My career when i was a fourstar admirals initiating up the us Southern Command, peterma in charge of all activities south of the United States as the commander of us Pacific Command a very traditionalos position for senior admiral my boss wonderful by secretary gates called me up to say forget about the pacific we will send you to nato. Was the first and as far the only admirable to be a lien supreme allied commander in nato. Is just an accident of timing and fate and secretary gates decision. From a nato perspective i was the accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the naming was an accident as well . Someone. So lets go way back i grew up in the marine corps family my father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in the environment going to Quantico High School and went on to the Naval Academy thinking it would be a marine Corps Officer after my first year the navy sends everybody out on a cruise so you go out on a ship i went out on a beautiful cruise around
Cspan video, and reflect differing points of view. Information to help you get started is on our website, studentcam. Org. Next, experts from latin america and facebooks Corporate Office discuss the role social media and messaging platforms played in recent political unrest in venezuela and brazil. They also look at the responsibilities of the companies who operate these platforms to prevent widespread misinformation. This is an hour and 25 minutes. Good morning. Buenos dias. Im glad to see that most of you survived last night. We have a tremendous panel this morning and a great subject. Its not news to say that the change, facing times of uncertainty. The liberal order we were accustomed to is fraying. Nationalism and populism are on the rise. Geopolitics is back. Thecracies have been on rise. Liberal democracy has been on the defensive in many ways. Latin america is no stranger to those trends. Marks the last year 40th anniversary of the beginning of the third wave of what set me hun
To take control of the agenda and suspend a parliamentary rulebooks is only the government can create law to try to create one themselves and they managed to pass legislation to do that through the lower house in a single day. That legislation is headed to the upper house. Orexpect that to pass today late tomorrow. The second major vote that happened yesterday was called by Boris Johnson. He wants an early general election because the legislation has gone through the comments because he says the only way to break the deadlock and passed pack the house of commons with people who support him. Host none of this delays the october 31 deadline date for brexit . Guest absolutely not. Even if the mps are successful in getting their legislation through the house of lords tomorrow, to try to delay no handss ultimately in the of the eu. The law will force johnson and ask them to delay brexit but it is no guarantee that brussels or the eu leaders will do that. Then it comes down to, what date cou
Read him, to a remarkable man, jerry west. I would like to congratulate you on this tremendous atresia and achievement and congratulations to your family. We are delighted to be joined by jerrys wife, karen, and their wonderful family. Thank you very much, everybody. Look at that family, huh . You did a good job. Beautiful. We are also pleased to have with us senator joe manchin and governor jim justice. Two terrific people. Stand up, jim, in case they cant see you. Now you can see him. Thats great. Great to have you. Joe, thank you very much. Thank you both for being here. They are busy. They are very busy people, and i think we will meet on a certain subject later on, joe, and thats good. Jerry was born in West Virginia in 1938, the fifth of six children. He grew up hiking in the woods, fishing in the clear water and exploring the beautiful mountains of West Virginia, great, great state. I should not say this, but i won it by 43 points. Thats a lot. We love West Virginia. Probably he
When we are not sending down stroman on this. It is my pleasure to introduce our new panelists if i can find my spot. Moore awith us steve trusted advisor to president trump. At the Heritage Foundation, a anmer colleague and we have editor and the author of a book on socialism. I am not finding my notes. The socialist manifesto. The format for today, we are going to have Opening Statements and do a rebuttal. Im going to ask difficult questions. We are going to take questions from the audience. Write down what you want to have answered and pass it up to me. Then we will do a closing statement. Lets have steve moore kick it off. Hen by the way, jillian just got back from hong kong. How aboutroposal is we give the Nobel Peace Prize to those Freedom Fighters in hong kong . [applause] stephen second of all, shout out to jennifer and rick. Awesome conference. How many years has this been . Dont they put out an amazing conference . Thank you for bringing me out. I think i have done this five