peter: welcome to "washington week." i'm peter baker. presidt biden fielded questions thursday on everything from immigration to how far he ll go to break the filibuster. here is some of what we heard in the east room of the white house. >> i've been hired to solve problems, to solve problems, not create division. we should go back to a position of the filibuster that existed when i came to the united states senate 120 years ago. it used to be that you would talk and talk and talk and talk until you collapsed pithe biden announced a new goal to distribute 200 million doses of the vaccine double his original target. absent from the discussion is a mass shooting at supermarket in colorado. joining me to open their notebooks are four of washington's very best. errin haines, editor at large for the 19th. zolan kanno-youngs, my colleague at the "new york times," sahil kapur for n. p.r. and ashley parker from "the washington post." what's the difference between a trump press conference and a biden press conference? ashley: there are so many di

what do you think, peter? peter: well, i knew peter well and admired him. peter's, probably, main contribution, beyond good reportage, was a book called "tet. " i think it's two volumes. and it really does try to dissect the tet offensive and get beyond, i think, the--the somewhat stereotypical idea that this was a total disaster for the south vietnamese and the americans and looks at it from a more historical prospective and says that the--the vietcong and the north vietnamese suffered enormous casualties; that, in a military sense, it really was much more of a defeat for the communists even though, politically, it wound up being a great success for them. and i think there was some evidence to support that. i mean, vietnam in the several years after the tet offensive really had the america and the south vietnamese army on the offensive and the north vietnamese and the vietcong quite desperately trying to rebuild their forces. then, of course, we started leaving vietnam and we left our allies somewhat alone with our tactics but without our support and, even

peter: thank you sir. elizabeth kolbert speech of thank you is back to what we're talking about again, that is very and has a lot of risks associated with this and we beed for a long time there were going to get these much safer modular reactors read i guess all i can say is i hope that is true. peter: john in corpus christi, texas. guest: hi and would like to ask what is being done about the corpus christi area becoming the ground zero for this fight against men paid climate change. the series becoming environmental disaster. i'm a member of three environmental service in this area we retain a mass that shows how the powers that be are planning on bringing in 16 new refineries and industrial plants to this area. it isre going to economically ad environmentally destroy an economically destroyed because it does not benefit the local population. on does benefit all straight is going to turn this area into a total environmentalot disaster. near deepening and widening the ports to bring in these massive massiv

peter: you are a mathematician. are be too reliant on algorithms when it comes to social media feeds? rep. mcnerney: that is a good question. algorithms don't have a huge hand necessarily, but they have biases that are built into them. another thing that algorithms do is use data that could be biased. both of those things, i think, can cause bias and harm to people. i think it is important to look at how these algorithms are run. i think companies like facebook, google, they have the resources to provide the oversight on these algorithms. we just need to provide the incentives or disincentives for them to do that. peter: you are watching "the communicators" on c-span. representative jerry mcnerney of california is our best. cat's our guest reporter from the washington post. cat: you have mentioned the word "responsibility" several times in this conversation. tech companies do not have to take response ability for harmful content on their platforms. you think it is time to reform or repeal section 230? rep. mcnerney:

peter: one final question, eric. you said these words so i don't want to put words in your mouth, so help me here. have you worried about mental health over the past year, you talked about worrying and providing mental health for your family, you think it has affected your mental health? >> yeah, definitely, and not just myself, but my family included because my grandmother, she got cancer. so the entire family is just worried about whether or not this virus is going to just run through the house. just that, on its own. peter: have you been able to see your grandmother in person? >> yeah, i am actually her caretaker at the moment. peter: eric, thanks for watching out for spending a few minutes with the. let's hear from bailey -- without us. let's hear from ibillie -- let's hear from billie in san mateo, california. >> i am a retired professor and what has helped my mental health has been my friends and relatives from all over the country calling each other. we help each other get appointments for our vaccine. if some

