Host are you saying that level of protection would not exist [indiscernible] Speaker Pelosi good morning, everyone. It is an honor to be here with the members of the congressional black caucus, house and senate, are distinguished chair karen bass, senator booker, senator harris, the distinguished democratic leader of the senate senate, mr. Schumer. We are gathered here in emancipation hall aptly named for those that built the capital, sadly. Last summer, a number of us went to god to observe ghana to observe the 400th anniversary of the first slave coming across the atlantic. That tragedy, that horror of slavery in our own country, and all the consequences of that, we are here to observe that pain. There here to respect actions of the American People to speak out against that, specifically manifested in Police Brutality. We are here to honor george floyd. , we will have a moment of silence actually, eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence in honor of george floyd and so many others. So
Sense of placing the failed by the gallon g. s of the right and left the judges from new york sank to joining a story you recently wrote you said that cutting red tape in health care has unleashed waves of energy and ingenuity to deal with this in 19 yeah you saying were doing well with this well we did really poorly at the beginning i mean there are a lot of theres going to be report after all over talking about how badly the bureaucratic framework were leaders not taking is just a sleep but in the last 2 or 3 weeks youve got a great job and the key to that was throwing away the rule books through it all through books i mean not none of what theyre doing in tipperary hospitals doctors and nurses or other states that we tell of medicine for everyone else none of thats legal under the old law the rules prohibit all of it. As the president. Then up to the job in your opinion. Not to be giving certainly not i mean again in the last 3 weeks i think theres been a lot of effort good effort b
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Where any reporter would write that there is even a credible response to the data set that the put forward. The iranians are putting out a message, thats just false, it is pure blatant disinformation. They passed another message that said that the United States was removing forces. You can go see them, theyre there. I mention all of these things because its very important as the days proceed and as our diplomat efforts to change the nature of the Iranian Regime is doing go on, it is likely iran will continue to present thing that is are fraudulent, that are false. And we need to make sure that every news outlet, everyone who is seeing this understands whats true and what the Iranian Regime wants you to believe. That is truly important. Im heading out today. Our first stop will be in the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united arabian emirates. Two great allies. Well be talking with them about how to make sure we are all strategically aligned and how we can build out a global coalition.