I am telling you, if we ever clean up plastics in the ocean, it will be because of these two folks and senator lee, and i wi be willing coconspirators. I have been told about this a lot, and im astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation. We are going to have a hearing today about some solutions, and we are going to find a way to create some kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know they are doing it for the world bank, but i like the global fund idea where you come together under American Leadership to solve the problem. To our two colleagues, to live for your leadership. Senator leahy . Thank you, mr. Chairman. With all the jokinthat goes back and forth, it isafe to say that the chairman d i feel very strongly about this. We do want to help. Were inwhitehouse and vietm last year, and we met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic pollution and had a great meeting, and we talked about a
Welcome to the program u. S. President and his democratic challenger joe biden have been answering questions from voters at separate televised events held at the same time on different t. V. Channels t. V. Town Hall Meetings as they are known have replaced the 2nd president ial debate which was canceled off the trump was diagnosed with covert 19 and then refused to conduct the debate online as we reported the 2 rivals showed they have very different approaches and both style and substance. Always confident at times defensive as the incumbent u. S. President donald trump now has a record to pick apart and he got a grilling starting out with the nations biggest crisis the coronavirus. Knew it was a big threat at the same time i dont want to panic this country i dont want to go out and say everybodys going to die everybody is going to air it over after you dont have this holiday but you can you know you know its not going to get and more contentious exchanges as trump made exaggerated cla
Thank you. Good evening everybody. And i want to thank the aarp for sponsoring this debate and the voters and people in the seventh district for giving me the opportunity to serve them in and congress over these number of years. Ive been there long enough so i was able to move up to the head of the Agricultural Committee and ive been chair man twice and probably the only person thats ever done that. Weve been able to do some good work. Weve kept the Committee Bipartisan which was important to me. We got the usmc a trade agreement done that people were concerned about. We made that happen and got a good democratic vote so i look forward to going back to congress and continuing the bipartisan work that ive done over the number of years. Michelle fischbach, one minute opening statement. Thank you very much to matt and aarp for putting this together tonight. Im Michelle Fischbach. I served in the Minnesota Senate and first female president of the senate and worked as Lieutenant Governor fo
Different views on issues from the pandemic so racial justice. And g. W. Visits kenyas rift valley where rising water levels flooded entire communities displacing thousands that inhabits homes. Im get out of as welcome to the program protesters in thailand ha back on the streets for another day of antigovernment demonstrations thousands of people are gathering in the central bangkok in defiance of an emergency decree that bans public gatherings police have stepped up action to try to deter them. To activists were charged under a rarely used law that prohibits violence against the queen if found guilty the past could face life in prison. Thailands Prime Minister. Says he wont stand down and has defended his governments attempts to quell the armrest. Your role well aware of the situation they need it up the government must use the emergency decree that. So we have to proceed with it because the situation became violent. And some of the things happening now have never happened before. The
Over the banning of a Progressive Opposition party that was popular with young people and students and which was abandoned rather contentious and controversial circumstances by by the Constitutional Court but they have now and theyve moved into a wider ranging political demands there is anger that the government thats in place now is essentially led by the leader from. 2014 and from other on without the generals who took not in the in the last. Isolate demanding a new constitution that demanding that government step down but most contentiously and most explicitly theyve added many of them about it demands for reform to the royal familys role in thailand to add to their agenda they want to look at its budget how it perceives funds from the government and they also want to radio because of the political influence of the king now the royal family is a long venerated institution here loved by so many by many ties and previously its been considered absolutely to boot to and to raise questio