Im chris miller, acting secretary of defense and im here today to update you on president trumps plan to bring the wars in afghanistan and iraq to a successful and responsible conclusion and to bring our brave Service Members home. From kabul to canada har and fallujah. Hundreds of thousands of americas sons and daughters who answered the call to serve in our Armed Services have brought us to this point. Their efforts and sacrifice will go down in history as showing the strength, commitment of a force that is unlike any the world has ever seen. Just last night, i joined Vice President pence and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to have the soldiers who perished in the middle east. This was a somber and hum bling moment that reminded us of the tremendous sacrifices of the men and women of the United States military of our Armed Services take an oath to defend the constitution of the United States. They serve not for personal gain but for the protection and wellbeing of their fellow
Thanks so much for joining us for this joint effort between the american Inspiration Series of american ancestors at New England Historical genealogical society, the state library of massachusetts and as, Porter Square books. Although we are open on light and a person, with limited capacity. We ship into local delivery and have curbside pickups. A special pandemic newsletter and lots of other stuff such as a visit us at Porter Square books. Com. Before introduce our guests and our moderator i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes but using crowd casts which so much my views before before and maybe many of you have it. First of all the that is recorded so you can watch it back if you wasted for part of the knights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share with a friend. It will be here at this crowd cast link as well as on our facebook page. Second of all you can really use this lovely chat window in the bottom right of your screen whats that Say Something nic
A funder lion and says that trade negotiations between brussels and london will keep going after todays selfimposed deadline to do kay and the immunity to trade deal to prevent chaos at the borders starting on january 1st. Foley s welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has announced a raft of tough new lockdown measures she said they were necessary to bring down the spiraling numbers of new covert 900. 00 cases so lets break down for you what is set to change here in germany so from wednesday nonessential shops will close supermarkets pharmacies and banks will be allowed to remain open schools will be shut in principle until the 10th of january and employers are being and. Urge to allow their staff to work from home as much as possible chancellor Angela Merkel also made an appeal for people to limit their social contacts touring the holidays the number of people allowed to meet indoors will remain restricted to 5 and that doesnt include children under the age of 14 and
Books team for making this possible and joining us live tonight. I have enormous privilege of introducing her guest. Jeb bush was the 43rd governor of florida and the first in state history to be elected. Anders limited government approached he created 1. 3 million net new jobs improving the States Credit rating. Currently hes headquartered in coral gables florida. Tonights guest of honor author of citizen mack politics, an honorable calling senator connie mack 92 senator mack left a successful banking. To serve in the house of representatives. He upon returning to the private sector mack became chairman of the h. Lee Moffitt Center in tampa, florida. With that i will hand it over to governor jeb bush and keep in mind you can submit your questions to the feature. Thank you very much. Its such a joy to have this conversation with the man id hire so muc and ive read the book connie. A greatook. The news york times tod had an artle about independent bookstores that i thi is worth mentioni
We created back in june of this year, and its a platform where current and former military and defense literature both the United States and the region are able to discuss some of the most important policy issues facing the two sides we were fortunate to inaugurate this series on june 10 with a conversation with the command of centcom frank mckenzie. Since then we have the honor of hosting some of the countries of brightest most seasoned leaders in the Defense Space including former u. S. Dp michele flournoy, current director grant, current centcom directory commander malloy who just transitioned into that role having served earlier as the commander. We also hosted u. S. Dp former u. S. Dp jim miller, former socom commander, the current security chief duke, former National Security affairs derek, and, of course, former Lebanese Armed forces commander or i should say rear admiral joseph. Let me take this opportunity to thank centcom and its leadership for the partnership with us at amy