Israel karine good afternoon, everybody. Good to see everyone. Couple things at the top before i turn it over to the admiral. As the conflict between israel and hamas continues, President Biden has made it a top priority to ensure that the Palestinian People receive urgently needed humanitarian aid. This is something he has been actively engaged on over the past week, including calls with president sisi of egypt and meetings and calls with Prime Minister netanyahu. We are glad to see the first convoys of humanitarian assistance over the weekend across the border into gaza and reach palestinians in a neat. And we are grateful for partners involved in these efforts. It is important to keep rafah crossings in operation and aid flowing without diversion from hamas. Humanitarian assistance remain a critical and urgent need for palestinians in gaza. We know, and we understand this, that much more is needed, and this will remain a priority for us in the days and weeks ahead. I also wanted to
Humanitarian aid. This is something he has been actively engaged on over the past week, including calls with president sisi of egypt and meetings and calls with Prime Minister netanyahu. We are glad to see the first convoys of humanitarian assistance over the weekend across the border into gaza and reach palestinians in a neat. And we are grateful for partners involved in these efforts. It is important to keep rafah crossings in operation and aid flowing without diversion from hamas. Humanitarian assistance remain a critical and urgent need for palestinians in gaza. We know, and we understand this, that much more is needed, and this will remain a priority for us in the days and weeks ahead. I also wanted to say a few words about the supplemental request that we detailed to all of you on friday. Under President Bidens leadership, we have rallied a Global Response to putins invasion of ukraine and provided aid following hamass barbaric tourist attack terrorist attack. We now need to cong
We will hear from senior cdc officials and agencies former director. The center for Strategic International studies hosted this event. Welcome to this discussion. Im very pleased to introduce our guest in a moment. Were going to be discussing the evolution of our integrated strategies. Im wearing a different hat in the context of this meeting as the cochair of the bipartisan alliance on Global Health security. I welcome you and i will make sure there is time for questions at the end of our discussion, so be prepared for that as well if youd like to participate in the conversation. We also welcome our online guests to this discussion. So why are we here . We are operating under the basic premise that cdc has a Critical Role to play in interNational Security. We try to be productive in helping the cvc build its capacity in this regard and really look at what is necessary for the cvc two in a sense recover from some of the issues that emerged during the global pandemic. We had a wonderful
Comments live. Then Alex Rouhandeh talks about news of the day on capitol hill, including the delay by House Republicans and bringing articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandra Mayorkas to the senate. And then jared bass with the center for American Progress and Christian Cooper of the foundation for research on equal opportunity to talk about President Bidens revised student loan forgiveness plan. Also, lisa curtis, Program Director for the indo pacific on the japanese Prime Ministers u. S. Visit, and the Security Alliance between the two countries in the face of threats from china. Washington journal starts now. Host good morning. Wednesday, april 10. Yesterday, the Arizona Supreme Court imposed a near total ban on abortion, citing an 1864 law that forbids the procedure except his ailing mothers life. It also punishes providers with six years of prison time. The first halfhour, we will get your reaction to the arizona ruling. Publicans, 202 7488001. Republi
That significantly expands our authorities to target individuals, companies, Financial Institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. Here to talk about what those sanctions could look like and what options are still on the table for dealing with north korea, Kevin Cirilli joins us from washington. Greg orton is our washington executive editor. Kevin, this has been teased all day, the president saying stay tuned after another meeting today. We got what he got to say this afternoon. What is this different on how we have seen what is it limited so far . The japanese Prime Minister put it well when he said this is the next evolution, so to speak, of the u. S. Foreignpolicy in pressuring north korea. It was a trilateral agreement, the second point i would make. The president directly thanked china. China may have well is been in the room. There is some discrepancy about what the chinese did or did not do, but President Trump thanking them. The other point i would quickly