Theres no room for the public, but this is all streaming and there will be an unedited version that anyone can watch later. Our witnesses are participating by Video Conference today and some senators are as well. I would like to Say Something about mass. The office of attending position that he says since were six feet apart, we dont need to wear masks, although some may. I have one and i wear it outside because as dr. Redfield reminded us yesterday, its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee. Sergeant arms, the capitol lice and chun check and Evan Griffith and the people with all their hard work in helping us keep safe and helping us do these conferences by video which everyone has become pretty expert. Senator murray and i will have an opening statement. Well turn to our witness who we thank for being with us today. Each witness if you would summarize your remarks in five minutes, that would leave more time for questions and answ
Cruz this subcommittee hearing is called to order. Welcome to the witnesses who good afternoon the subcommittee hearing is called to order. Witnesses. The. The First Amendment is first for a reason to guarantee not only the freedom of speech but the Peaceful Assembly of people peaceably matters a great deal in that protection. Without First Amendment rights, rights that protect the countless ways in which people can express their social and political views , democracy would work the demand changes to petition the government for grievances in the very best tradition of america. No history of the United States or no recounting of the struggle to live up to our founding promises to be complete without recognition of peaceful movements that have push this nation forward. From the abolitionist, suffragettes, to the countless souls who march in support the civil rights vemovement. Piece one dash peaceful assemblies have move mountains. When america saw the horrifying video of a Police Office
Joining us my name is gavin and the director of programs exhibitions and partnerships for the National Historic society. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of our virtual crowd in the geographic diversity of the people who signed up, im sure there are some people who are in for the first time. If youre not familiar with nhs we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our nation and States History the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Events we have Online Events for every week through july. Next week we will be hosting a virtual tour the tour is titled misled and a look at historic a a these include mimic houses suspicious ain a marker that denotes the side of the famous vikings bar if youd like to join the tou
Through our afternoon, were looking at temperatures a little cooler compared to yesterday. 65 in oakland, 67 in san jose and i will show you the future cast, walking through it all coming out. Today, the states retail reopening plan begins for San Francisco, marin and san mateo counties. Lets go live to redwood city. Reporter this is one of more popular Outdoor Stores on the peninsula and we all know the drill. The first steps of phase 2 means that they can reopen today but you have to order ahead and get curbside delivery. This includes but is not limited to book, toy, jewelry stores, clothing, shoe and Home Furnishing stores, sporting goods, florists, dog walking, carwashes, Appliance Repair and of course residential cleaning. In other words, nonessential retail or services that do not require close Customer Contact. We caught up with gloria and sam and they run a Clothing Store in burlingame and they have been close for couple of months and it will finally be able to open up startin
Administrative state will be well the u. S. Be in democracy or rule but the administrations state . Our panel will come up in just a minute. Youre going to get a preview of tonights tony blankly Fellowship Award presentation because the moderator of the panel is one of our two new recipients of the blankly fellowshipped. He is the chief correspondent washington for the hill and he is also a media fellow at the Hudson Institute in washington d. C. Where he cohost the realignment part casts. He previously said that White House Correspondent for Foreign Affairs correspondent and easy news foundation. He received his masters degree in u. S. National Security Policy from Georgetown University and his bachelors in economics which washington university. Sunder has studied a crack the globe spending three continents in his visited over 40 countries. I am proud to introduce to you one of my new toni blankly fellows in the tunnel, sorry and jerry who will introduce our panel. Gentlemen please co