Earlier today, astronauts mark kelly and terry virts discussed ongoing Nasa Missions and research, including the mars mission. Mr. Kelly talked about nasas study of himself and twin, scott kelly. This is about an hour. Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is john hughes. Im an editor at bloomberg first word. Thats bloombergs breaking news desk here in washington, and i am the president of the National Press club. We have a historic day here in the National Press club. Our guest live via video link from the nsInternational Space station is scott kelly. Here at the table is mark kelly and terry virts. From the audiences right, david shepardson, Washington Bureau chief for the detroit news. Robert kunz. Frank mooring jr. , senior editor. The Washington Bureau chief for the buffalo news and current chairman of the speakers committee. Senior Vice President for business wires Public Policy wire and the press club member who organized this mornings breakf
Recognized for his questions. Okay. Thank you. Id like to welcome my fellow e coloradans to washington, d. C. , gentlemen, thank you for your testimony, all of you, thank you for your testimony today. T part of this is i feel like, you know, were in the early stages of litigation, and i, the chairman, i think, maybe a frustrated litigator wanting to figure out who was negligent, who wasnt negligent, whos responsible for this, what happened. Appreciate the fact that the epa got to the department of health in colorado quickly, who got to durango, quickly. To share this. There apparently was some breakdown in communication getting to the Navajo Nation. A court is going to figure out o exactly what happened, when it happened, should it have happened, dr. Williamson, but id like to ask some other questions, because i think dr. A benn, you suggested some things that the epa should consider inn the short term and in the long term, one was help you with some monitoring devices to keep an eye o
My look at industry today, i een companies i will not name them but Major Service providers that can comply with court orders. They encrypt and decrypt when it passes their networks. I have not heard anybody say those companies are fundamentally insecure and fatally flawed from a security perspective. I dont think we have really tried. Second partt to the question, i also dont think there is an it to a solution. I think there are many solutions, whether you are in an honest business or a tiny company. I dont think we have given it a shot that it deserves, which is why i welcome the dialogue. We are having healthy discussions. With respect to the second part of your question. I think you have correctly characterized that there is no onesizefitsall to describe the spectrum of activity we see. That is one reason why you see response to different events are not all the same. We look at each event in its own context. Sony, in the first category, we categorize that is an offense of act to cr
Proficiency mark, its very difficult for states. They have to tell people, are our kids getting dumber . Why are our kids not performing well . Sreenivasan those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan this christmas brought all the traditional celebrations of the day, but along with them, new calls for an end to suffering. The most ardent of those appeals came from the vatican. The crowds who filled st. Peters square heard a ho
Difficult for states. They have to tell people, are our kids getting dumber . Why are our kids not performing well . Sreenivasan those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan this christmas brought all the traditional celebrations of the day, but along with them, new calls for an end to suffering. The most ardent of those appeals came from the vatican. The crowds who filled st. Peters square heard a holiday lament from pope fran