begin the process of developing vaccines and other countermeasures. It is a long process but we have enough knowledge to get on that pathway. Host what is the most important thing to learn about the virus . What termsnderstand mean. We are throwing words around. Because they are technical terms, they have a different meaning to people working in epidemiology and Public Health than when they might be echoed in different settings. The most important thing to moststand is we think young, otherwise healthy people, are at risk of infection, but not necessarily at risk of severe disease. People who are older, who have underlying conditions, cardiovascular disease, heart appear, diabetes, they to be at higher risk of more severe disease. Those are the people who seem to be at highest risk of severe pneumonia. That is what we clearly understand right now. When we throw around terms of case fatality rate of 2 , 3 , it gives the impression we h