And in both chambers of congress and the nation was formed. Like most americans on my life journey i have overcome adversity. By the grace of god, where is 12yearold my dad died of a heart attack. I learned at an early age, each day of this life begins. My brother martin passed away. This type of debrief of losing a family member. Every moment, every chapter of our lives is a gift. As it has been for most chapters of my life i didnt come here in the traditional or easy way. I think governor doug doocy for the blessing to serve the great state of arizona especially during these times of unprecedented challenges. Accepting the governors appointment by the most prestigious, and governing body, like most missions in my life, high risk, high purpose and ever, becoming a us senator is the alternate expression of this, do things afraid. In my fight for the grand canyon state. I gave my maiden speech on this floor, gave my approach through 26 years in uniform. The best of your calling, dont wa
We thank you all for jeanine in and what we can only describe as Interesting Times we are grateful for the opportunity to invite virtual audiences together in dialogue even though we are not exactly together in space. I would like to think erica and claire for help of keeping these ideas alive here at town hall. Tonight our program run about 40 minutes but we say at this point followed by audience q a and you can review the event on facebook, comcast or youtube. Keep insisting so we can get to as many as possible. If you news need close cap using enable real time captions on youtube with the button in the righthand corner. Upcoming staff includes on tuesday nicole haner jones discussing race in journalism, congresswoman offering of blueprint to Political Action for the next generation of women and people of color and a special live stream recording of our first podcast residency life on the margins this week featuring [inaudible]. Also make sure to visit townhalls Media Library for hun
Rollcall joins us for that. Whitehouse, chief correspondent, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Tell us about the efforts coming from speaker pelosi. The Speaker Nancy Pelosi is strenewing the call for removina number of statutes and the collection that on people who either fought for the confederacy homeowner otherwise involved with the confederacy, the most notable name most of people are actually honored in the capital was a statute from the collection of statutes for each state would probably be Jefferson David who was the confederate president during the war. So each state gets to defend the statues. Speakable estate wants to basically for them to be removed by what is called the joint committee on the library which is actually a Standing Committee that is basically the leadership of the Administration Committee and the senate and the house Administration Committee in the house prayed and they want to remove the statute anyway. And what we have heard, from republicans at least,
Gary was 63 years old, when he shouldnt have had a care in the world. When he was financially secure and had a warm loving3 family d dozens of friends. Boy love them all. Yet comprehensively, when he seemingly did not grasp the total his absence would have on those who love him. What made you decide to tell that story. Is obviously a very difficult personal story. But as that first month went on, i realized i had a public platform. I feltfo it was critically important to elevate the discussion about Mental Health issues. Suicide in particular because frankly, i think were close to ju epidemic of it. And i just it was important to do. It was my decision of taking my position and elevating a discussion. How does the federal government doing dealing we put the issues that only the suicide but the Mental Health issues behind it. Boy have to do better. Mental Health Coverage is really inadequate. The resources, boy know boy have chhoolchildren who are affected by Adverse Childhood Experienc
Im looking forward to talk about the fed and joe biden in one breathe. Maria exactly. Your reaction, markets, i guess jon markets were very disappoint and happened to jay powell several times where hes not doveish as the market expected. Everyone is talking how the stock market reacted, watch the dollar, the dollar is getting a lot stronger, that will be a political problem for jay powell, President Trump does not like seeing the stronger dollar. Maria youre also going to see cut into earnings, multinationals who will be blaming the stronger dollar on weak guidance and weaker than expected performances. In a world with trade is unkern. We will uncertain. We will talk about that. Remember when every president wanted a strong dollar, they wanted a strong dollar from reagan on. Maria they said they did. The president s economic adviser was always in favor of strong dollar. People are giving you money, you must be doing well, so trade deficits where people are giving you money and i love a