You live to the state department for a briefing bisected trey pompeo. Sec. Pompeo im happy to take some questions as well about what we are doing. Tot being said, i wanted come here today to know the state Department Remains fully engaged across the broad range of matters even as we tackle this Global Pandemic. To defendgive so much life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more than we do here in the United States. We are doing that work all over the world. That work continues. Thats what i wanted to share with you today. Lets start with one of our most important topics, terrorism. Today, the department of state is announcing our intent to a specially designated global terrorist. He was previously active in iraq. He was named the leader of isis after we killed abu bock after we killed albaghdadi last year. We remain continued to defeat isis no matter who they designate as their leader. Continuing on designations and our leadership, the department is sanctioning nine entities based in
Gore will discuss criminal Justice Reform and recall his 19 years in prison. This weekend, aol cofounder steve case will tell us how emerging technologies are reshaping the internet. In some way every company as a tech company. Even the internet is shifting from being an interesting phenomenon, there really internet enabled and in not too distant future they will take for granted. So be talks about electricity enabled, theyll take it for granted. The internet is on a similar path. I think well know when we get there, when we dont have a half hyphenated internet. Right now we call it email, someday well call it male. I know we call it ecommerce, we call ecommerce, when they will call it commerce. Will not there yet it will take ten or 20 years to get there but i think were on that path when the third wave is just the next reiteration for the next step, the next wave of taking the idea of the internet and shifting it from being a Quirky Technology thing to be in a fundamental part of eve
Russianjapanese war, the first great war of the 20th century. Roosevelt invited envoys on both sides and he took them to portsmouth, actually in maine budgets across from the Portsmouth Naval facility, pretty secluded, and there they hammered out a peace treaty. George mitchell in Northern Ireland is an example. The soviets, but really in the whole history of the world theres just a whole lot of examples where two warring parties are brought together and compelled to make peace. My favorite example is in the 15th century when Pope Alexander the vi or solenoid that decided to resolve the dispute between the spanish and portuguese, so he divided the world between the two of them. The spanish were going to get the new world, and there was a line on the globe so north and south america, spain, and africa were all going to portugal. But the pope didnt know that brazil stuck at a little over the line. Thats why they speak portuguese today because they didnt, it became a portuguese province.