Im coming to you from new york, new york, my home here, as most of us are sheltering in place from home, im doing the same. If you are watching us from facebook, twitter, one of the axios websites, thank you for being with us. We have an Incredible Program honoring juneteenth. I want to say thank you to our sponsor, bank of america, for this event. If you are on twitter or instagram, follow us with axios events or on the axios twitter axios account. Check news on axios. Com. Joining us right now, i want to get right to it, the man who i am very excited to talk to and i hope you are excited to hear from, coming to us from ofhesda, maine, founder like in a timid television, Robert Johnsonblack entertainment television, Robert Johnson. How are you . Robert im doing well. How are you . Dion im also doing well. Thank you so much for being with us. Robert my pleasure. Dion juneteenth is a particularly apt holiday for africanamericans because it is not come with the signing of a resolution or
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Watch our live coverage starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Former Deputy National security adviser ben rhodes on the rise of chinas global influence. He joined the ucla center for International Relations for a broad discussion on Foreign Policy and National Security. Everyone. Rning, it is a pleasure to have you back for one of our webinars. Today, we have the pleasure of bening as our special guest he will speak and then he and i will have a conversation. To postrage you all questions through the q a feature. Limited to the second half, i will begin to wrap up our discussion and i will start posing some of your questions. This will run about one hour. I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security Deputy National security advisor. Of pensee the world and a
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We greatly appreciate it if you turn off or silence your cell phones. It will be this one for the q and a portion of the event. We are recording this evenings event and we have copies of the book. We encourage many. If you would like to have your purchased book signed, sign up in orderly fashion against, this is the word im looking for at the conclusion of the talks. It is my pleasure to introduce alexis coe, author of you never forget your first a biography of George Washington. Alexis coe follows a murder in memphis, soon to be a major motion picture, a fresh and lively look at George Washington that separates the man from the legend. The host a bottles now mans land, president s are people too, and a consulting producer on the forthcoming History Channel series on George Washington, that looks through a feminist lens, building on archival material, she we county was raised by a determined single mother, the stubbornness that caused him to never back down, the youthful error in Inter