try to use a form of ads that a behavioral tabulation not dislike using new product, based on all of your previous history were gonna put in front of you images, words and so forth that we know have a great chance or has a great chance of changing your mind that is behavioral advertising based on your personal characteristic that form of advertising is so destructive and the surveillance that goes into it we added draw section 230 immunity for any company that permits behavioral advertising or engages in the algorithmic amplification behind it. >> i would hope to answer your question directly i would hope i could get bipartisan support, i would say to my democrat friends across the aisle we ought to be able to agree on this, behavioral advertising encourages mass surveillance, mass tracking, mass taking of data, that would be a place to propose to start. >> senator have you had any discussions with any specific lawmakers in the democratic party about the proposal? >> i have and here's what i'll say about my friends across the aisle, i hope the fact that these companies have immense i

this is is something byce the wy the process that he used to do that democrats have used in three of the last presidential elections.ia like every time a republican president has been elected since the year 2000 come democrats objected to 11 different states over those three presidential elections and the law provide for that. the law and the statute of the united states as well as the rules of the house and the senate provide during the electro certification process for objections and then debate if there's enough objection one stender, one representative at least for every state debate and then a boat which is what i did angela by bys a number of my colleagues. i objected to specific objection i found was to the state of pennsylvania. arizona so we had h of those in my view is this, we need to have a debate on election integrity. i think it was appropriate to have it done by the way democrats debate was appropriate and certainly within their right to raise these issues and i promise promised my constituents that i wouldn't so i did. that's why raise the issue on that day and that i

it's on us to make sure that they get it. the funding is there and the urgency is there. one of the things the pandemic has shown us or has exposed, the inequities and the gaps that are there and i just wonder when it comes to that kind of access, was the access even more severe than you thought it was before the pandemic? >> yes and i will share with you it was about april of 2020 we were about a month into the shut down in connecticut and i had a conversation with a superintendent from a very wealthy district. they had great broadband access and many were fortunate to have a parent to be able to work from home and then the curriculum top-notch. we invested in it years ago so all we had to do is flip a switch and they got high quality education. that same day i spoke to a superintendent that was under resourced with students that were well below the poverty line and i asked how it's going there and she shared with me that it took four weeks to communicate with her families and through snail mail and community was four weeks ahead already. they were trying to connect with

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that certainly isn't language that i would use. whether they are rioting at the capitol or federal buildings in portland or elsewhere or who identify with the left or the right. over the past year by criminal rioters. >> manyou americans first got to know you from the photo on the sixth.ix who was that directed to? >> i was entering the house chamber the morning i of the sih to go in for the beginning of the electoral count and those were demonstrators on the plaza on the east side standing behind barricades. when i walked by that particular group of folks were standing there peacefully behind g barricades off the plaza and i waved to them, pumped my fist and thanked them for being there and they had every right. >> after what happened, do you regret that at all? >> no w because i don't know wht of those protesters participated in the criminal riots and it is a slur on the thousands, tens of thousandss of people who came to the capital that day to demonstrate peacefully to lock them in with the criminal riots and say you are all ba

they will call us racist no matter whatr we do. the game haswh to be over we have to stand up and fight for what we believe in like from our conservative principles free fair and secure elections and the government in washington but doesn't represent liberal special interest or ceos that want to teach our children that are country and our values are bad. we were fight for the values that make her country great because we are the greatest country in the history ofte the world. [cheers and applause] we have to stand up every day and fight for our faith, families, and the country we love. [applause] so ile was just elected chairman so that means my job for the next year and a half is raising a million dollars that we have good candidates also talk about how crazy democrats are to be a strong conservative republicans running and make sure we take back the majority, which we will. my oldest grandson loves military he will be our paratrooper and i recently took him to a military museum and ask they knew the pledge of allegiance. my grand

here is what is apparently so outrage us. -- outrageous. they want to wind down a few emergency covid voting procedures, including drive-thru voting and polling places that are open all night long. i'm serious. that's what this is all about. that they want to wind down two covid voting procedures, drive-thru voting and polling place that are open 24/7. because of the pandemic, for the first time ever some places in texas experimented with these brand new unusual measures. but now winding them down is somehow an assault on democracy? really? if texas is not interested in permanently letting people vote from their car windows or at 3:00 in the morning, then president biden says, quote, they want to make it so hard and inconvenient, they hope people don't vote at all simply because you can't vote all night. really? these brand new exceptions for a hundred-year pandemic are supposed to now be sacred pillars of our system? things that we did last year to deal with a 100-year pandemic? to get rid of any of that is a threat to our system? voter i.

