as someone who speaks japanese, mullen says she was lucky to know what was going on. now she's working on sharing information to other foreign residents through the international community's website to make sure no one is left behind in an emergency. nochi haruka, nhk world. >>> the u.s. envoy in charge of north korean affairs has expressed hope for progress in the situation on the korean peninsula by year endnd. u.s. deputy secretary of statet ararrived in seoul on tuesday. he met separately with foreign minist minister, vice foreign minister, and seoul's top negotiator for peace on the peninsula. after the meetings, he told reporters that the u.s. is ready to resume dialogue with north korea whenever its leader kim jong-un appoints a negotiator. north korea earlier said it has no intention of having dialogue with washington. dialogue and negotiations are the only way to rovl outstanding issues and that south korea will work closely with japan and other neighboring countries. but diplomatic observers point to a difference between the u.s. and south korean stances tow

powell, mullen-- who you had on, admiral mullen, you had him on "fox news sunday" this week, i understandmattis. does this surprise you? have you seen this level of ex- military coming out so forcefully speaking out against the president? >> well, and more important than the president, the commander in chief. i'm not particularly surprised by colin powell. i mean, he's been for every democrat since barack obama in 2008. but mullen and especially mattis i'm surprised at. mattis wrote a memoir, either earlier this year, late last year, and a lot of people were disappointed. because, remember, he resigned because of a policy disagreement over pulling troops out of syria. and it was clear he was not very happy with the president. and when he wrote his memoir, a lot of people-- including myself-- were disappointed that he didn't say what he had to say about donald trump. and he said, "i think i owe him the duty of silence," which i understood as kind of a military honor that "i served him as the secretary of defense, and i'm not going to undercut him in the middle of his presidency, especially

we welcome back assemblyman evan lowe who pushed through a bill along with kevin mullen that could allow17-year-olds to vote. next, we join us with john osaki who will talk about the ongoing project to renovate the san francisco japan town peace plaza. there is a crucial vote coming up this month. next, it's time for the

navy admiral mike mullen. and dr.nt of robert morris university near pittsburgh and a u.s. air force veteran. they both serve on the advisory board of with honor action. and they are urging congress to pass the core act, which would be the largest expansion of voluntary national service in the country. welcome. >> admiral, thank you for being with us. dr. howard, thank you as well. admiral we'll talk about a couple events that happened over the past few months but let's talk about the core act and why you believe it's so important that congress passes this bipartisan bill. >> someone that wore the uniform for four decades i have an appreciation of the benefits and privilege of national service. this act focuses on creating opportunities for upwards of 600,000 individuals who could sign on with senior core, expanding the jobs significantly and jobs could be focused in rural areas, focused for public health officials, for many young people who are seeking jobs at a time when our unemployment is very high and expose them

. >> yes, i just go back to, mike mullen and his op-ed penned in early june following george floyd deathhe warned against the use of military for political purposes and i think we have to be mindful of that that, you know, we just have to be very mindful of that about the role and the duty as i described earlier of the people in our military but also international security community and so we have -- years ago with respect to the iraq war we warned against the politicalization of intelligence so we do have to ensure we protect the integrity of the important institutions so they can most effectively pursue their mission. >> i actually agree with wendy but i would like to add a little bit of a different twist. i'm a great admirer of mike mullen and have worked for him on the sano executive panel and did work when he was chairman of the joint chief so i get the larger points. i think what he is concerned about goes back to elizabeth's concern about civic education. in the united states steadily since the 1980 to do a course correction on some of the diversity issues we are talking about an

