Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. Im the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. Today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. If you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the physical nature of the data on our community and you really want to hear about the pressure that city leaders face everyday and balancing their budgets, dealing with issues in the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues or you just want to make sure you are in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its cor
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. Im the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. Today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. If you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the physical nature of the data on our community and you really want to hear about the pressure that city leaders face everyday and balancing their budgets, dealing with issues in the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues or you just want to make sure you are in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its cor
Im the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. Today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. If you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the physical nature of the data on our community and you really want to hear about the pressure that city leaders face everyday and balancing their budgets, dealing with issues in the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues or you just want to make sure you are in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its core the city fiscal conditions is about the connection between the nee
Festival and austin is the host of this hourlong event. Law thank you evan, thank all of you for being here, this is titled from within the topic on domestic terrorism, law, couple of quick reminders, this will be 60 minutes total but we will leave plenty of time for questions, we know that some of you have questions you want to ask our no kidding allstar panel here, secondly in previous sessions at the festival we have heard some very interesting ring tones, we would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones, so please remember to silence your phones but if you do want to take pictures, taken videos, etc and treat them yes they hashtag at trip fest 19 is how you will do that, we will take questions at the end and the microphone will be passed around so if you want to get the attention of the microphone please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly im david the chief operating officer and i work in the Counter Terrorism center both before and aft
Tones. [laughter] we would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember so silence your phones. If you want to take pictures, take videos, etc. , and tweet them, yes, the hashtag trib fest 19 is how you will do that. We will take questions at the end. The mic will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the mic, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priest, the chief operating officer of law fair. I worked in the Counterterrorism Center at cia both before and after september 11th. Now revisiting the terrorism issue from a different perspective. Im here to bring out the best expertise from our four panelists, bobby chesney, one of the three co founders of law fair previously served on the president s Detention Policy Task force. Now the third chair in law and World Affairs at the university of texas where he also directs the robert s. Strauss center. Mary mccord has been the acting assistant attorney g