Live now with a discussion with Public Health officials unsafely on safelythe u. S. Reopening the u. S. Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live. Im eugene scott, political reporter of the Washington Post, and id like to welcome our first guest this morning, assistant Health Secretary at hhs and a member of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force. Thank you so much for joining me. Good morning, is great to be here with you, thanks for the invitation. Host and i got the correct, right . You know, im from deep down in the country louisiana and that is pretty darn close. Thats a great first try at that. Host ok, great, great. Admiral, you are the white house testing czar and lead developer of the hhs Public Health policy recommendations, so i was hoping you could give us a bit of an overview on the Current Situation on the ground today. So, the situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were postmemorial day, we have had a sign
Has disinfected they can use. We have spaced out the room to be as safe as possible for my staff and minority staff , thank you for working together to set up the room. It has been 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet the committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we also have things that are necessary like filling judicial vacancies we are getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states that we will be as part to that as we can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings state and federal and Detention Centers and for immigration purposes we will try to Work Together to have those hearings i am curious myself about our nations prisons and immigration Detention Centers so we are working as quickly as we can hopefully we will have a hearing about liability issues related to the virus and what we can do as the congress to safely open the country to minimize lega
Order. Order. This is a meeting room set up differently to deal with the reality we all face as a nation trying to practice social distancing and good hygiene. Thank you for coming everybody has disinfected they can use. We have spaced out the room to be as safe as possible for my staff and minority staff , thank you for working together to set up the room. It has been 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet the committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we also have things that are necessary like filling judicial vacancies we are getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are impacting the ability to deliver justice in various states that we will be as part to that as we can. My democratic colleagues are requesting hearings state and federal and Detention Centers and for immigration purposes we will try to Work Together to have those hearings i am curious myself about our nations prisons and immigration Detention Centers so
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The iranian navy has a sizable submarine fleets with russian built cuter class subs quite enough to sneak up on the u. S. Carrier group lets take this on lets speak to john mark quickly who is head of global risk at the Geneva Center for Security Policy joins us on skype from geneva so if we look at the balance of power on each side it is very balanced in favor of the United States and iran really cant fight against that kind of. When a kind of mention about an award for probably not for may not many countries the u. S. Is actually spending more than the next top 7 spender in terms of military equipment into words but iran has developed over time a symmetrical capabilities some have to do with surrogates that they are using in syria in iraq as well as in as in yemen either have to do with capability is as you mentioned me size an entity science capabilities mining because obviously the strait of hormuz is very never and there for you if you land of human mind it could actually block th