[applause] daschle daschle we have a founding board member of families fighting flu.is family story has driven much of this work. and we have dr. gregory branch, the health officer and director of the baltimore county department of health and dr. l.j. tan policy officer and co-chair of the national adult influenza immunization summit. i welcome and they have traveled some distance even as early as this morning to be part of this and delighted they could be with us today and given their background and commitment, we are extremely grateful. one of the things we always hear and it is just the flu. and in so expressing that it's just the flu, a lot of us minimize its impact. how do you respond when you hear that expression? >> primarily with regret. my wife and i that's how we view too, to be honest. it was just the flu and wasn't something to worry about. when our daughter was diagnosed with flu, we were more worried about school and the inconvenient time. but what we learned from the mild illness, diagnosis, our daughter died in five days, healthy child. five days later

and in fact, i'll just start with you. >> thank you, senator daschle. i think that that's something that's exploded coming out of the covid pandemic the hesitancy that we have over vaccines. one of the important things to recognize is that the majority of americans still understand that the social norm is to get vaccinated and that's why our coverage rates and our children and indeed many of our adults continue to increase and children continue to stay very, very high, but i think there's a very vocal and active anti-vaccination movement that we need to be aware of and i think the most important thing in addressing that is to go back to the most trusted person, the average american interacts with, which is your health care provider and i think one of the things that we have to do is prepare health care providers for this increase in that movement and to give them the information and the knowledge they need to be able to talk to their patients with the science, with the evidence and of course, addressing the direct concerns of those patients so that they

say thank you senator daschle. that's something that exploded command of the coca pandemic the hesitancy with vaccines but one of the important things to recognize is the majority of americans still understand the social norm is to get vaccinated. that's why many adults and children continue to stay -- but there's a local and active anti-vaccination movement they would need to be aware than most important thing in addressing that stickelback to the most trusted person that the average american interacts with which is your health care provider. stedrepare health h care providers and give them the information and the knowledge they need to talk to their patients with the science and the evidence and addressing the direct concerns of those patients so they will accept a vaccination and it gets a strong recommendation. i want to say working with health care providers and i'm sure this wonderful panel has many other ideas. >> dr. branch?. >> thank you for the coalition and thank you for having me here but one of things

please join me in welcoming senator daschle. [applause] sen. daschle: thank you, margaret, for that kind introduction and congratulations. i can't imagine a better way to launch your career with the b.p.c. than an evening like tonight. margaret and i had the chance to work together when she served as secretary of education with the george w. bush administration. and i must say, served in a -- just in a remarkable way. so it's so good to have her back in washington tonight. i couldn't be more thrilled to wok her on her very first day here at the b.p.c. and thank her for the leadership and the work she has demonstrated over and over again in her public and private careers these many years. and let me thank you for your work the past year at the helm. of toe -- at the helm of the b.p.c. it was a little over three years ago when i commended -- commented to fellow board members a -- board members at the edward kennedy institute that at times i didn't recognize the senate the way it was operating today. often called the world's greatest deliberative

as senator daschle mentioned the triple-demic as we saw with covid 19 influence then you will probably wonder if we'll have it again and that's a good question. we don't know what's going to happen. the course it's unpredictable and we have other viruses now front and center of the flu circulating and we fully expect that we will see influenza active along with interstitial virus rsv as well as covid 19. when we look at what may happen this year we looked to what happened in the southern hemisphere. so is flu season somewhere and looking at that activity became precluded as to what might happen in the u.s.. so we are looking at what circulating in the third hemisphere primarily each one influence of virus different than what we had here last year. out at the 15 countries in the southern hemisphere that had the flu season only one country had co-circulating viruses of covid and rsv. we released a study of vaccine effectiveness of the net american countries last year 2023 we found people who got the flu vaccine were half as likely to be compromise with the flu is compared to those who di

and with tom daschle 's determined leadership. the by paulus bipartisan policy center is not partisan, it is bipartisan. i was the republican in the house and he was the democratic leader in the senate. those are clearly not nonpartisan jobs. but, i think we both felt then and still feel that the best solutions are found in the middle. they last the longest and have the most resilient. they serve as the best. a couple of congressmen congress is ago, there were 52 republicans and 40 democrats. you do so many things with other members to find one thing you can do great on, we thought we would find many of the 48 democrat you have been a principal sponsor of the bill with and not just a cosponsor. the answer was 44 and i thought it was a pretty good answer. in my last speech on the senate floor, i said to get something done, you don't have to find someone you really about everything with. you just need to agree on fun things and that agrees to getting things done. we came to the senate at the same time and worked on lots of things to

olaf scholz has confirmed he will israel even show of daschle and the chancellor will then travel on to egypt to assess the humanitarian situation in the gaza strip. the european union has set up plans to launch and aid airlift to gaza via egypt. the first place to egypt will begin dated this week. he says that the eu will also triple for civilians in gaza to 75 million euros. a ship evacuating usa u.s. citizen from israel left the port of haifa for cypress -- cyprus. commercial airlines have largely stopped flying to tel aviv. 600 days have now passed since russia launched its full-scale invasion of ukraine and there seems to be no respite in fighting. ukraine says it has successfully repelled -- another city close to the front line people seem to have adapted to life at work. locals taking on volunteer work to help each other. >> as tens of thousands of people fled the russian assault of kharkiv, this may decided to stay. >> it is very hard to express this feeling. >> kharkiv is just 40 km from the russian border. for the first two months of the invasion, it was a frontline city. s

