One of the commemoration of the tenth year of the korea chair and there will be a reception, a presentation and then another panel. We have three panels and an excellent speech by the congressman and then i think we can promise you some fun. I cant prove this to you, but i think something is going on. Our president is a beautiful letter, and tim 3. 0 gets an excellent fighter. The president also get a birthday card or letter from tim 3. 0. They are going to schoo seoul oe weekend and finally a state visit to the dpr k. It looks to me like we are going to have a stepbystep move towards the denuclearization. Im not opposed to that but the trick is how do you do that in a way that does not in some way fund your equity with korea or japan. So weve got to very carefully approach this and the panelists this afternoon will be addressing those issues had an awful lot or so let me welcome you to see sis with a warmest welcome to the ambassador and the foundation and i think without fear of any
Leading usbased efforts. You can find all of the results including the findings on american attitude toward space force. You can find that at cspan. Org. Six, five, four, three, two, one, 0. Lift off, we have a liftoff. 32 minutes past the hour. Liftoff on apollo 11. 50 years ago this morning at 8 32 a. M. Eastern time apollo 11 launched from pat a 39 at the Kennedy Space center important. It began its journey to the moon, four days later Neil Armstrong will be the first man to walk on the lunar surface. The remainder of the program we will hear from you about the legacy of theil apollo 11 missin and talk to you as members of congress of space and Technology Committee about amicus priority for space expiration in the future of nasa. Heres how you can get in touch with us. Share your thoughts with our phone linesur by region if youe the eastern or central time zone its two at 27,488,000 phone back or mounds or pacific, 202 7488001. As we take you up to Capitol Hill Office building we ar
Good morning. The rok u. S. Strategic forum will begin shortly. Please start taking your seats. We would like to welcome all of you to csis, but before we begin todays events i need to make a few brief security announcements. We feel very safe and secure in our building here at csis. In the very unlikely occasion of an emergency, we ask that you remain calm and follow any instructions and alarms that are made. Please also take a moment to look at the safety card on your tables and locate the nearest exit. Csis is very proud to cohost this Fourth Annual rok u. S. Strategic forum with the Korea Foundation. Thank you ambassador lee and welcome to our distinguished delegation from the Korea Foundation. On behalf of csis and the korea chair, i would also like to extend a very warm welcome and thank you to our sponsors, our silver level sponsor, the American Chamber of commerce in korea, our gold level sponsor, the Korean Chamber of commerce and industry and our special sponsor corestone. To
Officials tell you what they believe you need to know. So they undermine your popularity. Part of russian president Vladimir Putins callin program. You can watch that online at cspan. Org. Search putin. We take you back to the allday forum on u. S. south korea relations hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies. They are getting back underway. Live coverage here on cspan3. Thank you for all the jobs that you have done over the past decade now. Probably seems like its going quickly. But for us journalists, i am a reporter at the Washington Post. Victor and the korea chair have been a valuable, valuable resource both, obviously, in the past few years, but before that. I was bugging victor and others in the program quite often. Maybe many times you didnt necessarily want to be bugged. But for terrific analysis and to help sort of walk me through whats happening. I wanted to take time out to thank the korea chair for that and congratulate you for such a successful ten ye
Ones Michael Beckel joins us now for a discussion on congressional leadership pacs and how congress uses the money that flows through the. Before we get to that report, remind viewers what issue one is. Guest issue one is a relatively based here in washington, d. C. Dedicated to political reform. That makes usngs unique as we are certainly bipartisan and our mission. We have put together coalition of former members of congress, former governors, more than 200 from all 50 states, both parties, almost a 50 50 split between democrats and republicans, all urging for more transparency in election, more government accountability, so we are very active on ethics issues and political reform issues. Host and how do you go about doing that . Guest we do a number of things. We have got a small policy team working here in washington at the capital, pushing for new legislation. And i am the head of our research program. I am a former reporter who spent a long time covering money in politics, and we