while the gao mentions a few reports on rural housing, the last time the gao reported specifically on polonius was in 1990. i believe these communities deserve more attention and i will be submitting a request to provide us with a report, and with recommendations on how to address the infrastructure shortfall. how can we ensure that these communities are accounted for in gao's reports? mr. dodaro: first, we do our work in response to three different ways, senator. one is a commitment and a statutory requirement. that is important. second is we respond to the requests from chairs and ranking members of committees. we are a nonpartisan organization. we treat both the same. that accounts for 95% of our work. i have a reserve about 5% to identify areas that i think -- because i have broad authority to initiate work if there are funds or a federal nexus. we develop a strategic plan for congress. we are happy to look at this issue might -- this issue you mentioned. for example, we have done more work in recent years on indian tribes. we identified federal programs that support indians as a

gao has been studying and since 2009, gao has placed fda's ability to oversee the global pharmaceutical supply chain which includes the foreign drug inspections program on its high-risk list. this is unacceptable. countless americans who depend on life-saving drugs should not have to worry if that drug was produced in a dangerous or unsafe facility. i've been troubled about recent reports of the dangers of tainted drugs and unacceptable manufacturing practices coming from overseas. instances of contaminants making their way into blood pressure medications, reports from inspectors who have observed paper shredding campaigns and descriptions of inspectors, intent on hiding frightening picture of our drug supply. inspections are our most valuable tools in the fight against fraud. and it sounds like we have got to do a better job. gao has studiyed this issue since 1998. fda now estimates its 74% of active ingredients and over 54% of doses between the capsules and pills that contain active pharmaceutical ingredients taken by patients, that those are manufactured overseas. while most foreign

however, i do want to clarify a few aspects regarding the board that is in the gao report. first, is it correct that as the gao reports the senate has a role in appointing and confirming two of the three board members while the house only has a role in appointing one? and that this was raised as a concern with accountability to the house? >> yes, ma'am. that's correct. aoc, architect of the capitol, and also the senate sergeant-at-arms. >> so this was identified in the gao as an issue having to do with accountability? >> yes, ma'am. >> and the current architect of the capitol was nominated by former president trump, he was confirmed by the senate in september of 2019. and you would not necessarily have internal emails between the aoc and senior leadership or staff, would you? >> no, ma'am. not whatsoever -- although the architect of the capitol has their own inspector general. >> okay. so if there's an email exchange between the aoc staff on the morning before the attack discussing, quote, chatter about storming the capitol or, quote, go to washington january 6th and help s

shear, probably more gao than with mr. wear, but it looks to me while we have all of these very significant and severe granular programs, this is a higher level management problem that the structure of the sba needs to change. it appears it comes in four buckets. there are categorization, review assessment and integrity data issues. it sounds like there are work force issues. given that there are four very systematic issues and they are very large buckets with large problems in that, it would appear we need to look at an organizational standpoint and doing some recommendations there. so the move forward is working better. so, can you speak to that, mr. shear? >> thank you, for the question. what i think that it really focuses on some of the reasons why we put sba, these programs on our high risk list and so when we think of one of the things i was encouraged by, basically starting with the transition team, was how would we get ourselves off of the high risk team, high risk list. when we said we planned to put the programs

shear, probably more gao than with mr. wear, but it looks to me while we have all of these very significant and severe granular programs, this is a higher level management problem that the structure of the sba needs to change. it appears it comes in four buckets. there are categorization, review assessment and integrity data issues. it sounds like there are work force issues. given that there are four very systematic issues and they are very large buckets with large problems in that, it would appear we need to look at an organizational standpoint and doing some recommendations there. so the move forward is working better. so, can you speak to that, mr. shear? >> thank you, for the question. what i think that it really focuses on some of the reasons why we put sba, these programs on our high risk list and so when we think of one of the things i was encouraged by, basically starting with the transition team, was how would we get ourselves off of the high risk team, high risk list. when we said we planned to put the programs