>>tuesday night dennis mullen sit side by side with his son by row mueller's reddish hue mai but i have seen him in a few years, but how he got here require some explanation the route from his home in heber overgaard arizona to his son's home in fremont wisconsin is just over 1600 miles dennis as he put in an extra 200 miles on his route because he kept getting lost he got lost again on day 3 of his drive. but this time he met a couple at a gas station right here in illinois locals hood in tracy a car broke down some directions and their phone number and sent him on his way if that was my mom. i would be a wreck. you know i would want somebody to help her within 15 minutes, they got a call from dennis and he just looked at me and he said you ready to go to wisconsin just like that the couple embarked on a 3 hour trip to drop tennis off meeting his son in madison, neither one of us can bear the thought of. you know if we saw missing persons alert or something bad happened to him, you know then we have one point had the potential to help turn this around and didn't do it that was just not

couple of months after the video of the baghdad helicopter attack against civilians was published yet mullen revelations appeared this time it was the afghanistan and iraq dossier as. the afghanistan and iraq does he was classified pentagon finals only u.s. and allied military activity in afghanistan and iraq from 2004 to 2009. these were logs that were written by members of the military who might be out at the front or patrolling in the area and might be things safe seen or experienced on their shift or patrol so it was almost a sort of. a very detailed war diary. by the americans and the british in but it didn't occur to me that it could be so informative. the because it was a huge data sets 400000 classified reports field reports by the u.s. army this is the most accurate description of the war that is if it being released into the story we are counted now $120.00 true. the sunni triangle teams are in the war there's nearly no street corner in baghdad didn't have a body fell into being killed 3 volumes and one form or another. what we found out from the iraq and afghanistan dosia's the us

philadelphia over the weekend and authorities didn't want the yankees using the same clubhouse at the mullens abused before they could give it a real deep clean so there's a knock on effect to the season only started a few days ago no one really expected this amount of positive cases so quickly what does that mean for the season there or is it at any risk of being closed well i mean the season is delayed anyway it's truncated rob manfred who is the commissioner of and they'll be the head of the sport is basically. said the positive test i don't see them as a night mare he said he can only envisage the season being canceled if a team has so many cases that it can't actually field a team now because of coronavirus the rosters in a movie this season are allowed to be much bigger than usual so there's lots of reserve players who can come in and the plan is that the marlins are going to play on wednesday against baltimore with these extra squad and the yankees seems we're playing tonight against the philadelphia phillies even though the philadelphia phillies may come into contact may have come int

danny mullen owners; bookstore in chicago said " we've had a huge financial boost we went from movingoks a week to 50,000 books a week. she went on to note that about 10 best selling books on race are responsible for roughly half her sales including abram candies how to be an antiracist which is currently in its 18th reprints. also in the news, according to npd bookscan print book sales rose close to 23 percent for the week ending june 20 led by the demand for books on race as well as father's day sales.as the coronavirus continues to affect the nation, upcoming book festivals are amending their programming, last week the printers wrote but fast in chicago canceled their 36th annual festival in the texas book festival will not be held virtually starting october 31. booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news you can also watch all of our archived programs anytime at booktv.org. >> my name is Ãbthe director of programs exhibitions and community partnerships for massachusetts historical society.our program deceiving is very seasonal. it's a look at the traditional

which we are working on now and over the coming days a little bit on syria senior political analyst mullen bashara says netanyahu is still pressing ahead with an exciting tense record you know who really wants to take advantage of the fact that trump is president or for sure to be president until the end of the year and hence exploit that opportunity in order to go through with an exhibition that is long. what's really fascinating and a probably this something should be shocking to our viewers around the world is that we're all waiting you know for the for the white smoke comes out of the white house as it were a century after another white man in the seat of empire lord balfour in london decided to give parts of by this time to the zionist movement one century 100 years later we have another white man in the seat of empire in washington also. trying to. give the amount of people by this time to the zionist movement so the fact that this continues to go on that a person doesn't got a spine gives it away to someone who doesn't deserve it against the woodwards people is quite outstanding. po

admiral mullen, former of the joint chiefs -- national security threat the country faces.k around the world, earlier we were briefed by an economist who pointed out that many of the countries with a high quality life but should very differently, use a different process, but also have a completely different deficit reality than when we had gotten ourselves in. you're going to be around for a while. at least in terms of your own age. senior member of the u.s. senate. what concerns you most about 26 trillion, more relevant lee, we are entering an era of trillion dollar deficits and there are no real concrete plans to change. it >> there are obviously two things that are concerning. the first is if you look at what drives it ultimately, it's not the discretionary spending per se, it is mean there are not ways or things that we should should not be careful to spend. the debt is largely driven with the exception of short term issues we see is massive spending as a result of the virus. it is driven by mandatory spending programs. the longer we put it off in a way that is politica

