Proceedings will have noticed that our attendance today is significant sick significant lee below the normal numbers. I discussed the usual channels for which we can limit the numbers of people together to ensure maximum safety. Were doing our best to Keep Parliament sitting and to follow the guidance. Number one, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the whole house will want to join in paying tribute to Lance Corporal freddie guillen, a reservist medic from the scottish and north irish yeomanry who was tragically killed in iraq last week. My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with her family and loved ones at this very difficult time. Mr. Speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. Like many others in the United Kingdom my constituents are understandably deeply concerned about covid19, and i pay tribute to the hospital and everyone in the community who is helping those wi
Good evening. Im andrew, the director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the bush school of government here e at texas a and m. University. I would like to welcome our special event this evening with kim ghattas who is going to speak of the recent book, black wave saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry that unleashed collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading it. I didnt quite get through but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting. If you havent read it after this evening you can get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it to be at its fascinating and very wellwritten and very well researched. There was a narrative thats very troubling. I would like to announce that our event with ambassador dennis ross is another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. Hcollege station. He had a family emergency and so kim ghattas is an awardwinning journalist and writer covered the middl
I would like to speak about what the department of defense is doing in response to the coronavirus. I want to remind everyone that the United States military is is remains ready and capable of meeting our requirements. I just returned from a visit to fort detrick seeing how theyre advancing treatments for the coronavirus. I was tpwhreevend Army Medical Research cutting edge covid19 response and then visited the Army Medical Research institute of Infectious Diseases to learn about its ongoing experimentation and testing. The armys work on a vaccine is one of the many ways the department of defense is supporting president trumps whole of government approach to fight the virus and substantially slow its spread. Many of the policies and guidelines we have released go hand in hand with the president s 15day plan. We have issued international and Domestic Travel restrictions to all d. O. D. Personnel and families that should dramatically reduce exposure to the virus. Inside the pentagon we a
This is about 50 minutes. Okay. Well, welcome, everyone, to our meeting on ai and advance system Quantum Information Sciences, quantum computing, et cetera. Im pleased to have an opportunity to welcome michael crosteus, chief Technology Officer of the United States. I think weve come to the right place to engage this important subject. As you know, the administration has taken a very energetic position in trying to advance the state of the art in both the applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Quantum Information Sciences to our nondefense applications. Parallel efforts of substantial scale in the department of defense through the Defense Advance Research projects agency and other defense entities, because these technologies are, indeed, of universal applications. So i would like to take an opportunity to begin the discussion with michael to perhaps start with the bit of current news where europe has European Union in particular has tabled some of their ideas about how to mana
Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by campell and 97 and brought to you today by your television provider. The former wells fargo executive testified themselves as the consumer abuses that led to the executives earnings. Members of the House Financial Services committee question the witnesses on their actions at wells fargo and why no one has been prosecuted for the consumer abuses. This is just over two and a half hours. Thank you. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable examining the roll of board of directors and that the greatest patterns of consumer abuses. Today, we received testimony from elisabeth and mr. James quigley who until earlier this weeks are as chair of the board of directors of wells fargo and companys Walls Fargo Bank respectively. Both have resigned as our call for the resignations following the release of us phasing majority statute on wells fargos compliance failures in their individual failures as Board Members. Resignations do n