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To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 mill ....
Row. Weve got fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman at the white house. Hillary vaughn and Edward Lawrence in washington. Well start with blake. The latest on reaching a deal for covid19 relief. Blake. Reporter hi, jackie. Every afternoon around this time we say there is another big meeting up on capitol hill. Let me start by saying there is another big meeting up on capitol hill. Treasury secretary steve mnuchin, white house chief of staff mark meadows are negotiating with the top two democrats Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi. Walking into the meeting mnuchin and meadows were quote, unquote, hopeful. According to sources im told during yesterdays meeting, those two, mnuchin and meadows impressed upon schumer and pelosi if there is not significant progress in the upcoming days, that could increase the possibility that < ....
Welcome, ambassador. Thank you very much. Host host it is such a pleasure to have you here. We have 30 minutes for the chat and we will get to your questions during the conversation. If you have not sent them already, post them on twitter using politico. We have great ones rolling in. Ambassador, i want us to spend our time talking about policy. Time, in such a strange thought we could ask a couple questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Maybe lets start with the border context. You have decades of experience at the u. N. , you have worked in the u. S. Previously in conflict zones. Thinking over all of those errors, what has changed from when you started out in diplomacy . Wow. That is a big question. Not much has changed actually. That sounds dull. And it sounds like diplomats are stuck in the last century. But fundamentally, diplomacy is about human relations. It is about implementing people and explaining your point of view. Skill hasou ....
Thanking our panelists. The democratic and republican colleagues for your participation in this forum. Over 80,000 citizens have lost their lives due to covid19. More than in any other question, country unearth. Many families have lost loved ones including my own. Mrs. Waters has also lost a member of her family due to the pandemic. This committee was not established to possibly or cast failures, or to search for the viruses origin. A relative, pursuit future success. We have been tasked with the urgent an important work of ensuring that our countrys response to this crisis is effective, efficient, and equitable. I agree that one of the most important components of our response is answering the question that is being discussed at every Kitchen Table in america right now. How will we know when we are ready to safely reopen our country . To answer that question, we should be informed by history, and guided by science. Well we all wan ....
To talk about the ongoing efforts to develop a vaccine. Join the conversation tonight 8 00 eastern on cspan. Next remarks from former fda commissioner Mark Mcclellan on the Coronavirus Response. He spoke at a Duke UniversityVirtual Event for half an hour. The room is open, thank you for joining us. Welcome to the latest Duke University media briefing. Bem Greg Phillips and i will monitoring this. Today we are discussing what the federal government, states and cities must do to reopen safely. Thanks to those reporters who submitted questions. People can ask questions by the q and a window. With me as dr. Mark mcclellan, physician and economist from t ....