Coverage of election 2020. This is the debate between the candidates for minnesotas seventh district congressional seat. My guests tonight are democrat peterson and republican, Michelle Fischbach. Based on the coin flip, peterson will go first. 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 f
Of an independent task force. They talk about the Global Response to covid19, the role of the World Health Organization and Global Health disparities. From the council on Foreign Relations, this is one hour. Welcome to todays council on Foreign Relations report launch of the independent task force preparing for the next pandemic. Perforce we will be talking about the one we are currently experiencing. Im the host of Weekend Edition sunday. We have more than i think 760 registered for this virtual meeting. We will do our best to get to as many questions as we can. But a little bit about this event. Began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to this Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. They are responsible for the content of the new reports and in the task force programs 25th year launching the 78th and id like to welcome you to this discussion called in proving img pandemic. Thus, lessons for covid19. A brief introduction of the panelists. We have Sylvia Burwell the professor
Was a champion of working and reaching across the aisle, establishing bipartisanship and trying to work collectively toward the common good. Why do we find that such a remarkable thing today . What has happened . Mrs. Mccain there are so many reasons. First of all, thank you for having me. There are so many reasons that think nowadays, one of them being it has really taken us down a little bit. It is too easy to be on social media, it is too easy to be critical or harsh or all the things we know happens on their, because it is synonymous. It has made us less caring and less involved, because we can hide behind this device. I think what you are also seen is an example seeing is an example, and certainly what is happening in the country, a great frustration. There is no excuses for being civilly disobedient or being uncivil in any way, shape, or form. But unfortunately, we are seeing a combination of things, throwing covid on top of that, and you have a society that is struggling. These