Pearlstine, van gordons 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 used to work in newspa
Economic opportunity, freedom and human rights issues. Shes the chair of the institute of Human Trafficking advisory council. This is Vicki Kennedy is both misses Vicki Kennedy she is the president of the board and cofounder of the edward and Kennedy Institute for the study of the senate. A nonpartisan, nonprofit dazzling of a beautiful building here. Educates the public about the unique role of the United States senate in our democracy. Be int, they will conversation with gary healy, the inaugural president of the center for advancing the American Dream opening in 2022. She was former lieutenant ernor, the president s with pride, she was a former resident fellow at the institute of politics. Welcoming Lieutenant Governor healy. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you for the kind introductions. Im so excited to have this conversation with those of you today. With the backdrop of everything going on in the country, one of the most interesting legacies of both of your husbands is that t
Candidate joe biden held out a get out the vote event in the chinatown neighborhood of las vegas. This is 15 minutes. Patients exceeds your exceedsyour patience your good judgment. Thank you very much, gary. Gary and my family and i have become good friends. We have had the most diverse cabinet in american history. I think we had the best cabinet in american history. I listened to you when you spoke. I was astounded. You asked your husband to marry you. I had want you to know, to ask my wife, jill, five times to marry me. Not a joke. Five times. Finally, i said, and you will appreciate this because we are all from immigrant paths. My mother would say they got my irish up. I came back from south africa trying to see no sin mandala and getting arrested for trying to see him on robyn island. Back, the first thing i did, i landed in philadelphia. I went back to her apartment in wilmington, delaware. I knocked on her door. She said, come on in. I said, im not coming in. I said, youre finall
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 theres 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 were asking our audience not to applaud during the debate, wed like to take a minute to give senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy a hand. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. Margery. Congressman kenn
Director kadlec. I am pleased to convene the meeting. Thank you to todays council on Foreign Relations meeting. Regostownsend of legal and business affairs. And i will be presiding over todays 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 lets 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 staffordactlike mechanism to research these new threats . So maybe ill take the first whack at this. Because i think the feeling in congress in discussions with both house and Senate Members is that clearly theres a value for having some kind of Disaster Relie