peter: here is leah nylund from politico. leah: thanks for having me, peter. section 230, there a's a lot of -- there is a lot of sentiment in congress to revise section 230, which holds that platforms are not liable for what users post. you think section 230 needs to be changed? neil: thanks. great to be talking to you. you have quite a week, i am must think i should be talking about you. i hope we talk about stuff you have been working on recently. but section 230 is a sort of fundamental ruled that provided that permissionless intervention i was talking about for the internet. it basically says, the person responsible for bad content online is the person who put it there, not the platform they put it on. so it protects platforms of all kinds. we often talk about the big companies, but there were elective different companies that provide a service to end-users protected by section 230, infrastructure companies, isps, any website including newspapers that have comment sections -- they all benefit from section 230, which solves a problem called the moderator's

mcnerney: that is a good question, peter. and i'm not really an expert, but what i would like to see are some hearings on what sort of regulation would be the most effective, if any. how we can disincentivize the use of algorithms and methods to amplify bad messages? that is the core of where we need to go. what is it going to take what , sort of approach? as cap mentioned is it going to , be antitrust, privacy? this is something to work on, and our committee has the expertise to do that. that's why i am optimistic about us working together on a bipartisan basis to accomplish that. peter: what else is the e&c committee working on that we have not talked about, that you want to bring up? rep. mcnerney: electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles are important. very important. i am also very engaged in artificial intelligence, and that is a very bipartisan issue. i am chair of the congressional ai caucus. my co-chair is anthony gonzalez, a republican from ohio. and we are looking forward to a very busy year in developing artifici

>> peter has animosity towards roberto. peter has made threats to roberto. peter is the one that wants in to the farming operation. >> reporter: linda parisi, paul moore's attorney, presented in court a mirror image of the state's case acknowledging that one cousin was out to frame the other, only in her version of the story paul was the stooge and peter the mastermind. >> peter is the one who has indicated, i've been in landscaping for 20 years. i'm tired. i'm broken down. i want to be in the farming operation. what better way to take out roberto and to take out paul? >> to counter that argument the prosecution was forced to call pete as a witness, knowing that would make him a punching bag for parisi. >> she told me, you're a murderer aren't you, mr. moore? i said, those are your words, not mine. >> she thought she could, by grilling peter, uncover the evil, the monster. >> reporter: assistant attorney general david drewliner was pete's wrangler during the trial. >> i was completely satisfied there was no monster to uncover. so i, for the most part, let he

chair peters: thank you. mr. miller. mr. miller: thank you, chairman peters, and i appreciate the question. first and foremost, i agree with ms. young. it should never -- every one in front of us is tackling the pandemic, beating back the pandemic and providing economic relief to americans, creating both to address the current struggles and to create a foundation for recovery. if confirmed, in my role as deputy director for management, one key first priority is making sure that we are operating effectively, efficiently, minimizing waste, and delivering relief, delivering on getting vaccines to people, shots in their arms fast, consistent with the laws enacted by congress. the second piece i think is important and critical at this time is ensuring all federal agencies are delivering on their critical missions even while they're earning to operate in new and different ways in order to keep federal workers safe, to keep americans safe in the delivery of those services. so both o.m.b.'s central role in tackling t

should we call peter? >> let's call peter. >> your table looks way better organized than ours. >> if only that counted toward how it tastes. >> peter's family was a big help too. >> this goes next to it. >> girls, throw these things in here. >> nicely done. >> good job. >> the apple butternut squash, i loved it, i was confused whether i had to roast the apples. ultimately we decided not to. was that the right move? >> the right call on the apples. more than 100 recipe testers have been making it, sending back feedback. >> the response from recipe testers make the published recipes easier to follow for novice cooks. >> what we have seen in the pandemic is so many people new to the kitchen, everything from so what's the difference between a paring knife and chef's knife, a basic question. >> helping them create new memories. >> sunday night cooking. >> yay. >> cheers. it was so fun to cook with you guys. and it turned out well. we ate it a second day. how about you guys? >> i know where the apples went, into

