Good. [laughter] [applause] i have a number of jobs and , andrew will be here shortly. Were you interested in meeting the next president of the United States . [applause] good. Thats good. Coincidently, he will be here in 10 minutes or less. Hopefully, less than 10. I saw some people groan. It is going to be all right. My name is steve. If you like state or local politics, we may have crossed paths. If not, that is on me. I used to be the mayor of portsmouth, New Hampshire. And i was a candidate for governor of New Hampshire on the democratic side last year. [applause] dont clap too much. Breaking news, i did not win. [laughter] and had i won, there would be burly security people trying to intimidate you. But the good news is, i am not intimidating at all. Instead, there is a Silver Lining to what happened, because i had more free time that i hoped i would, a year ago, coincidently, today, i sat down for the first time with andrew yang for a cup of coffee in my hometown of manchester.
Good. [applause] that is good. Coincidently, he will be here in 10 minutes or less. Hopefully, less than 10. I saw some people groan. It is going to be all right. If you like state or local politics, we may have crossed paths. If not, that is on me. I used to be the mayor of portsmouth, New Hampshire. I was a candidate for governor of New Hampshire on the democratic side last year. [applause] dont clap too much. Breaking news, i did not win. Had i won, there would be burly security people trying to intimidate you. The good news is i am not , intimidating at all. There is a Silver Lining to what happened because i had more free time than i hoped i would last year. A year ago today, i sat down for the first time with andrew yang for a cup of coffee at the Bridge Street cafe in my hometown of manchester. I knew him but i did not know , much about him, to be honest. Five minutes in, i knew, at a minimum, that we would be friends. He checked some boxes for me very early. 44 years old, first
1380. Of the reported cases, medical staff being infected. More than 1700 have been infected with the virus as of february 11 as hospitals are grappling to treat the upright with short supplies. In beijing, we are seeing local media reporting that people returning to the city have been instructed to go on home court for 14 days to be observed. This is a human tragedy. At the same time there economic repercussions. What are the supply chain consequences . Sophie the Fiat Chrysler decision to halt at a serbian plant, that due to the shortage of parts from china. That is another example of the knock on effect of the Global Supply chain. That follows on the likes of renaud and g. M. Operations being affected. We are seeing a slow restart of operations. Power demand not picking up as was hoped for after the government called on companies to quicken the pace of reopening at their plant. We do have that in focus. David really appreciate all of your reporting from hong kong. That is sophie kam
Marcos, congressional reporter with the hill. It was always understood there would be a war powers resolution coming up in the house, did the missile strikes precipitate Speaker Pelosis action . Cristina Speaker Pelosi announced sunday thous was going to vote on this war powers resolution for President Trump taking action in iran without congressional authorization. This morning democrats had a caucus meeting, after these strikes iran carried out last night on the to u. S. Bases in iraq that had taken place. And there was some question as to whether democrats would still go through with this peer but democrats we talked to this morning insisted that if anything, these strikes strengthened their resolve to go forward with the war powers resolution. Because they argue congress has been ceding its warmaking powers for years now and this was an opportunity to start taking that back. In their mind, the obama and bush administrations were both relying on authorizations of force passed in 200
Peter thanks for the introduction. It is great to be with you. Mostly i am looking forward to the q a. You asked for a brief overview of my life so we will be here three days. Just a few minutes of my political journaling my political journey and some thoughts about the Republican Party in the age of trump. I would love to engage with you all. I was born in Washington State and developed an interest in politics at a very early age. We had a cabin in the Cascade Mountains on the east side of the state. I still remember as a kid driving with my parents to my cabin every weekend. We talked about Public Policy. We listened to the news at the top of the hour and i was a question asker. I would ask my dad why did the israelis and the arab world not get along. What about president nixon and Henry Kissinger . Those issues really fascinated me, along with sports. When i got to high school, i got into debates with my social studies teachers. They were liberal. I was conservative. Not because i t