Welcome back to the aspen security forum. I am director of the aspen shot a geo group. I should say good morning to the Prime Minister of australia. It is a real honor for us to welcome scott morrison, the Prime Minister of our great ally australia. In his two years of Prime Minister he has heard the country through several crises, the wildfires. The covid19 crisis where australia has an impressive record, and Foreign Policy the Prime Minister led a research and of australias insolent in the south pacific. Australia was the first government to exclude huawei from its 5g network. Australia is currently undergoing, as are many other countries in the world, a challenge in china. States, indiad and japan, and others. Prime minister, i have the Great Fortune to spend three weeks and australia. I had worked for the government in the past and was very impressed by the depths of everything we are doing together. You will be interviewed by margaret brennan. She is moderator of the pbs show face
Hi everyone, thank you for joining us today for the Panel Discussion on the covid recovery. I am your moderator today, megan, the policy share for the San Francisco womens political committee. I would like to welcome our panelists carmen chu, joey jackson morgan, and veronica shepherd. Thank you for being here today. I would like to open up the discussion with a question. Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person
Please introduce yourself and tell our audience what you are currently working on the covid issues in your field. We can start with carmen. So good afternoon everybody, so glad to join all of you today for this great panel. I want to thank you megan for helping to host this and making sure this important conversation comes forward. I serve as San Francisco elected assessor. Like many of you, we had to quickly change to a remote work scenario with our office when we had the shelter place be put in place in march. We were able to do that relatively quickly and 98 of our operations is happening off site and not in person. Weve been working hard to make sure we try to continue to do our work, primarily because we know that the revenue impact of our work has been very, very large and disperse impact to the city, from the types of programs were able to support people with us specially during covid19. Were continuing to do that. I think on another note, i think i also serve as the Economic Re
Director of the aspen strategy group. I should say good morning to the Prime Minister of australia. And to everybody in australia. It is a real honor for us to welcome scott morrison, the Prime Minister of our great ally australia. He leads one of the strongest and most impressive allies of the United States and arguably in arguably the most important region of the world, the indo pacific. In his two years of Prime Minister he has heard the , country through several crises, the wildfires of last autumn, the covid19 crisis where australia has an , impressive record. In Foreign Policy the Prime Minister led a research and of australias influence in the south pacific. Australia was the first government to exclude huawei from its 5g network. Australia is currently undergoing, as are many other countries in the world, a challenge from china on many fronts. With the United States, india and japan, and others. Prime minister, i have the Great Fortune to spend three weeks and australia. Id wor
Heckled and public anger builds as protesters in bell room spent their anger at president bush calling for him to step down. If we have any hope of ending this chaos we have got to vote for joe biden like our lives depended on it. And appeal for unity and action for the 1st Virtual Democratic National Convention election season wraps up in the u. S. We begin with some breaking news out of mali there are multiple reports now of soldiers taking up arms and staging an apparent mutiny in the telling of witnesses say the troops are on their way to the capital bamako lets go live now to neighboring nigeria where our correspondent is following developments from a boot. So what more do we know. Well basically more times than trucks on the streets of cattle which is just 15 kilometers from the capital bamako and they are advancing on the capital bamako and route to bamako lies the president ial palace where we learned the president. Has been taken to a safe place but its not confirmed where and