In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow on Public Education organization. He served as a Senior Adviser to the iraq study group. Please welcome professor chris kojam. Its a real honor to be here tonight, and this is in the very best traditions of this school. A very erudite, accomplished policymakers into the academy, and so that both can benefit. And im deeply dedicated to this continuing interaction between scholarship and practice. So its a real honor tonight to introduce ambassador thomas pickering. He is a career ambassador. And that is the designation that very few ever receive. Only a few in a generation. And ambassador pickering really is a phenomenon. The most accomplished ambassador
Representatives of disease groups know more about the diseases than anybody else. They have worked so hard to try to understand whats at stake. Pressing the government to be as flexible as possible. I think its important for the infrastructure for the 21st century cures. I want to say i would be a little cautious about thinking we can solve big problems with legislation with all the unforeseen consequences that can sit inn at a panel here ten years from now and bemoan. I guess thats not a question, but comments. I thank the witnesses and particularly, my good friend and constituent mike milken for all that he has done. Thank you, mr. Chairman for convening this roundtable and thank you to the expert witnesses for your insights. Every time we have one of these hearings or roundtables, we learn a lot. We had an excellent roundtable with dr. Collins, dr. Hamburg, our chairman, dr. Burgess, frank blum were there. It was very important and meaningful. Dr. Collins, youve forcefully made the
40 years. One, putting the patients at the center of discovery, development and delivery process. More efficient Clinical Trials. Meaningful working relationships between patients. And diseasespecific organizations. One of the great advancements of the past two decades has been the strengthening and improvement of the disease Recognition Research group. Two, incentivize collaboration across sectors in the r d process. Public private partnership. Look at history books and see those partnerships between ford and kaiser and the government that allowed us to have victory in world war ii as we moved our forprofit Industrial Companies quickly to produce ships and other products we needed during world war ii. Three, encourage novel Financial Solutions that address the riskiest r d endeavors. Change this risk return ratio. As an example, mr. Chairman, all we have to do is look at acid rain. A major issue in the latter part of the 1980s in america. Movies, public hearings, et cetera, the loss o
Losing control of her car and plummeting 500 yards a ravine. Why emergency crews say she owes her life to an app on her will cell phone and mrs. Kloon oat case. Amal clooney steps into the spotlight without her husband just weeks after their lavish wedding tackling a controversial case hundreds of years in the making. Today, wednesday, october 15, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Im matt lauer along with fatly morales, tamron hall and al roker. Savannah continues on Maternity Leave and we start with unsettling news on this ebola crisis. Frightening indeed. It is our top story, breaking news from texas. Presbyterian hospital who cared for Thomas Duncan has now been dieing nosed with that virus. Kate snow, what can you tell us . Good morning. Reporter good morning. A total of 77 Health Care Workers at this hospital came into contact in some way with
Thank you. Wrote. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for holding an open and public hearing. Myself withto align the senators. Everyone in this room and other senators know i represent the nationals 38 and he. People get up every day. We have seen the revelations of eric snowden and we are not here to debate whether he was a traitor or a whistleblower. But i will say this. I am deeply disturbed that, while i support the need to review the to 15 project, to actually even examine it, i do not see the continual immunization of the nationals cured agency, whether in the media or in other forms. National security agency, whether in the media or in other forms. People do a whole host of other things to keep america safe. Eric snowden had his time. He gets an hour on tv. Row from brian williams. We ought to say to the National Security staff, that while we looked at the persecution a la the of other issues here, that we do not i have always maintained our must be constitutional, legal, authorize