watch tv on c-span2. good afternoon. welcome to, the author of the new book, the last billing. those of us in the family from the institution as a special election for the through david s work, we come to know andrew carnegie and all his humanity and complexities and one lesson from the book that stuck with me and has animated by and that is, as david would put it, carnegie top optimism not entirely equipped. for all about beauty in the world, progress based on reason and you can do spirit is possible the idea seems to be going in this opportunity to say thank you. in addition, his previous books include prize-winning biographies of joseph kennedy and william randolph. return to david s latest book, not one person but 1 million persons emerged realized, yet alive april 1945. the last 1 million to take us into the heart of europe during and after world war ii. he describes the movement of millions of people among shifting borders of that war is a document. he described li
also daughter of james brian, administrative director of the manhattan project in one of our nation s leading clients of the 20th century. she s the author of new york times bestsellers, and the british bring in wartime washington and the secret science that changed the course of world war ii speaking tonight about her new book, the great the classified world war ii that launched the war on cancer. thank you. thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. my first zoom presentation so bear with me, everyone. i am thinking right now that i should have had wine but anyway, here we go. i ll start us off with a quote winston churchill. he had a way with words. men, occasionally across the truth, most of them pick themselves up. as if nothing happened. lieutenant colonel alexander, the remarkable hero of my book did not hurry off he refused to leave the scene of a military disaster even when churchill himself warned him till. he paid attention, investigated and as a result, h
senator bob dole, the late senator howard baker on the republican side, senator tom and senator george mitchell on the democratic side. senator mitchell of course in the great state of maine, which you will hear shortly is a state, maine is very well represented here this morning. the country is indeed the world quite frankly is experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic cause untold suffering and death. doctors, nurses, hospitals, healthcare providers are struggling to provide critical care under some very difficult conditions. but if there is any good, and there is not much but if there is any good to come out of this virus, it is that it has expedited the digital health transformation out there designed to help these providers deliver healthcare more quickly and efficiently. until the 19 has put up a laser focus on the use of telemedicine for diagnosing, delivery and treatment through digital health. now obviously telemedicine was a tool available prior to the onset of t
[background noise]. [no audio]. [background noise]. the subcommittee hearing will now reconvene. and again i appreciate the witnesses cooperation and flexibility here for voting in the senate. i wanted to give back to you with not only regard to your testimony, but with regard to what the admiral ray and said with regard to the incident that you mentioned there really was not rage with regard to not just to the russian actions but as admiral ray mentioned, there were some miscommunications and certainly by the coast guard. i had been asking for an after action both from the northern command in the coast guard and the u.s. navy. but what would you as we are what yout this point think we and talking about the coast guard, and any others involved on preventing future incidences from happening again as you mentioned. this can be the new normal. but what specifically would you would you members to make sure that happens with regard to coast guard actions another actions in the u
democracy interviewed by wall street journal congressional reporter, christina peterson. watch tv this weekend on c-span2. earlier today, washington d.c. mayor, bowser held a briefing with reporters. she spoke about last week s attack at the u.s. capitol and provided an update on security preparations surrounding inauguration day wednesday. it runs one hour. good afternoon, everybody. good morning, i should say. i am the mayor of washington d.c. today i am providing a situational update, the residents of the district of columbia on two important topics. the districts response to covid the districts preparation for the 59th presidential inauguration of joseph biden and inauguration of vice president kamala harris. we will also plan to have a future briefing on the presidential inauguration activity in the district. of course exactly one week ago, there was violent insurrection of the capital of the united states that s impacted the way we are approaching working with