[inaudible conversations] were live for remarks by 2020 president ial candidate including mike bennett and Pete Buttigieg. Expecting this to start shortly. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome J Street National board member, ambassador. Good morning, j street. And welcome to another huge day at the J Street National conference. During the first few days of the conference we spoke in a great deal about the Pivotal Moment in which we find ourselves, as americans, as american jews, and the supporters of a safe, secure and peaceful future for israelis and palestinians. [applause] were gathered together as a movement at a time of many of our most sacred democratic norms are under assault. When the United States global standing is at an alltime low, with a relationship with many key allies has never been more in doubt then when our president probably allowed himself with autocrats, demagogues and extremists around the globe here in israel we are face
And palestinians. [applause] as a gathered together movement, at a time when our are sacred democratic norms under assault, when the United States global standing is at an low, when our relationship with many key allies has never been more in doubt, and when our president proudly aligns himself with auto ratts autocrats and demagogues. In israel, we are faced with a Prime Minister who has holeheartedly embraced President Trump. Deployed the same kind of rhetoric andigoted has worked with the president to and nch the occupation undermine prospects for peace. E know that in order to vercome these illiberal forces, defend our values and better, y toward a brighter future, we must start by defeating President Trump at the polls a year from now. [cheers and applause] thats why we at j street are ommitted to defeat the current occupant and to support the eventual democratic nominee for president. We also know that to achieve our goals in the long term we than a win in this pivotal election.
We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco texas. We are very focused, almost all of the 40 books we published each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fit for our listand we are proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you linda rogers needs no introduction at all. She served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and she serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University and the johnleland center for theological studies. 11 years ago Melissa Rogers coauthored her first book at Baylor University press, an ambitious volume called religious free
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Inquiry process. Log on to our impeachment inquiry webpage at cspan. Org impeachment. Your fast and easy way to watch cspan unfiltered coverage anytime. Hello again. Howseverybody doing . Day three, gala tonight. Without further ado why dont we welcome our first candidate of the day. Mayor pete buttigieg. [music] welcome. So mayor pete, you gave a major foreignpolicy address injune. I think you got credit for being one of the first foreignpolicy visions. Andin that speech , he said if Prime Minister netanyahu makes good on his promise, he should know that president buttigieg should ensure american taxpayers wont help. That was a wellreceived line, can you unpack that a little bit . How do you ensure us taxpayer dollars will be used to fund the annex . It begins by understanding the basis ofour relationship. Its not just a Strategic Alliance thats important, its also an alliance thats based on values and making sure our security and cooperation with israel happens in the framework and i