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Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybod...

Members are finishing up other business, time to go to the floor of the british house of commons. Answer the engagement question. Approach the third anniversary this coming sunday of the grim tragedy the whole house would wish to join me in sending a Heartfelt Sympathies to the families and friends of the 72 people who lost their lives and to the survivors. Across government we remain committed to ensuring such a tragedy can never happen again. Members from across the house want to join me in of...

Defund the police. Thats what im hearing from democrats all across america. This comes on the heels of a previous battle cry abolish ice. Thats what the democrats are calling for today. Leading democrats, radical left wing lawmakers like alexandria ocasiocortez are pushing these very dangerous ideas. Let me say it again, liberal democrats all across the country are asking all of us to defund Law Enforcement in america. Mr. President , if we did that, if we did that crime would go through the roo...

Tonight at eight eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Standard john cotton one members of the bridge about buying g5 equipment from the Chinese Company while way. The arkansas republican join former House Intelligence Committee chair mike rogers and retired Brigadier General Robert Spaulding who predecease her on the National Security council under the trump administration. They answered questions from the British Defense subcommittee on china for about two hours. Order, order. Welcome to thi...

Of america in shackles. We know we have a long way to go and we are living with the legacy of slavery and jim crow and racial oppression that continues to permeate every aspect of american life. And we have seen that over the last several months in such a stark and striking fashion. The covid19 pandemic, the Public Health crisis and the economic crisis, has impacted everyone, but disproportionately impacted the africanamerican. Ommunity in terms of pain, in terms of suffering, in terms of econom...

The hearing on the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning, and thank the senators and our witnesses or joining us from around the country at various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing, and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on her weight in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray a...

Philip all rosensweig National Security fellow Paul Rosenzweig. Host the washington journal for june 10. At 10 00 a. M. Today the house to share years of george floyd the brother of george floyd and others. You can listen to it on a free cspan radio app. Several states have seen increases in covid19 cases since memorial day. Dr. Fauci still calls coronaviruss Worst Nightmare in new jersey joined the list of states at stayathome orders with that as a backdrop in our next hour, we will ask you to ...

Before the legislative mean, i have a press conference where our report on the issues coming up in the legislative meeting the next day. Tomorrow, tuesday, june 9, the council will have its regular meeting for the month of june. On the agenda is, is not very large in terms of number of measures. So im going to speak to this, take any questions, then i will turn it over to the mayor with her usual press conference, and i will be staying for a while encase there are more questions regarding the co...

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 . Nobo...

Held in brooklyn, this is 45 minutes. Mayor de blasio all right. It is a very Beautiful Day today. It is a Beautiful Day for this city. This is a powerful day. Day 100 of the coronavirus thats, and it is the day we start to liberate ourselves from this disease. Beginsne of the restart in new york city. All new yorkers should be proud that you got us to this day. This was a lot of hard work. Everyone who stayed home, everybody who socially distanced and put on face coverings, you got us to this d...