This is secretary mitchell get that for Global Public Affairs Bureau we are very honored to have them here today special welcome to our commissioners Advisory Commission Public Diplomacy, vice chairman bill hill today as we know under the auspices of the Advisory Commission called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, the newly formed gpa and where it fits in the state department the vision for Public Diplomacy in the 21st century it is my honor to open this event before i turn the mic over to my colleagues for comments i just want to tell you a little bit how things gonna go today were gonna hear some brief comments we have speakers and they will speak at the end of the presentation will be happy to take a questions and comments. Please hold questions or comments until they have been as the presentation. For the moderated to a sergeant will be a microphone please speak into the microphone when you ask you questions because this whole event not only your remarks but also
Gone quickly. In london, kitty logan, back to you. Quite a mess. Kitty, what comes next for Prime Minister David Cameron . He is going to be out of office by october . Reporter thats right. The Prime Minister has promised to resign. He says he will leave office by october. Thats when the conservative Party Conference comes up and they can choose a new leader from the party. Top of the list is former london mayor Boris Johnson leading the campaign for britain to leave the European Union but many other candidates will contest for the top position. Thank you. We asked our kcbs radios financial reporter jason brooks where well feel the pain of the breakup here in the u. S. As the pound and the euro plunge against the dollar, thats only going to make u. S. Goods and services more expensive in the uk and europe. And u. S. Exports have already been struggling. Meanwhile, jittery investors looking for refuge in the dollar sent the price of gold soaring to a twoyear high. The the financial turm
The continued building of our virginia class at the rate of two a year at some point will child finally with the ohio replacement program. In my view, we need to continue building those two virginia class submarines every year. The New York Times story thats been mentioned to you in the course of this morning is only the latest evidence of the increased emphasize of our adversaries on undersea warfare capability, not just the russians but the chinese. I think in the course of that, article 1 of the comment from one of our military leaders was we are back to in a sense the cold war competition undersea. I would like to know your views and, general richardson, if you want to comment, youre welcome to, whether this program continuing our building of two virginia class submarines every year with the ohio replacement are important, in fact, vital to our national defense. Yes, senator. I defer the numbers et cetera to the services responsible for that. But i can say personally i think we hav
Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much, adam, and thank you everyone for coming here. I look out in the audience and see all kinds of friends and colleagues out here. I so appreciate you coming, im going to sippingle out one person from the voice of america, alan high, who is great history from voice of america kept me from making an error in the speech im about to make. I need to thank him right now. Second, id like to acknowledge my predecessor as the director of the voice of america, david ensor, who has been as helpful and warm to me as any human being can be in helping prepare me for this big job. Please to acknowledge david ensor, who is now at the atlantic council. [ applause ] so as adam says, if you want to know my biography, just flip the page over and read it yourselves, but id like to tell you a couple things you might not know. Im of an age that i was part of a movement that cheap airfares and curiosity about the world sent all of us out around the globe. You know, migration
[applause] expand our also moral imaginations to understand and empathize with all people to our struggling, not just black folks who are struggling. Therefugees, the immigrants ral folks, the transgender, and yes, the middleaged white guy, who you may think has all the advantages, but over all the over thedes technological change and feels powerless to stop it, you have got to get in his head, too. Number three, you have to go through life with more than just passion for change. You need a strategy. I will repeat that. Have passion for you have to have a strategy. Not just awareness but action. Not just hashtags but votes. [applause] you see, change requires more than [indiscernible] in requires a program and organizing. The 1964 democratic convention, maddie liv, five feet, four inches tall, gave a fiery speech on the national stage, but then she went back home to mississippi and organized cotton pickers. She did not have the tools, technology or you can whip up a movement in minutes