Diseases. Sarah i am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to todays council on relations meeting. Im the executive Vice President of worldwide Government Legal Affairs at mcandrews and forbes incorporated. I will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of for 30 a conversation minutes and i will open it to questions and answers. Promptly at 1 30 as you might imagine. Very busy emen are right now dealing with coronavirus. So lets just start looking back decade, ghly the past emerging Infectious Diseases ave played a recurring and minous theme, the h1n1, ebola, zika and the 2019 novel oronavirus, the threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters, the act Disaster Relief funds to enable Immediate Response by small son, there is Infectious Disease Rapid Response reserve fund. Stafford act ore like mechanism to enable a research sponse to these new threats . First aybe ill take the whack at this. Because i think that the feeling in congre
Economic opportunity, freedom and human rights issues. Shes the chair of the institute of Human Trafficking advisory council. This is Vicki Kennedy is both misses Vicki Kennedy she is the president of the board and cofounder of the edward and Kennedy Institute for the study of the senate. A nonpartisan, nonprofit dazzling of a beautiful building here. Educates the public about the unique role of the United States senate in our democracy. Be int, they will conversation with gary healy, the inaugural president of the center for advancing the American Dream opening in 2022. She was former lieutenant ernor, the president s with pride, she was a former resident fellow at the institute of politics. Welcoming Lieutenant Governor healy. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you for the kind introductions. Im so excited to have this conversation with those of you today. With the backdrop of everything going on in the country, one of the most interesting legacies of both of your husbands is that t
Candidate joe biden held out a get out the vote event in the chinatown neighborhood of las vegas. This is 15 minutes. Patients exceeds your exceedsyour patience your good judgment. Thank you very much, gary. Gary and my family and i have become good friends. We have had the most diverse cabinet in american history. I think we had the best cabinet in american history. I listened to you when you spoke. I was astounded. You asked your husband to marry you. I had want you to know, to ask my wife, jill, five times to marry me. Not a joke. Five times. Finally, i said, and you will appreciate this because we are all from immigrant paths. My mother would say they got my irish up. I came back from south africa trying to see no sin mandala and getting arrested for trying to see him on robyn island. Back, the first thing i did, i landed in philadelphia. I went back to her apartment in wilmington, delaware. I knocked on her door. She said, come on in. I said, im not coming in. I said, youre finall
Seat. On the other hand its been pretty quiet. Its been eclipted in many respects by the sort of National Politics and the president ial primary. And there just hasnt been that much action, so to speak, on this race. So itll be interesting to see if things get heated. If theres any kind of breakout moment. Or if the two of them do continue to just kind of keep things even keeled. In terms of endorsements, has it divided the state Democratic Party . Guest yes and no. E positions the divisions kennedys challenge have caused arent necessarily 100 visible in the endorsement. First, senator marquis was feeling vulnerable even before anybody knew that kennedy was going to be the one to challenge him. He did everything he could to lock down as many endorsements as possible very early on. So he so we saw senator Elizabeth Warren, for instance, she endorsed senator marquis at the beginning of the year, last year, like well before anyone knew that kennedy was going to get into the race. So there
Senator warren hello, virginia. And thank you, kathy, thank you. Strong women help get it done. [applause] senator warren wow, so here we are, virginia. The primaries have really started. We have heard from two states. We have 55 states and territories ready to go. [applause] you all are super tuesday state, and that means the road to the white house runs right through virginia. [applause] senator warren so im here today to ask you two things. The first one is to ask you to get in this fight with me to help build an america that doesnt just work for the rich and powerful, but works for everyone. [applause] sen. Warren and second, im here to ask for your vote. [applause] sen. Warren heres the deal. I got your back, you can count on me, i will count on you. [applause] sen. Warren now, this has been some president ial primary already. We have been going at this for about a year. Some people got in a little later than others. Michael bloomberg came in. On the billionaire plan. Buy yourself