From 20092017 making the longestserving member of president obamas cabinet. In those Years Secretary Vilsack sought to put americans back to work by investing in rural infrastructure, renewable energy and largescale conservation partnerships. Under his leadership he had healthier food choices in school meals to benefit 15 million children and expanded free and reduced price lunches for millions of kids. Prior to his Appointment Or Nomination and confirmation i should say Secretary Vilsack served two terms as the governor of iowa and the island states that and as the mayor of mount pleasant iowa. With that i will turn over to the secretary who will take a few questions once he completes his remarks. Thanks very much. Its a pleasure to be here today with all of you. Im here primarily to talk about Food And Nutrition security and you may think that is just about Food And Nutrition security but, in fact, its about a lot more than that. When you understand 25 of Americas Workforce is direct
We have another special guest joining us today, secretary of agriculture tom vilsack. As you all know, this is his second term as apartment of agriculture which he led in the obamabiden administration from 2009 through 2017, making him the Longestserving Number of president obamas cabinet. In those years, sec. Vilsack sought to put americans back to work by investing in infrastructure, renewable Energy And Conservation partnerships. The ust introduced healthier food choices and school meals to benefit 50 million children and expanded free and reduced price lunches for millions of kids. Prior to his Appointment Or Nomination and confirmation, sec. Vilsack served two terms as the governor of iowa, in the eye with state senate, and as the mayor of now pleasant, i will. I will turn it over to the secretary who will take a few questions once he makes his remarks. Thanks very much, and certainly a pleasure to be here today with all of you. Im here primarily to talk about Food And Nutrition s
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hello. thank you so much for joining me. we are monitoring several developing stories at this hour, starting with breaking news in california where nearly 40 million people are now under flood watches. officials issuing a state of emergency and evacuations for some areas. severe rain expecting to bring life-threatening flooding. meantime, the white house has now officially notified congress about a series of strikes conducted against iran-linked militias in the middle east this weekend. the u.s. launched punishing retaliatory airstrikes in syria and iraq on friday in response to the killings of three u.s. soldiers in jordan. saturday the u.s. and u.k. kept up pressure in the middle east with a new barrage hitting 36 houthi targets in yemen. houthi leaders now vowing to meet escalation with escalation. also at this hour, we re watching the u.s. southern border. right now republican governors from a dozen tats are gathered for a briefing on the border crisis. texas is going t
the president has been meeting this morning with key allies in the east, including the president of egypt and the prime minister of iraq before posing for the traditional family photo at the summit in jeddah. one of the most controversial meetings was president biden s sit-down with saudi s crown prince, mohammad bin salman. our colleague wolf blitzer is traveling with the president and joins us from saudi arabia. wolf, members of the biden administration have been stressing that these meetings are really about trying to reset that relationship between the middle east and the united states, right? they certainly do. they believe this is a moment that the u.s. can reset the overall u.s. relationship with countries in the middle east, and they re working to do that right now. president biden, right now, kristin, is laying out his mini strategy, on this, his last day o a trip to the region. he s talking about everything from security to economics and human rights. but it s h