Preparedness and response under president trump. He talks about the origins of covid19 and whether theres evidence of an accidental leak at the wuhan lab. Thank you eg of you on our video feed. I am david asher, a Senior Research fellow, resident at hudson. I cover a variety of things, everything from financing, sanctions, to nuclear oil agile nuclear biological weapons. I wanted to introduce you to dr. Robert kadlec, a colleague who has done pioneering work in this area going back to his times starting at the u. S. Air force academy and moving into the military for a few decades, and working in high raking roles in health and Human Services. Conceiving and developing our National Defense strategy and executing it in the midst of the biggest threat disaster in history, which was the outrage of covid19. I am here to discuss that with dr. Robert kadlec, and to go over some of the Lessons Learned in his long career. Let us go on and move forward from here. The most important thing i would
And i am proud of you. I know you are currently residing in florida but you are a true puerto rican. I know you are fighting for equality, and that is the solution. The democratic thing to do the right thing to do economically and financially for puerto rico insofar as the immediate crisis is concerned. Congress could give puerto rico a tool that is not available in puerto rico, and that is chapter nine of the bankruptcy code. It allows companies to reorganize themselves under the protection of the bankruptcy court, so that they can meet their payment obligations. It allows them to restructure in an organized and legal way. That is why i am fighting for that in congress. But the permanent solution would be to allow puerto rico to join the union. Pay federal taxes. But at the same time, get the same benefits from the federal government. Then puerto rico would prosper with that kind of profit status. There would be a transition, but we would have no Political Risk and we would drive the
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Small pox was one of the most frightening diseases the world has known. It killed at least 300 Million People in the last century before it was eradicated. So it came as quite a surprise when the u. S. Government revealed yesterday that vials of small pox had been forgotten for decades and were just discovered in a cardboard box. The big question now is whether the virus is alive and dr. Jon lapook learned more today from the scientist heading the investigation. The vials of small pox are currently being tested in a level 4 High Containment Laboratory at the cdc in atlanta. That is the agencys most secure facility. You can only gain ent row through a special eye scan. Steve monroe runs the division of high consequence pathogens. Is it possible the small pox can still grow. Its possible. But we done know for sure if the small porx virus in these samples will still be able to grow in the labo
Wuhan but its home to one of only a few dozen advanced level by a lapse on the planet. The Wuhan Laboratory was used for research on some of the deadliest pathogens known to man. As it happens, this facility was not far from the socalled wet market where the coronavirus supposedly originated. Kind of an amazing coincidence, if you think about it. It was it actually coincidence or was there a connection between the research lab and the outbreak . It seems like a worth asking. Unfortunately we live in a Political Climate in which asking questions is greatly discouraged and obedience is prized. Speculation about it remain private, mostly online. In february, senator tom cotton of arkansas said it out loud. A few miles away from that food market is chinas only biosafety level for Super Laboratory that researches human infectious diseases. We dont have evidence that this disease originated there but because of chinas duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the q
They didnt have to use it nearly to the extent they thought when they conceived it. It wasnt that they made a mistake. Nobody made a mistake. I would rather have too much than too little, err on the side of caution. Its incredible what they did including the two ships, the two great ships. I want to thank a lot of great people, great politicians. We are going to be announcing the political is tomorrow. We are going to be having senators. We are going to be having a meeting with the governors probably on thursday, meeting by teleconference on a lot of things will be discussed in some of the details will be discussed. We want them to do an incredible job of running their estates. I think they will do an incredible job, after having got to know so many of them. Each one will do an incredible job. The federal government is there. We have ventilators if they need them. We have beds if they need them. We have hospitals if they need them. We have a Testing Capacity thats now secondtonone wher