here's the deal, if incentives help us beat this virus, i believe we should use them. we all benefits when we get more people vaccinated. and the addition to providing incentives for vaccination it is time to impose requirements on key groups to make sure they are vaccinated. just this week we took an important step to protect our veterans. like many civilian hospital systems are doing, the department of veterans affairs will now require covid-19 vaccines for doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers who provide medical care for veterans. we must do everything possible to protect our veterans from getting covid when they come to get medical care they so richly earned serving their country. we owe them. next, since many vaccinations are required for active duty military today, i am asking the defense department to look into how and when they will add covid-19 to the list of vaccinations the armed forces must get. our men and women in uniform who protect this country from grave threat should be protected as much as possible from getting covid-19. i think this is pa

any country that out educates us, outperforms us the first lady said that and i believe it. we have to raise the bar, removing barriers to all isn't port never going to be successful. >> i am still sticking to your proposed budget. it would also help support community based programs. why did these programs need a boost in funding and support? >> i'll start with the future training. to support educator programs too make sure our students the beautiful diverse students we have in her classroom have access too teaching profession. it also shows her teachers are continuing get the support they need for the job they have. we have students coming back from a pandemic haven't experienced so much trauma. it's important we have professional for the students. students with greatest needs are often and does programs students with disabilities or shortage of education teachers we need more primitive growing number of bilingual classrooms are difficult to find teachers for. there is a lot of work to do there. the teacher developed program is important. a students with disability insuranc

[laughter] i think a lot of us come from similar backgrounds. they work hard, serve the communities and serve their country. that's why i moved so quickly to pass the rescue plan. to save jobs and businesses and lives and we did. more than a 600,000 jobs per month since i've taken office so over 3 million jobs all told. [applause] the fastest at this point of thanany administration on record because of you all. we brought this economy back from the brink, tax cuts and working families. we designed the strategy not only for a temporary boost, but the way the foundation for a long term boomed. when i arrived in office we had a long time since the federal government worked hard for working people. things have been great for the corporations and the wealthy folks at the top. those 55 major corporations the past three years paid a zero and federal taxes making over $40 billion. they had no complaints. when i put my hand on the bible, january 20th, took the oath of office and i made a commitment to the american people we are going to change the paradi

to attack us. >> you did just complain people were using it to tarnish groups of people is that now what you are doing right here with the media if you called him fake news media are you not tarnishing them in a collective way? >> there are two components the first part a straight to brand us as fake news to try to diminish the influence in general and constantly if we are getting any attention it's always negative. never anything positive they are in a battle against us. they are not coloring liberal opinion fake news because we don't agree with the opinion. so when the term is used by hehillary clinton to use these broad strokes and people putting out fake news they don't cite the falsehood. so there's not an equivalent. first of all thehe retaliatory nature is important. not looking to pick fights with people that react to people who come after us or our readers. i do think the term fake news, if you have a breitbart story right now i would sayou sure. but technically it's true. host: you focus mostly on three media companies. new york times, bloomberg and nbc universal. talk abo