that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to bethesda 1st peter i'm going to ask a very simple question what to on this program what is the strategic value of the middle east for the united states it's been there for decades and we keep being told it is necessary that we be there we had a president for 4 years been trying to get out even the president of the united states in the powers of that office could pull troops out of that region so what is the strategic value of the middle east for the united states right now in 2021. it wasn't only the by trumpet ministration that wanted a call out of the forever wars obama also said it was good and the forever wars so we had 2 presidents who were trapped there and were unable to get out the us interests in the middle east going back for decades revolved around or oil well was crucial to power so the militaries to the economy the global. global economy ran. the united states got more deeply entrenched under the carter administration put troops in the area made a central to our strategic policies and doubl

peter: well, i think probably the same point that frankie was making. i mean, i think one thing we might have shared as reporters covering vietnam was, at least, the effort to get out in the countryside and try to see the war in a kind of microcosm; to actually talk, as best one could, to farmers and to arvn sergeants and to american advisers and--and to try to describe what we saw. in this particular case, i think the point i was making, if there was a larger part, was that, actually, about a year after the--the tet offensive, which was seen as such a disaster--and, in some senses, was--for the american cause--the mekong delta was surprisingly peaceful. and i think the point i made is, you know, o--one could spend a week going through the delta on buses and sanpans and so on without being shot at. and i thought that perhaps said something about the way the war was going at that particular time in that particular place. brian: how long were you in vietnam?

i mean peter i mean that's fair enough but these are countries in the region they're interacting with each other some of them are adversaries some of them are newly formed allies so roy let me go to you i mean why don't we just leave the region to itself i mean all these players are active i mean they and it's their turf i mean nobody can give me in people in power can give me a reasonable answer why we are still there go ahead. inside interesting that you asked that question this week. or the you know this this year and see here is yours mario average for your money. and honestly i think that's the real reason there. is right to. the initial pitch was ok or oil and you were 30 years ago question and one of i don't know i'm going to say well i only thought of the play that isn't relevant now because the fact that we've got our own independent sources well i also. well i don't know. so why are we there. i would argue that the real reason is in fact a concern about terrorism. when our friends or associates immigrate make the argument and i think it's a very strong argument that continue

peter: how is girls who code set up? reshma: it is set up as a nonprofit and we do for major things. we hst -- we host summer classrooms inside technology companies and coached girls to come up with a major or minor in computer science. then, we have afterschool classes from third grade on up. every minute that goes by, there is a girls who code club operating. and we have college loops, because we know the attrition rate is higher for women than for men in college once you get to college and say, i am majoring in computer science and i'm going to be an engineer, there are communities there to make sure we support the sisterhood. we support you on your way through. finally, i would say that we lead the movement in cultural change and making coding cool for girls and making it relevant. and we do ad campaigns, we had a super bowl ad, so we are constantly thinking about how you change culture, how you make this issue move quickly. because our goal is gender parity by 25th. -- by 2030. and we are well on our way. peter: you

peter: good question. when i look at the broader industry, the hedge fund industry, there's not a lot of overlap between what he had and other funds had, so we do not see that huge liquidation, but we have investors, risk controls internally, regulators, brokers, so there are levels of, for lack of a better word, defense for these sort of bumps. nothing is perfect, but if you are an investor in hedge funds, probably it is reasonable to look at the concentrated risks, what leverage looks like, and what kind of liquidity they run to prevent something surprising. in this case, this might have been surprising to the family office, the dislocation in stocks. matt: huge trades affecting a large number of stocks. gsx, viacom, discovery. these are 50% drops over the last week. it leads me to wonder about crowding, overcrowding, in trade. this is an issue congress touched on considering how short a lot of hedge funds were, the mean stocks, the reddit stocks. is overcrowding an issue that investors need to pay atten

