On monday, february 3rd, cspans campaign 2020, your unfiltered view of politics. Former National Security adviser susan rice joined a panel with Obama Administration officials to discuss the National Security priorities, progressive government should focus on during his first 100 days in office. Good morning. Welcome to the National Security conference. It is wonderful to see so many friendly faces, former officials, advocates, Congressional Staff. Thank you again for joining us this morning. It feels like a big Family Reunion which is nice to have but it is more than a reunion, more than an average think tank conference because we have an urgent task before us, to be ready, to be ready to advance progressive National Security Foreign Policy agenda on day one of the new presidency. Should we be so lucky in november. It is very obvious theres a lot of repair work to be done after donald trump. To show how bad things have gotten and what danger might lie ahead. No small task for the eros
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It is more important than ever that we Work Together to find new ways to build a steady pipeline for the future using Economic Development models and Infrastructure Projects and talented, welltrained and well skilled workers. Governors obviously play a key role in these efforts. Many of the governors here today have shown tremendous leadership in this area. It is at the state level that ideas are being developed and Real Solutions are being forged. Panel, itdays next is my privilege to introduce the , thechair of the nga, governor of the great state of new york, andrew cuomo, who will tell us about the progress hes making in new york and then lead the next panel discussion. [applause] gov. Cuomo thank you. Before i get started, let us give a great round of applause to governor hogan. [applause] governor hogan, we all thank you for your professionalism, your cooperation, and your leadership. Another round of applause for governor hogan, please. It is my pleasure to be here today to open
Cities on any combination of all fuels and all to energy and im afraid its going to come as a is a big disappointment to the American Public the main reason for that is you really cant fabricate the quitman for all these things and service them and maintain them without an underlying fossil fuel economy platform for that to happen under and unfortunately this is the country has not figured that out including a lot of pretty intelligent people and people with good intentions you know wed love to keep running our stuff the way were running it now by other means its just really unlikely to happen you know this combines 2 things that are really should be combined one is Climate Change denial the green part and one is that governments can possibly do. I think positive the new deal part so these are 2 areas that the predominant Political Forces like to tell us are socialist or theyre impossible or we dont have the money for them so all the branding on this is horrible is there a way to prese