Will ask as many questions as time permits. To submit a question, please ha email headliners press. Org. The two candidates, incumbent President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe biden are spending millions on advertising to spread their message and turn the tide in battleground states. But this election is unusual. The covid19 pandemic is squelching the usual meet and greets and rallies and then theres the Lincoln Project, a Political Action committee founded by several current and former influential republicans including george conway, jennifer horn, mike madrid, and john weaver and our guests here today, rick wilson and steve schmitt. A republican pac doesnt sound that unusual, but unlike traditional republican pacs, theyre spending millions to defeat the republican president ial candidate. Today, the two Lincoln Project founders, rick wilson and steve schmitt, will give us an update on the state of the 2020 race and the Lincoln Projects home stretch strategy. Rick got his
The United States. A federal state utility collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for usc a, but one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking out of the degree of urgency. Always been urgent what i think myself that urgency is growing so thank you for coming we have an excellent panel here today. For our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Monitoring in todays session is our luck. Mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion in the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housingfinancing. He is consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. Hes experience at testifying before congress and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association and the Energy Progra
Thats already been generated about this program. We have over 100 people who are going to be here today with us in person, and many more who are watching it over the web. Dentons is pleased to be presenting this program, and with its presence in the u. S. , canada and mexico, we have extensive capabilities and experience at the critical intersection of business, Public Policy and crossborder relations. Many of our practitioners are here today to share their experience and perspectives. And were so happy to also be joined by key members of industry and governments who can also add their valuable perspective. With that, im going to turn things over to scottie greenwood, who is the co lead of our federal practice. Scottie. Thank you, joanne. Welcome, everybody. We are really delighted to have you here. This is what its all about gore us in Public Policy, bringing together, policy leaders, thought leaders, our clients, our prospects. Everybody that is looking to understand what could happe
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Next on cspan2, discussion about nafta ongoing trade talks. This portion of the conference included a former canadian ambassador to the us and current and former government officials from mexico and canada. Followed by a discussion about how nafta negotiations could impact ongoing trade talks. Good afternoon. Welcome. My name is joe then, the Office Managing Partner in washington and we are pleased to welcome you to the Washington Office of dentons for the nafta twopoint oh summit. It seems appropriate to say not only welcome, but also. [speaking in native tongue] we are pleased to have you here and to present the program today, which is streaming live even as we speak and will be available afterwards on the dentonss website. Change can be unsettling, but it also present opportunities. There is so much interest that has been generated about this program. We have over 100 people who will be here in person and many more are watching over the web. Dentons is pleased to present this progra