With all of our upcoming events, podcasts and publications and more on our website at wilsoncenter. Org and in particular, i want to invite you to give a listen to our podcast reference to the x article and the newest podcast, the russia file. Let me just remind everybody tut the conversation and weve already gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, and please list your name and affiliation as if a live event at the wilson kennan center, and im more likely to call out than if youre unidentified. And fiona hill from Brookings Institution and as many of you know for the Russian Affairs on the National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006, National Intelligence office for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council ap coauthor of the wellreceived and widery read book mr. Putin, operative in the kremlin, an update of a previous book. And i want it note that the two of them authored a useful piece still for those of us thinking about russias develop
How is everyone doing . Good afternoon, everyone. I am so happy to whats again thank you for joining us for this important event at an incredibly critical time for our country and the entire international community. We have gathered together at the dawn of a new decade, and at this moment it has become a clear that the 21st century will be defined by a singular competition, a competition not of technology or of weaponry, but of ideas. Ideas about how to solve problems, and one of the best ways for societies to do so. I believe the 21st century will be defined by a competition between democracy and authoritarianism. And while this competition may not have the same military consequences as the cold war that unfolded between democracy and communism, it is similarla competition to define the future of the world. As we all know that our two distinct and opposing poles in this debate. At one end is the United States and our many european alis and the other in the countries of china and russi
My name is Kathryn Martucci on the director of policy and programs at the alliance for Health Policy at i had the pleasure of welcoming you all on behalf of the alliance to our Breakfast Series for reporters. For those who are not thinly withfo the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization that is dedicated to convening and educating Health Policy community through a Balance Exchange of evidence. We are so thankful to bill pierce and Apco Worldwide for supporting the alliance and put it on this syrians with that support weve had the privilege of hosting many 15 guests and Panel Discussion over the past couple of years, including joe grogan and we are honored to welcome back to be properly you have the decision being our first repeat guest picky joined us about a year ago when is an associate director at omb and to look for doing about your new role and healthcare priorities as a director of the Domestic Policy Council. So thank you for being here again. Thank you to all of you for be
A thing but it is. The muscle again even. If it gets. Old away or not. It was 15 years before my mother received treatment a combination of drugs and psychoanalysis she hasnt had a severe depressive episode for around 10 years now. The chat with my mother leaves me with mixed feelings guilt 1st for not realizing she was on survival mode for 15 years with very little understanding from her family. But also disappointment i was hoping shed show more compassion for the terrible impact of depression i dont know. Perhaps facing about problems is too hard for her and this is Something Else that i need to accept. I wonder whether mentally ill people of my generation experienced the same problems and from their families and society in general. On the internet i discover the work of and be too she takes portraits of people with mental disorders in the hope of changing attitudes. Has bipolar disorder also known as many depression before being diagnosed in 2009 she had periods of high followed by
Wayne messam from florida. He is followed by senators Bernie Sanders and kamala harris. Lets right, everybody, start back again. Is and irend theohar are going to hold it down, reverend barber taking a bit of a break. Lets get that walk on music playing and have mayor wayne messam come to this stage. All right, mr. Mayor, you four minutes begins right now. Mayor messam good evening, everyone. Miramar, florida mayor wayne messam and i am so excited to be in front of you today, not just as a candidate for the United States, but the odds were against me. I am the son of immigrants. My parents were immigrants from jamaica. My father was a contract sugarcane cutter that labored in a field of south florida, cutting sugarcane for . 75 per row. My mother actually was a cook that went out in those fields and fed the sugarcane workers, so i know what it means to be poor, and i know what the spirit of this campaign is about. I went on to Florida State university on an academic and football schola