Sharon i am sharon pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew and cspan with us tonight. For those of you who want to find us later you can go to our page and we will upload it on youtube. Is that correct . Foundingon pratt, the director of the institute of politics, policy, and history of thehat the University District of columbia. We relaunched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the country. F this unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. Topics ofave contemporary interest we always that topicl down on to talk about the historical origin. That certainly is true for the compelling topic of tonight. We are going to talk this evening about
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Pratt. We are blessed to have our usual camera crew but also to have cspan with us this evening. We are also Live Streaming this on the udc facebook page. For those of you who want to find it later, you can go to our page, i think. We are going to upload it on youtube, as that correct . So, again, i am sharon pratt, the founding director of the institute of politics, policy, housed aty, which is the university of the district of columbia. We were launched in january of last year by mayor bowser and president mason. We have the same focus as other institutes of politics, except a very strong focus on the history of this city, and by so doing the history of this country. Because unlike most other cities we are entirely a creature of the politics of creating a new nation. For those of you who saw the musical hamilton there is a song that says in the room where it happened. We are what happened. Washington, d. C. While we have topics of contemporary interest, we always try to drill down on
Trump flew to los angeles but spoke with reporters before departing the air force base in maryland. Heres what he had to say. Hello everybody its a little windy out here so i will but not my coat. I have a couple more people who want to join you. [inaudible] yes, we have commuted the sentence he served eight years in jail, thats a long time and i watched his wife on television i dont know him very well, i met him a couple of times. He was on for a short while and impressed us years ago. Seems like a really nice person, dont know him. He served eight years in jail hes a long time to go many people disagree with the sentence, hes a democrat not a republican. It was a prosecution by the same people, coleman, fitzpatrick, the same group very far from his children. They are growing older and going to high school now and they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. I saw that and i did commute his sentence so he will be able to go back home with his family after serving
Peter andy purdy is chief Security Officer for huawei. He is based in washington, d. C. , and he is our guest on the communicators. What do you do for huawei . Andy my primary role is internal, although i have been doing external things for the past few months, but my responsibilities include chairing a committee of key parts of the company in the United States that tries to control riske, and and help support our overall ethics and Compliance Program so that we make sure we protect huawei, protect our companies, and continue to do business and managers Cyber Security risk. Peter what is huaweis legal and commercial status in the u. S. Right now . Andy it is a moving target. We have a pending rule to an rule pursuant to an executive order. Right now, we cant sell to the u. S. Government, cant sell to u. S. Contractors, and there is pressure for our smallcarrier customers, wireless and wireline customers, to rip out huawei gear. So, there is legislation pending that would provide funds,