The reserve seats can be used, at least for this session. Rather than your having to be stuck in the back. So as i started to say, one of the goals of this conference is to engage the Younger Generation in deciding what we should or should not do. What we should desist from doindoing in the area of support for democracy abroaded in the decades ahead. So its appropriate the next generation have a major voice in formulating the new consensus, hopefully well get to a new consensus you have bios, ive introduced only two speakers by name. In your conference packages you have bio information on all of them. Our goal today is to have a really intense focused discussion where people have a chance to engage the panelists have a chance to engage with each other, they have dissending and differing views and leaving plenty of dim for discussions with you. Thomas melia hopes to be here. Hes snuck traffic. Dissent. Here are the three questions ive asked our speakers and you to think about and focus
So that is told in this book. Thats one message. Its sort of a yes, we can. The message of the book is about us, people like margaret and me. We know so much. But we believe in the book that we have let our people down. The leadership which we should be showing to our political leaders, to our committees, are anyways been wanting. And they step up. African a is a different africa. The africa that i grew up in was very hopeful. Africa is better again. Driven by two forces. One the Applicant Initiative itself. Africa transformed from a used ee which is more center. And also zerotolerance. You cant take power by force. Not allowed. Because of that we have more Economic Growth. Africa is more hopeful again. So it is time for people like margaret and me, and some of the africans who are here, lets step up and show leadership. In the last point is partner from outside africa. This is what market was saying, like the situation in liberia, sierra leone and so on. The people who can lead there,
Public service of private industry. We are cspan, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Supreme Court Justice and avid baseball from samuel alito took part in a recent discussion on baseball at the University Club of washington. The other speakers included usa today sports caused columnist Christine Brennan and you all of them spoke about the sports place in american society. This is a little over an hour. Good afternoon. As belle allen used to greet his audiences, hello, everyone, and how nice to see you. How wonderful it is to see you and wonderful to welcome you to the luncheon on the subject of baseball, americas game. Some people seem confused. They actually think pro football is americas game, but its not. Baseball is americas game. This is sponsored today in part by the boston red sox. I chair for the red sox. [applause] i chair
Which are two American Public forums collectively of 70 years and more than 2200 programs presented in the Public Interest and the dialogue of democracy. This is our second washington event. If there are more that lie ahead, you will help us make that decision. In many ways, if you are going to do a literary series, this is one of the great duties in which to do it. Great cities in which to do it. There are a number of writers here today. Carroll, who did the great book on Clarence Darrow and tip oneill. He is right there. Hello, jack. Jane liddy did two of the books ever, one on Mickey Mantle, and the other on sandy koufax. And this levy is down ms. Levy is down here. [applause] and to every writer in the room, we want particularly to tell you how much we appreciate you and the art form in which you are engaged, because there are very few, if any, that are more important. I have several other introductions i would like to make. First, the former director of the federal bureau of inves
It sure is strengthened when you get others involved it in. I have not seen to that extent where its been used that way. I cant think of one. I can see where they are using it to attack people. One of the ones they released was 100,000 to go after the saudi ambassador here in the u. S. And washington. When you start to look at some of those, there is tremendous impact that these programs have. I am an intern here. I greatly enjoyed your talk. My question is, are american and other western Multinational Oil companies who are doing business in russia, like exxon, shell, are they affected by sanctions against russia . If so, how . Who is best on this . On what the actual effect has been . I dont know. I know the answer is yes, but the specifics of the answer we could handle better in the front row. We are allowed one free question to the audience here or one free answer. David knows. You want to pick that up . Go ahead, david. As has been noted, the sanctions in relation to the Russia Ukr