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that says it all for us pro-lifers. he went on to be the governor of indiana and what a job he did as governor, every piece of pro-life legislation i came across his desk was signed into law but i noticed two things, another comment when he signed a bill that banned abortion because an end one child would have a disability, they said it was an unprecedented assault on abortion. have youec hugged a down syndroe kid lately? have you talked to their families about what a blessing they are? good for mike pence in the state of indiana and then another bill that caught my attention that had to do with respectful dignified disposal about baby to remain, ladies that had been aborted. he talked about how he signed that bill with a prayer in his heart it would continue to bless these babies, their mothers and their families. what a beautiful prayer for the governor to say, knowing the preciousness of those unborn children and how their remains should be treated. fast-forward to the campaign when joe biden was candidate joe biden

track us around the web, collect our data and use that, sometimes basically sell it to third parties without consent or use it constructing profiles of us and sell to advertisers and the advertisers try to use the form of ads that are behavioral manipulation. it's not sort of here is a new product. based on your previous history we're going to put in front of you, images and so forth to have a great chance of changing your mind. that's behavioral advertising based on your personal characteristics, i think that form of advertising is so destructive and the surveillance that goes into it is so dangerous, i think we ought to withdraw section 230 immunity to any company that engages in behavioral advertising or amplification that's behind it. and i would hope that to answer your question directly, i would hope that that could get bipartisan support, i would say to my democrat friends across the aisle we ought to be able to agree on this. behavioral advertising encourages mass surveillance, mass tracking, mass taking of data and that's a place that i propose a start. >> senator, have you

find us at c-span history. last month president biden #the juneteenth national independence day act making it the 11th federal national holiday in the first one established since the creation of martin luther king day. juneteenth celebrated on june 19 commemorates the end of slavery. here's a look at the white house commemoration and signing. [applause] >> please have a seat. good afternoon everyone. good afternoon. so throughout history, juneteenth has been known by many names. jubilee day a. freedom day. liberation day. and that's a patient day. and today, a national holiday . and looking out across this room, i see the advocates, the activists, the leaders who have been calling for this day for so long including the one and only miss lee. [applause] [laughter] we just received a very special recognition from the president of the united. and i see members of congress , members of the congressional black caucus, members of the united states senate who passed this bill unanimously. [applause] all of whom collec

the fourth of july is a moment for us to step back celebrate our progress. we've made tremendous progress in our fight against the virus, two out of three adults in americans with at least one shot. directly because of this work, deaths and hospitalizations have fallen 90% january 20. >> people should be proud of the work we've collectively done and we want to recognize that progress and work july 4. people who are vaccinated have a high degree of protection those who are not vaccinated are at risk if they need to continue to wear a mask and as the doctors have said, get vaccinated as soon as possible. at the same time, as we talked about, is a lot more work to do so we are going to double down on efforts to keep pushing more people to get vaccinated by making it easy, lots of places to get vaccinated, it is free and convenient so we are going to keep doing that but right now the appropriate time to step back and celebrate progress we've made at the same time we got a lot more work to do doctor fauci. >> you said it very well. nothing has really changed in o

for us . that's the only reason we are here. if we don't protect the voices of the people who sent us here we will havefailed to do our jobs . so i submit that failure is not an option. we have to pass voting rights no matter what. we have to pass voting rights this congress. no senate rule supersedes people's constitutional rights. i'm grateful to all of you. thank you so much for coming. since senator klobuchar reminded you of my other day job, let me say say augustin father of the christian church said that old as 2 lovely daughters. they are both lovely. anger and courage. anger was the way things are and courage to see that they do not remain as they are. this is a 911 emergency. we saw the supreme court subsection for the voting rights law in 2013 in shelby versus holder. reese all along that's already been hobbled, further cripple last week. we see what's happening in georgia making it hard for disabled people, poor people, working people to make it to the polls as voting is a privilege

they are in a battle against us. 's what we do is we use the term. but they have to earn it we don't just call a liberal opinion fake news just because we don't agree but we wait until there is the actual falsehood so using the's broad strokes and would actually cite the falsehood. so that's not an equivalent thing so the retaliatory nature of it is important we are not looking to pick fights with people but to react to people we think are coming after us or our readers. the term fake news if you got the breitbart story that was fake news i would say sure. we would try our best but it is true. >> you focus on three media companies new york times bloomberg so talk about "the new york times" and your decoder ring. >> they have the list of priorities that they use of that cure ration is the obvious of the front page story and who are the heroes and who are the villains. but i notice that they would get the glamorous photos on the front page and others would get no photo if you're writing on a story that fits the narrative like trump did something bad or

