Source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the nations capitol to wherever you are. Because the a million because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Announcer First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for covid19. Her office says her symptoms are mild. President biden is negative and will keep his plans to travel to new delhi for the g20 summit in vietnam later in the week. This from what has National Security advisor Jake Sullivan and press secretary Karine John Pierre during todays briefing. Happy tuesday. Good afternoon, everyone. Before i turn things over to jake i have a couple of updates at the top and then we will get this going. This afternoon President Biden will award the medal of honor, americas oldest and highest recognition for valor, to captain larry taylor United States army. On june 18, 1968 then First Lieutenant taylor led a Helicopter Team in vietnam that rescued a fourman army pat
Hello walk into their program on the wrong con, african nations on demanding climate justice. That confidence suffers the most. Are the welding tenants and they want wealthy nations to help with the cost. Thats why leaders have been competing in kenya for 1st of its kind summit on Climate Change. They want to unite in a single voice to strengthen that position on the global stage. Well go to a panel in just a few moments, but 1st finsen monahan has this report. Excellent. African leaders gather for the 1st time seeking joint action on Climate Change. While the focus was on the challenges facing the confident post nation, can you also pointed to the potential opportunities in africa. We can be a green industrial hop that helps out that these deals i t that net 0 strategies by 2050. Im looking the Renewable Resources that we have, you know, a continent is not only good for africa. It is good for the rest of the water. According to the un, africa contributes around 2 to 3 percent of globa
Providers, giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Announcer u. S. Ambassador you and Linda Thomasgreenfield discussed diplomacy in the Pacific Islands at an event hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies in washington, d. C. She talked about increasing u. S. Engagement to build longterm relationships with Pacific Island nations. Maritime resource sustainability. And how the uterine and congress can support progress in the region. This is 50 minutes. Good afternoon to you all. We are delighted to have you here and it is a real privilege to welcome ambassador thomasgreenfield. Just a word of introduction, but charlie is going to do that, really. I just wanted to say i am glad to see olivia here. When i was talking with charlie i thought having a program on a monday afternoon that is about the Pacific Islands, will we get anybody to come . He said, yeah, people are interested, and im most impressed that you, ambassador, are so interested. Interested, and im most impr
Good morning. My concern is about the 2024 election. I hope we do not have the same election we had in 2020 where everybody received billions of dollars hello . Go ahead. [applause] welcome, everyone. I am the managing director. Always a pleasure to have you back. Right now even more so on the eve of a Spring Meeting coming up and you are back from a trip to china. We talked about a lot of these things. Before i start i wanted to remind you we have a lot of people watching this virtually so i want to remind all of you who are watching this virtually that you can send in questions if you have any, you can send them in by email or two events or on the Youtube Channels you are watching this on or on twitter. Any of those ways will hopefully reach us in time. I am sure there are people in the audience who have questions. Before we get to the questions i have questions of my own. First of all, welcome. A great pleasure to have you here. Thank you for the invitation. I want to start, i dont
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] pres. Biden good afternoon, everyone. Please, have a seat. Mr. President , six decades ago, when kenya was declairing its independence, president Lyndon Baines johnson wrote a letter from our nation to your, and he said, may the responsibilities of freedom wake the best that is in you. Today, we mark 60 Years Partnership between our democracies, and were fulfilling that wish together and were continuing. I truly believe it has brought out the best in both of us, not only in kenya and america, but around the world, it has had a positive impact. Through our partnership, were continuing to meet our responsibilities in four key areas. First, im proud to announce were working with congress to designate kenya a major nonnato ally. Thats a fulfillment of years collaboration, our joint Counterterrorism Operations have degraded isis and elle shabab across eas