You have everyones bio, i dont think i need to reintroduce the panebut it is a way to look at the year in a context of cyber and healthcare and give us a different way to look at the efforts to get the vaccine to the public. Have news that we will get to later, the new rk times reported cyberattacks related to cold storage of the vaccine have been gog on since august and it is unclear whether this is about ran somewhere or sothing more sinister but we will get to that in minute. What i thought we would do is divide the discussion into three parts, going to look at thbroader issue, attacks on for healthcare sector as we wrestle through a pandemic, ok at the security and protection of intellecal property related to the vaccine and finay is related to news about hacking the cold cin we will talk about Security Protection and defense of the supply chain for the vaccine. What i would like to do if you have questions i will field those as we along and we may have questions at the end as well
Man from the northeast in the english city of Newcastle Upon Tyne will make history on tuesday when he becomes one of the 1st people inoculated against the coronavirus using a fire as a biotech vaccine is going to be the largest Vaccination Program ever undertaken here in the u. K. Were already excited about it and then we heard their view toward the risks involved. The threat of death of do it to lead to crises is going to come to an end. Really hard to go there its going to start to do is do you hear of. It is you do to a little girl i was really excited i got the opportunity for drawing to you. French president has been accused of failing to challenge egypts president of the human rights abuses president abdul fatah sisi is in france for 2 days for an official visit my corners confirm that hell allow the sale of weapons to egypt because they have a shared mission in fighting terrorism in the region. An update on brics that talks now u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson is going to be
The extraordinary life of hamilton aellis cose the author of trana they both have a lot to add for people that are interested not only in our history but a lot of current events. Im going to give kimberly and alice a couple minutes to introduce themselves and then we will jump into discussion. Kimberly, do you want to go first . Hi, i am so delighted to be here. As i was saying before we get started, i used to live in austin, he went to ut for my phd so being a part of the texas book festival has been a dream of mine for a long time. Edited picture it would happen this way but i will take it. Im very grateful to participate and thank you so much for having me. Im a historian and ice study women, sex politics, and science and medicine. Now i live in cincinnati and i teach in oxford ohio. I contribute essays to publications like the washington post, i have an oped in there today actually about kamala harris. I also have my new book free thinker which tells the story of the fallen woman a
For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Household name for public institutions, the banking legacy. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent, an actor within this story, this landscape you are drawing. Guest when i started looking at this time period i knew a lot about roosevelt than i did about morgan as is true of most. This was morgans world, that roosevelt quickly and abruptly in terms of wall street, and by the time roosevelt became president morgan was at the peak of his power. He was the king of wall street, literally called jupiter and zeus. On the eve of the inauguration, the first billiondollar company in the world. That was a company that employed more than any other for the steel production, was a huge monopoly. Just a few months into roosevelts presidency, morgan created the secondbiggest company in the world which is the focus of the book, 400 million which would be 11 trillion. The two Biggest Companies but beyond that morgan controlled the flow of capital. That is where