next, dr. anthony fauci providing update on the recent surge in the covid-19 cases and fantail of these. this is in washington and it is 50 minutes. please welcome david rubenstein. . . we have a larger attendance than any event we ve had with our members and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor anthony fauci, director of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases that we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that i just wanted to say to everybody thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual format and in doing so we had an honest number of events and had 26 signature events, 26 signature events normally in a year we might have 12 or 13 and present events and we had 78 guests in our 26 signature events and 13000 people watch the events live and then we had about 2.7 million who w
fauci providing an update on the coronavirus pandemic and the recent surge in covid-19 cases and fatalities. please welcome david rubenstein. president of the economic club of washington dc. welcome, everyone. i want to thank you for coming to our 12 virtual signature event of our 35th season. for the calendar year, it is our first event. i wanted to thank everybody for coming to this event. we have a larger attendance than any event we ve had with our members. and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor tony fauci, director of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases, and we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that, i just wanted to say to everybody, thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year, we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual format, and in doing so, we had an honest number of events and had 26 signature e
covid-19 cases and fatalities. please welcome david rubenstein, president of the economic club of washington dc. david: welcome, everyone. for the calendar year, it is our first event. i want to thank everybody for coming to this event. we have a larger attendance than any event we ve had with our members and that is obviously because of our special guest today, doctor anthony fauci, director of the institute of allergy and infectious diseases that we will discuss a whole range of issues related to covid-19 and the vaccination situation. before i get to that i just wanted to say to everybody thank you for your support of the economic club last year. last year we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual format and in doing so we had an honest number of events and had 26 signature events, 26 signature events normally in a year we might have 12 or 13 and present events and we had 78 guests in our 26 signature events and 13000 people watch the
you for your support of the economic club last year. last year we had to convert what was generally an in-person kind of format to a virtual format and in doing so we had an honest number of events and had 26 signature events, 26 signature events. normally in a year we might have 12 or 13 and present events and we had 78 guests in our 26 signature events and 13000 people watch the events live and then we had about 2.7 million who watched our youtube replay of that. we have a lot of people watching what we did last year and want to thank all of you and sponsors particularly and the members for participating and i want to thank mary grady and her entire team for doing a spectacular job of converting a organization that was used to doing in-person events to an organization that did events more virtual than anything else and hopefully this year we will be going back at some point this year to in person events. now i would like to recognize our special guest today and we have amba
we wanted but we couldn t give up all of the sanctions for that. so we continue to work and we ll see. but we had to walk away from that particular suggestion. paul: retired four star general jack keen is a fox news senior strategic analyst. welcome, general. glad to be here. paul: what did we learn this week do you think about north korea and the willingness to denuclearize. they used the same pattern they ve always done, that is, give us something and in return we have to give up sanctions on them with the promise that they would eventually give up their nuclear weapons. well, this is the first president that didn t take the deal. and he walked away from it. so i think it s not a setback. it s a step forward. because we have declared that denuclearization is truly our objective. there has been reporting that really what president trump was seeking is some kind of normalization of relationship with north korea. and possibly let them keep their nuclear weapons in exchange