Good to be here. Yes. What are some of your First Impression . It is incredible. It is amazing to be here. Overwhelming, the stature of the capital. All of my new colleagues. A ton of information. Kind of taking it all in. Last night we did a tour of the capital. That was very nice. What we noticed is we need more statues of africanamericans. There are not enough statues of africanamericans. I want to see Sojourner Truth and crispus addicks and so many others. We need to tell the whole american story, the story of the indigenous people, how they were here and how their culture thrived. It has been great. Heard of any challenges to Speaker Pelosi . I have not. I am ready to support her bid. I dont think there will be challenges. Right now, i am excited to come together to move our country forward. My focus is on georgia. If we can win those two senate races in georgia, that could be transformative for this country. What will be your involvement in that . Whatever it takes. I have been i
Louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing the good hand hygiene and with all of this we have to have a program of smart testing and im sure we will talk a
Quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane. Because at the time when we entered the war, we did not have plans to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. But my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. He was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. It was when i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i board the trains in his small town. He said there was such a sense of pride, there was son such a sense of duty and patriotism that it was infectious. In addition to obviously watching his father, that really spurred him to join the military and then i g
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