All to be with you to celebrate this tremendous new book. The book is asia new geopolitic geopolitics. Book isk at an important time about the reshaping that is going on across the indo pacific reason. Its also the author of another great book right behind me talks about the end of the age century. Misha is why the most prolific i from the region just do it i did set up a google alert for what ever her essays are published. You will get it right away. Also hopes of a wonderful podcast that he does with john you on the pacific century. And of course the Asian Pacific reason as we cso many developments ongoing whether its from north korea or the latest aggressive actions of the Chinese Communist party. We could not have a more timely discussion about this vitally important region. And then joining us to facilitate this discussion as a brilliant scholar in her own right doctor nadia shadow is a senior fellow at the hudson institute. And as Deputy National security adviser or strategy in t
Committee in january of 2019 and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats. Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow. That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea. Raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote, our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the Cyber Capabilities including
Best month on record in may, but brent and wti move lower in early trade. Amid talk, opec and allies will bring forward to the meeting this thursday. The uk government defending its decision to ease lockdown restrictions as more shops and primary schools reopen today, while the track and Trace Program is due to begin. A very warm welcome to street signs, everybody. Lets get into the top story of the morning. Protests around the u. S. Over the death of george floyd continue as increasingly volatile tensions between demonstrators and police leave many state capitals engulfed in violence. The issue has sparked a Global Movement as residents in london and berlin took to the streets in a show of solidarity. Well go live to minneapolis with our nbc news colleague jay gray to see the scenes on the ground later in this show. So, do stay tuned for that in the meantime, let me bring you fresh data coming out of europe this morning we have final may manufacturing pmis this is for the eurozone as
Senator angus king and congressman Mike Gallagher. If i lived further north congressman al gore would be my member of congress. We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Spaulding who ill introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we
Be a member of congress. We welcome suzanne spaulding. Also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all, i want to thank the cochairs and the two commissioners for their important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has some solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction and will be working hard to vault those and the ones evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law. They can be done through executive action. I would like to spend my time, enter my formal written statement into the record. I just want to talk about two of the commissions of recommendations. When i got here in the congress in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. It is not going away. But i remember the buzz word back then is we have to do something about this. We have made a number of attempts and quite honestly, we have made a fair amount of progress. My own sense