Listening in washington and around the country and around the world. I am mike ohanlon at the Brookings Institution. We are honored to host mark esper who, after being introduced by my boss, retired general john allen, he will offer remarks on how the covid19 is affecting the armed forces and anything else. I will ask questions and then i will hear from you. If you have not already submitted your welcome to do so. Apologies that we may not get to all questions. Ado, let me hand the body the baton to john allen. Good morning. My name is john allen and i am the president of the Brookings Institution and it is my great pledge to welcome you all to , featuring dr. Mark esper. Esper was sworn in as the 22nd secretary of defense on 2019. 0 323, he served as a secretary of the toy from november 20, 2017 the summer of 2019. He is no stranger to service. He is a 1986 west point graduate and upon graduation he was commissioned in the infantry and that makes at least two infantrymen on this call.
I think the main thing to focus on at this point we will bring in the leader on this point is Congress Needs to come back, in your view, to do this last him in this package. You believe, frankly, it has become untenable for you and for the house generally to have lawmakers on the sidelines as you craft these kind of trillion dollars spending packages every couple of weeks. Explained in your view what kind of changes need to be made here to Bring Congress back and to get the plays back working again. Rep. Mccarthy thanks for having me on. My big challenge here is how can you do another bill and not have the committees work . Are you going to have a few people craft this . Think of how much we passed already 3 trillion. You take that along with what the fed is giving. That is 7 trillion into the economy. We want to make sure that is implemented correctly. In my letter today, it starts out with what Benjamin Franklin once said. Plan, you feeling the are planning to fail. My letter is not
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