peters: good to hear. studies have shown that our nation can avoid $6 in future disaster costs in every dollar that we spend on mitigation today. that is a good return, regardless of your perspectives. mitigation projects have historically only made up a small part of the nation's disaster spending. communities in michigan are facing serious challenges due to shoreline erosion and rising water levels that have destroyed homes and public property and has even forced some residents to relocate. a bill that i offered, the ongoing risk mitigation act that recently was signed into law and will allow states to access revolving loan funds for mitigation projects in their state, such as protecting coastlines from further erosion. if confirmed, would you support the expansion of mitigation programs such as these revolving loan funds to protect our local communities? ms. criswell: chairman, negation is critically important in today's time, as we see an increase in the number and severity of disasters. the best way f

peters, ranking members. i am agent general william walker, the commanding -- effectually known as capital guardians. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the events of january 6, a dark chapter in our nations history. i was personally sickened by the violence i witnessed that fateful day, in the physical and mental harm that came to the u.s. capitol police officers and metropolitan police officers, some i met with later that evening, and i could see that they sustained injuries. it is my hope that the recollection -- my recollection of the events in my presentation of the facts as i know them will help your committees and its investigation, and prevent such tragic events from ever occurring again. first i think it is critical to understand what the district of columbia national guard's mission was on january 6, and how request for support of other authorities were handled. on december 31, 2020, the district of columbia national guard received written request from the district of

we really appreciate your time, peter. peter schaffrik of rbc capital markets. we are going to continue the conversation. we will talk more about what is happening with this european lockdown story. that is coming up. this is bloomberg. ♪ so many people are overweight now and asking themselves, "why can't i lose weight?" for most, the reason is insulin resistance, and they don't even know they have it. conventional starvation diets don't address insulin resistance. that's why they don't work. now there's golo. golo helps with insulin resistance, getting rid of sugar cravings, helps control stress and emotional eating and losing weight. go to golo.com and see how golo can change your life. that's golo.com. ♪ kailey: live from new york, i am kailey leinz with guy johnson, this is bloomberg markets part. >> the whole industry is affected. the capacity is too low for all players, like the automotive industry and consumer electronics. troubleshooting, day by day. up until now, we were able to be flexible at porsche. we have a very clear plan to work day by day in

come on peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up iran rejects a european offer for direct talks with the u.s. to revive the 2015 nuclear deal plus. we have pretty good. and i'm gonna sing wait for parents in northwest nigeria as the search continues for more than 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by armed men. a vaccine finally the philippines is set to roll out its covert 19 immunization program to last among countries in southeast asia. the u.n. secretary general is demanding international action against the military and me and mom after the security forces shot dead 18 protesters and 2 negro terrace says the violence is unacceptable and that world leaders have to send a strong message to the military the u.s. secretary of state and lincoln has also denounced what's going on in the country calling the violence of horror and he says washington will push for the military to be held accountable these condemnations follow them. violent days since demonstrations began ag

no malcolm i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up iran rejects a european offer for direct talks with the u.s. to revive the 2050 nuclear deal. al-jazeera hears harrowing testimony that amounts to war crimes in ethiopia's more than regional too great. a vaccine finally the philippines is set to roll out its covert 19 immunization program to last among countries in southeast asia. ok let's get going it's been less than a day since 18 people were shot and killed on me in la streets by the security forces but that hasn't put off thousands of people who are out once again to demand the release of the detained leader aung sun suu chee the police fired live rounds of crowds on monday in the worst day of violence yet since the military seized control a month ago the u.n. secretary general is demanding international action against the military and meanwhile an tourney a good terrorists says the violence is unacceptable. and that world leaders have to send a strong message to the military the

peter: that is a great question. one of the things that we have learned -- actually, this is the field i work in. looking at the geological past, the last time this happened was one of the largest climate changes we have seen in the time of human history. these clite changes are really large. they are abrupt. they can't occur within a decade, and the transitions are far larger -- they can occur within a decade, and the transitions are far larger than what we have seen. laura: we could see some areas of the world get much hotter? peter: what is interesting is as the earth is warming, greenland is starting to melt, and that ruff is affecting what we call the stratification of the oceans at the poles, and that is inhibiting the flowf the gulfstream as the warm water goes north and then sinks because it gets cold and forms a kind of conveyor belt, so this fresh water coming from the melting of greenland is putting the brakes on the conveyor belt, and this rapid change is leading to some of the observations that have been

