Good morning, everybody. The hearing will come to order. Today were going to have a video hearing with ms. Sally yates, who was the acting attorney general for a period of time in january of 2017 and was the number two at the department of justice in early january 2017. Ms. Yates appeared before the committee on may 18th, 2017. That was before the Mueller Investigation really got started. It was before the horowitz report about the Mueller Investigation was issued, and i believe much has been learned since may of 2018 2017. And we would like to discuss certain topics with ms. Yates. My view of ms. Yates is that she exercised good caution and legal judgment in january of 2017, and if people had followed her advice, things might be different today, so i just want to let you know, ms. Yates, from my point of view, you analyzed the situation fairly correctly, and we will get into that later on. Whats the purpose of this hearing . Its to ask questions of ms. Yates knowing then what she know
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Sharing this space with us today and also to begin, i would like to thank our cosponsors, the gender equality and initiative affairs and the studies program, the National Securities program and the g. W. Military and veteran services for making in event possible. Thank you for your support. I would lining to begin this like to begin this event by saying is it is on the record and questions at the end are welcomed so today our conversation will center on the role of little and of in National Security and the role of women in National Security and interNational Security and ican think of no one more qualified to share her thoughts on this topic than secretary christine wormuth. Please allow me to share some of her career highlights. She is the 24th secretary of the army. She was worn in on may 27, 2021 following her nomination by President Biden and her confirmation by the United States senate. As the civilian leader of it have United States army, secretary wormuthover sees the services
Hottest day from the command center which starts now with the meteorologist, how hot is it going to get . Its going to be really hot. Especially for the valleys as our temperatures are already starting to climb, but i want to show you some record High Temperatures. What were forecasting, and what the records are set for today. San rafael, thele forecast is 89, and the record is 99. So we should not set any records here. Looking at napa, were going to be very close and well be watching that thermometer going up, but this record was set back in 1981, and we are also watching some other longstanding records like the one for livermore, the record is 110, that was set back in 1961. So we are already feeling the heat, and we have excessive heat warnings in effect for all of these areas shaded in orange. Thats where the temperatures will be the highest. We have heat advisories for the inner bay, but this does not include San Francisco or the immediate coastline. Looking at where we are right