They are the only institution, chartered by congress, to increase awareness of the constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. We have a series of exciting town halls coming up and i want to plug them. A new book, the virginian dynasty. On october 1, the National Constitution centers drafting project. We have commissioned three teams, team conservative, team libertarian, and Team Progressive to draft a constitution. Its an Amazing Group of scholars that will tell us how they think a constitution from scratch should read. I cant wait to share that with you. We have great programs in october on immigration and the new book, the upswing. I hope you will join us for them as well as tuning into our weekly podcast. Now it is a pleasure to introduce the amazing panelists for this program tonight on the First Amendment, journalism, and the protests. We will be taking your questions throughout the program, so put them in the Community Box and i will introduce them. Now it is
[applause] fantastic. In a similar vein, one interactive activity, which is a lot on wednesday morning but everyone introduce yourself to two people you do not know. Your name, what you do, or what you hope to do. So everyone please, go for it. [chatter] getting your attention back might be harder than i anticipated. You can keep networking later. Ok. That was great. A little more ambitious than i thought. More of that to come, dont worry. Ore i hand over theoretically hand over the mic, i want to encourage you to do three things today. Emily to focus on expanding your perspective. Take in todays conversation as ways to learn more about different people. I want you to expand your networks and i want you to think about what we all have in common and what can i as individuals. If we can do that i think there is a lot of power to be had. Speaking candidly, i see an Amazing Group of powerful, motivated and creative women who are capable of really, really incredible things. Lets come togeth
[applause] fantastic. In a similar vein, one interactive activity, which is a lot on wednesday morning but everyone introduce yourself to two people you do not know. Your name, what you do, or what you hope to do. So everyone please, go for it. [chatter] getting your attention back might be harder than i anticipated. You can keep networking later. Ok. That was great. A little more ambitious than i thought. More of that to come, dont worry. Ore i hand over theoretically hand over the mic, i want to encourage you to do three things today. Emily to focus on expanding your perspective. Take in todays conversation as ways to learn more about different people. I want you to expand your networks and i want you to think about what we all have in common and what can i as individuals. If we can do that i think there is a lot of power to be had. Speaking candidly, i see an Amazing Group of powerful, motivated and creative women who are capable of really, really incredible things. Lets come togeth
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Good morning. Thank you all very much for joining us today. We are going to talk about a very serious and urgent situation confronting puerto rico, the home of 3. 5 million americans. The territorys economy as we read every day has been declining for a decade. It has accumulated huge debts that it cant possibly pay. Puerto rico owes 72 billion to investors, about 46 billion to Pension Funds. Started missing bond payments in january and is expected to default on nearly 2 billion payment due july 1st. That is roughly 100 of its Gross National product. Thousands of residents are leaving the island for the mainland every month to look for jobs and better public services. The exodus is accelerating. In this context, congress and the Obama Administration have come up with compromise. The bill would establish a financial control board to oversee the island government and help restructure its debt in federal court. Require the government and the board to adequately finance Pension Funds that a