Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
Thate, sn and it is assumed reflect the fact that americas world,eady to lead the not retreat from it, against it at the head of the table. Ready to confront our adversaries and not reject our allies. Ready to stand up for our values. In fact, in calls from World Leaders i found from 18 to 20 of them so far, im not sure the exact number, in the weeks since we won the election, im struck by how they look forward to the United States reasserting its role as a global leader, in the pacific, atlantic, all across the world. The team meets this moment, this team behind me, they embody my core beliefs that america is the strongest when it works with its allies. Collectively, this team has secured some of the most defining National Security and memory,ic in recent made possible through decades of experience working with our partners. That is how we truly keep america safe, without engaging in me this military conflict, and adversaries in check, terrorists at bay. That is how we counterterroris
Arizona, i am Deborah Peters and my cohost is the Pulitzer Prize winning and distinguished Foreign Correspondent and columnt for the Washington Post and i am happy to say my friend james hoagland. Good to be here. Im delightedou could join us. I offered this evening, our copies are somewhere, the ckiest the luckiest man life with john mccain. I can say truthfully that we were fascinated with i i didnt expect to read every word, once i started i couldnt put it down. Thank you. Senator mccain in 2005, i am blanking, you did 7 books. Character assassination. We sold thousands of copies of it and his office staff. We find is a little strange. After spending time with him. Before i turn this over to jim, the mccain familys mississippi group. I assumed he had western roots. Im a carpetbagger in arizona and illinois. I didnt recognize john mccain how he was perceived as a carpetbagger. I asked john grisham, in mississippi, i read a little bit and i will read it again to get her reaction, the
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Hello, everyone and welcome to todays virtual Commonwealth Club program. My name is don lemon and im going to be your moderator. A few things before we announce our beautiful wonderful sunny hostin. As the club hosts Virtual Events theyre grateful to your continued support of their members and we hope youll consider making a donation, you can do it online or you can text, text donate. Here is the number, 4153294231, 4153294231. The club would like to thank for the good let event. Its my pleasure, my just overwelcomiove overwhelmi overwhelming, deeply i cant tell you how much i love this woman, but my pleasure to welcome my very dear friend sunny hostin, Award Winning journalist and cohost of the view. We talk so much, were like sisters a brothers and we fight, but its all love. And the new book, here it is, i am these truths, its a memoir of identity and justi living between worlds. A revealing look at the her incrediblestory. Sunny grew up in the south bronx, tough hard work and deter