With us a lot about this where you may not be certain what your calling is and in that case, keep experimenting. The flipside of that is there are many people, and if you push them on it, they will tell you they will say i dont know what my calling is but what i am doing is not that. And yet they dont have the courage to make the change. And so for me, the main lesson was when i knew that that was not my calling, it probably was i dont know, a year, a couple of years before i really owned that and said, you know what, im going to honor the fact i know this is not the right path for me. And you would pursue something else. Rich part of that transition for all of us is, the kernel of that notion of facilitating social change. We dont always know what the kernel is. Once we identify the kernel, the options that are likely to be more aligned become more clear. Gabriel for me, part of the inside i had came out of trying to create a little bit of distance from it and saying, ok, what is it i
1 10 of the point is not how you want to evaluate Something Like raising the minimum wage. The final point in terms of the internationalization, is that we know crosssectional he and crosscountry, and someone else touched on this emphasizing collectivebargaining, i will emphasize the outcomes. That majority, not just european countries, including some of the asian and richer latinamerican countries, where the wage gap is much smaller and they managed to export and have relatively large labor force participation. Labor force participation has actually gone up in western europe, even including germany. It is not this iron law that if you pay more you cease to do business. It doesnt mean you always pay more, that it might. So, with that in mind, or more importantly what our panelist seven mind, let me open up the floor for questions or comments. Please these first two people. First to nancy and then to this gentleman. Please identify yourself. If you are going to present a political argum
Next, a conversation in on the latest in batter technology. Then, in conversation with biochemist craig venter. Then, the World Bank President. Next, a look at next Generation Battery Technology with washington correspondent steve levine and a director from argonne technology. Hosted by Atlantic Council. Jeffrey welcome everybody and good afternoon. Welcome to the Atlantic Council. We are pleased to have you all here today. I want to apologize in advance. We had some internet difficulties today. We will be passing microphones back and forth if it is not up and running by the time stephen and jeffrey start. Im sure it will all work out. I do want to emphasize that this is a very important event today. It is the inaugural event and in our new Technology Speakers series. One of the things that are new Global Energy center that we are emphasizing is the Critical Role that technology will play in helping us to meet clean Energy Challenges and also the geopolitical and International Ramifica
Of a wild morning. Carolyn. See you often this morning, lisa. Thank you the windy, rain weather is turning up the waves in pacifica. Thats where kera is with us. Good morning. Good morning. It is windy here and it is a steady, moderate rain as we said it will only get worse as the day pro grosses. Moderate right now but steady on our drive from pacifica through San Francisco this morning. Luckily the people who were on the roads were driving quite slowly, taking heed to the potentially dangerous conditions this morning. Things right now in pacifica, the gates are supposed to be open on the pier, we saw a group of about ten crappers hoping to go cracking but they couldnt because the gates were closed. One gentlemen approached us and asked why are the gates closed . Our assumption is it is a precaution because the weather will only continue to get worst. The water hasnt exceeded the seawall yet, but chance are they will. We are standing back so we wont get hit by the water. Wind is comin
Calling chiefs of station around the world and being down into the daytoday involvement . That did not happen to my knowledge. The interaction between the National Security staff in the Central Intelligence agency was almost exclusively, not largely but most exclusively between mr. Mcdonough and mr. Brennan and me. And so i guess what im wondering is it that because of your level because we have all these he all these enough to show a variety of people under them that were involved in these talking points and other things and i guess where im going is the light that shines on the daytoday operations, what does that tell us about not only how this administration works but the bigger institutional dangers let me back up for just a second. The cia 33 years . Yes sir. Would you say the cia is more independent today than it was when you entered or less . From micromanagement i dont mean republican or democrat i mean the influences of bosses in the white house. Very hard for me to say becaus