Most infectious Respiratory Viruses shes seen in her 20year career. If you are not vaccinated, please take the Delta Variant seriously. This virus has no incentive to let up, and it remains in search of the vulnerable person to infect. So tonight, there is a surge of people who are now getting infected. New cases are up 58 from last week. And hospitalizations are up, too. Up 54 , compared to last week. And much of that coming from states with low vaccination rates. To show you the map of the country this is a map by county. This is a month ago. The red represents counties with high covid transmission. Very tiny, 3 . Things have changed since then. Fast forward to today, the south and parts of the midwest, as you can see, exploding. So now 30 of the country lives in a county that is red. This explosion of cases is why cnn is learning top Administration Health officials are recommending everybody mask up again. Just moments ago, Joe Biden was asked if masks could soon be a reality again
the national security program here at csis. thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an interagency panel from several important notes of the vast security sector assistance community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. i did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the co-authors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. my co-authors hijab shaw, rebecca hughes and shannon green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. and none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagement and support of key stakeholders throughout the ssa community, several of which are in th
good afternoon, everyone. i m melissa dalton, a senior fellow in the deputy director of the national security program here at csis. thank you so much for joining us today for the second portion of our rollout event for the oversight and accountability and security secretary assistant seeking return on investment report. following the terrific remarks from representative smith this morning, we have gathered an interagency panel from several important notes of the vast security sector assistance community to enlighten us on some of the great work that they are doing behind the scenes on this on this enterprise. i did want to spend a few minutes at the outset noting the co-authors and great work and contributions of csis staff that worked on this project over the last nine months. my co-authors hijab shaw, rebecca hughes and shannon green contributed mightily to the successful outcome of this project. and none of this would have been possible without the tremendous engagemen
well, good morning. the senate armed services committee meets today to consider the nominations of carrie bingham to be principal secretary of defense under intelligence, robert karen for international security affairs, and kenneth raparano for global security. i note the presence of several of our a couple of our colleagues here, including our distinguished majority leader who is here as well as representative barbara comstock. and so if it s agreeable to my colleagues, we would like senator mcconnell to make an introduction. i know he has a very heavy, busy schedule. welcome, senator mcconnell. thank you, chairman mccain. senator reed, members of the committee, i m al qaedaingly proud to be here today to introduce robert story karam, a very experienced and well-qualified nominee to serve as the next assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. this committee will find an individual who has worked to prepare himself for some of the major challenges
nominations of the principal deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence, robert karen to be assistant secretary of defense for new national security affairs and kenneth to be assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security. i note the presence of several of our colleagues including our distinguished majority leader who is here as well. representative barbara comstock. if it is agreeable to our colleagues, we would like senator mcconnell to make an introduction, it is a heavy busy schedule. welcome, senator mcconnell. senator reid, members of the committee, i am proud to be here today to introduce robert karen, a very experienced and well-qualified nominee to serve as next assistant secretary of defense in national security affairs. this committee will find an individual who worked to prepare himself to address major challenges facing our country. because of his razor-sharp intelligence and diligence, robert, a native of lexington, kentucky, r