health and human services concurs with that, and plan on following the gao recommendation. >>> now at:00 on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn, bay area businesses targeted by protesters . some putting repairs on hold until after the derek chauvin trial. >>> i'm john ramos in oakland where cries for police reform have now reached the state legislature. we will tell you what is being proposed, coming up. >>> ready to reopen even more. the bay area county on the verge of entering the yellow tier. >>> in the bay area, and across the country this evening, businesses are preparing for potential unrest as the derek chauvin case reaches its closing stage. they are boarding up in minneapolis where the trial is being held all know in philadelphia. new at 6:00, juliette goodrich with the story of business owners hit this past weekend to putting repairs on hold. >> reporter: he is the most visual site. right outside the oakland police department. take a look at this. you can see how it is completely barricaded. it goes around the department. this is been in place since last week. also businesses are bo

we can now bring and live victor gao director of the china national association of international studies could this deal be the start of a broader cooperation a effort between russia and china on the 2 countries global back seen roll out. absolutely i was in china of the soviet china and russia have very close cooperation with each other in many areas including in the fight against covert 19 and and i think for china to help russia to produce the a vaccine sputnik the as we call it and to introduce that to the chinese consumers as well as markets outside of china would be a very odd thing why because china has one of the largest the manufacturing capacity is in back seat and so if we use the formula produced by the russians sites for the production of a vaccine physically in china it will be a win win situation and i hope the china russia corporation in the vaccine area as well as the fight against the meat will be further brought to many other areas including international cooperation with a chore for the kovacs program as well as many other areas in this regard this is a very important

i'm going to quote from the gao report. the board has authority for security decisions as well as certain human capital and personal matters including the approval of office terminations. the board has a lot of power. the gao report by reference breaks 1027 1027 authoritir three main categories such as human capital security and other. by my count the chief has only four areas of individual authority pick among other things the board has the authority to establish regulations for training of the u.s. capitol police personnel and approve officers in emergency situations. design install and maintain capital security systems and i can quote more from this report which is a sin will be in the record. now, , i appreciate your flash reports. i appreciate your recommendations. we had about a discussion today and a very good bipartisan way on how to we get better madam chair, our officers. how do we get more officers into the capitol police to focus on a new mission of protection rather than just policing? the gao report, mr. bolto

deck in, anything that the gao is reporting? >> certainly gao is continuing to track vaccine distribution, as well as efforts to ensure that residents and staffs in homes are offered vaccines and what information is available and transparent. i would know that there are other models in the nursing home setting that there is reporting no a vaccination for flu. so certainly, continuing to track the situation nursing homes with gao so tracking that and the efforts to make sure that there is a data available, and so that could be made available at so many levels. >> okay thank you. dr. gifford, as we were to self quality of care challenges we also need to be mindful that quality of access remains the priority as our community continues to. age you testified the nursing home ministry predicts 1600 closures in the aftermath of the pandemic. i suspect since this declines and covid related costs contributes to this could you shed further light on the causes of the closures and if you can project where in the nation we might be at risk f

well as abroad so far spending 3 has been licensed and almost 60 countries china 1st specialist victor gao thinks moscow and beijing help plenty to gain from working to catherine vaccine. for china to help russia to produce the a vaccine and to introduce that to chinese consumers as well as markets outside of china would be a very china has one of the largest the manufacturing capacity is in vaccines so if we use the formula produced by the russian side or the production of a vaccine for the cli in china it will be a win week situation i do not see any reason why this vaccine should not be approved of by the charlies roll it's a real oranges and i hope the chinese people will have a choice if they want to use one or 2 or 3 chinese vaccines they will be able to do that if they prefer those who make maxy they were i would choice to be made by themselves. another story getting a lot of interest today the interim is hitler balcony in vienna may soon be open to the public allowing visitors to tread in the furious footsteps it's been inaccessible to people since the 2nd world war needless to say

to who can get the money, i think we might find ourselves looking back like we did on 2008, with the gao and ig's and department of agriculture concluding the program was a disaster because all of the money went to areas that did not really needed. my objective is to not repeat that with old. yes, we need better maps. they are overdrawn. we all know that. we have proposals on the table to fix it, to be fair to the fcc. congress only recently expropriated the money necessary to do it. peter: our guest is michael powell, the president and ceo of the internet and television association, former chairman of the former commute -- the federal communications commission. our guest reporter is lynn stanton. lynn: i cover broadband and internet and telecom issues. peter: what is walter's clue or -- wolters kluwer? lynn: a multinational company that publishes in business to business areas. peter: would you support jessica rosenworcel becoming full-time chair? michael: i have worked with chairwoman rosen was so most of my career. -- with chairwoman -- with jessica was was all -- jessica rosenworcel m

