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Our guests of honor today you have their biographies first to welcome jake, a coauthor of jake bright of the Foreign Policy and has worked to the clinton imitation with senior economic issues. And she has been involved in a number of outlets as well as reporting to receive among other honors but of course, aubry hruby is at home here. Like all great boxer is already out of date. Such as the visiting fellow with the approval of the Atlantic Office and the board now aubry hruby is the seizure followed want a fellow at the embedded cancel atlantic cancel. [applause] so well either of us could get into the Atlantic Council to hear war stories in africa but and he was is a Corporate Strategy to facilitate 2 billion of investment. Me and also to recognize by top of those under 33. I would not say when that occurred. Aaron to be delighted august occasion we are here in and and we are delighted to have senior Reuters State Department correspondent here to moderate. We are grateful to be here w
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The Unemployment Rate fell to 5 . This congress should pass a serious infrastructure plan and keep those jobs coming. That would make a difference. The pipeline would not have made a serious impact on those numbers and on the American Peoples prospects for the future. The pipeline would not lower gas prices for american consumers. In fact, gas prices have already been falling steadily. The National Average gas price is down to about . 77 over a year ago. It is down one dollar over two years ago. It is down one dollars twice seven cents over three years ago 1. 27 over three years ago. A gas stationnd selling gas for less than two dollars a gallon. Politics has been consumed over a debate on whether this pipeline would create jobs and lower gas prices, we have gone ahead and created jobs and lower gas prices. Third, shipping dirtier crude oil into our country would not increase Americas Energy security. Increased Americas Energy security is our strategy over the past several years to red
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