Sectors saying this still battling the pandemic on the front line and getting only applause in return. From arts internationals world view center in moscow kevin 0 in here for the update for the next 30 minutes if you can stay with me too maybe for all of it so the top story this morning the United States is slashing its military presence in germany its withdrawing all redeploying nearly 12000. 00 personnel its part of a long running dispute donald trump has with dylan at the moment claiming its not paying enough into the nato military alliance although a slip of the tongue or could one by the u. S. Defense secretary raised a few eyebrows. Ive said that very privately to my counterparts as well about the importance of nato any alliance sharing the burden so we can all deter russia and avoid peace in the board. Clip is probably going to come back to haunt him all still a bit of a worry though for germany isnt it but weve all had them kevin havent we where weve said something just slight
If you say no, the twoparty system is not working, your line is going to be 202 7488001. If you are unsure what you still want to talk about this issue, your number is going to be 202 7488002. You can alwaysd text us your opinion at 202 7488003. Keep in mind, we are always reading on social media, on. Witter, and cspan we are going to have live on the two current thirdParty Candidates running for president. Coming up at 8 00 we are going to hear from Green Party Candidate Howie Hawkins. Coming up at 9 15, the jorgensenn nominee jo will discuss her platform and strategy for this years election. If you want to hear directly from those candidates, keep watching the show. First, we want to hear from you about the twoparty system in the United States. Do you think the political system is working . There is a story from cnn that talked about this earlier this year. Even if they are down on the independent candidates being presented, nearly 40 of americans think a third local party is needed
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
You are running for president this year. Tell us the history of the green party, how has it changed since 1984, and what does the party look like today . Howie well we got started in 1984 after the german greens elected people to their 35 bundestag, their congress, and around the world people said maybe we should do that. So we met in 1984 in st. Paul, meeting wend said cannot build this out of the president ial run. We have to start in local politics, and we proceeded to do that for the next dozen years. In 1996, ralph nader let us use his name on ballots for president. He did not do an active campaign, but he got on 30 ballots, and then he ran an active ballot in 2000 and we were on over 40 ballots. That put us on the national spotlight. We have been here 35 years and we currently have 129 elected officials in local offices. It is one of the best kept secrets in american politics, that is more than any independent Progressive Party has had since you have to go back to the heyday of t
The new system and we have a staff update on this this morning. So looking forward to that. In short, d. B. I. Is still fulfilling its motion on behalf of the his. I want to thank you to our hardworking and dedicated professionals for their absolute terrific jobs they are doing and have been doing. Under the enormous stresses caused by this virus. This continues to require multiple adjustments in very reduced timeframes and under challenging conditions. And we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. On top of Everything Else, the entire department is moving its offices to 49 south van ness. The move will start on july 23rd and take place over two weekends. It will mean that the Curbside Services are unavailable for a few days and again staff will provide more details on this later in the morning. The city, as you know, is keeping a very close eye on the resurgence of the deadly virus. Well keep you updated as changes occur and we have steps that are designed to k