so far supporting free has been licensed in almost 60 countries and china affair specialist victor gao things moscow and beijing have plenty to gain from working together on vaccines. for china to help russia to produce the vaccine and to introduce that to the chinese consumers as well as markets outside of china would be a very bold china has one of the largest the manufacturing capacity is ng vaccines so if we use the formula produced by the russian sites or the production of a vaccine physically in china it will be a when we situation i do not see any reason why this vaccine should not be approved of by the charlie israel and syria oranges and i hope the chinese people will have a choice if they want to use one of 2 or 3 chinese vaccines they will be able to do that if they prefer those who make vaccines they were have a choice to be made by themselves. an april fools joke announcing a pop up festival in belgium has ended with police charging on horseback and using water cannons they were forced to move into this. would be revelers for breaking lockdown rules around 2000 people turn

expected to hand it sentence on this case later this month sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong or victor gao is director of the china national association of international studies he argues that convictions were to be expected because illegal gatherings result in prosecution all over the world there have been tremendous amount of chaos and anarchy and violations of the rule of law yes indeed there were many protests and demonstrations but i would say many of these protests and demonstrations were illegal by hong kong standards hawkeyes of democracy protects people's right to demonstrate and to contest so you need to do that according to the law therefore if someone is involved in illegal and unlawful protests and demonstrations or even further committed offenses like a murky assem want to attack off other people for example or setting fire or even for example attacking and assaulting a let's hope your big occupying the logical building or other government facilities that definitely this person or those persons will be filed. for the law and will be subject to prosecution this is perfectly un

i think we might find ourselves looking back like we did in 2008 the gao and ig's at the department of agriculture concluding the program was a disaster because of all the areas that didn't really need them. my greatest objective is to not repeat that result. so yes, we need better maps. they are overdrawn. we know that. we have proposals to fix it. to be fair to the fcc, congress only recently appropriated the money to do it. i think the chairwoman was wise to get them done as quickly as she can. peter: commissioner carr, what is your reaction to the former republican chair of the fcc? brendan: it was right. mapping for those lucky enough not to be steeped in fcc arcanery is the initiative we have to identify parts of the country that have high-speed internet and those that don't. maps we have had in place over the past decade are updated. -- are outdated. they don't do a good enough job of identifying areas of the country that have service and those who don't. my colleague said last year in the senate that better maps could be had in 3-6 months. and this year, as she became acting ch

happens the chinese manufacturer will distribute it a mess to clean as well as i spoke with victor gao earlier director of the china national association of international studies he thinks moscow and beijing have plenty to gain from working together. for china to help russia to produce the a vaccine and to introduce that to the chinese consumers as well as markets outside of china would be a very very china has one of the largest the manufacturing capacity is ng vaccines so if we use the formula produced by the russian side or the production of a vaccine physically in china it will be a win win situation i do not see any reason why this vaccine should not be approved of by the charlie israel and syria oranges and i hope the chinese people will have a choice if they want to use one of 2 or 3 chinese vaccines they will be able to do that if they preferred the sputnik vaccine they were have a choice to be made by themselves. the endemic has laid bare a host of political divisions in the us especially over how to respond to the crisis and how democrats and republicans are slugging it out o

has been licensed and almost 60 countries earlier i spoke with victor gao director of the china national association of international studies he thinks moscow and beijing have plenty to gain from working together on vaccines. for china to help russia to produce the a vaccine and to introduce that to the chinese consumers as well as markets outside of china would be a very very china has one of the largest the manufacturing capacity is in vaccines so if we use the formula produced by the russian side or the production of a vaccine physically in china it will be a when we situation i do not see any reason why this vaccine should not be approved of by the charlies rowland's or oranges and i hope the chinese people will have a choice if they want to use one or 2 or 3 chinese rections they will be able to do that if they prefer those big vaccine they were have a choice to be made by themselves. russian and european firms are pushing ahead with the final stages of the north stream 2 gas pipeline despite u.s. sanctions but now the firm behind the project says it's come up against a more covert

