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Council, this is 30 minutes. It is wonderful to have this opportunity it is wonderful to have this opportunity at the time of the alliance is facing a large array of challenges from china to cyberattacks and Climate Change and the pandemic what we need to make today is ensure there will be relevant and effective over the coming decade. And then to begin from the secretaryg general. Working with the alliance for securing democracy will moderate a conversation with the secretarygeneral. At a time when we are looking for leadership where the secretary general is my pleasure to welcome the secretarygeneral to the stage. Mr. Secretarygeneral over to you. Good afternoon from brussels and good morning and welcome to all of those on the line. Asking me to make the Strong Alliance even stronger. To make sure we are affected and then to tackle the challenge challenges, and it is our o ....
This is the day. I say get out get out i cant guarantee. That were protecting you and it means a lot more to you theyre protecting our troops our not much protection we get by protecting you because you think it was the way the German Government has been informed that the u. S. Administration is considering reducing the presence of u. S. Forces in germany. Is the fact is that the presence off United States soldiers in germany so that overrules security off the Nato Alliance is. Also coming up tonight the coronavirus is not going away they may be lifting lockdowns in here and in the u. S. But in africa more lockdowns may be on the way the w. H. O. Wants the pandemic is accelerating we know that it took 90 days to reach the 100000 cases and only 19 days to move 2200000 cases so even though these cases and calling for less ....
Good morning. This hearing will come to order. , want to thank eyewitnesses first of all for your service to this nation. On behalf of the committee, if you can thank the men and women who worked with you and apron pretty tremendous effort, trying to deal with an overwhelming situation, as a nation, we need to be grateful for your effort. Had thebly have not days off. I really do appreciate that. Toant to ask for consent have my statement entered into the record. Just a couple of facts. Just to lay out how extraordinary and overwhelming this effort has been. Not thatanuary 21, long ago, we had the first case reported of covid and eight days later on january 29, the administration established the task force. At that time, we only had five cases and zero deaths. Two days later, President Trump announced travel restrictions in china. That was not a popular decision, but it probably saved many lives and but as time to flatten what bo ....
Let me introduce the people here with us today. , melissa. Diate right thank all of you, smiling faces, for being here today. Today is day 100. It is a day that new york city begins to reopen, and it is a day that i am so glad to see finally come. Day 100. Day 100 since we had the first case in new york. The first coronavirus case. That is when we started counting. Day 100. When we first started, all of the experts people who studied this across the world. I said, where are we going to go . Nobody knew. How fast you could control the spread of the virus. It will depend on what people do. Whether or noton people take it seriously. If people except the warnings, understand the virus and understand how serious it is. I am so proud of how new yorkers have responded. I can say this. I am a born and bred new yorkers. New yorker. New yorkers heard the message and they did what they had to do. They did it with discipline. If you told me 100 days ago that we would be reopening, when we did not ....