This brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. Power ofploring the athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, professionals and from people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic trophy. And one nfl so we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage today is my winning colleague, Atlantic Staff writer jamal hill. Jemele writes about the intersection of sports, race, politics and culture. Now we want to learn more about all of you. Poll, andke a quick answering the question requires a cell phone. Phone andour cell and then type in slido. Com
Hello, hello, and welcome to the atlantics first summit on athletes and activism. Im margaret lowe, part of the team that brings journalism to stages across the country. We are so happy to be here in washington with all of you at this brandnew arena, where the mystics will tip off against the atlantic dream this saturday night, the first mystics game ever in this arena. [applause] we are thinking of ourselves today as the happy little warmup act for that. And what a wonderful crowd here today. Thank you, all, for joining us. We are exploring the power of athletes who spotlight injustice and spur change. We will hear from olympians, collegiate allamericans, and people who cover sports. And listen to this, our speaker roster has one world cup soccer championship, eight hockey World Championships, nine olympic medals, and one nfl trophy. So we think we have a pretty winning lineup today. Guiding the conversations on stage today is my winning colleague, Atlantic Staff writer jemele hill. S
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booktv. Including russias attack on a Nuclear Power plant in ukraine. This runs about an hour and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] all right everybody as our special keynote speaker comes in, and i want to Welcome National security adviser to President Biden Jake Sullivan and the Arms Control Association Board Chairman tom countryman up to the stage. Tom will introduce jake, and we will have some time after the address for questions. Well start with reporters and then go to the audience. Tom will draw further instructions. Tom, over to you. Thank you, daryl. Welcome. We will be briefing the introduction because you didnt come to hear me. You came for the National Security adviser, Jake Sullivan. Let me just note that after his remarks we will take a couple of questions from the press pool here and then a couple of questions from the audience. If you would like to ask a question, jot it down on the pads by your chair and hold it up and our staff will colle
Welcome. We will be brief in this introduction because you didnt come to hear me. You came for the National Security advisor Jake Sullivan. Let me just note that after his remarks, we will take a couple of questions from the press pool here and a couple of questions from the audience. If you are would like to ask a question, i think on the path by her chair, hold it up for our staff and they will collected. What brings us together as an association is our belief that americas National Security depends upon prudent restraint in Nuclear Policy and upon an active effort led by the United States to constantly reduce the risk of nuclear war and to fulfill our leap goal legal obligations to negotiate in good faith, the reduction and elimination of Nuclear Weapons. To our meeting last year, President Biden wrote that perhaps more than any other time in the cold war, we must work to reduce the risk of an arms race or nuclear escalation. Arms control and nonproliferation diplomacy continue to b