Between. We were both voluntarily tested. Each candidate has a separate studio by himself. Changed are the rules, of which there are none. There is no opening statement, no closings, no time limits. We do have a lot to get through so please do not filibuster. We will be keeping track of speaking time to keep things relatively even. Good to see you both and thanks for joining us. Thank you for having us. We are going to start with masks this evening. The mask issue became huge this weekend when the president tweeted that both he and his wife tested positive for coronavirus. The university of washingtons study projects that 160,000 more people could die by january 1. That number could be reduced by 96,000 if 95 of us wore masks. Lets start with you, Kevin Oconnor. Do you support a mask mandate where it is legally permissible . Mr. Oconnor a mandate . Yes. Mr. Oconnor i dont support a mandate. I think there are appropriate guidelines that people should follow, and certainly within confine
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Today for this webinar on the nazi murder of the disabled. In the 1945 trial. We are so fortunate to have as our special guest today dr. Rice from the United States Holocaust Memorial museum in washington, d. C. I want to give a little bit of background about dr. Rice. She is director of the division of the Senior Historian at the mendelseph and Morton Center of holocaust studies. She is an expert of the nazi annihilation policies and effort to bring the nazi perpetrators to justice after world war ii. She has a lot of publications. I am going to mention a small number of those for you today. Trial,s atrocities on and historical perspectives on the politics of prosecuting war crimes, the 2008 volume she coedited with her colleague at the holocaust museum. I would like to mention to you especially about this volume, dr. Rices contribution in a piece entitled early war postwar justice in the american zone, the murder factory trial, which we will get to in the second half of our discussio
The next president ial debate. The white house still refuses to release key details on the president s health as President Trump returns to the oval office calling his illness a blessing, touting that experimental antibody cocktail for helping him beat the virus and now says he wants everyone in the country to get access to it. All of this as the seriousness of the white house outbreak escalates. A new report that white house staffers may have exposed thousands of people to the virus. Sounding the alarm. Dr. Faucis urgent warning that the number of american lives lost to the virus could double if things dont improve. Plus, a former cdc director calls the Trump Administrations handling of the pandemic a slaughter as hot spots surge across the country. Wisconsin forced to prepare a Field Hospital as their Emergency Rooms overflow. Hurricane emergency. Overnight delta strengthening in the gulf after wreaking havoc in mexico. Now louisiana, mississippi and texas all bracing for the powerfu
Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual