Christi let me take a moment to acknowledge several people whose assistance and friendship has been so valuable during this year. I want to thank the people sitting at the head table, the eight members of the board. They fight hard every day at the white house to do their jobs with excellence in to help you do yours. [applause] i especially want to thank carol lee. Nobody fights harder than carol. She is a fierce advocate for press freedom and she will be your president next year. [applause] i want to acknowledge our incredible executive director julia wiston. Julia, thank you for keeping this associations heart in the right place for so many years. [applause] thank you george laner our lawyer three of for your insightful counsel and devotion to our core mission of fighting for openness and transparency. I thank the Tribune Publishing bureau for their support especially our bureau chief, david lauter, and my white house colleague, kathleen hennessey. I thank visionary editors of the Lo
Contenders, i dont know. [laughter] the communicators announcer live coverage of the white house Correspondents Dinner today on cspan. Announcer cspan, brought to you by americas Cable Companies 32 years ago. And now on your screen, the Convention Hall to the International Tradeshow and the communicators is on location. This week, we will look at some of the technology that is coming out, and look at some of the people who are bringing that technology. This is the communicators. Now i want to introduce you to dr. Michael blum at the university of california, san francisco. Dr. Blum i am the director of the university of california san franciscos center for Digital Health innovation, and we look at patient portals and things like that, but we are also working at a very transformative time and we look at traditional patient care moving into new technology that will have dramatic impact and have a transition out of this time where we have patience who patients who are managed and we are l
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Inability to answer questio questions. Why it took 10 years to acknowledge default ignition switches. Lawmaker cite the documents that showed gm executives decided that fixing the problem posed what they call, yo an unape unae costin crease even though the replacement part parts casts a car. Our committee reviewed more than 200,000 pages of documents, we found that soon as cobalt hit the road in 2004, drivers began to complain to engag general mos that a cars system did not work properly. When switch for cobalt was built in 2002, gm knew that switch did not meet its specification for, to. Tork . Yes. Lou she then did not offer many other answers but she vowed to be fully transparent in future, when Committee Found unsatisfactory, some annoying. We have answers well be transparent. With you, with our regulators with our customers. Why in the world, would a company with the ste the stel ar reputation of General Motors purchase a part that did not meet its own specifications. I would like
Covid adviser. Dr. Scott atlas is a fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution with a background in Free Market Health care and economic policy. His views are ruffling feathers, prompting headlines such as these. A new coronavirus adviser roils the white house. Or, trumps covid adviser gets a washington welcome. Dr. Atlas joins me now to respond. Dr. Atlas, thanks so much for being here. Lets start with this. Your critics say you literally wrote the book on mris, that youre a brilliant neurologi neuroradiologist, but not qualified to play a leadership role in epidemiology regarding a pandemic. So what makes you qualified to advise the president in this regard . Thanks for having me. Im not hired to be an epidemiologist. Theres a lot of things im not, but what i am is someone whos worked in Health Care Policy for about 15 plus years, with many of the best people in the world in Health Care Policy. And before that, i had a 25year career or actually, overlapping with that, in a ver