Christopher ford is a assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center my name is brian finlay, im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. For those attending this event for the very second time, many apologies, it was not as you may have assumed our speakers agenda that caused the cancellation, but an exploding we started paying our bills yet the Stimson Center again and were back in business and very pleased to be welcoming dr. Christopher ford back to the stage. Chris, for those of you in the know, is of course the assistant secretary of state for International Student and nonproliferation. Chris previously has done a tour on President Tr
Schools which was its own challenge and she was up for another challenge. My daughters had different reactions. We have three daughters. The girl who was then 14 said you absolutely should run. That was her reaction right out of the shoots. It made me glad she was so proud. The longer we talked the more i realized she saw it as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. She could be burning the place down for all i know right now. My 20yearold, her reaction was dad, if you run and tell the truth and you lose, no one can fault you for it. You say thatgood because there is no other reason for me to run and i dont think there is any other way for me to win. I was glad to send her the other day the editorial of the Des Moines Register which is the largest newspaper in iowa. They had a newspaper that said Michael Bennet pounds truth into this campaign which was at least a small token of what her charge was when i decided to run. Host there is also the thing f
Hi, everybody. Its great to be in nevada. I said it right, please make note. This is i think what, the fourth, fifth city weve been in in the last few days since announcing. Its been an exciting entry into the race. Ive been getting some tough questions from you, and others and appreciated. The welcome has been very warm. Its a terrific field as you all know of marvelously talented, in many cases friends and everyone of them is a great public servant. Im hoping to have a chance to compete in every state and speak to every voter. We were delighted in the first couple of hours of our website going out we had volunteers identify themselves from every one of the 50 states. We look forward to leveraging that kind of engagement right through the primary. Im glad to be here, and thank you for taking the early because i think i am the last one to speak. You are probably all ready to injure day by then. Questions . How do you navigate a few of this large especially coming in late . Im not going
Remarks by secretary of state mike pompeo at the louisville center. His remarks are expected momentari momentarily. Im here at the Mcconnell Center at university of louisville. Many of you are supporters and friends of the center and we really appreciate your support for our programs and for our students. I can say that our students and our soldiers and the other constituents that we try to serve, i think, are thriving in our programs. We continue to add programs and develop and adapt them to changing circumstances. And in particular, i might call your attention to a few new online programs that we have been launching, including a series of podcasts that can be found on anywhere you can get podcasts under the name vital remnants and in the spring we will be launching some new newsletters and some reading guides and some other opportunities for people outside of louisville to continue their education with us. Mcconnell center has been thriving in the year 2019. If you think of just in t
Have a long conversation after words. I want to pay my respects to the great warriors lost in the helicopters. Its very sad of gartner report on it. We talked about it and please give my condolences to the families and to france. They were great fighters, youve done a fantastic job in that area. We very much appreciate it. Well be talking about a lot of things including the trade, will be doing a lot of trade with france weve had a minor dispute but will be able to work it out. But we have a big trade relationship and i am sure within a short. Of time thing will be looking very rosy. We hope. Thats usually the case with the two of us, we get it worked out. Weve done a lot of good things together as partners. Our countries have been partners in many Good Ventures including some having to do with radical islam and others. Its always worked out, so i look forward to our discussion, weve made a lot of progress in the first 45 minutes, and we intend to make a lot of progress in our next our