Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question is the United Nations still the go to place for the world to solve its problems lets get to the bottom line. The biggest Intergovernmental Organization in the world just turned 75 years old this year it was created by the big powers to prevent another world war and in that mission its generally succeeded but hows it doing on the other missions like securing peace and delivering health and humanitarian relief with regional war is raging with refugees and migration at an all time high and a Global Pandemic on top what a mess my guest today is mark lowe cox the point man for humanitarian relief at the United Nations and u. N. Speak he is the undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and head of the office for the coordination of humanitarian Affairs Emergency relief coordinator and the coordinator of its covert 19 global humanitarian Response Plan mark those are a lot of titles im so glad to have you here today let me just ask you you know w
Lets milk this and go back and forth. We dont even finish each others sent answers it will be awesome this is the first time you are back at the nasdaq in a while. I go away and then im quarantined. I went away in july and finally got back here. I went away again and came back and been quarantined another two weeks. You got to start going away whachlt are you doing . I wish these states would drop off there is 57 states on the list no there are a lot of states on the list not all states i was in a county that was like an island, nobody was there i am glad to be back there is a big krispy kreme thing. Most lights ever i was looking and i was thinking about you. I got to stop thinking about you when im not at work thats not what i want in my life you may draw me back to time square but so will crispy cream. We were talking about this the last couple of weeks i havent been in there in ea while. He said there is no one around nobody on the streets. Is that the case there is people here. A
Your convention. And we are going to have a Great Convention coming up, and i look forward to it. Discuss aut before i historic breakthrough in our fight against the china virus, i would like to provide an update on the recent wildfires in california, and the storms in the gulf of mexico. Yesterday, i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I spoke to governor newsom. As they battle two of the worst wildfires in the history of their state. That continues. The federal government has already deployed over 26,001st responders, and personnel to battle the wildfires. Were working very closely with the governor and very closely with a lot of great state representatives and local representatives. And well take care of the situation. But we have 26,000 First Responders already. Our hearts go out to the thousands of families who have lost their homes. As we grieve for the families of two First Responders, and five residents who have tragically lost their lives. Been a very horrifi
Here now, the president of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. It is good to see you all. Hope you had a great weekend at your convention. And we are going to have a Great Convention coming up, and i look forward to it. But before i discuss a historic breakthrough in our fight against the china virus, i would like to provide an update on the recent wildfires in california, and the storms in the gulf of mexico. Yesterday, i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I spoke to governor newsom. As they battle two of the worst wildfires in the history of their state. That continues. The federal government has already deployed over 26,000 First Responders, and personnel to battle the wildfires. Were working very closely with the governor and very closely with a lot of great state representatives and local representatives. And well take care of the situation. But we have 26,000 First Responders already. Our hearts go out to the thousands of families who have lost
Coronavirus. He also spoke about the california wildfires. The federal government has already deployed over 26,001st responders and personnel to battle the wildfires. We are working very closely with ae governor and closely with lot of great state representatives and local representatives. We will take care of the situation. 26,001st responders already. Our hearts go out to the thousands of families who have lost their homes. We grieve for the families of two first responders. And five residents who have wrist their lives. Its been a very horrific fire. One of the biggest we have ever seen. My administration is also closely monitoring hurricane marco and Tropical Storm laura, which are coming in rapidly. Hurricane marco is expected to make landfall in louisiana tomorrow, and Tropical Storm laura is expected to hit louisiana two days later. This is somewhat unprecedented. The scope of the storms, and also the fact that they come so quickly after another. Both storms have the potential o