Catch washington today for a fastpaced group work for stories of the day. Listen to cspan any time, tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Cspan, powered by cable. Announcer next, testimony on the origins of covid19 with the former director of National Intelligence, john radcliffe, he testified before the House Committee on the pandemic with other government officials. They talk about the intelligence gathered by the u. S. And the roadblocks to the investigations. The hearing is 2. 5 hours. Next testimony on the origins of covid 19 with former director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. He testified before the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic with other government officials. We talk about intelligence gathered by the us and roadblocks to those investigations. The hearing is 21 2 hours. The select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic will come to order. Welcome everyone. With objection the chair may declare recess at any time for the committee on oversight an
Come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses, i appreciate your time and testimony, i look forward to your oral testimony and answering what will be some pretty interesting questions. I frequently say from the podium that the general Inspector Generals, your are go to agencies and government. Youre doing so much to root out and identify and eliminate waste fraud, abuse, dictated programs which is what this hearing is about. The reports by the gao that really started with a Pretty Simple. [inaudible] offering 2010 by senator colborne in the. [inaudible] something we all hate to do but if were going to do it its nice to get some measure of control and a Pretty Simple concept is asking the gao to issue reports and inspections on different programs as resulted in 75 billion of savings over seven years. This is pretty remarkable. Based on the amount of Budget Authority that the gao has, 3. 8 billion over that timeframe that a 20 one investment. Put the microphone on for this. 112 to one.
Forces baltic air policing. Establishment of a very High Readiness joint task force. Nato and whales made commitments that indicate to me that all of them take that responsibility seriously. The problem we could potentially have is the asymmetric nature of it, where there might be a dispute about whether its actually happening. So were working with our nato allies to work through that. And of course the situation there is with those Large Russian speaking populations in the baltics, especially in astonia, it could give him the same excuse that hes tried to use with regard to crimea. Let me ask you about Mental Health. And ive been enormously impressed with some of our special operations forces. That they are now realizing that the stigma against Mental Health counseling, they are really trying to turn it around because its performance enhancement, not only of the body but of the mind as well. To what degree are you all trying to implement that same thing across the board of the departm
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Put that down. We were talking about people who talk to you on the phone and talk to their kids in the background. You know how jim mocks our fitness session . I was eating an apple and he he said he said, how are you going to burn off that apple. Here she is, the current news center. Good morning, everybody, the battles to restrict abortion continue in texas and former senator and former president ial candidate Rick Santorum is jumping into the fray. Santorum will go to texas and hold a press conference in austin. His spokesman said hes joining those giving a voice to the unborn seriously and backing a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Remember this is a state bill and Rick Santorum is from pennsylvania. Anyway thousands of activists both antiabortion and prochoice have been swarming the capitol to weigh in on the bill. The state committee has determined to vote today. The bill is requesting that doctors have admitting privileges to hospitals and would effectiv