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Hello and welcome to newsday. We start with russia, where president putin has hailed his predicted victory in russias president ial election, saying it would allow the country to become stronger. He had been the only serious candidate and now has a 5th term in office, after a landslide 87 of the vote. But there was defiance in the form of large queues at some Polling Stations in russia heeding the call of allies of the late Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny who urged people to turn out to spoil their ballots or to vote for any other candidate. Mr navalny died suddenly in a penal colony in russia last month. At least 80 protesters were arrested. His widow Yulia Navalnya cast her vote at Russias Embassy in ....
biden desperately tries to deal with the skyrocketing inflation fueled at least partly, maybe greatly by record gasoline prices. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has our top story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. today president biden brushed off a gloomy forecast from former president obama s secretary larry summers says it s more likely than not that we will see a recession by the end of next year. biden has a different outlook after he says he spoke with larry summers this morning. but the white house is finding creative ways to ease pain at the pump. with sky high gas prices, team biden is reconsidering aned in they first tabled sending americans rebate cards. also eyeing a gas tax holiday. i hope i have a decision based on data i m looking for by the end of the week. a short-term solution one industry ceo says runs counter to the administration s broader strategy. they were really focused on demand ....
For coming out this morning. Thanks to georgetown university. I hope the rest of the day goes well. Thank you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [applause] welcome. Thank you very much. When mark twain, who was the remount humerus and essayist renowned humorist and essayist, was asked about his rumored failing health, he famously answered reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, and i think nato can empathize with twains reaction, because overall, over the past 75 years, nato has had to navigate many serious tensions among its members. Some of these are rooted in differences inside nato, about a nuclear strategy, the alliance structure, its operations, and others flowed from disagreements over policies of, or by one or more allies, outside, on issu ....
Guidance that has led us down a path where we now have 5 million folks with security clearances and access to the nations most Sensitive Information and facilities. Would you like to think about it, brian . Go ahead. I do not mean to interrupt. I just wanted to clarify we are very sensitive to what you say about that number. As a 5 million number that you are referring to covers both people with security clearances as well as people eligible for access. And being sensitive to that number as you mentioned 5 million of anything is a lot. Is. Spin and because of that, recently and speak of the devil as you mentioned, on halloween, the dni signed an executive correspondence going out to all of the Government Agencies stating that they need to they are required to go through their clearance list and validate the numbers and come back to the people that are being decrea ....
So thank you. So we are at 1 30, so im going to draw us to a close. I want to thank my panelists here today. Thank all of you for being here and for your contributions today and for, most importantly, for the work that provides the basis for you to comment today. I want to thank don graves for being with us and setting the stage so nicely. Thank the annie e. Casey foundation for their support for this event. I want to note a couple things. One is that the papers and not just the microenterprise ones, but there is a web site, big ideas for jobs. Org, and you can find all of the papers there. We are the second event here at aspen focusing on a couple other papers for the series. Theyre not focused specifically on the opportunities and policies that could support the work that social enterprises do, that anchor institutions like hospitals and educational institutions and others can do to create jobs, again, specifically focused on individuals and communities that have the largest challeng ....