And john delaney for his support and also especially thank you for the distinguished leaders joining today in our alumni board members. Its my pleasure to introduce the people who will be leaving this incredible conversation. Sylvia Mathews Burwell is president of American University and the first woman to lead the institution. She previously served as the 22nd secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services and also served as the director ofth the office of management and budget and shes also served as the president of Global Development program and chief operating officer at the bill and Melinda Gates foundation and president of the walmartrt foundation. Shshes joined today by gary con and chief economic adviser to president trump, the former president and chief operating officer Goldman Sachs and an alumni of the american i welcome you both. Im sure you are ready to start the conversation. Iem. Thank you for the introduction and leadership at this fine institute. Than
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Thousands of young immigrants in the u. S. As the Supreme Court rejects president toms plan to end a program that protects them from deportation and we hear from corona virus survivors in the democratic republic of congo who say theyre being ostracized. China has charged 2 canadian men with spying for state secrets more than 18 months after they were 1st detained former diplomat michael called reagan businessman michael spade or have been held since december 28th they were arrested separately just days after while executive mungo was taken into custody in canada shes facing proceedings that could see her extradited to the u. S. On fraud charges katrina is in beijing and has more on the charges against the 2 canadians. The cases of michael covered and michael spade will have now been handed over to chinese prosecutors is in beijing and the northeastern states Northeastern Province of. Respectively now this is the the formal beginning of Legal Proceedings against the 2 more than 550. 00
Has had to say about that. Hong kongs Pro Democracy Movement delivered a landslide victory in local elections this weekend. Across hong kong, turnout was over 70 thats a record. Nearly three Million People voted, and they voted overwhelmingly for pro democracy candidates. Just have a look at this. This is the electoral map. The yellow shows us the electoral map. The yellow shows us the progress made by pro democracy politicians. They took 17 out of the 18 districts. Compare that to 2015, when all 18 were controlled by pro beijing groups. Weve also seen some of the territorys best known politicians defeated by young inexperienced pro democracy candidates. And of course, the context for all of this is that pro democracy anti beijing protests have been going on for over five months. And these results represent yet another blow to the authority of hong kongs chief executive carrie lam. Shes said. And while shes reflecting, the protests go on. Jonathon head is there. Today, Office Workers i
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