Lets start with italy, which will begin to ease its covid restrictions today as infections in the country fall and its Vaccination Effort accelerates. So far 16 million italians have received the first dose and nearly five million are fully vaccinated. Prime minister mario draghi is also set to announce his plans to parliament to spend 220 Billion Euro to restore the countrys battered economy. Itll cover everything from high speed rail links to the digitisation of the Public Administration. Italys economy is desperate for a boost. In october last year, the countrys public debt hit a massive 2. 6 trillion euro. Its a familiar tale, isnt it . Im joined by Lorenzo Codogno, formerly Chief Economist to the treasury in italy, now founder and Chief Economist of Lorenzo Codogno advisors. First of all, italy is easing restrictions an important step forward . Restrictions an important step forward . Step forward . Yes, i think mario draghi step forward . Yes, i think mario draghi has step forwar
Americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the sight of the signing of the american charter. It is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, henry trewhitt, and richard valeriani, Diplomatic Correspondent of nbc news. Rules are the same for the first debate. Questions will be alternated between candidates. Governor carter will take the first question. Each question sequence will be as follows. The question will be asked and the candidate will have three minutes to answer. His opponent will have two minutes to respond. Prior to the response the questioner may ask a followup question to clarify with up to two minutes to reply. Each candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement at the end. President ford and governor carter do not have it prepared remarks with them this evening but they may take notes during the debate and refer to them. Mr. Frankel, you have the f
Maintain a competitive market. The Hudson Institute hosts the hourlong conversation from earlier this week. Good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth. Im a fellow here at the Hudson Institute. Ill be your host for today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have with us the honorable makan delrahim, assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs no introduction. And he has been working in and around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume, which you can find at the department of justices website. Before we get started, i have two requests. One is if you could take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interpretations of that sort. The second is for the q a session, we will have cards that you can write questions and those cards are going to be passed around. You can write your questions. Theyll be collected. And ill sort through those. We
Good afternoon. I am senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and i will be your host today. Has a very distinguished resume, which you can find at the department of justice website. Before we get started i have two requests. One is is if you could take your cell phones and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interruptions of that sort. The second is for the q a session we will have cards that you can write questions, and those cards are going to be passed around and you can write your questions. They will be collected and i will sort through those. We particularly would like to welcome our cspan guests and other guests that are watching through various video links, as well as our online guests who are watching at the hudson website. For online and for our video guests, you, too, can submit questions, submit them to hashtag pets and events in those questions will be collected hudson events. Assistant attorney general delrahim computer had a distinguished tenure that has
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and i will be your host today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have witnessed the honorable makan delrahim, the assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs to introduction, and he has been working around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume which you can find at the department of justice website. Before we get started i have two requests. One is if you take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interruptions of that sort. The second is for the q a session we will have cards that you can write questions, and those cards are going to be passed around and you can write your questions. They will be collected and i will sort through those. We particularly would like to welcome our cspan guests and or other guests that are watch