peter: brent, closing argument? brent: i would reiterate, i find it puzzling why we have all of this attention on antitrust in the tech markets. in monopoly markets what you see are restricted outputs, degraded services and high costs. you see this and other areas health care education, childcare, housing. i hope politicians will not use their issue with social media moderation at the protected activities of these companies as a way to change antitrust law in a radical way. it should be noted regulation is not panacea. the industries i mentioned are highly regulated. regulation does not necessarily about the low cost and high quality that we want, so we need to be skeptical of claims that it will be able magic wand and tech markets. peter: brett skorup, sally hubbard, thank you for being on the communicators. >> you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created in 1979. today, we are brought to you i these television companies that provide c-span as a public service. -- by these televis

>> peter wood, 1620:a critical response to the 1619 project. you should go to amazon or another provider immediately. the book came out in november. it has been on amazon for some months now. this is both a proper history of america frankly and everything missed hot by the 1619 project and an account of what precisely the new york times and other organizations have been doing in the last year as they taught the 1619 project which tends to emphasize all the negative in american history without context and contains some great historical whoppers though i must say peter wood is nuanced about things they do right and gives them do credit for things that are being done properly which is one of the nice things about the book. we have three notable scholars to talk about the book, "1620: a critical response to the 1619 project," followed by peter wood himself, followed by q and a, moderated by me. i will say the names of the scholars first and talk about the q and a. phillip magness, senior research fellow, american institute for american research, au

peters: thank you. there are three questions the committee ask of every nominee for the record. first, is there anything that you are aware of in your background that might present a conflict of interest with the duties of the office for which you have been nominated? ms. criswell: no. sen. peters: do you know anything personally -- personal or otherwise that would prevent you from discharging the honors of the office for which you have been nominated? ms. criswell: no. sen. peters: do you agree without reservation to comply with any request or summons to appear and testify before any constituted committee of congress if you are confirmed? ms. criswell: yes. sen. peters: according to multiple studies, minority and impoverished communities feel the impact of natural disasters far more severely than others. we have seen that time and time again in michigan. these communities often have difficulty obtaining the assistance they need from the federal government and therefore, they do not recover as quickly a

i'll leave my viewers to do research on what i refer to, peter. will they have -- can they unload the ship there? can they lighten if they had to? >> if they had to, they can do so that will be the last resort, i would guess, simply because of the tricky part of that. fingers crossed. they will be able to refloat her using the techniques they are applying it will take time. >> got it. peter sand getting a lot of attention unusual situation in the suez. peter, thank you. >>> thank you. >> on deck why boring is the new sexy why we are not just talking about him. dow tus fureare up 84. stick around and free, and free, and free, and free, and free. not a better and free! free down, free down. hit free here, free where there. down a free free down a free free here. not a better and free. make it at free. hit free here, where a free there. no no no, free, free. make it at free. free! that's right, turbotax free edition is free. free, free free free. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." good morning we are approaching 6:00 on the east coast of here

professor peter openshaw, thank you for asj peter openshaw, thank you for as everfor being peter openshaw, thank you for as ever for being with us on bbc news. the latest coronavirus figures show infections continuing to fall, though weekend numbers tend to be lower due to reporting delays. let's take you through the numbers. there were 4,618 new cases recorded in the latest 24—hour period, which means on average the number of new cases reported per day in the last week, is 5,703. there were 52 deaths reported, that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test, which means on average, 145 people died every day in the last week from coronavirus, taking the total to 125,516. those are deaths for any reason. we will go into that figure, whether or not it is directly attributable to the coronavirus of people who have had a positive test within the last month. over half a million people have had their first dose of a covid vaccine in the latest 24—hour period, and as we've heard that means a total of more than 24 million people have now had theirfirstjab, and more than