the gao reporter points to 27 authorities over three main categories -- capital security and other. the chief has only four areas and among other things, the board has the authority to establish regulations for training of u.s. capitol police and approved officers in emergency situations and to maintain capital security systems. this report will be in the record. i appreciate your reports and recommendations. we had a lot of discussion today in a very prep -- very bipartisan way. how do we get better training to our officers? how do we get more officers into the capitol police and focus on a new mission of protection rather than just policing? in the report, mr. bolton lays out it is the capitol police force made up of the house argent at arms that has the authority to implement the recommendations you are making. that's what the american people may not understand -- the political appointee named by the speaker of the house that has the final say on implementing the many, good, bipartisan, agreed to common sense regulations you put forth. that's why it's important as a committee to

to who can get the money, i think we might find ourselves looking back like we did on 2008 with the gao and igs and department of agriculture concluding this was a disaster because all the money went to areas that didn't really need them. my greatest objective is to not repeat that result. yes, we need better maps. they are overdrawn. we all know that. we have proposals on the table to fix it, to be fair to the fcc congress only recently appropriated the money necessary to do it. i think the chairwoman has wisely pledged to get them done as quickly as you can turn what you are watching "the communicators" on c-span. our guest this week is michael powell who is the president and ceo of ncta, the internet and television association, former chairman of the federal communications commission. our guest reporter is lynn stanton of wolters kluwer tr daily. ms. stanton, that's a lot of title there. what does that mean? >> it just means i cover broadband and internet and telecom issues for pr daily really. >> host: and what is wolters kluwer tr daily? >> it's a multinational company that publish

the gao agreed to investigate and offer. host: we will go to larry in maryland. caller: joe biden's plan is a joke. he is a transnational globalist. he said come on in to the united states, open border. 24 years they found jackets of farsi and arabic. they are filing in -- they are flying in from central america -- to central america. host: how much of that is correct? guest: there's a lot there i will probably leave alone. the one thing he did raise on the question of whether biden is responsible for children. that's a real question. they would argue it's inhumane not to admit the children, to return them back to mexico, the country they just crossed on sometimes very dangerous journey. this something to that. at the same time there is that sense they crated that incentive to make that journey. but there is no doubt the journey is rough. i've reported in the past when teenage girls begin this journey from central america some begin to take birth control because of the danger, the prevalence of being raped during that journey. those conditions they are starting t

guardrail to get the money, think we might find yourself looking back like we did on 2008 with the gao and igs and department of agriculture concluding this program was disaster because all but the money which are areas that didn't really need them. my greatest objective is to not repeat that result. so yes, we need better maps. they are overdrawn. we all know that. we have proposals on the table to fix it. to be fair to the fcc, congress only recently appropriated the money necessary to do it at a think chairwoman rosen were so wisely pledged to try to get them done as quickly as you can. >> host: commissioner carr, what is your reaction to the former republican chair of the fcc? >> guest: there's a lot he is exactly right. mapping, for those who are lucky enough to not be steeped in fcc arcane ring, is an initiative we have to identify parts of the country that have high-speed internet and those that don't. the reality is the mats we had in place over the last decade or so are outdated. they don't do good enough job identifying those parts of the country that have service and those t

. >> republicans from oversight committee asked the gao to determine whether or not joe biden cancelingit is in congress appropriated the fund and approve the contract to build the wall we saw construction materials laying around everywhere and everywhere where they stopped construction illegals are crossing over. liz: congressman comer, great to have you back on, come back soon. i am elizabeth macdonald and you been watching "the evening edit". that does it for us, thank you so much for watching and we hope you have a good evening, join us again tomorrow night.

in the gao has agreed to investigate and offer an opinion on whether what the president has done his legal rated. >> was here for more callers will go to larry first and maryland. good morning pretty. >> joe biden's planet is a joke, he's a globalist and is the cause of these little children to say come on and in the united states open border. they had 24 years, they found jackets which the iranians speak arabic so there's a terrorist from south america. and they plan to oppose himself as mexicans and they are not. >> how much of that is correct. >> well, there's a lot there but i will probably leave alone with one thing is interesting that he did raise on this good question is whether biden is responsible for the children rated that's a very real question. they would argue as i said, in human, not too admit the childrn to return them back to mexico. a country they just crossed sometimes a very dangerous journey and there's absolutely something to that and at the same time, for some sense that they have created that incident for more children to make that journey. much smarter people

