Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this event and conversation with Robert Obrien assistant to the president on the National Security affairs otherwise known as National Security advisor. Of youto welcome all here that are able to join us and the audience watching live stream from the website but also a very special welcome to the cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today we are delighted to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone that has been able to participate in this discussion. This is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson given the fact we are less than a week away from the election. The question of what america is going to do and where america is going to go from here those are going toil be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to w understand what tas place regardless of who it i
May have different goals but they all share the same primary objectives and the confidence in our democracy and they are thrilled when the disinformation causes us to point fingers at each other rather than at them. The good news is we spent the last four years gearing up for this unlike the Obama Biden Administration on whose watch even democrats admit we were called. The Trump Administration workede with congress and others to get us ready. The white house has imposed sanctions on russians who interfered in 2016. The department of justice, the department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community led efforts to strengthen and coordinate our defenses. And here in the senate the Intelligence Committee spent years studying whatha went wrong in 2016 and published a 1300 page report with recommendations. In the last two years alone we passed more than 800 million to fund and support secure elections. They described last night they are being combated by the federal government and
Government on Health Matters he says that in fact it could be as many as a 100000 new infections each day in reality because he says you have to count the people who are asymptomatic and people who are not getting tested now he says that the situation is extremely urgent that the next few weeks and france will be very very tense indeed Libyas National Oil Corporation says its reopened its last oil field that had been closed that means nearly all of libyas ports and facilities can potentially resume production soon most of the countrys oil exports were halted back in january by worldly for have to us forces based in east. A humanitarian cease fire has come into effect between azerbaijan and armenia to try to stop the conflict but as your previous attempts to stop the conflict both have already accused the other of violating the agreement the president of azerbaijan has warned that a military solution is still on the table a large crowds of protesters are currently marching towards the G
A disputed election. And we speak to the is there is who are longing to go back to their homes after being uprooted by the conflict with the media in the early 1990 s. And im with your school says. A record 7th straight formula one constructive title and Lewis Hamilton closes in on the drivers championship. So we begin this news hour with one of the most divisive u. S. Elections in recent years donald trump and joe biden have less than 48 hours now to make their final pitch to the American People and theyre doing it in several important battleground states President Trump is now on his way to michigan where he won by less than one percentage point and 2016 joe biden is hoping to win that state and he made his case when he visited there on friday trump is expected to hold. These in 5 different states on sunday will focus on pennsylvania another crucial state for the full fights president correspondents a closely following the campaigns alan fischer is in washington d. C. But 1st lets go
Commit this this crime and when you walk through the streets in nice you can clearly see that the Police Forces have been ramped up there is more military here in the streets some even standing on the roofs and watching old whats happening. Turning attention now to leave yong where a priest was shot on saturday is there any link that we know of between the 2 attacks. Well what we know is that this priest orthodox priest. Will shortz by by a man with a shotgun and thats thats what the Police Reported we also know the suspect was arrested on saturday but then later he was released because police said hes theres no links to the attacks so were but theres police that is apparently still looking for the perpetrator what we know is that there might be a personal reason for this because apparently the your the next priest has been in a fight with one church goer for a long time and i would be also know is that the french antiterrorism prosecutors have not taken on that case yet so theres stil