Lot and im just astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation and what were going to dog is have a hearing today about some solutions, and senator leahy and myself will sit down and find a way to create somee kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know theyre doing it at the world bank, that i like the fund idea where the world kd of comes together under amecan leadership to solve the problem. So too are two colleagues, thank you very much for your leadership and senator leahy. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. With all joking they goes back and forth, i think it safe to say that the chairman and i feel very strongly about this. We do wt to help. Senator whitehouse and i were in vietnam last year. We met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic poltion, had a great meeting. S. White house was a star at that, but heres a country with a 2000mile coastline, and when i say we, that means all huma
Brookings institution. Good morning. Director im the for the center of United States europe. At the bookings institution. Today to be d chairing this important discussion on election 2020 and implications for u. S. Foreign policy. Obviously over the weekend there as been some rapid developments. There is now a president elect joe biden, after a pretty few days, i think, for everyone, an election that close for many days but now we have a clear winner. So we have a terrific panel this morning to discuss not so much election but looking forward to next year to see what the are for u. S. Oreign policy, for international order, and to talk about some of the nuances from they may and what mean, particularly that trumpism is alive and well even though did not receive a second term and that the senate hands of l be in the republicans. Edelman. Ve eric osnos, tamara wit teo s, at the brookings institution, and victoria all of them have served in either served in senior positions in government
Fears of a humanitarian disaster after a powerful Tropical Storm smashes into Central America. Before days after america went to the pull still action remains undecided with a nation on edge democratic challenger joe biden vote is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump in the battleground states where biden has spoken in an address to the nation saying hes convinced he will win the race and heres why hes ahead in the states of pennsylvania nevada and georgia so far biden is projects its a 1264 Electoral College votes while trump is still on see hundreds and 14 the number of course of course a cup president of the United States is 270 so bison needs to win in only one of those yellow undecided states to get over the line where rob reynolds reports now from los angeles. Joe biden took the stage looking weary but full of confidence we dont have a final declaration of victory yet but the numbers tell us its clear to us a clear and convincing story were going to win this race. By no
A centrist government or a leftist government. I think it is the former. David we have a tweet from jeb bush. Congratulating president elect joe biden. We also have Boris Johnson congratulating president elect joe biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris at the same time. Is this result good for business or bad for business or does it depend . To big prospects. Number one, a sense of stability. Get telegraphed in advance which is a good thing for business confidence. Secondly and more importantly, the chances of any significant tax hikes have diminished greatly. With Mitch Mcconnell, there will not be any big tax hikes and thats the big story for business. We have been so focused on covid19. We are over well over 100,000 cases a day in the united states. Can we expect a significant difference in the approach for of Joe Biden Administration and what will it look like . The Biden Administration will from back dr. Fauci wherever he has been exiled in the last couple of months. Dr. Fau
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to