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We take you live to a conversation with senator cory booker. Celebrate the illustrious career of our beloved colleague, distant wrist university professor, james a server. Jim is retiring this year after 47 illustrious years studying american democracy, contribute into it, and enlightening others about it. During that time, jim has done many things. Im sure hell be angry with me, the am going to embarrass him a little bit. [indiscernible] longtime advisor to both congress and the executive branc...

There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are ...

President elect harris. The election sent a clear message. Its time to stop relitigating issues mr. Mccabe . Can you hear me now . Hello . Yes. Are you with us . Yes, sir. Thank you. I apologize. Any time you feel like you need a break, you just let me know. I apologize, its been over two hours, i apologize for not remembering that. So senator hirono . Thank you, mr. Chairman. Id like to associate myself with the comments made by colleague senator durbin and others on the democratic side on why ...

The family of Jonathan Sacks who passed away saturday. This morning i attended the service to mark the centennial area of the tomb of the unknown warrior. Thanks to all those who served and continue to serve and have given their lives and service to this country. Thank you, mister speaker. According to homeoffice figures, compensation, 9 people have died waiting. 2 and a half years, what will the government do, what will the Prime Minister do to rectify this injustice and make sure no others who...

Sarah i see my role as shedding light on the technological processes but also social processes of how the police are using big data. Do myd really like to work and pull back the veil, reduce the amount of secrecy so that different people can do with it what they will. Community groups can do with it what they will come up policymakers can do with it what they will. At least reduce the imbalance or the information asymmetry, where civilians dont know what the police are doing with big data. Contr...

[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2...

As leader schumer and i discussed yesterday, this is an emergency of the highest magnitude, and yet our republican colleagues want to focus elsewhere instead of recognizing as the Health Emergency which science has given us a path to crush. Again, we have worse numbers than even yesterday. The numbers speak very eloquently. 160,000 infections were reported a horrifying number following more than a week of over 100,000 infections a day. These levels are two times higher than the summer peak. More...

Think it was yesterday. Well, was reported yesterday. If the white house and the house come to an agreement, that he would put it on the floor. That is among his many statements. Chuck the president is implying hes open to herd immunity. Are you is herd immunity now official Health Policy of the federal government . Is that what the task force is essentially pushing us towards, is some form of herd immunity . Sec. Azar chuck, ill meet with individuals who are experts to learn, listen, to hear pe...

Will be spending quite a bit of time together starting shortly and i very much support that. But today first i have the privilege of introducing for the first time to this room the 71st secretary of state mr. Tony blinken. Thank you good afternoon. Let me start by saying they first ambition is to be known as the man who brought the price to the state Department Briefing room. That at least is mission accomplished. In all seriousness, thank you everyone for joining me here today, this is my first...

We launched our Vaccination Program through cvs and walgreens. They will partner with us. That is part of that effort. We are trying to reduce cases. We are just months away. To bring us out of this. You did not answer the question on herd immunity. I think i did. That is not our policy. The desire is reduced cases. Reduce hospitalizations. Reduce fidelitys. Get us safe therapeutics and vaccines in record time. They may be submitting an application for a vaccine. This is an incredible, historic ...