they track us around the web and then they use that sometimes they basically sell it to third parties or they use it by constructing profiles they then sell to advertisers and they try to use behavioral manipulation. it's not just like here is a new product. based on all of your previous history we are going to put images and words and so forth that we know has a great chance of changing your mind. that's behavioral advertising based on your characteristics. it's so dangerous we ought to withdrawal the immunity for any company that permits, engages or sells behavioral advertising or engages in the algorithmic amplification that's behind it. i would hope that could get bipartisan support. i would say to my good democratic friends, across the aisle, we ought to be able to agree on this. behavioral advertising just encourages the mass surveillance, tracking, taking of data so that would be a place that i would propose to start. >> have you had discussions with the party about the proposal? >> i have and this is something -- here's what i will say about my friends across the aisle. i hope

it is important for us to call out the behavior. i don't think mr. putin again is harboring any illusions about what the u.s. government is capable of doing. the question now becomes sort of geopolitically what is that that that he makes? i think we will have to wait and see. >> host: sujit raman, given your time in the trump administration department of justice and president joe biden's improving the nation's cybersecurity executive order, is there a difference in policy? >> guest: so i would say it's more of a progression, peter. president biden as you mentioned issued a pretty ambitious cybersecurity executive order a couple weeks ago. it's a step in the right direction. it only applies to u.s. government, government agencies. it raises standards which i think is very, very important. it also requires private sector entities that interact with the government, that contract with the government, that provide i.t. services to the government to raise their game and should notify the government is their incidence of cyber breaches. i see it as a progre

ohio and requirements for emergency use. it probably will be approved at some time and in those cases there religious conscious exemptions and the big thing not talked about in the u.s. but it is around the world is if you have acquired immunity from having recovered from covid-19, that counts in most countries. it has not been counting in the united states and this would say it has to count for an exemption for school. >> what rights do businesses have, the crews industry in fair decision in florida or even broadway shows opening requiring people to be vaccinated before they come in, is it as simple as comparing to businesses that have rules you can't come in. pat, no shoes, no service, that sort of thing? >> look at it as a civil liberties. the same argument on publicc accommodations that will look, you can't stay in my hotel or get gas in my gas station or eat at my restaurant, those things were litigated in the 60s and people said no, no about your way of life, you can't discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity and r

it by constructing profiles of us which they then sell to advertisers. these advertiserslehe try to ust as a form of it really behavioral manipulation. i like your new product, is based on of yourf previous history and were going to put in front of you images words and so far that we know have a great chance or have a chance of changing your mind. behavioral advertising based on your personal characteristics. i think the form of advertisings is nondestructive. in the surveillance that goes into it, is how dangerous that i think we had a withdrawal section 230 immunity for any company permits and engages itself inco behavioral advertisg or engaging in a sort of algorithmic implementation behind it. i would hope to answer your question directly, would help the new get bipartisan support and i was a human democrat friends across the aisle, we had to be able to agree on this, the behavioral advertising is encouraging master mass tracking mass surveillance mass taking of data so i propose that the place to start predict. cat: senator have you had any discussi

for my time in army, people used to ask me, why is a flag in your uniform backwards. i still do sometimes, that is true, on the right shoulder like vice backward. nancy goes back to theth days of horse mounted cavalry charges, is a calvary would right into battle, the flag would be playing in reverse in the wind. in our soldiers still have their flakes in reverse as a reminder to principal like that army always advances its retreat i thank you so a very good reflection for all of us at a time when america is under assault and under attack that we will never apologize we will never back down and we will never surrender, we will never retreat and we will always advances the defense of america. thank you and god bless you and god bless the united states of america. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you sen. tom cotton as i had the microphone back, what specifically make sure that i think for people in particular. first welcome thank you the sponsor for y events tonight pretty he wouldn't mind standing on a saturday pretty first rhinos that making - our program. [

