Bless you all. Thank you. Thank you. You may be seated. First of all, i want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be here with all of you. There is something very encouraging about getting together again, and especially with people who love america, that love god, who love the church, who love jesus, who love worship, who love the bible, who still believe jesus is the answer. Ive just come tonight to, first of all, say what an honor it is , and i made a. Ecision in 2016 paula and jonathan, who are just some of the greatest people that we have known for many, many decades we have known you, paula, and now jonathan, and the more that i know jonathan, the greater my respect gets for him. They are just a power couple in the kingdom of god. They really are. Dr. Jackson is here and ralph is here and dr. Lee is here, and im leaving somebody out very important, im sure, but youre all here not to lift ourselves, not to talk about ourselves, we our time ited in weve got five minutes, and ill
Moment and a reflection of the part we all have to play when slowing the spread of covid19. In light of this remote format i also some reminders to the members about conduct of the hearing. Members keep their video feed on as long as they are present at the hearing. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting their microphones and please keep your microphones muted when youre speaking. And finally if members have documents they wish to submit for the record please email to the committee whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Well, good afternoon, and well coom the First Virtual hearing of the committee on investigations and oversight. Today were discussing a critical issue. Research into repurposing existing therapeutic drugs for covid19 treatment as well as scientific basis for the federal governments evaluation of such drugs. I appreciate our witnesses being here under these unusual circumstances, but these are very important issues, and we look forward to your
Were trying to do on the overall management. The bottom line here is very simple. The number of coronavirus cases we have coming in to the Health Care System has to match the capacity of the Health Care System. Thats what this whole conversation has been about from day one. They keep talking about the curve, the curve, the curve. What theyre trying to say the curve, the increase in the number of cases has to be reduced to a rate of admission that your hospitals can handle. And right now, we have 53,000 hospital beds, 3,000icu beds. Thats what the entire countrys doing, thats what the federal government is trying to do. What is the particular problem here . That this is a respiratory illness. The people who come in often have an underlying illness, they need an icu bed. The icu bed is the equivalent of a ventilator. Its all about the ventilators, thats why you see so much about how we get additional ventilators. Right now in new york, specifically, the rate of the curve suggests that in
Assistant to the president. We just had a great morning of conversation, town hall style, capped off by the president with some of the great c. E. O. Leaders based out of new york and the partnership for new york. Over r they represented 1 trillion to the u. S. Economy. We focused on some of the major forwardthinking initiatives of the president and this administration, including infrastructure and the infrastructure package were working hard on, including modernizing government i. T. , specifically modernizing the i. T. Infrastructure of the government, which is in desperate need of overhaul and modernization, both for the efficiency of government and for the security of government. And lastly, on work force development. Theres no question that this administration is bringing back hundreds of thousands of skilled and technologyrelated jobs and we need to invest in training our work force of tomorrow so that theyre ready for this demand. Its truly my pleasure to turn over to some of th
From the highest levels of the obama team. This bombshell is not on the front of the washington post, or new york times. And ignored on the nbc newscast and cbs defended susan rice. Same old same old. And it was susan rice that went on television to blame benghazi on a video and told pbs last month she knew nothing about surveillance of the Trump Campaign. Bottom line, the obama team detested donald trump and went to Great Lengths to undermine them and the media detests donald trump and goes to Great Lengths to cover up the wrongdoings of the left. We need clarity. About Varney Company is about to begin. And this year, the confetti is going to fall for north carolina. Carolina. There you are, the champions, university of north carolina, the tarheels, beating gonzaga to win the ncaa tournament, 7165. This is north carolinas sixth championship in school history. They avenged their heartbreaking loss in the game last year and by the way, i dont know whether you stayed up for it, but it wa