was some gao protest issues has been delayed a little bit. but theymi are on track by the end of this year to deliver the first two ships. >> does the capitalization planned sufficiently address the potential for attrition during a conflict with a competitor like china or russia? >> senator, as we work to the mobility capabilities as directed by congress, one of the things we are doing is considering the future joint concept as well as the contested environments that we know in thets future we will face. we are able to assess with elevated risk in terms of our ability with the combatant commanders desire. we are evaluating that now. by policy, based on attrition we do acknowledge the implications of attrition in any environment and the need to mitigate that for those were fighting effects. >> is your answer the assessments you are doing currently address the attrition issue that i asked? >> we address losses. we do. >> section 3511 of last year nda a provided authority to establish is tankers security program subject to the results of the mob

all of these things and, quite frankly also, ask gao to investigate a possible violation of presidentin the dark? we don't know exactly how many illegals are crossing undedirected. -- detected, how many illegal aliens. we saw 4500 criminal aliens since october. how many gang members. let's watch this. watch. >> the tucson sector is up to, you know, over 45,000 gotaways. so when you start looking at the individuals that have been apprehended and people that are on terrorist watch lists, it should raise huge red flags. >> spend -- been way over 100,000 people that have gotten away from us this year. >> i think president biden just doesn't care. i think he plans on admitting between 2-3 million illegal immigrants into our country this year. this is dangerous. the border patrol told me that at least people from 55 countries have already come in. people from all over the world are getting to mexico and flooding in. elizabeth: you've gotten ten seconds, congressman. sorry about that. >> all i can say is president biden, it's incomprehensible what this man doing. and he needs to listen to th

. >> republicans of the oversight committee have asked the gao to determine whether or not joe bident to build the wall we stopped construction materials lane around everywhere everywhere they stopped construction the illegals are crossing over. liz: got it, congressman komar, great to have you on come back soon. i am elizabeth macdonald you been watching "the evening edit", that does it for us we thank you so much for watching and we hope you have a good evening join us again tomorrow night. larry: hello everyone welcome back to "kudlow" i am larry kudlow, great pleasure to be with you, the biden infrastructure story with humongous tax highs continue to lead the news and we continue to talk about it. as you know i oppose it, last evening senator roger wicker the top republican on the senate science and transportation committee said, clearly there are parts of the letter nonstarter for republicans they said it would be nearly impossible to

the losing bidders protested the award and gao upheld the protest. i would be interested in hearing about the status of this program. transcon faces a unique set of cyber threats because of the command's extensive work with private sector entities in the transportation and shipping industries. general lions, the committee would appreciate an update on transcon's cybersecurity posture. thank you both for being here this morning. i look forward to your testimony. but i turn it over to senator inhofe, there will be an informal classified briefing immediately following this session in the senate security building office in the capitol. senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i just would acknowledge both of our witnesses as very good friends and i would say to general lions, it's not too late to change your mind. as stated many times before, this committee's top priority is to ensure the effective emanation of nds, national defense strategy, which focuses on china and russia as primary threats to our national security. that means we have to ensur

according to the gao, the recent epa review had 831 nsr units that had been approved. 467 of them were found to be in violation and [inaudible] redo everything they just got permission to publish. that isn't certainty. that's insanity. and costs hundreds of millions to the consumers as a result of the epa not following its regulations. so, we need to certainty. it needs to be reformed. there is nothing in the agenda or in this budget that i can see discussing reforms in the program. rather it seems the administration is following the same false optical agenda of focusing on regulations. what a novel thing, chair man. if we focus instead on innovating first, finding out if the scientists and researchers can come up with a way, we could be showing american leadership. now, let's assume that they can get the technology and they are out there to get a permit for it. now they need the pipeline system to transport to the captured carbon. they have an adverse possession to the pipelines, so look at what is happening with the keystone pipeline, the line five in michigan. all of these are showi

general honore's task force that did an overall assessment of the department, and we also have the gao providing an assessment. as to what went wrong, lessons learned from january 6, from the beginning, the leadership team has welcomed those assessments. we've had a chance to review the ig's first flash report, and we've already done a number of things to improve -- sen. leahy: do you are budget requests -- sorry to cut you off, but this vote is underway, and i am going to have to run -- do your budget requests reflect the needs? sen. leahy: absolutely. the budget request reflects the need for our most valuable asset, which is our officers. it is requesting 212 new sworn officers and 47 new civilian positions that would fill some of those things that you mention in terms of intelligence gaps. expanding those roles. there are a number of items primarily related around staffing, and there are some residual costs that will result from increasing the staffing. we can provide the report. sen. leahy: i would note that the security detail provided to the president pro tem, i can say they are