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>> good morning, kristin and peter. president biden could be just hours away from clearing a major hurdle on his top priority, this covid relief senators have been sleepless, working to debate and vote on a rapid fire series of amendments. most of them offered by republicans who want to shift money that they believe should not be going to certain projects if they don't think it qualifies as covid relief. most of those efforts are failing. and there was an hour's long back and forth over how best to fund and set up federal enhanced unemployment benefits. a washington all nighter for covid relief >> america needs the american rescue plan and they need it now. >> still at work this morning with hours to go the senate slowly grinding on the massive $1.9 trillion package. >> we are going to power through and finish this bill, however long it takes. >> but urgency did not make it any easier another push from bernie sanders to include raising the federal minimum wage to $15. >> we can no longer tolerate millions of our workers

peter chatwell is still with us. i wonder what this looks like in terms of your expectations for bond stocks. you said this is a warm-up. this looks at her for the banking sector in 2021. peter: we should all be getting excited about the prospects of financials in equity markets as well as the read across to credit markets. this is going to be a quarter of very vigorous growth and then recovery in inflation. as the steepening goes further, i think we will see a solid reappraisal of where european financials could go. european financials is something that over the last 10 years -- the perennial laggard has bottomed out. but we will see in the next order is strong outperformance -- in the next quarter is strong outperformance. anna: financials in europe will benefit from the steeper curve. i wonder if that is going to front-runner the recovery in the european economy. peter: the yield is steepening as we see it. largely beneficial. it will be by net -- it will be beneficial's for financials. as long as the steepening o

peter: thanks for having me, emily. we're definitely seeing sides of enthusiasm in the world, alth it depends entirely on the situation in different geographies. in europe today, it is not so great, there is a lot of lockdown's going on. but in north america, we have seen a ton of enthusiasm for travel. you mentioned tsa numbers, spring break has sprung in the southeast end mexico and other places where it is warm, and people feel like they can get outside and have fairly normal vacations. there has been huge demand, and in many of those places, we are outperforming where we were two years ago at this time. so we are seeing real demand spikes in places where people can enjoy a great vacation, but there are parts of the world and parts of this country that are still much lower, including cities and other spots, where perhaps you can't have the same kind of vacation you would have had a couple years ago. emily: brian chesky, ceo of airbnb, reiterated comments he made to me last june, when he said travel will not be the sa

international today peter 1st to you there has already been a bit of a negative reaction to this one conservative m.p. calling it woke gone mad has the university gone too far here perhaps. what you have to look at the intention the intention is to make everyone feel included so that everyone feels part of it but no one is a order behind so that intention is very very good and i think to make somewhat of occasions in language to ensure that it's not a big arts no it's not a it's a bit of an extra effort to think about the words we use but it's not a huge ask and loan which has evolved all the time you know we don't use language today that we perhaps used many generations ago you know the former being so it has changed and certain expressions like the n. word to describe people are no longer acceptable and this is just really a continuation of that process you know i don't think that anybody should be you know victimized or demonized if they don't you know fail to live up to the standards so i can see what the university is trying to do hi peter so you're not really say the intentions

and former member of the bush national security council and also like to introduce peter feaver welcome back here and he is a professor duke. professor of the grand strategy program, and a key person in the bush administration. if you would all win and joining me in giving a big round of applause for our panelists. >> thanks very much jim, such a warm invitation and it's a pleasure to be back here and on stage with the teams and also some of the policy makers from the surge decision. the three of us took a lot of time to ask some questions so it's time for me to ask you questions today. as we moved around the country interviewing all of the 28 people that were interviewed for the book, we often began with the question how did the surge story begin for you? and we asked interviewees to set the stage and so that they would start thinking about what we came to know as the surge. let me ask you a variation on that question, which is tell us the story of this project itself. where did this project come from? >> so i will observe that when we did the interviews, we ran into a lot of people wh

