And greatly appreciate all of the work done by law enforcement, my heart goes out to georges family and friends, justice will be served. I can tell you as im briefing you at this moment, the president is receiving a briefing from the attorney general, bill barr, on this, and the Deputy Director of the f. B. I. That is ongoing as i begin this briefing. Secondly i want to transition into some news from s. B. A. And treasury that was announced that today the u. S. Small Business Administration in consultation with the u. S. Treasury department announced it is setting aside 10 billion of round two funding for the Paycheck Protection Program to lent exclusively to cdfis, Community Development financial institutions. Cdfis work to expand Economic Opportunity in lowincome communities by providing access to products and services to local residents an businesses. We are encouraged to see that finally before taking your questions i want to address whats going on on twitter and social media. I be
Outstanding studies on access to what we are going to talk about today. Please, if you have questions no onto the link for this. And you can ask questions and we will talk as a group for about 20 25 minutes and then we will go to your questions. Is a component on the link where you can ask questions. So please do that. I am the chair and director of the Trans National press project. So lets get into first, the Current Situation with information and disinformation and then were going to get into a little bit of history critically playing off of thomases recent book active measures and then will of the future hiring so will start with the present and move too fast and then get into the future. Thomas, when we start with you. As we look at her as you look at russian and chinese in the u. S. Activities today, how would you characterize what is going on around covid19. Thomas is a tough question. Because what we see certainly, is politicians and top officials from china and frankly also fro
Kenny choi is live in San Francisco with an emotional homecoming. Kenny . This family has a big reason to celebrate and to be thankful and certainly are. They live close by but for 2 months they were not able to see this fighter facetoface until today. A moment to pure joy, tears, and cheers. Moving on to my second life and it is a second life. He spent 40 days in an induced coma as part of his battle after rushing to the 20. Its a miracle that im here and alive. For months he could only see and talk to his family through zoom chats. Go, poppa, go. And face time. Always asking, where is poppa . He and his wife traveled to europe and africa in march but suddenly felt ill. He ended up spending 34 days on a ventilator. He told me he wasnt going to die and i held him to it so i knew that this day would come. That bond is their strength. 2 days ago he sent linda 40 red roses, 2 white ones, and 9 candles representing children and grandkids they celebrated their 40th anniversary far apart on
Let us pray. Compassionate and merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Women inhe men and congress during this time of social distancing to find ways of serving their constituents, and our nation, as best they can. Andtheir efforts cooperative work with local government efforts helped to lift those americans who. Truggle most in these days may each american rise to our shared effort to remind ourselves that we are all responsible for the greatness of our nation, and to make the sacrifices necessary to emerge better in virtue and stronger in national wellbeing. With your grace, o lord, may it be so. May everything done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. Amen. Thank you father. Pursuing to section four a and House Resolution 9867. It is approved. The pledge of allegiance led by the gentleman from north carolina. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america. God,ation, under indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Speaker pelosi the ch
House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy also met with the two membersected republican , and held a News Conference with them to discuss the Coronavirus Response and other legislative topics. This is half an hour. Members hi, guys, how are you today . Good to see you. Rep. Mccarthy we ready . [inaudible] is thank you for joining us today. As we managed to go through the last couple of months, it has been some of the Biggest Challenges this country has had. The number of deaths and others. If you look in the last week, the improvement when it comes to testing, or than 2. 2 million tests in the last seven days. I am hearing governors talk capabilities capabilities and t taking 100 of the opportunities. During this crisis we had two special elections. Today i have two special guests. One in wisconsin, tom tiffany, and one in california, mike rcf mike garcia. Most have a good indication of what november will feel like. Took a democrat sea and more than 22 years, since 1998. This district of de