Covid19 and other biological threats facing the u. S. Good morning. Welcome to the hearing [inaudible] emerging threats and capabilities. In a moment in accordance with house rules and relations the host will mute all participants other than german [inaudible] and all participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes and other asruptions. When the yield back i do not renumber to retweet themselves others will doo so to limitit efforts and background audio background audio. Members and witnesses are responsible for unwitting himself anytime they wish to w e heard. It may take a few seconds for your microphone to be t unmated. If you are on the computer you can view the timer by reaching your personal view in the upper right corner of your screen for the active speaker and you can also pin the timer by right clicking or hovering your cursor over the timer and pressing that contact icon. With that, we are ready to b
A hearing jointly mosted by Foreign Affairs committee, Armed Services subcommittee on intelligence and emerging threats in capabilities. In a moment mute all participan other than chairman bar a. All participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes or other disruptions. Do not remember to remute themselves, the host will do so to limit background audio. Members and witnesses are responsible for unmuting themselves any time they wish to be heard. It may take a few seconds for your microphone to unmute. Please keep that in mind when speaking. A timekeeper will monitor the time for this hearing. If you are on the computer, review the time by switching your personal view in the upper right corner of your screen to grid or active speaker and thumbnail view. You can also pan the timer by right clicking or hovering you cursor ore the timer and pressing the thumb tack icon. With that, we are ready to begin. Chairman bar
Representatives, as well as representatives from northern command, because of their singular responsibility for pandemic preparedness and department of defense support to civil authorities. As well as a special operations command. They have responsibility as the coordinating authority for wmd related activities. It is not just an osd body. It is very much one that will , we hope, weve not met yet, but will have active participation from the services, from the combatant commands, so that it has that element of hearing from all parts of department, where are the challenges and what is needed to get after them. Im assuming, like most bodies like this, there is lowerlevel working groups that will feed into this on a regular basis and meet more often. Is e that correct . Yeah, why dont i ask richard and brandi to talk to that. Sure. Just briefly say is somebody who also cochaired the Nuclear Posture review, i think my colleagues, and dr. Vann and i served as the daytoday cochairs working gr
the partnership between the u.s. and vietnam. white house correspondent peter doocy is with them on this trip. good afternoon. we ve learned that president biden and china s xi who way back, have not communicating since november. that means that china flew a spy craft over the u.s., president biden ordered it shot down over the waters near south carolina, and still, nothing. and for president biden, it sounds like that s kind of a letdown. president biden, has president xi s absence impacted the summit? would be nice to have him here, but something the president really wants to do here is reform the world bank, give 70-plus developing nation a place to go for loans so they don t wind up on the hook, owing banks in beijing ultra high interest. this isn t about buying anything off today, it s helping provide through multilateral development banks like the world bank and imf, high value and transparent loaning opportunities for lower and middle income countries, many
Good morning, everybody. If we can go ahead and take your seats, well get started in a moment. Good morning, im the chief medical advisor of the bipartisan Politics Center and i want to welcome all of you to todays event entitled budgeting for biodefense are we prepared. Our mission is to actively seek to combine the best ideas from both Political Parties to promote health, security, and opportunity for all americans. We drive principled and politically viable policy solutions through the power of analysis, negotiation, and advocacy. Yesterday, former senators tom daschle and judd greg released a b. P. C. Report outlining options for policymakers to optimize funding that supports the procurement of medical countermeasures needed in the event of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear event. Today well hear about the findings from this report and hear from experts from congress, the executive branch and industry. Without further ado, id like to vite b. B. C. Cofounder and former