Over the next 60 minutes we are going to be traveling around the globe visiting some of todays most fragile states and hotspot regions as we discuss americans ary agencies to tackle these challenges. Luckily we are joined by an allstar lineup of experts who will serve as our tour guides. Stephen hadley serves as the National Security advisor to george bush and assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs. Today is the principal at one of the countrys leading consulting firms. Democratic former congresswoman from california and president of the Wilson Center which supports Research Driving the conversations on Foreign Policy and National Security. Is the president of the u. S. Institute of peace, a leading institute for solutions for preventing, mitigating, and resolving violent conflict around the world and previously served as the assistant administrator or democracy conflict and humanitarian affairs at usaid. Michaelnt general recently served as the director of the dir
An august day maybe because its a cool august day what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill and that is due to the extraordinary lineup of people who will be presenting and talking and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe before five years ago the United Nations with the corporations of the United States and many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Developments and it would apply not only to the least developed countries but equally university to the critical space and affairs and human rights for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation became this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to lead the way for all countries voluntarily to collaborate and how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years 20152030. We are two years into this and already theres significant progress to talk about the build on the progress of the millennium the following goals t
Were also asking another question this morning. Where is the nations top Infectious Disease expert in all this, dr. Anthony fauci . And why are states reopening as cases climb and none of those states have yet met the federal governments guidelines to reopen . Lets begin with nick valencia on reports that the white house is shelving those cdc guidelines this morning. Nick, as you reported, the Trump Administration asked the cdc to draw up the guidelines, they did. Now theyre not accepting them . Yeah, this request came specifically from dr. Debbie birx, over the course of the last weeks, enumerable hours spent, a lot of manpower spent at the cdc to come up with the draft recommendations. And it was according to a senior cdc official late last night that they realized that the white house was not going to implement their 17page draft document, that the White House Task force asked the cdc to draw up. And speaking to this senior cdc official earlier, this is what they had to tell me, rea
In next years census. Something the Supreme Court is considering as we speak as well. On the other side of the capitol behind closed doors a republican led Senate Intelligence committee is questioning donald trump jr. For a second time but not before serving a subpoena that the president s eldest son initially denied. Lets go to capitol hill, our colleague lauren fox begins our coverage this hour. Lets begin with the latest contempt vote and i think the fundamental question of what is the democrats hope here of actually accomplishing. Reporter well, this is a big deal because they say they have not gotten the information or the documents that they have requested from the Commerce Department or department of justice so they are planning basically to enforce their subpoenas by Holding Bill Barr and wilbur ross in contempt of congress, but this is a big moment also for the white house because the department of justice said last night in a letter that they planned to ask the white house to
Coinciding with the International Day of Education, Special Olympics today issued an appeal for governments and communities around the globe to commit to bold legislative, policy and funding commitments in support of inclusive learning environments for students with intellectual disabilities. Dr. Timothy Shriver, Chair of Special Olympics, highlighted the benefits of more inclusive education systems in […]