rod brings insight and just had a having managed cases for the w gao intensified for the u.s.-china economic security review commission. a partner and see the policy fellow at the mercator institute for china studies picky will support investment management strategic planning and policy announced requirements within the schools expertise which include the rise in emerging economies, the implications for the global economy and i will be remiss not to mention they announced a research partnership with our center to provide quarterly updates a china's policy choices in economic trajectories with the first one being released in june and this project is called china pathfinder. stay tuned. very excited about that one. lastly, geopolitical investing practice at pricewaterhouse coopers u.s. and nonresident fellow of atlantic council. in a capacity she established the practice in 2015 which focus on advising companies and investors on macroeconomics dynamics geopolitical risk and opportunity across global markets. thank you again for joining us. just a quick couple of quick housekeepi

and here from victor gao a director at the china national association of international studies who says the convictions are to be expected because the legal gatherings result in prosecution in all countries there have been tremendous amount of chaos and anarchy and violations of the rule of law yes indeed there were many protests and demonstrations but i would say many of these protests and demonstrations were illegal by hong kong standards how can i as a democracy protect people's right to demonstrate and to contest where you need to do that according to the law therefore if someone is involved in illegal and unlawful protests and demonstrations or even further committed offenses like i'm neki assem want to attack of other people for example or setting fire or even for example attacking and assaulting a let's hope your big occupying the. other government facilities that definitely this person or those persons will be filed guilty or not will for the law and will be subject to prosecution this is perfectly understandable this is not surprising. now u.s. president joe biden has old at th

gao cited one local public health official said the response was quote coherent confusing and uncoordinated. this was especially true with regard to the medical supply chain. early on, there was a serious and damaging perception of medical supplies and personal protective equipment were not being distributed to the greatest need but rather other motives whether political or personal. governors and local officials completed for months for supplies often saw the federal government redirect those supplies without explanation. now, some might say that with the covid threat still real and present, that this isn't the time to look backward, but we need to be learning these lessons in realtime. we can't afford to keep repeating the mistakes. this committee has the responsibility to fund fema that won't get the failures next time the pandemic hits. of course we also want to hear about the agency's present state of operations. we need to know how the defense production act is being used, what fema is doing to equitable vaccine support and financial health of the disaster relief fund. and covid-19 wi

we had an assembly for the democratic governor we are going to be transparent and respond to the gao and congressional members i am comparing the epa didn't seem it wanted to work with of the industry on the business practices. in fact it seemed to me i am a product of that and the reason i'm in congress today is because the run and that i had back in 2011 otherwise i wouldn't even be here. it seemed to me back then they were more interested than they were working with us, working with the business community and economy. sometimes the regulations can be detrimental to the industry. would you commit to working with the industry before you roll out of something that can destroy an entire industry? >> we are committed to engaging the community. i have a track record on that and we've already been doing that. one of the things we have been discussing is having enforcement involved in regulation finance. we knocked into the gotcha game. we want to put out regulations that are understood so we will be working with our stakeholders to do that. >> do you plan on being heavy-handed or giving

over the years there has been reports by ngo and the gao raising concerns about the quality of that screeningd highlighting the need for improvement but it is the vast majority that children can be returned after the screening occurs. >> there was a question. >> and they were apprehended before cbp. i don't thinkas bad exist and there are confidentiality concerns by think that concern was in response to the mother who had to go searching each facility to find her child. >> in that situation there is the 1800 number that they operate but the one shoulder more confidentiality and reason is that it is on the numbers of children released by stay and they will report as long as there are at least 50 children for confidentiality. so that information is availableey if people want to see the numbers of children who have been released in their state this year and then you can think about those needs and the state and county. >>ha our challenge was that it was hhs custody. there was no way to know exactly where that was for her. >> did she find her child quick. >> she did find her child at a local faci

