it states marine and pentagon and state department official now a senior fellow at the center for international policy and he's a certified peer support specialist for mental health and substance abuse disorder and as matthew and i talk you're going to see a phone number at the bottom of your screen for the veterans crisis hotline if you are hearing this show is a pod cast that number is 802738255 matthew what's being called the mission the act will expand comprehensive assistance for family caregivers which until it's passed has only been available to veteran seriously injured in the line of duty on or after september 11th 2001 but these wounds run deep and many of the vets who are taking their lives served long ago correct. oh absolutely holland and thanks for having me on and thanks for continuing to talk about this yet the wounds of war the invisible wounds of war post-traumatic stress disorder moral injury and now as we're seeing traumatic brain injury. don't get better with time they can be managed with their p. with professional care with lifestyle changes however they stay with you for your en

joining me now anita kumar, katrina mulligan, managing director for security and international policy at the centerrican policy, policy director for preparedness response at the department of justice. thank you to all three of you for joining us. anita, let me just start with you. michael atkinson, a disgrace. michael atkinson did what his job required him to do. he went to the congressional intelligence committee to report that there was a whistle-blower complaint he didn't think was being followed properly. totally understand why donald trump would think that's a bad thing, but it doesn't actually imply any wrongdoing on michael atkinson's part. >> no, i think what the president was saying today was that whistle-blower complaint was unfounded, which of course was not true. that a majority of what the whistle-blower was saying was actually other people corroborated. i think it's not surprising this happened. i guess what's been surprising it's been all these many months later. if you'll recall in february after the impeachment trial he did dismiss two other people as well that were involved in the

joining me now anita kumar, katrina mulligan, managing director for security and international policy at the centermerican policy, policy director for preparedness response at the department of justice. thank you to all three of you for joining us. anita, let me just start with you. michael atkinson, a disgrace. michael atkinson did what his job required him to do. he went to the congressional intelligence committee to report that there was a whistle-blower complaint he didn't think was being followed properly. totally understand why donald trump would think that's a bad thing, but it doesn't actually imply any wrongdoing on michael atkinson's part. >> no, i think what the president was saying today was that whistle-blower complaint was unfounded, which of course was not true. that a majority of what the whistle-blower was saying was actually other people corroborated. i think it's not surprising this happened. i guess what's been surprising it's been all these many months later. if you'll recall in february after the impeachment trial he did dismiss two other people as well that were involved in t

health policy center director at the center of for strategic international studies, he'll discuss the role of the world health organization and president trump's decision to the who. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. announcer: next, louisiana governor john bel edwards updates his state's response to the coronavirus outbreak. gov. bel edwards: welcome to midcity. welcome to the general midcity. and i want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can share a little bit of what we are doing here today, along with the collaboration with the state government, the local government, and with the military. each one of these hearts behind me represents a covid patient who was treated and released from the midcity hospital successfully. we have about 40 hearts. we hope that over the next several weeks we will have many more of these hearts. i want all of you out there, clinicians, the community, military, state, local government, to know that each one of you is a little bit of the part of the heart in here with us.

and steven morrison, global health policy center director at the center for strategic and internationaldies, he'll discuss the role of the world health organization and president trump's decision to cut funding to the who. be sure to watch c-span's " washington journal" live at 7 a.m. eastern monday morning. join the discussion. the pandemic continues, your members of congress are working from their home districts. >> many of my folks are, 30% of the are that ones at automotive industry. the other majority are what i would call the frontline workers. they are considered essential workers. people do not forget, these are the folks in public groceries, and they are demanding a $15 minimum wage. it is important to highlight that they are keeping us afloat. >> this is a very serious issue what i have been telling people is please. listen to the federal and state and local authorities, health experts, and do, stay away from people right now. i see this ias a war. the united states is at war with this virus. >> stay in touch using. the newly updated c-span congressional directory . it has all

globalphen morrison, health policy center director at the center for strategic and international studies. he will discuss the role of the world health organization and president trump's decision to cut funding to the who. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >>, former secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the coronavirus and national security. she disputed claims that china intentionally released covid-19 as bioterrorism, criticized chinese authoritarianism, and praised american resilience. she spoke to the hoover institution. >> welcome, everyone to our virtual policy briefing series. i am tom gilligan. for more than a century the hoover institution has been collecting knowledge and generating ideas. has profoundly impacted public policy initiatives around the world. these policy briefings provide an opportunity for you to hear from our nation's top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world during this time. as we all unite to confront the challenges of the pandemic, conversations like this have ne

and, stephen morrison, global health policy center director at the center for strategic and international. he will discuss the role of the world health organization, and president trump's decision to the who. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern, monday morning. join the discussion. president trump and members of the white house coronavirus task force held a briefing on the federal government's response to the pandemic. president trump: i think we are getting close to a deal. it could happen. a lot of good work has been going on and we could have an answer tomorrow. we will see what exactly does take place.

