I richard good afternoon, everyone i am richard fontaine, ceo of the center for new american security. I would like to welcome everyone to the discussion on Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, and intelligence on the Biden Administration. This session pulls together several critical issues, all of which are moving targets in the trumps administrations final weeks and as we head into this new political era. Great group. Jeh johnson, the former secretary of Homeland Security and serves as general counsel of the department of defense. He also represents new jersey in a seven state counsel that coordinates covid related reopening. Sue gordon is the former Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the nations secondhighest intelligence post. She served in the Intelligence Community for over three decades in senior positions. Carrie cordero is the robert gates senior fellow and general counsel. She served at the department of justice and in the office of the director of it is a gre
Provided the video. Mona siegel it is such a pleasure to collaborate with the world war i museum and i am particularly thankful to lora for making this program possible. I have about 45 minutes of stories and information i am excited to share with you. I feel that i hope you will pose any question you might have. I dont always have the answers but i will give it my best shot. The cover you are looking at there on your screen is the cover of my most recent book, peace on our terms. It is fundamentally tied to the history of world war i which makes this collaboration so important to me. My book is a snapshot of a singular moment in history. Almost exactly 100 years ago. As the world finally began exiting from the devastation of the First World War and was able to begin the dreaming and planning for the peace and the new world that would come afterwards. At this moment, i show in my book that women from farreaching and incredibly diverse parts of the world began stepping onto the global s
American Company Pfizer says its drug developed with the german a firm biotech is more than 90 percent effective in late stage trials 50000000 doses are set to be available by the end of this year while more than a 1000000000 could be administered next year several governments along with a World Health Organization of welcome the news which added to it there is still more work to be done yes president elect joe biden has hosted an initial meeting of his Coronavirus Task force promising to roll out a vaccine as soon as possible i will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around once were sworn in january 20th to go to kids back to School Safely our business is growing and our economy running full speed again if you get an approval x. E. Manufactured and distributed as quickly as possible to as Many Americans to as Many Americans as possible free of charge will follow the science. A new round of talks aiming to bring an end to libyas conflict is getting underway in the capital 75. 00 li
Hes like a kid slowly realizing nobodys coming to his birthday party. We should never have given him that diet coke button this had to put a little crinkle in his tin foil hat. The department of homeland securitys cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency this is one of trumps own cabinet agencies, put out a statement debunking his claims of widespread fraud. They wrote, the november 3rd election was the most secure in american history. And then they took another dig at the boss baby, while we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections, we can assure you we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should, too. And how did the president react to that statement of reassurance from his own Government Agency . Most fraudulent election in history so everythings going great. If donald trump gets any more embarrassing, were gonna have to start calling him donald junior. I wonder
Who is seeking to overturn his election defeat. This as the u. S. Suffers more than 2000 coronavirus deaths in one day. Lets begin the program in east africa where there are warnings, an escalating conflict and unfolding humanitarian crisis will devastate ethiopia and sudan. The u. N. Is calling for an immediate cease fire in preparing for up to 200000 people to flee the military campaign in ethiopias northern t. Great region, Ethiopian Government forces say that theyve taken 2 major towns axum an hour the watch as they advance towards the to gray and capital mikhail it. Its been 2 weeks since Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner ordered the offensive accusing to grey and leaders of trying to destabilize his government. Hundreds have been killed, although its difficult to confirm details. Since communications have been cut, more than 30000, people have now fled into eastern sudan, or aid workers are racing to build facilities from scratch. When the home of the dough is in the et