lansing. she addressed the covid-19 pandemic and her goals for getting residents of her state vaccinated. this runs 30 minutes. i am honored to welcome all of you for my hometown of detroit. last year was tough. there s no doubt about it. but when our backs were up against wall, we saw some truly remarkable things and michigander stepped up in incredible ways to help each other. when we do things together, we are unbreakable. thanks for the to the conviction and work ethic that fuels the soul of every person in our state. now it is time for us to look forward together to write our next chapter. as president of the 101st legislature, i officially called the 2020 one state of the state address to order. please an out of me to introduce my partner, the 49 governor of the great state of michigan, governor gretchen whitmer. whitmer is addressing her state of the state address. this is different because it has to be. tonight, it is tonight is just me and a few speed a few
, will get underway. guest: she is the former governor of michigan. she was governor when the economic crisis hit the state, hit the u.s. pretty badly, michigan in particular with the auto industry. she proved herself to be a champion of alternative green energy during that time and really pushed it in the auto industry as a way to get them out of tough times. and i think that she met then vice president joe biden when he was pushing the obama administration stimulus act at that time, so they have known each other. she has personal and work experience there. host: who might object to her nomination? guest: i think she will be confirmed. there will be objections. republicans have already made it clear that they have some objections to her, although i do not think they are insurmountable. the objections will be to the larger biden agenda on energy, as well as a former governor and as a speaker at the doc, she was outspoken on her criticism over republicans, so i am sure we will
tonight. ac 360 starts now. not since the cold war has the conflict since the russia and west has been to sharply drawn in dueling speeches three days before the anniversary of russian s invasion of ukraine, and a day after the president of surprise visit to kyiv. kiev one year ago the war was bracing for the fall of kiev, i just come from a visit to kiev and i can report kiev stands strong. kiev stands proud. it stands tall. and most importantly it stands free. speaking today in warsaw, the capitol, the president pledged unflagging support from nato which joined in 199 and commitment to ukraine one year into this war, putin no longer doubts the strength of our coalition. but he still doubts our conviction. he doubts our staying power. he doubts our continued support for ukraine. he doubts nato can remain unified, our support for ukraine will not waiver, nato will not be divided and we will not to tire. the president accused russia of creating crimes against human
north korea seems to be the biggest topic today. what does the response look like to the sony hack? did sony make the right decision and pulling the movie? let me address the second question first. sony is a corporation. it suffered significant damage. there were threats against its employees. i am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. having said all of that, yes, i think that they made a mistake. in this interconnect did digital world, there will be opportunities for hackers to engage in cyber assaults both in the private sector and public sector there. our first order of business is making sure we do every day to pardon site and prevent those sort of attacks from taking place. we need to look at everything we can do at the government level. we need to prevent these types of attacks. we have been coordinating with the private sector there. a lot more needs to be done. we are not even close to where we need to be. one of the things i hope congress is prepared to wor
thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] live next to the u.s. chamber of commerce in washington with german chancellor angela merkel focusing on u.s.-german relations and the importance of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership. which is getting attention on capitol hill. a survey released by pew research showing 53% of americans regard a trade agreement as a good thing. been at theor has white house meeting with president obama on a number of issues. in particular on sanctions against russia over the intervention in ukraine. the ap saying that the president says violence escalating in eastern ukraine is making it obvious to the world that pro-russian militants are not peaceful protesters. he voiced his support for the ukrainian government on the day of its first major offensive aimed at driving out the insurgents occupying government buildings across the east of ukraine. we will h