Good morning. The committee has come to order. One thing, i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony. Those appearing in person, traveling to d. C. To give it orally, and, also, answer our questions. The title of this hearing now is, i guess, examining the u. S. Approach to early covid19 treatments. I thought it was i originally set out a title of early treatments for covid, a essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic to be politicized into the tragedy it was. From the start, i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response. We were facing a new virus. No one wanted to underreact, and as a result i feared the tendency would be overreact. The challenges facing us were daunting. Our National Strategic stockpile had been reduced during the h1n 1 pandemic. It took time to develop a test. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibit no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I
Though its pretty clear that yes, lost the election. Even republican senator now is an indian style of behavior asking, you know, absent of policy. Yeah, exactly. And so joe biden has announced he will convene a summit for democracy so he wants to rally americans and us round table again to really make them more coherent to improve the relationship, particularly see where p. And ls suno. And the relations was in nato relations was in the e. U. Back if straight he had a very hostile, almost relationship to international fox. So biden will have a totally different policy if he appreciates the value of the less and the whole he seems to realize that the United States is a lot stronger to get its allies rather than to go it alone. And under, under, we saw a more unilateral america going to develop policy. And i think that will change fundamentally in one of your recent analysis of trumps Foreign Policy. You single out its 3 primary strands disengaging the us from local politics, does deign
Lost the election. Even republican senator. Now isnt there an indian style of behavior asking, you know, absent of policy . Yeah, exactly. And so joe biden has announced he will convene a summit for democracy, so he wants to rally americans and us round table again to really make them more coherent to improve the relationship, particularly the c. E. O. Of p. And ls suno and the relations resume made to relations was in the e. U. Back if straight he had a very hostile, almost relationship to international fox. So biden will have a totally different policy if he appreciates the value of the island. And in the whole, he seems to realize that the United States is a lot stronger to get its allies rather than to go it alone. And under and the trump, we saw a more unilateral america going it alone policy. And i think that will change fundamentally in one of your recent analysis of Foreign Policy. You single out its 3 primary strands disengaging the us from local politics, does deigning allies
United States Armed Forces remain committed to protecting the safety and security of the American People and supporting our like minded allies and partners worldwide. Minutes after that announcement, several rockets hit baghdads green zone. Some landed near the u. S. Embassy, and others were intercepted by ed defense systems. A child was killed at least 5 people, and trump has fired the top u. S. Election security official who had refused to the president s unsubstantiated claims of fraud. Chris krebs was the head of the department of homeland securitys agency that monitors election security. Its your peers. Government says its troops have achieved significant victories in the conflict with forces in the northern tier, a region and strikes have been no interest at the regional capital mckelway. Thats the main base for the great Peoples Liberation front or to p. L. F. Which governs the 3. Former prodemocracy politicians have been arrested and Hong Kong Police are questioning ted at each
Of the American People and supporting our like minded allies and partners worldwide. The military leaders, u. S. Allies and senior figures in trumps republican policy have warned of the dangers of putting too many troops out before conditions are right. Others are extremely important here in the next couple of months. Not to have any earth shaking changes with regard to defense and foreign policy. I think a precipitous drawdown and either afghanistan or iraq would be a mistake. Lets get the view from iraq al jazeera, simona fulton, is in baghdad. The reduction of u. S. Troops in iraq to 2500. 00 is not that significant in light of the drawdown that already took place earlier this year. In january, there were 5000. 00 troops present in country that number was reduced to 3000 as of september. And of course, the political and security context that precipitated this reduction was rather complex. Back in january, we had the us assassination of iranian general custom still in miami, as well