and stephen morrison, global health policy center director at the center of for strategic international studies, he'll discuss the role of the world health organization and president trump's decision to the who. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. announcer: next, louisiana governor john bel edwards updates his state's response to the coronavirus outbreak. gov. bel edwards: welcome to midcity. welcome to the general midcity. and i want to thank all of you for coming here today so we can share a little bit of what we are doing here today, along with the collaboration with the state government, the local government, and with the military. each one of these hearts behind

we can speak now to being a decides the head of policy and research at the internal displacement monitoring center center in geneva mina thank you for joining us we're seeing a record number of internally displaced people what would you say is the biggest driving factor. thank you very much for having us and it's a sad record that we're recording this year with as you said in your report right now over 50000000 people displaced at the end of the year and the main drivers again and again that we are underlying but then the triggers are the conflicts and there's nothing that we've seen over the last year in those 3 quarters of own new displacement instances where people are most likely their homes are really instances of natural disaster and then a lunch that is ongoing and you've already mentioned the dear me but we also have long going conflict in syria on a stand on a new bike in west africa and countries like britain are on mali which. is stable. and we're also the middle of a global pandemic right now what is that meant for internally displaced people. indeed there are very worried because of course internally displaced people ar

international and indigenous law and legal history. he serves as the faculty director of the center for the study of american indian law and policy and the founding director of the international human rights law clinic. he was a recipient of the david -- he was the first recipient of the david l. boren award for outstanding global engagement. he's an elected member of the american law institute and american bar association and serves as a justice on the supreme court of the shy yep and arapahoe tribes. please join me in welcoming lindsay robertson. [ applause ] >> it is an absolute delight to be here. what didn't get mentioned is my dad's family is from charlottesville. my mom's family is in the tided water and i went to law school and i did my history doctorate at the university of virginia. so i am back home in a sense. i have been a proud oklahoman for 22 years and my kids identify as oklahomans. they don't really remember when they were very young they lived in virginia but my oldest child is now a first year law student at uva. she is back and connecting with her roots. we'll see what happens in her life. but i think she feels like

william rosenau is a senior policy historian at cna center for strategic studies and expert on the united states and international military advisory roles and missions, international police training, terrorist innovation and political warfare and his articles appear regularly in media and his books include acknowledging limits, police advisors in counterinsurgency in afghanistan, international security assistance to south vietnam, insurgency, subversion is public order, before joining cna as political scientist at rand corporation, senior policy advisor in the office of counterterrorism at the department of state, the security studies program at georgetown university at harvard, with the part of history and research coordinator for the national and security program at the john f. kennedy school of government, please welcome william rosenau. [applause] >> thank you very much for that kind introduction and thank you all for coming out today. i want to start off by giving a shout out to the national archives and records administration. as archivist of the united states pointed out, the court records among other thin

center's jeffrey -- jeffrey rosen on constitutional rights during the coronavirus pandemic. how thealk about coronavirus pandemic affects employer-sponsored health care coverage. and stephen morrison, global health policy center director at the center for strategic and international studies will discuss the role of the world health organization and president trump's decision to cut funding to the who. be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern, monday morning. join the discussion. >> next, democratic national committee chair tom perez talks about presidential politics and the coronavirus pandemic with politico playbook co-authors anna palmer and jake sherman. this is about half an hour. anna: my name is anna palmer, co-author of the politico playbook. i am joined with my colleague, jake sherman, who wrote the playbook with me. we have dnc chairman tom perez. thank you so much for joining us . we will be talking about the response to the coronavirus, the shift to the 2020 election, and how democrats are facing challenges relating to voting and the coronavirus, etc. jake: these briefings are part of several coming in the coming we

he serves as the faculty director of the center for the study of american indian law and policy and the founding director of the international human rights law clinic. he was a recipient of the david boren award -- i should say he was the first recipient of the david corn award. he is an elected member of the american law institute and the american bar foundation and serves as a justice on the supreme court of the cheyenne and the arapahoe tribes. please join me in welcoming lindsay robertson. [applause] ms. robertson it is an absolute delight to be here. but did not get mentioned this might that -- my dad's family is from charlottesville. i went to law school and did my history doctorate at the diversity of genera -- university of virginia. i am back home, in a sense. i have been a proud oklahoman for 22 years. my kids identify as oklahomans. they don't remember that they lived in virginia. my oldest child is a law student at uva. she is connecting with her roots and we will see what happens. i think she feels like she is back home too. i am truly honored to be here. i thanks go out. i would be remiss if i failed to say to

