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In a governor want to take but saving lives is a very easy go goal. My goal is to be unequivocally focused saving lives and protecting them. Good afternoon. Welcome to Washington Post live. This is also a special recording, a live recording my Public Opinion podcast. We have a lot to talk about my guest today, she has represented her state in congress and today shes said to be on joe bidens Vice President ial list, she is new mexico governor, michelle griffith. Welcome. Im delighted to be on your show. Nice to meet you and spend time with you. Likewise. Thank you for being here. I mentioned your the health secretary, a member of congress because they gave you incredible insight and how to deal with the coronavirus early on. You declared a state wide of emergency march 11 when there were only four cases in your state. Wh ....
He is the chief officer building capabilities for the military and department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. Thank you for being with us today. Just to start, what led you to do this book . I know you have been thinking about these issues for a while and it is something you have encountered a lot on the Armed Services committee and senator mccains policy advisor, but what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and writing the entire book . Great question. I ask myself that constantly. Why did we get into this every day i was working on it . Basically two things. Both of these were a product of many years i looked at these issues, just thinking about this on a daytoday basis but the first was the growing realization that we had a fundamental problem i felt was underappreciated that people didnt appreciate that we were losing competitive advantage, we werent where we needed to be f ....
And update now on new york States Coronavirus response. Governor andrew cuomo outlined the States School reopening guidelines and talked about president trumps approach to schools as well as the overall federal pandemic response. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. A pleasure to be here this morning. Beautiful new york city. To my left with dr. James whos been working on among other things the School Reopening plan and hes here to talk to us about that today. To my right, melissa, secretary to the governor. To her right rick cotton was the head of the Board Authority whos been doing an extraordinary job overall, building laguardia airport, first newport and the United St ....
College. We are coming to life or my home office. In atlanta georgia. We been doing a whole series of Educational Programs that fall under abworking for social justice and encouraging the expression of diverse and marginalized voices. All through these virtual formats. We feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors all over the country during this time. We feel that its really significant we continue to do the programming we already have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. Theres really no i can become no better book to help us focus on the movement for black lives were needs right now. If were white and want to contribute to the movement of black lives can do that now. We have the editor here michael long and Pamela Horowitz who is julian bonds lifelong curator. She is having technical difficulties but a ....