Questions, well jump in. Plus Kamala Harris leaving for pennsylvania where her Campaign Plans to pinpoint critical slivers of the electorate including Polish American voters. Will that be the key to winning the biggest prize on the Swing State board. And russia accused half a dozen british diplomats of Spying And Sabotage and kicked them out of the country just as President Biden is about to meet with them at the White House. What does the timing of all it tell us. We start with Donald Trumps unfounded claims about migrant crime and new details showing a national Neonazi Group had a Hand In helping spread the claims all the way to the former president. Despite being told those stories are baseless and false, Donald Trump kept repeating them, at the debate and at a rally and when a reporter asked him where he got that information well thats come from stories and television and some of the pets, i dont know, Cats Dogs or both, but some of the pets were taken by the migrants. And it is a
Since 2016, what Public Policy issues are motivating voters this week and take a look at Political Trends that can give us clues. And we go live now to hear about u. S. Relations with china from assistant secretary of state for east asianing and pacific affairs, david stilwell. The events hosted by the Hoover Institution. Pacific affairs, david r. Stilwell, who is joining us from tokyo today and will address the theme of todays session, covert, coercive and corrupt, counterrerring Chinese Party malign influence in free societies. Following his address, he will engage in a conversation with two leading china scholars, orville shell and arianna movstro. But first, its my pleasure to introduce condoleezza rice. Im delighted to open this session of our project at hoover on chinese sharp power. And i especially want to welcome assistant secretary of state for east asian affairs, david stilwell. This project, i think, is one of the most important that were engaged in because we face an extra
Thank you very much for being here, and i want to thank him because he graciously allowed to have the subcommittee hearing and for me to be able to chair it. This is a discussion really important to so many of us here and so many of our colleagues. Information is power today, and we see it all over the globe when its used improperly, hes used as a weapon. Democracies like ours require a well informed electorate, but our enemies are increasingly trying to undermine that principle through socalled disinformation campaigns designed to mislead voters. Malign actors like russia systematically exploit social media, radio, television, and print to twist facts to suit their needs and distort the truth to an unsuspecting populous. Its not just about elections. We see it today with regard to the coronavirus and misinformation thats being spread. Its an interesting tactic because its inexpensive and yet can be very effective. It has a high degree of deniability. Its anonymous almost always and if
A video showing a mob assault a woman in Tahrir Square and a policemans struggle to save her has been circulating on the internet. How would you work with the Egyptian Government to insure the prevention and prosecution of Sexual Assault . How would you work with them to insure that this is a priority for them in this new government . The act youre referring to and others like it which have been reported as well are are extremely disturbing, and were extremely concerned about those type of incidents. Women should have the ability to go anywhere they want in the country just like a hand, and they should be full participants in egypts democratic and social processes. We need to engage the Egyptian Government, we need to make clear that these activities are unacceptable, and i recognize that egypt including president assisi, has made statements to the effect that these are unacceptable. And they need to do everything they can to insure women are safe in the afterhath of this incident. We
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