thank you for joining us today. it's all yours. >> thank you very much so it's important that timely and with that research to b get the book out so let me start by asking at what point and how did you realize that it was material screening to be told so let's start with alex. >> i am very glad for one - - very bad for being here. thank you to the festival for organizing m this. it is about regional inequality those growing grabs one - - going gaps i have spent a lot of time around the country growing increasingly concerned or alarmed by the disparities around the country between winner takee all cities and left behind towns. and how to write about it or capture in the book so i finally decided to frame it around amazon to use that as a lands and not to a country in these growing divides. >> i started to read his burkett is grippingg and fascinating i recommend everybody to read it. so the main narrative that spoke to me to do research aboutbo all the written by prisoners that ended up in the us and other democratic

they want to cancel us. how many of you are not sure what you can say right now, air worried about what you can say will be socially acceptable? i believe there's going to be a big backlash coming and it's going to come from all of us and there's nothing the democrats can do to stop us. [applause] >> now, in my two years in d.c., i've watched a lot of crazy things. you wouldn't believe how things work up there. the democrats want to defund the police, they want to gut funding for our military. we've watched the democrats push for open borders and closed schools. we watched them try to impeach a duly elected president twice for nonsense. but those aren't the craziest things they're trying to do. the craziest bill that they have is what they call the "for the people act" have you heard of it? so let's call it, it's not for the people. we should call it what it is, it's called the corrupt politicians act. [applause] >> so far we've been able to block this insane partisan power grab from the democrats. they're g

many other cities limited the use of rubber bullets. it is no surprise that in such a toxic environment, police retirement surged. 50 percent in chicago, 37 percent in las vegas, 72 percent new york the sixth grade and recruiting is just as bad as officers asked me when i travel around the country, and speak to them about how recruiting and retention is going, it would want to be a police. in today's environment. sob because they're not willing to putll themselves in harms wa, to protect the vulnerable it is because they know the probe criminal policies are making it impossible to do their jobs. it's concerted nationwide attack and police is nothing less than the greatest assault on the rule of law in modern times. the simple fact is today democratic party is prone riots, anti- cop and anti- prosecutor. congrats today and worst of the four violent criminals and part innocent victims when given power, turnout criminals justice system into a criminals justice system. democrats and leaders ignore obvious truth, if you stop enforcing the la

one 100% and we learn how to reengage with the world around us and the community around us, the actual people in physical spaces and stores and life in our place rather than hunkering down so that's my hope that these books will help with that. >> thank you very much, that was one of our questions, what they can do to make things better because art is a question which was mentioned in her book, a really good way to start realizing what we are doing and another question, it's not that we can just completely unplugged that, some of it depends on technology, doesn't have to depend on context. is there any way to search for brands, anyway we can do" did you come up with that either companies or we can search for those doing better thanth other? >> fortunately, i think the way most companies do business with china and the way they investigate their factories in china, i don't think there is any company out there that could safely guarantee consumers that there is no forced labor in their supply chain because for the most part the t quality of e audits the companies doing are very weak, they

why don't you tell us more about the book, merger books take us to and why? all the way to china. >> yes my books start actually with that average american consumer name is julie she is a mother of two. she's actually working on decorating her child's halloween party. when she comes across as very cheaply made of styrofoam. it actually had sat her start for two years before sure number to open it. it's one of those thing someone had purchased because it was insanely cheap, too good of a deal to pass on. such a bargain deal. but nobody actually had a real need for it. sat in storage for two years before she she even remembered she had it. she finally opened it she was shocked to receive an sos letter written by the political prisoner of china who'd made in manufactured this very product in a labor camp. the book tells his story, how he was abandoned in a camp but more importantly what were the problems in our supply chain that make it really easy for things manufactured and labor camps the end up selling at a kmart in portland, oregon. stream xo fulfillment as

why don't you tell us more about the trail of the book. my book starts with an average american consumer whome is a mother and working on decorating her child's halloween party and that is when she comes across this very cheaply purchased product from kmart, stones made of styrofoam. somebody purchased it because it was too goode of a deal to pass on but nobody even had a real need for it. it sat in storage for two years before she remembered she had it and when she opened it she was shocked toec receive a letter written by the political prisoner in china. it tells how it landed in a laborr camp but also more importantly what are the problems that make it easy for things manufactured. it's all about geography as a kind of portrait of the landscape country and how things have sorted out and the landscape it doesn't go overseas to the source of the products as amelia'se book does. i thought i knew about these things but i didn't really. it's so startling and needs to be reckoned with so i would urge people to read it. fulfillments about the

