She spoke at an event hosted by axios where topics included health care, expanded insurance access, and the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States. Hello and welcome to axios virtual event, health care 2021. Im sam baker, the Health Care Editor at axios coming to you from my home in washington, d. C. Id like to thank the crew for making this possible and id like to welcome our audience on facebook, youtube, twitter, linkedin and axios. Follow along at axios. Next 30 minutes we will unpack the best way to expand Health Insurance access and Health Insurance coverage in the United States an what that path forward looks like following the president ial election and in the midst of a pandemic thats getting worse every day. Our first guest is senator tina smith from minnesota. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, sam. Its really terrific to be with everyone today. Id like to start off to just sort of frame this conversation. Obviously Health Care Access and coverage
2020 meeting of the Police Commission. I think its probably fair to say that we all have our minds a little bit elsewhere tonight given everything thats going on in the world, and this being probably the consequential election of our lifetime. Were glad to be here with you all and we will all take the pledge of allegiance tonight with maybe a little more awareness of whats going on in the world. I will ask everyone to place their hands over their heart so we can say the pledge. [pledge of allegiance]. Thank you, and as always, if i could ask for the commissioners to mute their microphones. If you would like to be heard, just put your name in the chat box. Members of the public who are dialing in, i would ask you to please mute any background noise so that we can hear you and there is no feedback. The dial in number is [indiscernible] 0001, access code 146424 [indiscernible]. You will have two minutes for Public Comment. Please call the roll. [roll call]. You have quorum. [indiscernibl
Good evening and welcome to the special election 2020 debate between u. S. Senate candidates. This is the only live debate between these two candidates. It is a joint effort brought to you by the Election Commission and media organizations. Im the host and managing editor of arizona horizon. Joining me tonight is a political reporter with the arizona republic. We are broadcasting live from the studios at arizona pbs and the Walter Cronkite school of journalism in downtown phoenix. Tonights debate is being. Ivestreamed on a website topics were chosen by journalists from the four participating media outlets. Questions from the public as solicited by the commission are also included. The ground rules are as follows. Once we ask a question, both candidates will have 90 seconds to answer without interruption. The candidates will get 45 seconds or a rebuttal without interruption. Then we will have up to two minutes for an open discussion on the topic. At the end, each candidate will have one
Announcer coming up in an hour, rovnerhealth news julie discusses the future of health care, including legal challenges to the Affordable Care act. Judge Amy Coney Barrett begins two days of questions from senators in the review of her nomination to the highest court. Journal andgton good morning. The second day of hearings begins at 9 00 a. M. , but we would like to hear from you about what you saw yesterday and what you expect today. If you support the nomination, the line to call in is 202 7488000. If you oppose the nomination, 202 7488001. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text 202 7488003 the line to use and include your name and where you are from. cspanwj ande are on facebook at cspan. Wednesday and thursday as well our coverage plans. We will show you some of the sights and sounds as members come in. 9 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspan, cspan radio, and streaming live at cspan. The reporting yesterday on the first day of hearings, the Opening Statements, op
About something so what i do in this book is i restore history to the subject of covert electoralinterference. I debunk as myth that this is confined to the 2016 election. I show how the soviet union interfered in elections during the postwar period and how they went toe to toe during the cold war, how russia is interfering in elections all over the world today and only then to do i 2 examine 2016 and its aftermath because at the moment russia is actively interfering in the 20 20 election and to me by restoring that history to Public Discourse and by preceding the fact that this is not all new we can prepare for and defend against this threat in a much more effective and comprehensive way. What is new about what russia is doing and what are they doing that theyve always done . Whats new here . I would say whats not new is the idea of russia covertly interfering in the us election area as i detail in the book russia targeted, the soviet union targeted americas 1960, 68 and 84 elections