For right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible and i hope youll all join us in the questions as you can bring to our guests and planning to ask you a couple of questions. We are going to take advantage of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates, somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time and talk to him throughout this pandemic and he is far and away the smartest person i know about really helping us set the table understanding where we are. Ive called him a National Treasure and now hes a global treasure. Donated more than 400 million to Covid Research and called this, i hate to say it, in advance back in 2015 whene warned about a possible pandemic of ts sort. I should also note hesrying to get into the journalism business to start a podcast this week which you can go out and get as well. I should also in
The committee on rules and Administration Come to order. I thank my colleagues for attending todays hearing, some virtually, some in person, same for our witnesses, we are going to be welcoming them as well. The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, miss jane abraham, former chairman of the Congressional Commission to study the potential for a National Womens History Museum. Miss cc rojas of the Latino Coalition and mister danny vargas, of the National Museum of the american latino. I want to thank all of them for joining us. We will hear from a number of senators who have spent time on this had been sponsors of this bill. Senator collins, senator cornyn, senator menendez joining us for remarks following the remarks of the three of us. This is secretary bunchs second appearance before the senate rules committee. We are grateful to have him with us today. He was appointed secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in june of 2019, what a first year you have had. Obviously covid19 forc
Watch tonight and enjoy American History tv every weekend. Last week, Pharmaceutical Company pfizer announced they have a vaccine for covid19 that is 95 effective. The ceo of the company and bill gates recently talked about the encouraging results from the vaccine and how they would distribute it to the public. Welcome back to deal book. It is a privilege to be with all of you, we have a very, very special conversation planned for right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible. I hope youll all join us in the comments asking questions to bring to our guests. And also planning to ask you a couple of questions. Were going to take advantage of some of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates. Somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time. And to talk to him throughout this pandemic. And he is far and away the smartes
Line here, it too on track for a record close. An effective vaccine now more important than ever as the pandemic death toll today topped 250,000 americans. Yesterday alone, more than 1500 people died. One of the biggest obstacles to rolling out a new vaccine, we talked about this, maintaining the ultralow temperatures needed to transport tens of millions of doses. The ceo of the u. S. Company that says it can get it done is here. Hes churning out his medical grade freezers as fast as he can. We will show you what it takes to achieve refrigeration nation. With cases spiking, businesses, yeah, you will dread this, sending workers back home again. Are you dreading zoom group calls . We are about to show you a new video platform that may have you considering the switch. Plus, chris krebs, that trump appointee the president fired last night by tweet for saying the election was secure, has just himself tweeted out a defense. We will show you that tweet and the two protrump senators siding wi
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive