To participate in another proceeding please exit this one and like back in later. Any that a member encounters technical issues that prevent them from being recognized from their questioning i will move to the next available member of the same body and will recognize the member of the next appropriate timeslot provided they have returned to the proceeding. In the event the witness loses connectivity during testimony or questioning i will preserve their time as staff address technical issue. I may need to recess the proceedings to provide time for the witness to reconnect. Finally remembered to remain muted until you recognize to minimize background noise. Over the last few months the outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and creating a dire economic crisis for small firms. Three out of four businesses are experiencing a decrease in revenue and over half of Small Businesses are concerned about being forced to close. Small businesses across the Food Supply
Welcome to the more than 1000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. This is the fifth of these discussions. These discussions have tapped the Exceptional Leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. Today is no exception. All of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. Our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jacksons founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, left new haven to serve in vietnam. He then served more than two decades in the u. S. Senate before becoming the 68th secretary of state under president obama. You probably know all of that, but what you might not know is that secretary kerry continues to pay it forward, helping to train the next generation of leaders here at the Jackson Institute and across yales many schools. It is my pleasure to welcome secretary kerry. At this time, perhaps you might offer perspectives on how you assess the global ramifications of co
Gov. Murphy good afternoon, everyone. I am honored to be joined by the woman on my right, my partner in government, the Lieutenant Governor, great to have you back with us. To her right, the commissioner of health. Great to have you here with us. Also on my far left, great to have the superintendent of state police. With us today, another special guest, immediately to my left, the congressman, who will be able to give us a federal perspective. If that were not enough, in row isabout 10 feet to my right medical director in the department of health, it is great to have you with us, as well. Lets start as we have been doing, we have someone from the department of homeland security. Lets start as we usually do with updated numbers and charts. Because we are going a little bit earlier today, these numbers are of last night. Dont read a lot into the sunday or monday numbers on their own. We have weekend uneasiness. Have a is not enough, we little bit of a delay in getting these today because
Reduce the spread of covid19. Reliance on doctors to provide the safest strategies. Thee, a focus on protecting most vulnerable from exposure to covid19. That it isnder entrepreneurs who drive the texas economy. They need to restore livelihoods while all of us remain focused on protecting the lives of our fellow texans. We are texans. We got this. James hudgins. To thank you, governor. Over the past few months the state has faced unprecedented challenges. But your leadership combined with the incredible resilience , weexans across the state have made tremendous progress in the fight against covid19. We know that we need to get the texas economy back on track. We also know that this can only be done if we contain the spread of covid and keep texans safe. By your actions, today is a major step forward towards accomplishing that mission. I would like to thank our experts, theyr have worked very hard, as the governor said. I would like to thank all the members of the Strikeforce Team who h
Accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Today i would like to provide you with an update in our war against the coronavirus. Thanks to our comprehensive strategy and extraordinary devotion to our citizens, we have had such tremendous support all over, we continue to see encouraging signs of progress. Cases in new york area, new orleans, detroit, boston, and houston are declining. Seattle, washington, d. C. , indianapolis, and st. Louis are all stable and declining. All parts of the country are in good shape, in all cases getting better. And we are seeing very little that we are going to look at as a superseding hotspot. Hings are moving along really a horrible situation that we have been confronted with, but they are moving along. As we express our gratitude for these hardfought gains, we continue to mourn with thousands of families across the country whose loved ones have been stolen from us by the invisible enemy. We grieve