Not tolerate the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Challengesf these and the relationships that surround them and accomplishing forof these goals requires the United States to be engaged in the region for the long haul. Cooperation with our golf partners, like saudi arabia and United Arab Emirates gulf partners, and helping libya, egypt, yemen. For insuring stability for the worlds shipping lanes and energy supply. There is no shortage of places where we are engaged in the middle east. The question is not whether we are leaving, the question is how we are leading. Today, we believe there are initiatives that taken together have the potential to reshape the middle east and could even help create the foundations of a new order. First, the agreement that we reached with iran. As of this week, Irans Nuclear Weapons Program is being rolled back in important ways. On monday, iran took a series of steps that the world has long demanded, including reducing its enriched of 20 uranium, dismantli
Conference report. Roll call votes are scheduled for after 6 30 be eastern. Over in the senate, members return at 2 ian to continue eastern to continue work on scheduled Flood Insurance rate increases delay. A procedural vote is scheduled for 5 30. Watch the house live on cspan and the senate here on cspan2. Bill and hillary began their teaching careers at the university of arkansas. Bill came right after graduating from yale in 1973, and hillary came a year later. Hillary clintons career began right inside this building, the leffler law school at the university of arkansas, where she was a professor. She taught classes such as criminal law, criminal procedure, trial procedure and the prison project. Hill prison was, you know hillary was, you know, wellesley educated, Ivy League Law school grad that had worked in d. C. As part of the Nixon Campaign. Nixon had been impeached about two weeks before hillary taught her first class. First Lady Hillary Clinton tonight at 9 eastern on cspan a
Have a Authority Issue the rules. I think 706 has been abused. And it should be returned to the original intent we help frame years ago. So i have difficulty with that part of the equation. It makes it harder to get to the second. The fcc rules werent thrown out. I learned long ago not to try to guess what other people do in d. C. In the environment we live in. I dont have an insight what the chairman may or may not do. He articulated the authority he believes he has. The commission has and what they would like to do. So i have taken the word and see what comes from that. But i hate to guess more than that. House energy and Commerce Committee is beginning to hold hearings about a possible rewrite of the Communications Act. Im sure youve been following this closely. What advice would you give to the house energy and Commerce Committee as they look at rewriting the Communications Act. I would say first and foremost, i defer to my friend and former colleagues on the house and the senate o
So at this hour the u. S. Has the highest reported number of coronavirus cases in the world. The w. H. O. Says its confirmed cases of the virus have more than 190 countries and territories. No one is known to be immune, and despite the efforts of doctors around the world, so far there is no vaccine. Johns Hopkins University has logged more than 532,000 cases worldwide with more than 24,000 deaths. In the u. S. , more than 82,000 americans are now infected surpassing even china. The u. S. On thursday reported 15,000 confirmed cases in just a single day. Yet the u. S. President seems eager to move on. People want to go back to work. Im hearing it loud and clear from everybody, and its going to happen pretty quickly. Af lot of progress has made but we have to go back to work. We may take sections of our country, we may take large sections of our country that arent so seriously affected. There are now almost four times the number of cases in the u. S. Than reported in china. The epicenter,
Coronavirus pandemic. At least 248 more deaths reported today and the United States now has the second most cases of coronavirus in the world, second only to china where infections were counted months earlier than the u. S. 81,300 americans are infected. Despite warnings from Health Officials that it may be too soon. People want to go back to work. I am hearing it loud and clear from everybody. I think it will happen pretty quickly. A lot of progress is being made but we have to go back to work. We may take large sections of our country that are not so seriously affected. That is part of a plan the president sent to governors with new distancing guidelines based on where you live and how the vi risk is ascertained based upon that, high risk, medium risk, low risk counties for levels of social distancing. You can imagine what many of the difficulties in the plan may be including this one. What is to prevent someone from a high risk county going to a low risk county . That is why we real