but out of the naked eye of many of us. stories that happened all over the place that weren't being told x. so the book asks the question, you know, are there things we could be doing differently. we should have a dialogue. it doesn't preach if answers as much as it says what have we learned about ourselves. i'll give you another example. we learned, many of us, during the pandemicking that there's a lot of kids that weren't eating lunch except if they could go to school. and when they went home, they didn't have internet access. now, that was true before the pandemic, it was true during the pandemic. and it was up to us whether it'll be true after the pandemic. do we take those things that we learned and do we say, hey, now is a good time to fix 'em, because we learned the real problems. so to some extent, how we react today -- to the pandemic and as important as how we reacted during the pandemic. >> of the things, and i want to make that -- you bring the book, your book's just out, but president biden certainly is moving

with them, what can you update us on? >> let me check on that for you, kelly it certainly is possible their people here who plan to meet with him as we have in the past when other legislators have come to washington so let me see if there is a planned meeting with anyone from her team, go ahead. >> coming in on the question jonathan was asking what is the status of the formal request the u.s. troops still under analysis? >> that is right still under review. >> it is not enrolled out? >> no. >> what is the current assessment here is how haiti ranks in terms of american interests? [inaudible] states of the president and the administration don't think it is in a rank order with issues happening around the world. they are all important that so we have a big government and why we are focused on doing what we can to support the people of haiti, support the people of cuba, continue to address the range of challenges we have from the record had. >> home request the president mentioned officials talk about gun violence he did some

at time for us to come t togethr and put an end to this senseless violence. i yelled the floor and suggest the warm. >> tonight on the communicators, the reason why ransomware has become such a problem is that it become a huge threat, not only have a criminal threat also as you mentioned, because of the implications for critical infrastructure like pipeline companies or largest meat supplier in the country, these are significant targets and they have increasingly become something cyber criminals are targeting. ransomware is a concept, it's pretty simple. defending against it has become increasingly complex. >> he oversaw the justice department national security and cyber crime investigations during that trump administration. he discusses recent ransomware attacks and other cyber threats. tonight on the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. ♪♪ >> peter has published hundreds of nonfiction books in his career, founder of the new york-based public affairs book. he's written a memoir about his own life called an especially good for you, why history h

using any of us proposals is workable in your field or something district leaders behind? >> i think filing fees discovery in a way and the government has a right to review with those guidelines laying out criteria and market share and things like that but we need them to have their shop to review but it should be time considering so it's not there for two or three years and companies can, they are pretty disruptive and that is their right, i have no problem with that. the other ones, i don't know why is a lot of apple fans, like millions who, like everything -- apple prides himself, begin care for what type of assay like other. they don't have the right to disseminate, sometimes they have to let everyone in and get for consumer privacy. that doesn't make sense to me. shifting burden of proof for that word or not, that is what makes sense. why can't a merger be automatic? so requiring your own product and services an advantage but what about max google and apple and others? if amazon can't give amazon prime, i think you will see consumers so upset when they figure out poli

think a commission would be useful. but it's gotta be truly bipartisan and it's got to be done on the framework, the style of the framework commission which is not the democrats propose. notos what nancy pelosi propose she wanted to be stacked partisan which is whites currently bog down. there is no reason to further introduce partisan politics into this we ought to have a clear look at the security failings. we've had several rounds of hearings in the senate on the security failings on the day, those are pretty significant. we know for instance there is major controversy about activating the national guard we note some did not with the guard activated on the day because they thought it looked too much like president trump's activation of the guard against the writers in d.c. earlier in the summer pretty think that was a mistake to not activate the guard earlier onta the day there is a lot of controversy on who asked for it to be activated, when it was activated, et cetera. i think we shouldd have a full accounting of a

