Up next testimony from dacts lien kraniger. She talks about her agencys role in protecting consumers during the pandemic. This hearing will come to order. This hearing is another remote video hearing. Ill go through quickly some of the standard reminders to remind everybody, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your picture shows on the screen. To minimize background noise, please remember to click the mute button until it is your and if theres a technology issue, weve move on until it gets resolved. The fiveminute time still some senators say they dont seem to be able to find that. If you go to the righthand side of the screen and move your mouse, some options will show up. One of them is the grid view. If you click grid view, you will see a grid of everybody, and one of the things youll see is the clock. Ill try to gently remind people, because some senator have asked for the reminder because they cant see the clock. Again senator brown and i have agreed to go
Good morning, everyone. Im dr. Kathleen hicks, and im so pleased to have joining me this morning the chief of staff of the army. General, welcome to csis. Thank you, dr. Hicks. Great to be here with you. Wonderful. Theres so many things we should be talking to you about today. But i know we have a limited amount of your time. I really want to focus more than anything on the pacific. And i know you come from the region relatively recently. The National Defense strategy is prioritized, and especially china and russia. But i think most people, when they think about the army, are thinking obviously a ground intensive environment like europe and not thinking about the pacific. Is the pacific really a priority for the army and what does it mean if it is . Yeah. Historically we focused on europe, but with the strategy that puts the indopacific as a top priority, its certainly a priority for us. As we take a look and havent been out in the pacific, that was my first overseas trip as a chief in
For themselves on the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests of Racial Injustice. What i said was that i will im going to have a choice in the first week in august, and i promise i will let you know when i do. Likely camera harris and karen bass. Senator harris has long been assumed to be the leader of the pack. But last week they voiced concern over her attacks on biden during the democratic debate last year. California democrat governor met with bidens panel and lobbied on harris behalf. We know her personally as very loyal, as very much a key player. Harris detractors described arns about her ambitiousness. Thats unfair. Nobody runs for the Vice President sy. Congresswoman karen pass talked about the vp vetting process. Over the years, what im most proud of is my ability to bring people together because i think our country needs healing. I do believe that President Biden will be a healer in chief. Ambassador susan rice has never been elected to office but she has formidable Fo
The economy we see an improvement. French and italian manufacturing also pick up in july however concerns still loom of a second wave and President Trump reportedly gives china 45 days to celtsel sell tiktok to microsoft after the white house bans it over security concerns. Happy monday. We already heard the numbers out of italy and france as well as germany and now got the euro zone overall number. That is significantly better than 51. 1. The final manufacturing employment pmi has come in at 42. 9 so better than the flash estimate and better than the june figures still in contraction territory. So firmly in expansion territory. Now i mentioned that we have a few of the individual country numbers that already came through. In france they recovered showing the expansion at 52. 4 points this was higher than 52 points they expanded for the second month in a row rebounding from the plunge triggered by lock downs in the spring. German Manufacturing Activity saw the first expansion since 201
For themselves on the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests of Racial Injustice. What i said was that i will im going to have a choice in the first week in august, and i promise i will let you know when i do. Likely camera harris and karen bass. Senator harris has long been assumed to be the leader of the pack. But last week they voiced concern over her attacks on biden during the democratic debate last year. California democrat governor met with bidens panel and lobbied on harris behalf. We know her personally as very loyal, as very much a key player. Harris detractors described arns about her ambitiousness. Thats unfair. Nobody runs for the Vice President sy. Congresswoman karen pass talked about the vp vetting process. Over the years, what im most proud of is my ability to bring people together because i think our country needs healing. I do believe that President Biden will be a healer in chief. Ambassador susan rice has never been elected to office but she has formidable Fo