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We are joined by will h urd. Why arent you running for reelection . Rep. Hurd i am looking forward to staying involved at the intersection of National Security, education, and technology. And to continue to talk about technology. Or working with Cutting Edge Companies that are working on Artificial Intelligence, quantum. It is super exciting. These dont believe that positions in congress were designed to be for 30 years. Ive always said that 6, 7, or eight years is likely the best thing. I am going to try to go off and do other things. You have written a paper for the Bipartisan Policy Center ...

Our next speaker really needs no introduction and stays on the frontline. Congresswoman ayana pressley. She is an activist, a legislator, survivor and the first woman of color to be elected to congress from the commonwealth of massachusetts. Throughout her career as a public servant, she has fought to ensure those closest to the pain are closest to the power. Prior to her being elected to congress she served on the Boston City Council for eight years and was the first woman of color elected to the council in its 100 year history. Congresswoman ayana pressley. [applause and cheers] good morning...

Today, the covid and convention, but this is a big deal. Im outside in port arthur, texas. That is the biggest u. S. Oil refinery. That is the motiva refinery. It is shut down, flaring some gas. Just a skelton crew. They cant shut it completely down. That is shut. Oil and gas throughout this region shut. But more importantly the people. Take a look at the latest pictures of this morning people getting, the last plane out of saigon almost. The last few buses out of the port arthur dead center in the cone. Were dead set the eye of the storm could come ashore. If it is a cat4 storm that comes ash...

Your convention. And we are going to have a Great Convention coming up, and i look forward to it. Discuss aut before i historic breakthrough in our fight against the china virus, i would like to provide an update on the recent wildfires in california, and the storms in the gulf of mexico. Yesterday, i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I spoke to governor newsom. As they battle two of the worst wildfires in the history of their state. That continues. The federal government has already deployed over 26,001st responders, and personnel to battle the wildfires. Were working very...

Think. The biggest challenge [inaudible] pres. Trump so we will be talking about that, i think, yeah. We will be talking about it. Well, thank you very much, everybody. I am here to support the great people of louisiana. It has been a commend us. State for me. It has been a tremendous state for me. We have had a great relationship from the very beginning. I have already met some people that have been absolutely devastated. This was a tremendous leap powerful storm. In fact, when a command, it was actually much bigger than katrina, i would say. Landmark ing a terms of the devastation, but this ...