Holiday celebration gets underway. We want to begin with this. The headline, 2020 has put americans in a bad mood. Americans are watching with anguish as a nation grapples with systemic racism and upset with protesters defacing statues with those representing the worst racist. They worry about the economy but fear the spread of coronavirus. One study from pew research finding that 12 of americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the country. Further, according to the survey, 71 percent described themselves as angry, 66 percent as fearful, and just days before the nations 144th anniversary independence,ys just a few as proud. Last night the president on twitter with the following. There is a rise in cases because our testing is so massive and far good, and so good, even better news is that the death rate is down. Younger people who get much better easier and faster. The president responding to the jobs numbers and his handling of his pandemic. Heres part of what he told re
Having as our special guest ben rhodes. He will speak and then he will speak and then. He and i will have a conversation. To postrage you all questions through the q a feature. Limited to the second half, i will begin to wrap up our discussion and i will start posing some of your questions. This will run about one hour. I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security deputy National Security advisor. Of pensee the world and ae the world, friend of ucla. Take it away. Mr. Rhodes thank you everyone for joining us for this. Commentske some open summarizing the argument i was and that this piece can set up the directions we go when in our conversation. Me, the genesis of this idea about the end of the 9 11 era is like anyone else, the extremity of the lockdow
Appears we have more leverage to russia to talk seriously about syria. Are we going to try to do that and a what are the russians saying . Appreciate that question. [ applause ] thank you. Well, thank you very much. Please very nice. Thank you. Big day. My pleasure to welcome you all to the beautiful, great white house and to host this magnificent showcase of americas incredible Small Businesses. I just got, witnessed some beautiful product. Today we received outstanding news from all over our country, really. The United States economy has added almost 5 million new jobs in the month of june. Thats shattering all expectations, and shattering all records, historic records. The history of our country weve never added anywhere near that, and last month we also broke the record, but now we shattered it. Much higher than even last month. This is the largest monthly jobs gain in history. We added 2. 1 million leisure and hospitality jobs. 740,000 retail jobs. 568,000 education jobs and healt
The House Oversight and the m subcommittee on Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on the strategic hear from ockpile to the person in charge of keeping it filled. From estifying, officials the Defense Department and health and Human Services. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Mr. Clyburn today, our select holding a hybrid hearing where some members will appear in person and others will webex. Remotely via since members are appearing in person, let me first remind veryone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all ndividuals attending this hearing in person must wear a Face Covering. Remove themw you to s you see me doing in order to speak. I know a bit about how your and then t fogged up you dont see where youre going. Wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and recognized to speak. So when youre not speaking, we you to have the facemask orwell not recognize you. Or we will not recognize you. Make a few reminders about hyb
Over the past month senator harris has cosponsored the justice in policing act, coauthored the bipartisan harris amendment, helped introduce a resolution decrying attacks on the Affordable Care act and helped introduce the whistleblower protection act [indiscernible] coronavirus pandemic. Harris is the former District Attorney of San Francisco, the former attorney general of california, made a run for the democratic president ial nomination and is now talked about as a possible president ial runningmate to joe biden. Right now harris is front and center in the senate, in the Senate Debate on Police Reform and she joins me now. Enator harris, welcome back. Senator harris thank you for being with you, jonathan. Happy birthday. Jonathan thank you. Before we get to Police Reform, we have to get to intelligence and the russia story obtained bounties on the lives of american soldiers. You are a member of the Senate Intelligence committee. You attended a Briefing Regarding the allegations tha