Its Angeles Thanks for joining us. The news continues now right here on Cnn Mission by about two hours this morning. The Fiveday Polaris Dawn mission will carry four astronauts and feature the first ever commercial spacewalk. We had extensive live Coverage Plan here on cnn and over the next few hours, were also following another highly anticipated event, the us president ial debate set to take place later Today Or Vice president Kamala Harris, whos preparing to meet for the first time with warmer president Donald Trump when he to take the stage in Philadelphia Harris predicts trump will lie and attack could personally he plays through this really old and tired playbook, right . Where he, theres no floor for him in terms of how he will go and we should be prepared for that. We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth whats also say Harriss Campaign has been preparing for possible insults and Name Calling from Trump Or trumps team is previewing Attack
King. Memorial day Holiday Weekend, the dos and donts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the Vaccine Rollout Heading into this Holiday Weekend. To the right of your screen thats the floor of the United States senate, a key vote under way right now, will the United States senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent Bipartisan Commission to investigate the capitol insurrection . We expect the answer to be no. But this key procedural vote is under way right now. It should wrap up any moment from now. Democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. Lets get straight up to capitol hill and our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju. As it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. Reporter the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead theres a possibility that an Outside Commission could be created to investigate the january 6th attack. I
King. Memorial day Holiday Weekend, the dos and donts, safety tips if you will and compliments on the Vaccine Rollout Heading into this Holiday Weekend. To the right of your screen thats the floor of the United States senate, a key vote under way right now, will the United States senate proceed to debate whether we should have an independent Bipartisan Commission to investigate the capitol insurrection . We expect the answer to be no. But this key procedural vote is under way right now. It should wrap up any moment from now. Democrats need ten republicans to break ranks to keep the idea of this commission alive. Lets get straight up to capitol hill and our chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju. As it plays out right now, explain the significance of the vote that should be concluded in a matter of moments. Reporter the significance here is that there are 60 votes to move ahead theres a possibility that an Outside Commission could be created to investigate the january 6th attack. I
Donald trump says he has told his team to co operate with the transition to a joe biden presidency, after the agency which oversees the process ruled that it could formally begin. The General Services administration will now release funds to mr biden, and his officials will receive security briefings. This is how mr trumps acceptance came, in a tweet that says its in the best interests of the United States for his team to co operate with protocols. Joe biden has unsurprisingly welcomed the decision, saying todays decision is a needed step to begin tackling the challenges facing our nation, including getting the pandemic under control and our economy back on track. In the days ahead, Transition Officials will begin meeting with federal officials to discuss the pandemic response, have a full account of our National Security interests and gain a complete understanding of the Trump Administrations efforts to hollow out Government Agencies. Ive been speaking to our North America corresponde
Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on