[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
Voting early at much higher rates than republicans and so we can expect to see that the early vote will look a lot more democratic than republican and that the in person vote on election day will look a lot more republican than democratic which balance things out in ohio speed. Host what are the productions for voter turnout overall . Guest ohio traditionally has a higher rate of voter turnout then other states in the country because it is a swing state and because our elections are so competitive. In the past it is been upwards of 60 and i think we can see even higher percentageses of vor turnout rates this election season. Host walk us through the history of how ohio has voted in previous president ial elections . Guest sure. There is a saying that so goes ohio, so goes the nation and it is a saying that has the virtue of being true and no republican has ever won the white house without winning the presidency and since 1964 ohio has voted for the winning candidate in every single pre
After leaving the white house a white house also spoke to reporters at joint base andrews before boarding air force ones air force one. Here are his comments. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Is going to pennsylvania. Thats very exciting. I would like to go with her and be with her. She will make a speech in pennsylvania, thats great. She does very well, very popular. I am starting off in michigan. We have a full day of rallies and they are very well attended. We have thousands of thousands of people at each one. We are doing very well. Our poll numbers are phenomenal, not the fake numbers that the media gives, but the real poll numbers are very, very strong. Many states are doing very well. Florida is doing great great you are probably seen. We are doing very well, and we will be traveling with you people i guess today. Any questions . Would you like to see google split up . Pres. Trump i think what is going on with all of those they are doing badly because they are so restrictive. Wh
Campaign event with voters and supporters in warm springs, georgia. Home of fdrs little white house. He talked about unity among the American People during this 25 minute event. Hello, hello, hello. What a magnificent setting. Its hard when you drive in here not to think of circumstances president roosevelt faced and how he overcame so much for so many. Good afternoon. A few weeks ago i spoke at gettysburg about the need to unite our nation. Today, im here in warm springs because i want to talk about how we are going to heal our nation. Over these past few months there has been so much pain and so much suffering, and so much loss in america. People have lost their lives to a virus. Many of those lives lost in the cruelest way possible. Alone. Alone. Alone in a hospital room. Alone in a nursing home. , no loved no friends ones beside them in those final moments. Haunts so many of the surviving families. Families who are never given a chance to say goodbye. I, and many of you know what l
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