All great policy work for the state for many years. To his right, gareth rhodes. He is not a doctor either. At the department of Financial Services but has worked with me and the state for many years and has been a great talent here. It is a pleasure to be here today. We are at syracuse state university, the upstate medical school and hospital. Had a chance to say hello to the nurses and doctors who work here. I wanted to say thank you for all the all they have done here. It has just been an extraordinary experience but we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly with this. The good is beautiful. Let me talk about some of the facts we are dealing with today. Facts are our friends, right. People want to know the facts without spin or opinion. That is what we have been giving them. Total hospitalization rate is down. Which is good news. Hospitalization is down. The number of into patients is also down. The number of covid hospitalizations per day these are new people who are newly diagno
Listening in washington and around the country and around the world. I am mike ohanlon at the Brookings Institution. We are honored to host mark esper who, after being introduced by my boss, retired general john allen, he will offer remarks on how the covid19 is affecting the armed forces and anything else. I will ask questions and then i will hear from you. If you have not already submitted your welcome to do so. Apologies that we may not get to all questions. Ado, let me hand the body the baton to john allen. Good morning. My name is john allen and i am the president of the Brookings Institution and it is my great pledge to welcome you all to , featuring dr. Mark esper. Esper was sworn in as the 22nd secretary of defense on 2019. 0 323, he served as a secretary of the toy from november 20, 2017 the summer of 2019. He is no stranger to service. He is a 1986 west point graduate and upon graduation he was commissioned in the infantry and that makes at least two infantrymen on this call.
Recognize several individuals who have responded to the invisible enemy with courage, determination and grace. Extraordinaryd hardship and loss and we mourn with one heart for every life that has been taken from us. The heroes we are today. True source of inspiration for us all, a great inspiration. The whole country is watching. With us today is kyle west from cincinnati. He is proud to be a mailman in his hometown. Cincinnatiworked in and it was great. The queen city. Are Older Americans in a low income area. As kyle says, we are not just mailman, we are many other things, we are part of the neighborhood. Kyle talks to roughly 500 customers each day, bring a cheerful smile and listening ear to every parcel of mail. Hen the pandemic hit delivered a note to hundreds of americans, saying that if you are at risk adding essential items, that me know, and i will help. That means you get it done. Sincerely, mailman kyle. Has receivedyle more than 400 responses and delivered vital groceries
Here to indian territory. We began the removals starting in 1829 and they culminated in our large old our larger removal here to indian territory in the summer and fall months of 1836 with our arrival to indian territory here in late december, 1836, and throughout january of 1837, when we arrived at port at fort gibson in indian territory. For about 20 years or so, beginning at about 1840, prior to settling at our place in the capital here, we met at the grand council of our tribal towns until about 1861. 1861 was the arrival of the statesar for the united and pretty much everyone. Post the civil war, we had to sign the treaty, as many other tribes who found themselves involved in the civil war. We signed that treaty in 1856. 18 57, we developed our new tribal constitution, which was really the foundation for Government Operations that established themselves in this area. Once we established that new tribal government, we had a to have a place for that. The place the muscogee people se
Pierce was interviewed by politico about the coronavirus pandemic. Her diplomatic service, and the status of u. S. U. K. Relations. This is about half an hour. Ryan thank you so much for joining us. If you have not already signed up for my weekly newsletter, it is free, and you can sign up at politico. Com. It is my very great pleasure to welcome a heavy weight of Foreign Policy and global politics, the new British Ambassador to the united states, dame karen pierce. Amb. Pierce thank you very much. Ryan it is such a pleasure to have you here. We have about 30 minutes for the chat and we will get to your questions as well during the conversation. If you have not sent them already, post them on twitter using politico. We already have great ones rolling in. Ambassador, i want to spend most of our time talking about policy, but we are in such strange times. I thought we could ask some questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Lets start with the