congressman mark wayne mullen, as well as congressman adrian smith. welcome to you all. back in my home state of south dakota. and it started simply a few weeks ago. it was a test. isn't that the way all of our important events occur in our lives these days? did you get my voice mail, mary? christy, texted back.es now, when did you leave it?? next second, the phone rings. it's the governor saying, mary, i have a favor to ask of you. would you consider -- and when she explained this glorious night in the plans, i said, are you kidding? i would be so honored, so happy. and let me just tell you that i am incredibly proud to have all of you, who are first-timers here, and i know there are people from all over the country visiting, because i've talked to a few of you today, and we are so happy, whether it's new hampshire or delaware, where ever you came from, you had a track. but i know you're happy to be in this great state. i have a long association with mount rushmore and it's making me mad that those guys up there aren't aging, because -- yeah. as a young kid i was here w

mark wayne mullen to introduce doctor charles grimm. >> thank you. i am honored to introduce fellow cherokees, and accomplished healthcare professional and as i said, fellow cherokee doctor, doctor graham has decades of experience with ihs including director of ihs under president george w. bush, he spent years leading health services for the cherokee nation and also a retired assistant surgeon general and rear admiral in the commission core of us public health services, native doctor dedicated his life to serving indian country and i am proud to have him here representing the great state of oklahoma. thank you for being here today. >> our last witnesses laura thomas, a partner in quarrels and grady. we are now recognized for five minutes for your statement. thank you. >> thank you. chairman malone, ranking member walden and members of the committee on energy and commerce. thank you, tom o'halloran, i am the president of the navajo nation, i greet you today. i appreciate this opportunity to testify before the full committee to address urgent need fac

years ago, admiral mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said just that. it is not russia, china, iran or north korea, it is our national debt that will take us down and i believe that congress should take it more seriously. as a member of congress i am known as a fiscal conservative because i continually talk about spending. when we have to deal with a pandemic like this, the first question we should ask is how doo we pay this back. what is the payment schedule. if you bought a home and got a mortgage, would you get a payment schedule. when we are spending trillions of dollars on a pandemic, we should have a strategy, a plan to make sure that we are paying back this debt. we would be a trillion dollars in debt without the pandemic. just regular spending puts us a trillion dollars in debt. the real challenge that we have as a country and as a congress, because congress just reflects the values of the country, but the problem we have right now is that every time congress moves to cut a program, there is an outcry and there is, frankly, political pain to pay

danny mullen, said we had a huge financial boost.we went from moving 3000 books a week to 50,000 books a week. he went on to note that ten best-selling books on race are responsible for roughly half of her sales including how to be in antiracist which is currently in its eighteenth reprints. also in the news according to npd bookscan, print book sales rose close to 23% for the week ending june 20th led by demand for books on race as well as father's day sales. as the coronavirus continues to affect the nation, upcoming book festivals are mending their programming. last week the printers relit fast in chicago canceled their 30 sixth annual festival and the texas book festival will now be held virtually starting october 30 first. booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. you can also watch all our archive programs any time, booktv.org. >> during a virtual author program hosted by townhall seattle, fair vote senior fellow david daily reported on efforts around the country to expand voting rights. here is a port

and distinguished fellow at the mullen institute of health, workforce equity. she also previously served as baltimore's health commissioner, thank you for being here. our third and final witness, ms. willis is the cofounder and ceo of the institute for diversity and emergency management. a certified emergency manager, master exercise practitioner, served as immediate past president of the international association of emergency managers region number 4. welcome. without objection the witnesses. it will be inserted into the record. i now ask each witness to summarize his or her statement for five minutes beginning with doctor benjamin. >> chairman rep pain and ranking member kim, thanks for spending time with us this morning. i'm going to focus on three areas, disparate impact and cause of it. there are concerns about the preparedness activity and rebuilding the public health infrastructure. as you know this has devastating effect, 3 million cases, 130,000 deaths, they are growing, 60,000 cases a day. if you look at the minority community we have been devastated

