A pandemic as the number of cases continues to rise. An explosion kills at least 8 people and injures more than 100 others at a Religious School in pakistan. Calls for Peaceful Elections in tanzania off the violence and the arrest of an Opposition Leader in zanzibar. Welcome to the news hour well its of course exactly a week to go before the election in the United States donald trump and joe biden is spending choose day crisscrossing the country in an intense day of campaigning National Polls are giving democratic contender biden a solid lead but its a lot tighter in some of those crucial battleground states of course the coronavirus pandemic has continued to overshadow the campaigning President Trump is holding 3 mass rallies on tuesday again downplaying the impact of the pandemic hes been attempting to shift the focus on to the economy. Its troubling the number one region that observe the year because of through return that a room. 70 were going to read the great state of. Arizona yo
Program guide. Now we start the weekend with author and for the twomac hello and welcome everyone. I am with the event staff of politics and prose. Before we do begin we do want to go over a couple of quick items. At any point during this event you can go to the chat section which you can find below to access the link to purchase a copy of the new issue great help i would ask if anyone has any questions they would like to direct to the author you would put them into a separate q a box. That aside i would like to welcome daniel yergin. He is a highly respected authority. The bestselling author of the price. The remaking of the modern world and shattered peace. As vice chairman. He has joined tonight by susan glasser. They write the weekly column. They have served as a top editor of several washington public classifications. They went on to have the politico. She served as the editor in chief of foreignpolicy which won three national awards. And also susan will be appearing herself on th
Demand. Ryan, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. It was long in coming. Everyone asking, what are you going to buy . Tell us how you came up with this deal. It is great to be with you again today. We have been talking about the need for consolidation in business for quite some time. We need to put a Value Proposition together that offers investors a different way to think. We have done this with a transformative acquisition with concho resources. This brings in a bunch of lowcost supply resources government 23 billion barrels into the company. It is about a super strong Balance Sheet to manage the volatility we have seen in this business. It is about how you allocate capital for value, not for growth. It is distributions we were going to give back to the shareholder. It is about having a sustainable business. The deal takes an Energy Transition that we know is coming for our planet. Alix can you give us insight into how competitive it was . If you look at the Shell Companies that
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Well continue, mr. Connolly. Thank you very much mister chairman, and thank you for our panelist for being here. I have a long convoluted mark, thats why were coming back and forth. I show the Government Operations subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over Inspector General. So, mr. Brian bulatao could you describe for us your understanding of the roles and functions of an ig an Inspector General . The Inspector General reports to the head of the agency, under the direction provision according to the ig. They have the responsibility to identify areas of fraud and abuse. They have the mission to conduct independent audits, to conduct inspections and to conduct investigations. And they have strong commitment to be independent of any and appropriate influence. Where that influences coming from within their agency, or from congress, or from any other place, there is a commitment to be independent from inappropriate influences. Would you, would you but do you believe that an ig is subject t