peter: i think people got it wrong. it definitely was concerning where we saw yield, but i do believe this fed is extremely committed to not hiking. they are going to try to drive unemployment down to sub 3%. they want everyone back to work. using the calculus of what the fed used to behave like is going to lead to wrong decisions at the front end of the yield curve, so look for that to stay committed to know hikes, and that is going to keep that -- committed to no hikes, and that is going to keep the front end stable. lisa: let's go to where you think there is going to be some catharsis. you said there could be significant pullback in frothy areas. talk to us about what that looked like. peter: for lack of a better word, it is some of those archetype stocks you mentioned earlier. there's been an accumulation of stocks. it is becoming very concentrated who owns them. you have seen a couple of times last week where you get these little cracks, and you get outflows with the selling pressure, the move is very traumatic. --

thank you, chairman peters. i appreciate you and all the other senators on the -- on the rules committee for putting together this joint hearing. it's really important and appreciate everyone for being here. you know, in october 2020 dhs warned that, and i quote racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically white supremacists will remain the most persistent and legal threat in the homeland, unquote, and that, quote again, violent actors might target events related to the post-election period, unquote. according to a former dhs assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention, the office of intelligence, analysis or ina was aware that the potential for violence on january 6th and iquote again, but, quote, for reasons of fear did not want to formalize reports. we know senator merkley asked you this question and the day before the attacks ina sent a national summary to national law enforcement partners stating there was nothing significant to report, nothing significant to report,

union but also the boats sinking in the mediterranean as refugees are leaving libya and north africa peter now the case is basically going to be the following your arrival legally you would be removed sent where do we have any idea going to be an offshore facility like the australians did in the past. well that is the big question previously there was a possibility before bracks it when the u.k. was a part of the dublin scheme and that allowed us to transfer asylum seekers to other e.u. member states now we are no longer part of the e.u. we can't avail ourselves of that scheme instead to return asylum seekers to other safe countries we will have to enter into the spoke agreements bilateral agreements with those specific countries or with the e.u. as a whole and so far there have been very few indications that progress has been made on those kinds of agreements historically we know that diplomatically those agreements a very difficult to hammer out because countries do not want to sat or asylum seekers so the big question is where can we return them you mention the idea of offshore processi

chair peters: thank you. testimony ranking member portman, you have a quick question? senator portman: thank you for the pfas question. that's one we are concerned about at the wright-patterson air force base in dayton. we look forward to working with g.a.o. to come upping up with better ways -- coming uple with better ways to deal with it. the drug misuse question you talked about, this has been going on as you know for decades. and the specifically the opioid issue over the last 10 or 15 years. why now? what has changed? mr. dodaro: i was concerned about the escalating rate of overdose deaths. and i was also concerned as we mentioned i have been in government for decades now. this has always been an issue as long as i have been present in government. and i wanted to try to do something about it, raise the profile. i don't believe we are dealing with the demand side of this issue as much as we need to. we need to deal with interdiction. we need to deal with treatment, of course. but unless we reduce the dema

we're finally seeing some businesses and schools reopen doctor peter chin-hong will join us after the break from ucsf to talk >> one year ago today everything changed. that's when the world health organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. and soon after that, san francisco became one of the first u.s. cities to ban big gatherings of the warriors. the sharks. they canceled the games schools and businesses began to shut down the city of san francisco is a ghost town. if you're walking around back then. >> also that day doctor anthony fauci predicted that quote, things are going to get worse before they get better. well, now here we are a year into the pandemic. more than 500, 30,000 americans have died close to 30 million americans have been infected with coronavirus joining us now is doctor peter chin-hong from doctor. the president just a short time ago said that by may 1st every american 18 years and older will be eligible to get the shot. and by the end of may, there will be enough vaccines for all americans. are you that optimistic? >> i am actually so far t