Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Echoing the president s false claims of a stolen information. The president withholding Sensitive Information to president elect biden. I just think its an embarrassment, quite frankly. This morning the incoming chief of staff ron claim and republican governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson. Also, record covid spike. This is kind of like standing on the beach and watching the hurricane slowly roll towards you. This surge is much more intense, widespread and thank results. Were headsing toward a cliff. 49 cases see a rise in cases. Many cities and states finally cracking down. Im a announcing twoweek free for the entire state. Stay at home unless you must go out for essential reasons. I will talk to president elect bidens covid transition head, Michael Osterholm. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news correspondent carol lee, republican stratist ard card nis, Maria Teresa Kumar, president of voto latino, and jeffrey golderg, editor and chief of the atlantic. Welcome to sunday, it
Household name for public institutions, the banking legacy. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape you are drawing. Guest when i started looking at this time period i knew a lot about roosevelt than i did about morgan as is true of most. This was morgans world, that roosevelt quickly and abruptly in terms of wall street, and by the time roosevelt became president morgan was at the peak of his power. He was the king of wall street, literally called jupiter and zeus. On the eve of the inauguration, the first billiondollar company in the world. That was a company that employed more than any other for the steel production, was a huge monopoly. Just a few months into roosevelts presidency, morgan created the secondbiggest company in the world which is the focus of the book, 400 million which would be 11 trillion. The two Biggest Companies but beyond that morgan controlled the flow of capital. That is where
The president withholding Sensitive Information to president elect biden. I just think its an embarrassment, quite frankly. This morning the incoming chief of staff ron claim and republican governor of arkansas, asa hutchinson. Also, record covid spike. This is kind of like standing on the beach and watching the hurricane slowly roll towards you. This surge is much more intense, widespread and thank results. Were headsing toward a cliff. 49 cases see a rise in cases. Many cities and states finally cracking down. Im a announcing twoweek free for the entire state. Stay at home unless you must go out for essential reasons. I will talk to president elect bidens covid transition head, Michael Osterholm. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news correspondent carol lee, republican stratist ard card nis, Maria Teresa Kumar, president of voto latino, and jeffrey golderg, editor and chief of the atlantic. Welcome to sunday, its meet the press. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the l
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