Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
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Can you talk about the driving force for you is right teeing drink . Guest it is decades old liger up with an alcoholic mother who was cross addicted to valium like much were in the 50s and the 70s depending on mothers little helper. A stay at home mom and a poster girl for that era. I have always been interested why she dropped and i said i never would but in my fifties i had a bad patch in my own life and i would say a poster girl for this era. Welleducated, highly professional, the other, and not drink two or 34 glasses of wine per night the five or six and i caught myself quickly and went to rehab. Can you talk about that with the addiction . I was full of shame. I was deeply humiliated by my a behavior. But i did blackout. Right before i went to sleep. I said i would get a handle on it. Of favorite cousin was killed by a drunk driver. I will just quit and i couldnt. I knew i was addicted. It was confounding. So i thought it could not be the alcohol. Host just like the year on the
Africana what is the nypd intel unit . The Intelligence Division is like nothing else that exists in american policing. After 9 11 ray kelly the Police Commissioner and the nypd decided he couldnt rely on the federal government to keep the city safe anymore and he needed his own Intelligence Division. He did something that has never been done. He recruited a guy by the name of david colon to run the Intelligence Division. David cullen was the former Deputy Director of operations for the nypd. Basic leg he was the tops by and it was like something out of a movie. Out of retirement recruited out of retirement to start something new at the nypd. Why are we taking somebody from the cia who is trained to subvert laws and operate where the constitution doesnt apply and putting him in the new york state city Police Department. To radical moment in american policing where they say we are not going to focus on solving crimes for making cases. We are just going to be here to gather intelligence
Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist