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There are so many areas of the world getting a lot of attention right now, its hard to know where to begin. Maybe thats how you feel every morning. But just to start with something i know has captured everyones attention the last couple of weeks and that is nigeria. What right now is the state of the search for these young girls who were kidnapped, objected from their school, and this abducted from their school. And the u. S. Has now joined the search with the Nigerian Government. I appreciate you asking about it. This is such a horrific situation. For those of us who are policymakers but also those of us who are parents, as i am, it is heartbreaking to imagine your teenage girl taken away and potentially at risk of being sold into captivity or worse. This has gripped all of us in the administration and across the country. We are doing all he can to support the Nigerian ....
That is important to point out. Im discussing changes that will be there for my generation. People will have to except that are Social Security and medicare will be the best in the world compared to other countries, but it will look different. It will look different because it has to and because we will work longer and live on her. Makee going to have to that change. That is a choice we will make. If we dont, all i can tell you is that these programs will not exist as we know them. Socialstion is not if security will be reformed. It will be, one way or the other. The question is whether it is performed in a way that is productive or distractive. Or whether they are reforms in a chaotic way. As you would expect, your remarks have generated questions on other topics. Week you rejected the assertion that human activity is causing climate change. Action taken to curtail this activity will destroy our economy. How do you propose that ....
At a point of pause in the direct negotiations that were going on for the last nine months. And we have made clear and my message to both sides was that the only sustainable solution to this tragic conflict is yet a negotiated twostate solution. That is our view. That is the position of both sides. But they are not yet ready to take the steps, i think, to actualize that. And also we have underscored in the meantime as we manage this moment of pause and as they manage this moment of pause more precisely they ought not to take steps either of them that make the circumstances more tense or more fraught. What has happened the last several weeks is that some of the u. S. Officials involved in those negotiations are now saying that it was the israeli governments expansion of settlements, specifically Prime Minister netanyahu to build 14,000 more Housing Units that sabotaged the peac ....
Many know that Howard Law School was the incubator of much of the thinking that went into the early civil rights litigation work and so i would like to thank the interim dean and the howard faculty for oining us today as well. Many know that it really does take a village of amazing activists lawyers advocates brilliant people who have committed their lives to making america better for everyone. And i would ask that any of you who are here who are leading organizations stand. But i want to especially acknowledge the person who leads the Umbrella Organization in which we all sit and that is ade henderson. It is my pleasure and honor to introduce to you attorney general eric holder who was sworn in as the 82nd attorney general of the United States in 2009. We are so thrilled that he chose to join us today on this v ....
Directed the fda to give emergency use authorization to a coronavirus therapy called convalescent plasma. President trump sharing the podium with the head of the fda, the agency that just one day ago the president accused of harboring a deepstate operation bent on derailing his reelection prospects. The therapy refers to the treatment of hospitalized covid19 patients with medicine made from the blood of people who have recovered from the coronavirus disease. It has already been used to treat more than 70,000 hospitalized patients. According the health and Human Services secretary alex azar. Lets go over to jeremy diamond. The president saying this therapy, convalescent plasma, will save countless lives. A familiar ring. The president has endorsed some treatments and therapy that is the scientist community did not sign off on. Any concern out there right now . What are you hearing this might be a similar thing. We all hope it works ....