joining us from washington d.c. thank you for taking the time today. >> thanks for having me on. >> we are talking about care delivery and the future of care delivery, we know we get new data almost every day that people put off during the pandemic so some that was actual treatment from a routine vaccinations are way down so as a start, how do we get back to normal on what we've already missed out on it at the same time, we have worked the country to begin with so getting back to normal, is it good enough? >> it probably isn't so i think that is a great question. so much in the last year end a half has been focused on the pandemic and protecting public health and the last few months on the vaccination efforts, obviously we still have a ways to go getting vaccines to the harder to reach populations but there's a lot of reaching healthcare that did not get taken care of, cancer screening, vaccination, journal physical. there is going to be this demand that potentially overwhelms the system as we come out of the pandem

but it's going to take all of us. us. maybe one of the most troubling developments of the past few months has been the biden-harris administration wholehearted embrace of the radical left all-encompassing assault on american culture. under the biden administration patriotic education has been replaced by a lyrical indoctrination. they abolished our 1776 commission and authorized teaching critical race theory in our schools. .. >> the state sanctioned racism pr insubordination be opposed by every american every day. [applause] as far past time to discard the left wing reflect upon systemic racism in every institution in the country. and my friend senator tim scott probably said it best of the national stage after traveling mr. price president virtually every state in the union, many americans from every walk of life, i can tell you. america is not a racist country. mark is the most just noble and inclusive nation in ever to exist on the face of the earth. [applause] in the united states military is the greatest force of th

turkey's purchase of russian aspects are disturbing to all of us. the crackdown on journalists and the friction that exists when forces collide with activity to fight against isis. it is a complex relationship as you say and i share the ranking member's optimism our new ambassador turkey will take a new approach, i had the privilege of serving japan with him when he was ambassador to japan when i served as u.s. ambassador to japan so i share as noted with our new turkish ambassador, i hope you will have a good working relationship with him as well but i would be curious, this is a process question for the, curious to your approach in terms of having a structured strategic dialogue with turkey trying to preserve good and important strategic aspects of what needs to happen there while pressing hard on those issues where we will certainly differ and need to be strongest and i appreciate your talk and perspective and how you will approach that. >> thanks, senator. we approached this very much as president biden approaches all of our strategic relationsh

thank you for joining us today. second witness, director of the business center, overall enterprises and focused on small businesses from a technical assistance and background in banking and a thicket of experience in finance, small business owners. witness, senior vice president of the largest provider in the u.s. rural economy. the business banking and extrinsic this division. additionally, ppp loans in developing programs. thank you for joining us and kyle recognizes mr. williams now. >> thank you, ranking member for extending this opportunity to introduce one of our witnesses and i'm proud to introduce mr. allen. it was her product is the present owner of manufacturing company in texas located right in the middle of district 25 here in texas. homes across the nation including our military. the business started in 1948 and purchased by mr. crawford manufacturing company heroes in engineering and operations management the business and has truly seen the business from all sides. he's been growing the company from 5

you can use twitter, with the # live. as the near driver of economic growth and a long-term clean energy bill now, what does the labor community think about this generally and the bipartisan proposal? >> well, first of all, just let me say to you, sasha and to jason and the team at bipartisan policy center for bringing us together for this discussion. i absolutely love what we just heard from secretary buttigieg and i should just remind folks off the top the afl-cio is an organization of 12 and a half million working people and 56 different unions all across every sector of the economy and they all have an interest in infrastructure policy. so i'm bringing the voices of those workers with me today and we're in full support of the bipartisan infrastructure plan and we are working very hard right now to get it passed. i know there's some debate about the bipartisan deal, whether it goes far enough, but we think that it still brings the investment the american people have been waiting for for far too long as the secretary sa

and he would in fact use that power on the president's behalf. and essentially install the president for a second term on january 20. this was absurd and preposterous. mike pence had told him again and again and again this could not happen would not happen. but the president continue to believe that. when it did not happen when mike pence did not he regarded this as a profound betrayal. although there has been some minor effort to put a better face on this unknown the president continues to be deeply resentful for the vice president. >> of course the attack on the u.s. capitol led to the second impeachment of donald trump and the legal effort in the book. you say trump was ranting to his legal team that he did not want the trial going down this way. technicalities, free speech, jurisdiction baloney. he wanted his defense to be the election was stolen, it was stolen. everybody knew it was stolen misses a chance to let the case. indeed the former president said he made the case on the floor. everybody associate with the case at no doubt we get the

