Topics include head injuries, concussions, opioid addiction, and doping at the olympic level. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Sexual abuse and dealt with at the olympic level. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing. It is no exaggeration to say that americans love sports. We love watching them, playing them, collecting Sports Memorabilia and even arguing about our favorite teams and athletes. Whether it is watching the super bowl with friends, joining an office bracket pool for march madness or stretching out for the turkey trot 5k races on things giving morning. And a pickup Football Game later that afternoon. We love our sports personally, i made doctors and a packers fan. Some of my best moments have been spent competing in sports or cheering on my two daughters at their meats and games. This committee is committed to promoting american success and international competition. Ensuring exciting play in that the professional leagues providing opp
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It is the top of the hour. Im brianna keilar. This just in. A new cdc report shows how deserve tating the pandemic has been since it started with tens of thousands of whats called excess deaths. Quoting the report. Estimated 299,028 more persons than expected died since january 26, 2020. Approximately twothirds of these deaths attributed to covid19. This is the nation reporting more than 58,000 new cases a day. A level that has not been seen since midjuly. That number is 40 higher than last mondays total. Over the last seven days, 400,000 people have become infected in this country but the president still is denying reality telling us the crisis is Getting Better when it isnt. What is the plan to live with it while staying safe from it . Well, we are living with it and were having the vaccines coming out very soon. With our without the vaccines were rounding the turn. We will never shut down. And how often is President Trump meeting with prmember of s Coronavirus Task force . Members o
That contained more than just well wishes for the president elect. Hello im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. Joe biden is pushing back against republican efforts to undermine his victory. As the president tweets his outrage in all caps, mr biden is a deliberately calm, telling reporters in the past hour that he is getting on with the job of building the next administration. He admitted that the spectacle does america no favours but, he appeared relaxed by the prospect of mr trump, or any of his gop colleagues, refusing to engage with the handover process. We are already beginning the transition. We are well under way. And the ability for the administration in any way by failure to recognise our win does not change the dynamic at all in what we are able to do. What do you say to americans that are anxious over the fa ct americans that are anxious over the fact that President Trump has yet to concede and what that might mean for the country . Well, ijust think its
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