Spirit welcome to the policy briefing a serious bid im tom gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution. Its at Stanford University and one of the most preeminent research centers. For more than a century homage and has been dedicated to generating policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, National Security and democratic governance. The assimilation of our work has led to sin of vacant impacts on important Public Policy initiatives here and around the world. We begin to take steps that will lead us of the crisis i hope you find value in these important discussions as we look forward to ways to mitigate potential effects that the coronavirus has had on the u. S. And on the world. As a reminder, we will be taking audience questions and encourage you to submit yours using the button at the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from larry dimon, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Larrys advised the world bank, un, state department and other governmental and nongovernmental
Advancements possible. And on testing the American People, really deserve to know. When we began, as he said, mr. President , literally a standing start. We didnt have information on the coding of the coronavirus until midfebruary. But americas cdc labs and Public Health labs did their level best, and by the end of february, we had done less than 10,000 coronavirus tests, but as you Just Announced a few months ago, we cleared 100 million tests all across the country. Its extraordinary. We have the capacity to do that. It is a testament to American Innovation in the leadership that you have provided. Also, we delivered to nearly 14,000 Nursing Homes in america pointofcare tests, making it possible for us to really keep focus on the most vulnerable. As you know, only 8 of those who have contracted the coronavirus are in Nursing Homes, but 40 of those that have lost their lives have been in Nursing Homes, so we have surged those resources and the vulnerable populations, but with the annou
Mike emanuel and new information on the hunter biden email story. Good evening. Good evening. Today director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe [indiscernible] the water seeking to dismiss the hunter biden email mockup story after Law Enforcement and intelligence officials have been largely silent. Hunter bidens laptop is not part of some russian disinformation campaign. The director of National Intelligence breaking what has been silenced from the intelligence and Law Enforcement authorities on Hunter Bidens purported laptop and alleged emails. This has nothing to do with the Intelligence Community or russian disinformation. If it was, i would know that. So to be clear, its not. The pushback appeared to be in the response to this attack from adam schiff. Clearly the origins of this whole smear are from the kremlin and the president is only too happy to have kremlin help in trying to amplify it. Fox news has obtained new images including what appears to be a receipt from the wilmi
Election, more ominous because it is an attack within the president s own executive branch of government. New york times reports, quote, mr. Krebs has been hailed in recent days for his two years spent preparing states for challenges of the vote, hardening systems against russian interference, setting up a rumor control website to guard against disinformation. Foreign interference so many feared never materialized. Instead, the disinformation ultimately came from the white house. The recriminations of crutrump revenge firing. Of all the things this president has done, this is the worst. To strike at the harlt of the democratic system is beyond anything we have seen from any politician. Form former secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said he has done everything you would want a senior official at dhs to do. As far as im concerned, this firing is a badge of honor for chris krebs. Krebs has not been silent, telling nbc news i am proud of the work we did at cisa, i am produced
The latest. We are getting even more information today. Foxnews. Com added that adam schiff was in panic mode. If they are from the probe of alleged russian collusion. But breaking tonight, adam schiff may be even more panicked because i am hearing from two sources familiar with this. As early as tomorrow, you could reveal even more documents shedding light on the russia probe, and how they knew for a long time there was no collusion even though they kept saying they had direct evidence otherwise. Two sets of documents. Adam schiff late today releasing transcripts, and they conducted over 50 of them to try to prove there was collusion. The first set of documents embarrassing, because James Clapper testified under oath long ago, we never learned of it until tonight. He testified i never saw any direct empirical evidence of the Trump Campaign or someone in it was plotting and conspiring with the russians to meddle with the election. He testified as i tried, and mccabe testified thats cor