In 2009 he edited the book conundrum, the search for alternatives which features several experts examining an array of International Activities and responsibilities conducted by the u. N. He is a frequent visitor to the Subsaharan Africa as well and has written extensively on economic development, peace and Security Issues in that region. He first joined us here at heritage in 1995 from march 2003 to 2004 he worked at the pentagon as an assistant for International Criminal court policy before returning here to heritage. Please join me in welcoming brett schaefer. Brett . [applause] good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. As we noted on the flyer, in recent years, there have been a number of various stories, reports, and other sources revealing a troubling number of scandals, mishaps, misappropriations by the United Nations and its affiliated organizations, and ill go through a few of them to give you a sense for what weve seen. Earlier this year the Associated Press reporte
Jacob blake who was unarmed. The Justice Department here in washington has just confirmed its sending federal Law Enforcement officers to help with the response. And weve also just learned another major developing story. That the nba playoff games, all three of them tonight have been postponed in protest of the shooting of jacob blake. This is a major story. Well update you on that as well. Meanwhile, theres breaking news involving the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Death toll has now topped 179,000 people with more than 5. 8 million cases. And now a source is telling cnn that the cdc was actually pressured from the top down to change guidelines and recommended fewer people here in the United States be tested. Were following all of that, plus hurricane laura now a powerful category 4 storm churning toward the gulf coast and expected to make a potentially devastating landfall later tonight. We have a new forecast thats just out from the National Hurricane center. Lots of news unfolding
A certain amount of Electoral College votes. To become president you need 270 with ambition. Electoral votes. Now, because of the reasonable political predictability of a lot of states in america we always knew thatjoe biden will take california, joe biden will take see yourselves in a way that others new york. May not simply because they have never seen it before. It was the state that we but know that we will applaud couldnt predict that really you every step of the way. Decided which way this election went. The victory for mr biden in the hours that followed and his running mate sparked nationwide celebrations among democratic supporters. The polls closing, donald trump has yet to concede or to speak publicly actually, the news was better but he has continued to assert for President Trump he took on twitter that he won florida earlier on, later on he took ohio and iowa. He also took tuesdays president ial poll. Texas, which the Biden Campaign had given some attention to. But that is
Focus on in his first days in office. Overnight, nearly 106,000 new coronavirus cases were reported in the u. S. Thats the fifth highest day since the pandemic began. This past week has broken lots of records. 19 states are reporting record hospitalizations. So as of this morning, the outgoing president has yet to concede. Not because he couldnt find time between the golfing and not dealing with coronavirus. Sources tell cnn that trump advisers are discussing holding rallies so the president can make his baseless claims of voter fraud. His team has launched a number of lawsuits and has not provided any evidence. This morning, we have new details about who in the president s orbit is influencing his thinking and Decision Making in so far as it exists. We begin with the biden transition. Cnns jessica dean live in wilmington, delaware, the president elect has a busy day today. Yes, he does, john. Of course the coronavirus pandemic was always central to bidens campaign, and now were really
Coverage and eliminate the safeguards for preexisting conditions that protect between 50 and 130 million americans. The representatives and ags are making this argument in the middle of a global pandemic. In response president elect joe biden will deliver a speech any moment now on preserving the Affordable Care act. A signature accomplishment of the Obama Biden Administration of 2010. Before biden takes the stage, though, here is where the country stands on the pandemic. The sevenday rolling average for new cases has now topped 100,000. And dr. Fauci warned earlier this afternoon, there is reason to believe things could get even worse as we enter the Holiday Season and the colder winter months. Whenever you have a respiratoryborne illness and you enter into the cooler months of the fall and soontobe colder months of the winter, you do more things indoors as opposed to outdoors. And thats just another added ingredient to the risk you have with a respiratory infection. President elected