They have the honor of being the executive director of the president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. If you would in honor of our men and women in uniform who will protect our freedoms around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. Before we get started, i would like to take a moment to recognize some special guests we have with us this evening. And i will begin with our board of trustees. We have with us governor pete wilson. [applause] from North Carolina mr. Ben sutton. [applause] former congressman retired but just as busy as ever. Now on to tonights program, ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to invite the chairman of the board of trustees of the Reagan Foundation institute took the stage. [applause] good evening every
Ladies and gentlemen please welcome the Supreme Court associate Justice Neil Gorsuch escorted by the Reagan Foundation institute and chairman fred ryan. Good evening everyone. They have the honor of being the executive director of the president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. If you would in honor of our men and women in uniform who will protect our freedoms around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Please be seated. Before we get started, i would like to take a moment to recognize some special guests we have with us this evening. And i will begin with our board of trustees. We have with us governor pete wilson. [applause] from North Carolina mr. Ben sutton. [applause] former congressman retired but just as busy as ever. Now on to tonight
We need stronger on that issues. The cspan Battle Ground states tour. And were live this morning as the Washington Post hosts the Cyber Security summit with remarks from former Homeland Security certificate Michael Chertoff and National Intelligence, james clapper. Live on cspan2. One year ago this morning journalists in Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in istanbul. The post has been paying tribute to jamal throughout this week and just moments ago post publisher fred ryan and the posts owner jeff baseos spoke at a memorial for him in istanbul just steps from where jamal was killed. Jamals courage and his work will not be forgotten. For me, jamal inevitably brings to mind the importance of a free press. But more broadly, our ability to access information and communicate openly is the life blood of our democratic society. So much of our communication is done digitally over texts or emails, on social media platforms. Our digital lives are encod
Good evening everyone. My name is john hi bush and i have the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. If you would, in honor of our men and women in uniform who protect our freedoms around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, please be seated. Before we get started i would like to take a moment to recognize some special guests we have with us this evening and i will begin with our board of trustees, we have with us governor pete wilson and his terrific wife gail. [applause] from North Carolina all the way North Carolina mr. Ben sutton, ben, thank you for coming. Former congressman retired but just as as ever, alton ganguly and his wife jm. [applause] onto tonights program, ladi
Ladies and gentlemen please Welcome Supreme Court associate justice to one Justice Gorsuch. [applause] good evening everyone i have the honor of being executive director of the resident Ronald Reagan institute. Thank you for coming this evening in honor of the men and women in uniform please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. Into the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And before we get started i like to take a moment to recognize to begin with the board of trustees pete wilson and his terrific wife gail. [applause] from North Carolina former congressman retired but just as busy as ever. [applause] so now to tonights program ladies and gentlemen it is my honor to invite fred ryan chairman of the board of trustees of the Reagan Foundation to our stage. [applause] good evening welcome to the Reagan Library. Thank you for joining us for what we know wil