did gao i referenced god 27 authorities over three main categories human capitol security and other. he has only four areas of individual authority. among other things the board has the authority to establish regulations for training of u.s. capitol police personnel and approve officers and emergency situations. to maintain security systems and i can quote even more from the report which as i said will be in the record. now i appreciate your reports and i appreciate your recommendations. we had a lot of discussion today in the good bipartisan way but how do we get better training to our officers? how do we get our -- capitol police to focus on protection rather than just police. mr. bolton clearly lays out its the capitol police force. it's made up of the architect of the capitol that has the authority to implement the recommendations. that's where i think the american people may not understand that it's the political appointees obtained by the speaker of the house that has the final say on implementing the many good bipartisan agree to common sense recommendations that you put forwa

george gao, this country's most senior official when it comes to disease control, did say over the weekendhown to have an efficacy ofjust under 50% orjust above. foreign competitors are well into the 90%, so it appears he was talking about the homemade products. but since then, we've had clarification. we've had him tell state media here it was a misunderstanding. this was also in the context of china trying to use, as i said, its homemade vaccines for maximum diplomatic leverage, and also convince more and more people here to take the vaccines. it's ramping up the delivery programme. it's trying to aim for the majority of people by the end of the summer. that looks ambitious at the moment. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story... minneapolis police say an officer who shot and killed a 20—year—old black man at a traffic stop had intended to use a taser, and that it was an �*accidental discharge'. iran has accused israel of a covert attack at a key nuclear plant on sunday, which has knocked power to the site. it�*s called it �*nuclear terrorism�* and �*sabotage�*

the gao report goes into all the reasons why this happens. it's a great report, and as archer of the agriculture community pointed out, i chair the defense subcommittee on appropriations, i would like to work with chairman bishop on this as well with you how we can better understand this problem if you could get to chairman bishop and i which staff person we should be working directly with that would be greatly appreciated. >> we will get that to you today. >> thank you. and at the end of your tenure as sect of agriculture u.s. force -- aren't nations most visited wilderness area and its prices reserve of water so clean you can drink it directly from its lakes and rivers. on december of 2016 the forest, previous forest service chief then i can sit for renewal of two expired mining leases in the watershed are concluding and i quote from him that copper ore mining could cause quote serious and irreparable harm to this unique, iconic irreplaceable wilderness area come into court. in january 2017 the forest service applied for mineral withdrawal

. >> i know there were some critical and high severity findings that you identified, that the gao had identified which led to this critique review. can you give us so we have a 12 week strategic review, can you give us any projection on what happens after that in terms of time, a time frame and a plan at all? >> i want to be careful not to get far ahead of the review and we just had a full hearing yesterday on this with two of your colleagues in the operating committee and what we committed to their was we're going to let the findings here help form our next decision. what's interesting when you think about this is right now we're in spokane and we will leave that for the next step to go tocolumbus . it's an entirely different vision but at the plan as you can see divisions going back to walla walla which is in the same division has okay. we've been looking hard at questions like what is the resource commitment mean and probably in washington for that next step so it could be the step into columbus is more straightforward and continues the current course of the state but the next step

keep us posted we have a very effective interface through the gao so just letting them see the project management plans those are contingencies to be very valuable. we have had good results working through that any urge you to strengthen your collaboration. >> another question is the effort toward therapeutics i am concerned not enough attention was placed on the need for therapeutics and the need to approve new covid treatments. they may be important as the virus pandemic disappears and now we deal with occasional flareups. i was rather disappointed the antibody therapeutics seem to work very well but we didn't have in place the mass treatment centers to use them so the effective medicines sat on the shelf. can you say anything about what the plans are going forward to make sure not only we have the therapeutics that can get to the patients who need them? >> an excellent question. over the last month we have stepped up the efforts to provide the antibodies directly for those who test positive the early stage of the disease but high-risk of the antibodies can save lives. doctor fauci a

i have a bill that requires gao to verify the adequacy and accuracy of the v.a.'s budget for medical care, in order to guarantee adequate funding for veterans health care. a new explain the importance of adequate funding and the potential consequences of not having enough absolutely -- enough? >> absolutely. i would ask joy to take this one. joy? >> funding for v.a. health care is essential for the dav members we want a strong and robust system for the v.a. to provide the comprehensive services that they have available. they need to be able to hire staff, be able to make sure that they have the infrastructure that they need, the research component is critical for service disabled veterans and those connections between their military service and disabilities. so we want to make sure that that remains and aphesis. we see how important it is, especially during this we support that measure. it is critical. we are part of the independent budget. we are requesting funding year after year. we know that having someone look at those requirements is an important piece of it