[laughter] those are important lessons for us moving forward. not just for future pandemics and there will be future pandemics. addressing all kinds of crises. how did marshall national resources question how do we have complaints and populations? so my personal experience of this i think was in miniature of what experience in terms of dysfunction. i was very lucky in terms of health. and now i have been vaccinated, yesterday was my two weeks. that's after the second vaccination for its announce a question of what more can we do this we have been vaccinated to push this forward here in the united states, get more people vaccinated to not only get more people vaccinated to really to free up the vaccines at the united states and other countries have monopolized to ensure distribution around the world. that is still ongoing pressing problem. >> thank you so much for tonight it has been really interesting hearing your insights and all of this. i feel like i learned a lot i really appreciate it. i want to thank the audience as well, thanks for your q

we have the government choking us. i don't stay up at night worrying about innovation taking over the world or robotics and something and replacing human masses. i worry every day our government is going to choke off innovation which will allow us to be safer in our cars and to live longer and healthier without paying or to allow for kids to be educated or get food on tables. there are so many things innovation is doing which is changing the world and making it better. look what he did during covid. look at the tech industry basically saved and since the white-collar environment because like enough to go to work from home and fundamental change the world, and also help come up with a vaccine using crispr type dna analysis. we'll keep doing that. we can't choke off these things and this is the use competitive strength. we are the ones only went in the world that have this first amendment, this philosophy that just because your content attorn competing with something, with the right to petition the government, all these

i often use the words of dr. negara in one of his books, he wrote about the normalization of failure. when i became secretary of education, i really sought out to try to address the gaps that exist in outcomes for students. when i was commissioner in connecticut, that was a focus of mine. and weom have to make sure that when we build back better, we're not going back to this system of march 2020 where it was almost predictable. you could predict a student's ability to succeed based on race or place. that's unacceptable. we should have a high level of outrage that it's gone on that long. so what it translates to is when we reopen our schools, we're giving all students an opportunity to have highly qualified teachers, getting rigorous curriculum, having opportunities for, you know, the highest level courses that lead to college access or career options. we should make sure that students is access to universal pre-kindergarten, the community college. those areiv the things that levl the playing field. so going back

why don't you tell us more about, you know, the trail of the books and where do your books take us to and why? why don't we start with you, amelia, all the way to china? >> yeah, yeah, my book starts with an average american consumer, her she's a mother of two and actually working on decorating her child's halloween party and that's when she comes across this very, very cheaply purchased product from kmart, these gravestones that were made of styrofoam and sat in her storage for two years before she opened it, somebody had purchased because insanely cheap, too good of a deal to pass on, such a bargain deal and, but nobody actually had a real need for it, it sat in storage for two years before she remembered she had it and when she finally opened it, she was shocked to receive an sos letter from a prisoner in china who manufactured this in a labor camp and the book tells the story how he landed in labor camp and most importantly what are the problems in our supply chain that make it easy for things to be manufactured in labor camps to be sold in a kmart in portland, oregon. >> fulfillm

i appreciate our colleagues giving us -- some of us -- a notebook. it's a bipartisan infrastructure investment jobs act summary. that's helpful. but that's not legislative text. and then we need an open amendment process so that those of us who weren't party to the bipartisan negotiations can participate in the process. hopefully make the bill better. i would like to see us actually substitute some of the spending pay-fors with a user fee model that's been traditional using the gas tax. but as i said earlier, the gas tax has become a little outmoded and insufficient to pay for the infrastructure we all want and need. so, mr. president, there's a real need to invest in america's infrastructure, and it's never been more important for us actually to pay for those investments in a responsible way. as it stands today, our debt-to-g.d.p., gross domestic product, ratio is at the highest level since world war ii. this is not the time to continue spending and spending and spending until our grandkids are left sitting in a pit of debt so deep they will never c