You are in for a real treat. I am so excited to host this debate. Its pretty rare to have an ideological debate about these things. I certainly think that is a conservatives we benefit when we understand the other sides perspective. Are not shooting down the others issues on this. We have with us steve moore he was a trusted advisor to president donald trump. At the Heritage Foundation and a colleague at the wall street journal. We also have Bhaskar Sunkara the editor of the jacobin. Is called the socialist manifesto. The format were going to have the make opening statements. I asked a couple of questions and we will take questions from the audience. As youre listening write down what you want answered and we will get some of those in and the do a closing statement. So lets have steve moore kicked off. Thank you and by the way Jillian Melchior just got back from hong kong. My first proposals how we give the Nobel Peace Prize to those Freedom Fighters in hong kong . Second of all, i wan
Anyway. We usually have a very robust online audience and the distractions we want to minimize here. Thank you for joining us here. We want to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its one of a series, actually the third paper thats out. The first one talked about how to think about the future, then we released one to the marine corps, this is a major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the National Defense strategy, National Security strategy and how the world is changing and recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get where it needs to be with a look out to about the 20 30year time frame and follow up with the paper on the air force which i think is coming up next month and then wrap up by the end of the year with the paper on the navy so well have all four Services Covered and how to think about preparations for the future. These papers are meant to give an independent perspective, advi
Book signing. A couple of things i wanted to mention before i introduce to you will introduce miss johnson. Our hope here at the museum is that each time you come here, you learn something. That we are educating, informing and hopefully encouraging you to act in some way. Were not going to tell you what to do but we will encourage you to do something. Every one of us has an us, the exact same thing of the people we chronicle on the walls of the civil rights museum. None of them have anything different than what we have. The difference simply is that they activated it. We hope when you leave here this evening, you will have learned something. You will have gathered new information. And that you will be encouraged to act in some way. Last year in 2018, we commemorated the assassination of doctor kang. And we seemed it, where do we go from here. Which is the title of his last book. So we continue to ask the question, where do we go from here . We commissioned a study on poverty in Shelby
Issues on this. We have with us steve moore he was a trusted advisor to president donald trump. At the Heritage Foundation and a colleague at the wall street journal. We also have Bhaskar Sunkara the editor of the jacobin. Is called the socialist manifesto. The format were going to have the make opening statements. I asked a couple of questions and we will take questions from the audience. As youre listening write down what you want answered and we will get some of those in and the do a closing statement. So lets have steve moore kicked off. Thank you and by the way Jillian Melchior just got back from hong kong. My first proposals how we give the Nobel Peace Prize to those Freedom Fighters in hong kong . Second of all, i want to do a shout out to jennifer and rick. This is an awesome conference. I was here 15 years ago. This is an amazing conference. Thank you for bringing me out. I think ive done this for five times. And i always had a great time. Who knew there were so many deplorabl
Our second panel will assess chinas role in Global Health and activities in the United States. We will start with rosemary gibson, introduce everybody first and then we will go to ms. Gibson. We will start with rosemary gibson, whose name has been mentioned already several times if you were here. Who is a Senior Advisor pasting Center Perspectives at the jama internal medicine. She is author china rx, exposing the risk ab next we will hear from ben westhoff an awardwinning investigative journalist mr. Westhoff new book retinol incorporated how roby chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic. Will be published in september. The book focuses on that know with now kills more americans annually than any drug in american history. Our third panelist is jennifer buie who is a senior policy researcher and detained chair in china publicity stall is at the rain corporation. As an epidemiologist with training and clinical medicine and quantitative methods, doctor buie Researc