[no audio] good afternoon. i would like to welcome everyone to our michigan board of state canvassers meeting. director brader, did you have a statement to read, or do you want me to go forward with my remarks? i can confirm the matters are published. this meeting is being held remotely. fory to hand it back to you consideration of the minutes. note thatant to just auses, just be some p because this is a remote meeting. in ouro our first item agenda is a consideration of the for approval for october 15th, 2020. chair, i move approval of the minutes, as printed, for the october 15th meeting. it has been moved and supported. call role,e, we will just like we did in our teams meeting. this will not change. roll, just like we did in our teams meeting. this will not change. [indiscernible] i apologize. is there any discussion on the approval of minutes for october 15th? melissa, will you please take a roll call vote? call] have four ayeou votes. canvass and certifica
been movement and supported and we will be taking will call the just like we did and our teams meeting. this did not change. [indiscernible] orthere any discussion motion regarding the approval of the minutes? discussion on the approval of the minutes for october 15? will you please take a roll call vote? taken]all vote four ayeir, you have votes. the second item on the agenda is the certification of the november 3, 2020 general election. thank you, chair brad chop. chair bradshaw. [indiscernible] all fourike to thank of you for your dedicated service to our stay. the staff recommendation is that you certify. you have before you the results of michigan s election. more than 5.5 million ballot, ars cast a record in our state. two constitutional amendments. [indiscernible] dissipationng amidst a global pandemic is inspiring and voters should be commended for having their voices heard in november. state.lf of our this is an effort that is unprecedented in scope and dif
we are doing this hearing both with some members present and some members remote. remote. we also have two of our witnesses that will be remote. so we are it s the first time we ve been back for a full committee meeting, house armed services committee since the covid outbreak so i urge all of you participating and watching be patient as we work out the bugs and give everybody the chance to say what they need to say and run the committee in an orderly fashion. before we start the basic rules and outline of how we re doing the hearing. and i welcome those joining us remotely and those members are reminded they must be visible onscreen within the software platform, joining the establi established meeting and remaining a quorum and they must use the video platform during the proceeding unless they experience connectivity problem. if a person remotely have issues, the staff will help you get recorrected. video of remotely, will be visible on television and the video feed. members
maryland and the move to walter reed is a precautionary measure and they expect the president to stay there for the nix fext few days working out of the offices in the facility they said the president had mild symptoms but larry kudlow described at 3:00 this afternoon the symptoms as moderate the white house has not said whether that is accelerating president recorded a video message and posted it on twitter. i want to thank everybody for the tremendous support i m going to walter reed hospital i think i m doing very well. but we re going to make sure that things work out the first lady is doing very well so thank you very much i appreciate it. i will never forget this thank you. a short time ago the president before boarding marine one. this afternoon the president s physician reported that he was fatigued but in good spirits and received a regeneron antibody cocktail but not yet through clinical trials. the white house reports that the president has not transferred powe
hopefully, legislation we can pass on a bipartisan basis. but prior to that working with us to try and accomplish something to start addressing this tremendous problem. . the top line is down a little bit because i was projecting this out based on the most recent months. based on may s number, the total number coming in as an unaccompanied child is just over 800,000 now it s just over 700,000 one thing i ve been pointing out, since 2017, these bars represent, currently 5 years, nine months, 1,086,000 people coming to the country being apprehended. of that 822,000 we ve returned a whopping 12,021 individuals. i know in your report you make the you talk about 15% having a clear asylum claim. so i m pleased to have at the round table four individuals working on the advisory council. i ll read your names and pa bio do you want to start with karen? you have it all worked out. again, take the time you need, but we have karen tandy. the reason we do this round table, it s just a m