Chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frankly members of this committee were very involved in to see if we couldnt establish a new way to look at responding to pandemics. I think we have the chance to actually write a new important chapter in what that response looks like. Developing the right vaccine, the right therapeutics, the right testing is important. And
Provider. [applause] thank you, ladies and gentlemen, meese be seated. It is my distinct honor to introduce a special guest and a good friend, this is the second of our jack brennan distinguished Leadership Series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months. Jack brennan was the first president of president nixon, Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps, retired from the marines rather than leave nixons side and when he had a gift of the library we thought we would name the series for and we had a distinguished we remind people that jack brennan served and continued to serve and could glad youre here. I youre a veteran or member of active duty. Would you stand and allow to us thank you. [applause] now, our guest is admiral james stavridis. From the United States Naval Academy in 1976. He went on a 37 year career and some extraordinary duty stations along the way, including, as the combat Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, and of course, nato allied
This is the second of our jack brennan distinguished leadership series. The first, with general james mattis, the first friend of president nixon, Lieutenant Colonel marine corps vietnam veteran living in the white house, retired from the marines rather than leave his side. We had a gift to the library and thought we would name it for jack, we headed sting worst professional of arms here, we would remind you jack served and continues to serve. We are glad so many of you are here. If you are a veteran or member of activeduty, allow us to thank you. [applause] [applause] our guest is admiral James Stavridis who graduated the United States Naval Academy in 1976. A 37 year career in extraordinary tv stations along the way including as Combatant Commander of Us Central Command from 20062009 and nato allied supreme commander. He earned his phd in masters of arts and law from Fletcher School of law and diplomacy and cynically went on to retirement from the navy. James stavridis is the author
[applause] our guest is an admiral who graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1976. He had a 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way, including as the Combatant Commander of u. S. Southern command from 06 to 09 and of course his nato ally supreme commander. He earned his phd as well and masters of arts and law from the Fletcher School of law and diplomacy which he subsequently went on to lead as dean after his retirement from the navy. The author of ten books, but hes also an operating executive with the Carlyle Group which most americans know as perhaps the preeminent Venture Capitalist Fund in the United States. He chaired boards of the council. Hes among the most treasured guests i have on my radio show, and im leading personally a campaign to get the admiral on the board of at least one and hopefully three of Big Tech Companies so that google, facebook and amazon bring to their perspective and discussions of you to the National Security of the United
Visual worth or on political level as live from the french capital. Okay. Just time to show you whats happening in poland. Farmers there, i have blocked to border crossings with germany run thing off their protests against a european and war souls. I brit cultural policy. The, well, the scenes here come a part of efforts to keep off pressure. All the officials all across the country inside the name of the protest. Farmer say is to make polish and you authorities reimpose products on you printing projects. And these tough environmental regulations, the european commission, offered some concessions last week, but the demonstrators told us theyre far from enough to shield farmers from the escalating crisis, which is putting their livelihood some chance. Funding funding tools. Kind of funny mr. Task, our Prime Minister, we are not interested in who started it nicely or who wants to finish up to go school. We live today. And in this moment, we want this to end immediately, so that no grain