. >> former senate majority leader tom daschle led a discussion on response and preparedness for thepcoming flu season. he was joined by democratic congressman rick larsen and the head of the c.d.c.'s influenza division. from the u.s. capitol visitors' center, this is about an hour.

thank you to the bipartisan policy center and thank you to senators daschle and blunt. g.w., my wife annie, family and friends for being here tonight. to senator rubio, marco, thank you for agreeing to this evening's discussion. to look back at how this started, we agreed to the agree act in 2011, five different ideas we wove together to challenge our parties which at that time were already showing -- pieces of that agree act had to do with protecting our inventions and our innovations from chinese predaition. i largely agree with senator rubio that china is the leading challenge to the american way of life. to our security. to our inventions and innovations. to testing our global standing. they have engaged in death trap diplomacy through the belt road initiative. they are threatening our supply chains and access to everything from pharmaceuticals to semiconductor chips. as i came into the senate i was leaving eight years in a manufacturing company and i knew all too tellwell how chinese theft of our inventions, our trade secrets, was a critical challenge. so one of th

i had a big daschle the union leaders are coming in and i was interviewing candidates.i've been on the road listening. it was a busy time and because of medical privacy i went to the hospital under an assumed name and i hid it from the media because the media was everywhere. it was leaked in the course of the day and the rumors began to fly and our corporate folks were not aware of what was happening because my family was still incoming. so there were lot of moving partsov to that. talk a lot about that in the book and the drama that surrounded that first day because i disappeared. what happens when your ceo just doesn't show up so there were scrambling.e they learnedt more about my situation and did all the right things a to announce the interim that was required to >> you also talk in the book about your relationship with one of the flight attendants fernando who you met in the hospital. can you talk a little bit more about what that relationship meant to you? >> a broader message to everyone we all know someone that's inflicted with disease or an illness and they may

think, with every congressional leader ever -- mcconnell polls poorly, pelosi pulled poorly, tom daschle and lost his seat over. it harry reid polled poorly and -- i also want to -- what the political calculation -- like, if you were paid to advise big markers in the republican party about what to do about the speakership, what would you be telling them even? >> the problem, chris, is mccarthy getting deposed, it's the latest example that the maga energy is not about winning 270 electoral votes or retaining a house majority, or winning the senate. which is, having worked on the hill, having worked in the administration, you have got your governing duties. but when it comes to your political duties as, let's, a house leader or senate majority leader, you are thinking about swing districts, those states, those candidates. >> yeah. >> and how do we appeal to those others? and that's clearly -- so, that's the advice i would give anybody. which is, you need to nominate somebody for speaker who is going to help you retain the house majority. and help you win back the white house. but that is n

there is one entry with huck finn, i agree, huck finn is a hard road to daschle road to hope, -- bro-- road to hoe, but it reflects to us more today than when twain wrote it. publishing in 18 -- published in 1885. that sense of two people coming together from two different spheres of the universe. and we feel huckleberry finn beginning to think about people of color in a different way in the adventures of tom sawyer, again the day one of my least favorite twain books. and i had to reread it and i came out it -- of the -- it, and i realized it's about the evolution of huckleberry finn into a person who sees other people, sees the other, and will break bread with the other. the other being a slave. we have the full-fledged huck finn in his own book there are three primary characters, along with everybody else. the professor, where twain sets him up very early so that we see not all african-americans are slaves at that time in the 19th century, their work freemen, born free, and then you had slaves. and there is huckleberry finn. the two of them have to be together in order for those ch

. >> former senate majority leader tom daschle led a discussion on response and preparedness for the upcoming flu season joined by

rather, i will support a speaker get will fund the world world trade center health and tom daschle flood insurance and the state and local tax proposal while senate? a quorum call? the presiding the presiding officer: it is. mr. thune: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: the most basic requirement of national security is a strong military but it is not the only requirement. maintaining our nation's strength and our ability to deter threats and discourage our enemies from tangling with us also involves things like a strong economy, energy security, and border security. today i want to spend a few minutes talking about border security. mr. president, border security is an essential part of keeping our nation secure. porous borders are an invitation to criminals, terrorists, and other dangerous individuals. and let's be very clear. there are dangerous individuals out there right now who would like to enter and harm our country. porous borders are an invitation to those types of individuals. since the beginning of the month, four