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Are in the eastern or central. Ime zones, 202 7488000 if youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Send us a text. 202 7488003 is that number. A very good wednesday morning. You can start calling you now as we show you part of President Trumps speech yesterday in phoenix, arizona, highlighting his administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. [video clip] we do all of these tests and we find pockets and we find people we find cases and they say that cases have jumped instead of saying what a job we are doing with testing. We did the job with testing and we did ventilators and we came up with tests. We have 70 different types of tests. It is a lot of tests. Other countries that have done very well with testing, they call us, and they say nobody has been able to do the job you have done. The l. A. Ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people the only ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people. [booing] someday it will be recognized by histo
Mr. Thompson is the president s tomny to be the next inspector jen olof the cia. Congratulations on your nomination. Id like to start by recognizing your family you brought with you today. Welcome to both of you. Patricia, this is as much your day as it is peters and were all grateful for the support, the patience and encouragement youve now doubt provided him in helping him get to this day. This is most certainly a professional achievement you should both take pride in. Our goal in conducting this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful consideration of mr. Thompsons qualifications to be the next Inspector General of the cia. Mr. Thompson has provided written responses to questions from the committee from its members, and this morning members will be able to ask any additional questions they have and hear the answer directly from the nominee. Mr. Thompson is a double grad kwt. He spent 23 years as a prosecutor with the department of justice as a u. S. Attorney for the
So, you know, let me, i just have to wonder whether, mr. Attorney general, you think that a the president did what he should do in terms of his own response . I realize youre going after china, but what about, in your view, was the president s response to this virus, this n pandemic, adequate, in your view . Along the lines of my lawsuit on the Consumer Protection act and trust act, we are moving forward in that regard. We can show that china did engage in unfair and deseceptiv acts. Also under the antitrust, were looking at how they were engaged in restraining or attempting to restrain freedom of trade then by hoarding it and not providing it to mississippi. So that created a very unjust environment. I think theres a general consensus that our old country could have done a lot more so we dont see tens of millions of people unemployed. In mississippi, you have thousands. I think theres enough blame to go around and as as far as your lawsuit, i think it would be a little bit difficult f
I have an Opening Statement i would like to submit for the record. Ill do so without objection. And make a few comments. Today, were having a hearing about the foreign sovereign immunities act, coronavirus and addressing chinas culpability. Generally speaking, we have a foreign sovereign immunities act basically shutting off lawsuits against other nations because whatever we do to them, they can do to us. We made exceptions to it. We have amended the act four years ago regarding terrorist activities. This is not an issue i take lightly. This is something i have thought a lot about. My colleagues have worked to put together legislation. They have reconciled the legislation. I think senator blackburn, hawley, and others, and what would it mean if we amend suits to china. And why would we take this unprecedented step . This is the third pandemic to come out of china. The coronavirus came from wuhan province. Whether it was a mistake in the lab or spread at a wet market, i dont know, but w