now the editor in chief marvin olasky examines the principles of journalism and offers his thoughts on reporting. good afternoon and welcome to the heritage foundation, my name is rob bluey, vice president of communications at heritage and executive editor of the daily said no. as a courtesy to the speaker spo become a habit to ask you silence your cell phone although don t turn them off, because we do encourage you to share on social media about today s program and to help us spread the word we are streaming on twitter and youtube and you can find it on the heritage beyond both of those channels and platforms. to introduce the guests today, marvin olasky is a prolific writer and accomplished editor. we are proud to welcome him back to the heritage foundation where he is a former visiting fellow in somebody that is a close friend of the organization. he s the author of more than 25 books including his latest, reforming journalism, which he will discuss with us today. marvin
pearlstine, van gordon s van gos daughter. welcome my name is doug brent, i have written fiction about the media and i wish i knew these four giants when i was doing my research because we cannot have a better panel for the topic today. i think most of you are familiar but i would like to begin with each of you giving a brief introduction of yourself starting with you dan. dan abrams, abc news chief legal correspondent and for this purpose i cal have media heightm which covers medium politics and my latest book is on theater roosevelt and the big trial. i am rick single, my book is called information and how we lost the global battle against this information and what to do about it. that is the smallest part by the way. i was the editor of time magazine for many years and went into the obama administration where was undersecretary of state for public affairs and this book is about combating this information from the state department. my name is van gordon sauter i u
announcer: the first massachusetts senate primary debate between incumbent senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy, broadcasting across the commonwealth in partnership with wcai. here are our moderators, jim braude and margery eagan. welcome to our audience, the first debate in the senate race closely watched across the country. with an incumbent who served in both the house and senate, challenger with seven years under his belt in the house, their first opportunity to air their differences and views. as for the rules there s no rules. no opening statements, no closings. no time limits although we will keep track of speaking time to keep things relatively even. we want to cover a lot of ground so brevity is appreciated. we encourage you to talk to each other and since we re asking our audience not to applaud during the debate, we d like to take a minute to give senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy a hand. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. marge
director kadlec. i am pleased to convene the meeting. thank you to today s council on foreign relations meeting. regos-townsend of legal and business affairs. and i will be presiding over today s discussion. i will have the privilege of leading a conversation for 30 minutes. and then i will open it to questions and answers. we will end promptly at 1:30 as you might imagine. these gentlemen are very busy right now dealing with coronavirus. so let s just start. looking back over roughly the past decade, emerging infectious diseases have played an ominous heme being h1n1, ebola, zika and now the novel coronavirus. the threat is not disapating. the stafford act provides disaster relief funds to enable immediate response. o we need a more stafford-act-like mechanism to research these new threats? so maybe i ll take the first whack at this. because i think the feeling in congress in discussions with both house and senate members is that clearly there s a value for having some kin
institute school of politics. it is one hour. this afternoon, we are fortunate to have cindy mccain and vicki kennedy in conversation about public service and the legacy of public service. mrs. mccain has dedicated her life to improving those doing those who are less fortunate globally, doing significant global work in trafficking and other issues. she is the chairman of the board of the mccain institute of international leadership at arizona state university, where she oversees the organization s focus on character driven leadership on security and economic opportunity, freedom and human rights issues. she s the chair of the institute of human trafficking advisory council. vicki kennedy is both an accomplished attorney and a not-for-profit leader. council senior health and she advises clients on government issues, regulatory issues. she is the president of the board and cofounder of the edward m kennedy institute for the study of the senate. a nonpartisan, nonprofit dazz