george washington university public school of health where she is also a distinguished fellow at the mullen institute of health workforce equity. previously served as baltimore's health commissioner. thank you for being here. our third and final witness is chauncia willis. ms. willis is the cofounder and ceo of the institute for diversity and inclusion and emergency management. she is a certified emergency manager, a master exercise practitioner and served as the immediate past resident of the international association of emergency managers. welcome. without objection, the witness's statement will be inserted into the record. i now ask each witness to summarize his or her statement for five minutes beginning with dr. benjamin. thank you very much for allowing me to spend some time with you this morning. you have my full testimony. i'm going to focus on three areas. aboutoncerns i have preparedness activity and the importance of rebuilding our public health infrastructure. this has devastated our nation. over 3 million cases. over 130,000 deaths. they are growing at 60,000 cases per day. if

clark, rankingn member cole, ranking member harris, congressman congresswoman butler, congresswoman mullen are, congresswoman gray. the subcommittee members participating remotely are congresswoman lois frankel and congresswoman bonnie watson coleman. before i give an opening to offer ai require brief explanation of how the markup will work. configuredm has been to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between members, staff, and the press corps in the room. to usembers have opted secure video teleconferencing which allows them to participate remotely. for those on videoconference, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the main screen. speaking into the microphone activates the camera. displaying the speaker on the main screen. do not stop your remarks if you do not immediately see the screen switchover. if the screen does not change after several seconds, please muted.re you are not to minimize background noise and ensure the correct speaker is displayed, we ask members participating by video remain on mute unless you have sought r

and then i'd like to introduce now mark wayne mullen to introduce dr. charles grimm, if you would. >> i'm really honored to introduce this fellow cherokee. he's an accomplished health care professional, and as i said, he's a fellow cherokee. dr. charles grimm, he spent years leading the health services for the cherokee nation. he's also a retired assistant surgeon general, and rear admiral in the commissioned core of the u.s. public health services. he's a native doctor, who has dedicated his life to serving indian country. i'm very proud to have him here, dr. grimm, thank you so much for being here today. >> thank you. and our last witness, a partner in -- it says quarles and brady. president nez, you're recognized for five minutes for your statement. thank you. >> thank you. thank you, my friend tom, for that introduction. my name is jonathan nez. i am the president of the navajo nation. and the vice president and i greet you today. we appreciate this opportunity to testify before the full committee today to address urgent needs facing the navajo nati

. >> recognizes mister mullen for five minutes. >> i don't -- we are in a pandemic that we've never experienced before. our country to find the vaccine. it is completely wrong. can each of you speak to your manufacturing capacity and how ramping up to meet that demand will be needed once the vaccine, one at a time. >> thank you for your question, john young from pfizer. i mentioned in my testimony we have a dedicated supply chain we are establishing for the united states in parallel that we are working with our partners to develop a supply chain, looking to leverage existing pfizer network and massachusetts and kalamazoo, michigan for the drug manufacturing process for drug products, the incredibly heroic work our colleagues have done as they begin work before we completed our phase 3 program to establish our manufacturing supply network. i am proud of the work our colleagues have done so far. >> our supply chain, has done a phenomenal job putting facilities for our partners emergence in mri to secure doses this year and next year, we will continue to supply as needed assuming what is safe. >>

i want to thank the bill's longtime champion, congressman mullen and cosponsors, congressman leon and congressman long for their support. i would also like to highlight congresswoman's expansion act. tms has taken some great strides in expanding telehealth across mental health treatment which has been critically important in helping patients get the help that they need during covid. ultimately, cms and congress should make most of these telehealth provisions permanent. in addition to the bills i've already mentioned, we support many others before you today, including the behavioral health coverage transparency act and the mental health parity compliance act, the mental health services for students act, the pursuing equity and mental health act, and hr-6645 to provide additional funds to the national institute of mental health for research related to the mental health effects of covid. finally, i commend the leadership on the range of suicide prevention bills before you today. notably, by the co-chairs of the suicide prevention task force. and members of the committee, i'm greatly -- i