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We talked about the health and hospital corporation, one of the new york city public hospitals. It is struggling. We leave the last few minutes of this briefing to take you live to baton rouge where the governor is giving a response to the coronavirus there. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We have some updates around nutrition, particularly snap benefits. We still have dr. Alex review ryu to answer questions about health care and testing, that sort of thing. Thent to thank all of Health Care Professionals working heroically every single day. Today President Trump declared it National ...

Will help us win our war against the coronavirus. On friday, the fda authorized a new test developed by abbott labs that delivers lightning fast results in as little as five minutes. That is a whole new ballgame. Labs for thank abbott the incredible work they have done. They have been working around the clock. Normally this approval process from the fda would take 10 months and even longer, but we did it in four weeks. Willt has stated they begin delivering 50,000 tests each day starting this week. Even before this development, we have been doing more tests than any other country anywhere in t...

Is an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal government. I want to thank them very much for what they have done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job thing in and getting things set up as quickly as possible. It will become operational today. We will start to run the facility and we will take it from there. Let me go through a couple of facts. You seee we are today the number of people testing continues to go up. We want to test and find the positives. We want to find the positives so we can isolate and stop the transmission. We tested 14,000 people yester...

Ray proctor teaches a class about contributions to the africanamerican theater and the Pulitzer Prize winning play fences. Today were going to look at August Wilsons fences. Well begin with a very brief discussion about who and what August Wilson was, his goal as a playwrig playwright. Im going to repeat some stuff youve heard before from our inclass conversation but theres going to be some stuff im going to talk about in a little bit more depth than we talked about last class. On thursday you guys are going to look at tbone and weasel. I hope you all read that and prepare to do that. Ill give...

Good afternoon and welcome to the aspen institute. My name is nick burns, executive director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the aspen security forum. Its a great pleasure to see this crowd. You all again cspan so be on your best behavior. And we are here to launch a a y important book on the future of the u. S. China relationship called the struggle forth powe. I agree friend could not be here with us but hes very much part of this effort. I want to pay tribute to our former secretary of defense and good friend of mine, secretary bill and mister janet , secretary , janet, welcome. In i also w...