Get started. I called this meeting of the Senate Homeland security and Government Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight to order. I want to thank senator hassan for allowing this bipartisan hearing to occur. Welcome to each of our panelists. Thank you for joining us. The purpose of this hearing by the subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight is to discuss, as our name implies, the emerging threat posed by gain of function research. We will hear from a panel of three witnesses, all of whom are extraordinarily accomplished experts in the Scientific Community. We are grateful for that work, and we are grateful to each of you for taking the time to appear here with us this afternoon. Gain of function research is a controversial Scientific Research method involving the manipulation of pathogens to give them a new aspect or ability, such as making viruses more transmissible or dangerous to humans. Despite all we have learnedre about the potential risk
And mike in the morning are our guests. And starting point begins right now. Welcome, everybody. This just in to cnn. The white house naming longtime cia official and top counterterrorism adviser john brennan as highprofile conservatives are declaring war so to speak for the president s pick for defense secretary. Chuck hagel for nebraska. Lets get to jill daugherty. Lets start with brennan. First, give us information on brennan. How do you expect his nomination process to go . You know, hes a heavy hitter in this for a lock time. John brennan, of course, the adviser to the president for the past four years, counterterrorism, and homeland security. He really knows what hes talking about. He was with the cia for 25 years. And an expert in the middle east. An expert in terrorism, and at the president s side for the past pour years. He is not a flashy person. Is he a person who has been deeply in the trenches on both issues and soledad, you have to say a number of people would support him
Up next on a second look the dis distinctively american type music called jazz and those who have made it great. Benny goodman, ben crosby and stan get. All straight ahead tonight on a second look. Good evening and welcome to a second look. Im julie haener. Jazz will soon have its own home in San Francisco. The organization sf jazz plans to open its own center on january 21st. This is a video the group produced showing a buildings construction compressed down to a minute. Located at franklin and felt street in San Francisco. The sf center will have an auditorium for concerts as well as space for rehearsals. Over decades, the bay area has been a favorite for jazz musicians and we here at ktvu have had the pleasure of talking to them when they came to town. Jazz great lina horn brought her one woman show to town and elane corral was there. Reporter she is the kind of woman who can reduce a room full of reporters to mush. Like she did at a press conference in San Francisco. Instead of tou
Putin is interfering to help Bernie Sanders win. Reporter us officials notified Bernie Sanders the russian government was interfering in the 2020 election and trying to boost his campaign. He was not happy. He questioned the timing pointing out the story broke one day before the nevada caucuses lose than before Campaign Event in california sanders said let me say a word about russia. Mister putin is a thug, and autocrat. He may be a friend of donald trump, hes not a friend of mine. The reports about russia boosting bernie after Us Intelligence officials briefed congress that russia was again meddling in favor of donald trump and the white house had a statement indicating the president has it handled, donald trump made clear any efforts or attempts by russia or any other nation to influence or interfere with our elections or undermine us democracy will not be tolerated and will be met with sharp consequences. When the president learned about the russian meddling into a briefing to congr
Some lawmakers and protesters to Defund Police department across the nation. And as massive protests continue across the country. Steve harrigan reporting live for us from minneapolis. Steve . Trace, getting rid of choke holds is only the beginning, several members of the Minneapolis City Council have been quite public that they want wholesale change in the Police Department. They say they want to dismantle it and replace it with an entirely different form of organization for public safety. Keep in mind that this attempt at dismantling will have to be approved by the courts, also comes at a time of a human rights investigation into the Police Department and comes at a time of violence here in minnesota. Just five days ago there was violence on the streets, about 500 businesses damaged, more than 70 businesses burned completely to the ground. For the last several days, temperatures here have cooled, theyve cooled since the arrests of the three other officers involved in the detainment o