[applause] well, thank you and welcome everyone to a very exciting day for the inaugural launch of our project called chinese handcuffs. In case you didnt pick one up on your way and we had these for everybody on the way out, which has become the emblem of this project. The socalled childs game in which you voluntarily immobilize yourself. This is one product that actually was made in china but i look for one that was made in china. Because i think it is critical for us to start to recognize what we are doing to ourselves, visavis u. S. Energy security and advocating our Energy Security voluntarily to china in the name of climate. They are doing this and highly predatory deliberate campaign to overtake us in energy and make us dependent on them. The good news is that we can write the ship and reverse this if we take it seriously. So today the first panel which discusses the Chinese Campaign we are very pleased to publish their guard many, many people at heritage i would like to thank,
Angeles times, the New York Times and the miami harold. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition that in a democracy such as ours if freedom of the press is jeopardized then democracy itself is jeopardized since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016 donald trump routinely criticized the press humiliating a number of reporters, bullying others, challenging the very concept of freedom of the press as written into the First Amendment of the u. S. Constitution. If he won it would inevitably change. That is the way it has always been. He won and it has not changed. It has gotten much worse even on occasion frightening. I use that word deliberately. The word of a president is much more consequential than the word of a candidate. I know other president s have had their quarrels with the media but donald trump crossed a bright line when he accused reporters of being the enemies of the American People forgetting it was a favor
And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was everybody is making a contribution because you dont know when the Business Cycle or an economic crisis might make any of us vulnerable. And this insurance helps keep food on the table while dad is sending out resumes. It helps mom pay the rent while shes learning new skills to earn that new job. That provides that extra set of security so that losing your job doesnt mean you have to lose your house. Where everybody you worked so hard to build for years. We make this promise to our fellow american