center as rector of the special pathogens unit. thank you for >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that -- coming up, director of the division of infectious disease and internationaledicine at the university of minnesota discusses the response to the coronavirus pandemic. in a sutter republican candidate -- congressman will be on to talk about the impact of the pandemic and recently passed release legislation. main street alliances discusses federal efforts to support small businesses during the pandemic. be sure to watch washington journal coming up at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion. -- members of congress are working from their home district . >> many of my folks, 30% of them, are ones at the automotive industry. the other majority are what i would call your front-line workers, now they are called essential workers. these are the folks that have been demanding $15 minimum wage. it is really important to highlight they are the ones who are keeping us afloat. >> this is a very serious issue. what i have been telling people is, please, listen to the federal authorities, state authorities and local authorities and health experts, and do. stay away from

stockholm international peace research institute from leipzig in germany adam need director of the australia base to china policy center and from glasgow in the u.k. andrew smith spokesman for the campaign against the arms trade thank you all for joining us peter to you 1st of all do you see a main driver in this increase in spending the. increase in spending is driven by a wide variety of courses depending on region to region or contrary to country but of course as the united states is by far the largest military spending in the world it's always important to live there and there i think we can say that it's true but ministration in particular is really seeing a return to the great power rivalries of the past and believes that military spending military capability is an important foreign policy tool there now of course we see something similar in china there it is not so much a return to being a very large spender but to actually having an economy that has growth over many years to the point that it can actually now be the 2nd largest military spender in the world and leaving the others except for us of course far behind them so very different reasons but still kind of con

host: stephen morrison is the global health policy center director at the center for strategic and internationaltudies here to talk about the world health organization. mr. morrison, what is the world health organization, and why does it exist? guest: thank you, greta. 1948, whenated in many of the core constituent you and agencies were put together. it is what is called a member-state organization, the holden to the sovereign states of the world, and it is there -- beholden to the sovereign states of the world and it is there to serve their interests. it is bound by that. it doesn't have a lot of leverage. it has to be highly deferential. it's diplomacy with member states is conducted mainly out of view. it doesn't get into competitions with member states, it has to balance many competing pressures from those member states. it sets global norms and posted get her scientific expertise to designate what are essential medicines and what our safety standards and the like. it plays that kind of mobilizing and leadership role. it conducts programs that are particularly important, particularly in low

for a contagion of coded 19 we're hearing from human rights organizations like amnesty international from doctors without borders were calling on the mexican government to release people from migrant detention centers worrying also that there are policies that are being imposed that using cope at 19 as a pretext to discriminate against migrants take a look. closed this is the view many motorists see when arriving at the us mexico border last month the 2 nations agreed to restrict all non-essential border crossings an effort to mitigate 900 contagion under the new emergency coronavirus measures the u.s. also announced that strict new immigration policies would be imposed every week our border agents encounter thousands of unscreened unvetted in honor of the race entries from dozens of countries and we've had this problem for decades for decades you know the story but now it's. the financial emergencies and all of the other things that we've declared we can actually do something about it we're taking a very strong hold of that and we have before but this is now at a level that nobody's ever approached. taking a very strong hold has meant the closure of immigration courts and the suspension of hearings for migrants into silence seekers mo

globalphen morrison, health policy center director at the center for strategic and international studies. he will discuss the role of the world health organization and president trump's decision to cut funding to the who. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >>, former secretary of state condoleezza rice talks about the coronavirus and national security. she disputed claims that china intentionally released covid-19 as bioterrorism, criticized chinese authoritarianism, and praised american resilience. she spoke to the hoover institution. >> welcome, everyone to our virtual policy briefing series. i am tom gilligan. for more than a century the hoover institution has been collecting knowledge and generating ideas. has profoundly impacted public policy initiatives around the world. these policy briefings provide an opportunity for you to hear from our nation's top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world during this time. as we all unite to confront the challenges of the pandemic, conversations like this have ne

and stephen morrison, global health policy center director at the center for strategic and international studies. of the discuss the role world health organization and president trump decision to cut funding to the who. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern monday morning. join the discussion. next, new york governor andrew cuomo holds a briefing on his state's response to the coronavirus. he reviewed the latest trends and announced a plan for statewide antibody testing programs run by new york's health department. gov. cuomo: good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being here today. i want to thank our hosts very much, northwell. michael dowling to my left is head of northwell. they have done an extraordinary job all through this situation.

policy at senior vice president at the american benefits council on how the coronavirus pandemic impacts employer-sponsored health care coverage. after that, stephen morrison with the center for strategic and international studies on the role of the world health organization and the president's decision to cut its funding. "washington journal" is next. ♪ good morning on this monday, april 20. we will begin with hearing about what it is like to be an essential worker in this country. if you are an essential worker, we want to hear your story. your number is (202) 748-8000. if you are a friend or family number of an essential worker, we want to hear what it is like from you as well and your loved ones' stories. (202) 748-8001 is your line. you can also text as, first name, city, and state, to (202) 748-8003.