[applause] [applause] oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause] way to go.
Against donald trump stands tonight we are going to get to the United Nations which we dont do often enough here. Were gonna speak with our u. S. Ambassador because the United States becomes the head of the Security Council tomorrow. It is our turn or the investors turn we should say. You had ambassadors fantastic i was just talking about the u. S. Having this confounding dilemma or decision to make deciding whether its gonna keep its word on being really mad at ugandas tell the case law while simultaneously planning to go ahead with this hundreds of millions of dollars of findings that we give them for anti aids this year and thats it youre gonna talk to her about that tonight of course the u. S. Has it even bigger level of influence and we usually what. Thats fascinating. I will ask for your question when she gets here. God bless, you thank you so much. Thank you rachel. Well the pressure is working the pressure from Special Prosecutor of Donald Trumps associates and codefendants imp
Here tonight. Thanks for being here. Its gonna do it for me for now. But now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. But evening, lawrence. With evening, rachel. After we get through Andrew Weissmann and neal katyal talking about the case against donald trump, where it stands tonight. We are gonna get to the United Nations, which we dont do often enough here, to speak with our United Nations ambassador, because the United States becomes the head of the Security Council tomorrow. It is our term for the ambassadors term, i should say Linda Thomasgreenfield, u. N. Ambassador, fantastic. I was just talking about the u. S. Having this confounding, sort of dilemma, or decisionmaker, deciding whether or not its gonna keep its word on being really mad at uganda for their killed against law while simultaneously planning to go ahead with this hundreds of millions of dollars in funding that would we give them for anti age this year. With Linda Thomasgreenfield, which were gonna talk ab
[applause] [cheers and applause] c oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her Family Members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause
Institution for a little over an hour. While, why dont we start. The microphone is on, and welcome to all of you. I am a professor at yale law school, and the director of our chinacentric. And i am delighted that we are doing this event, which is part of a formal collaboration that our center has with the john thorton chinacentric here. It has been a very valuable collaboration, and this is the first inperson person event that we have had related to the covert restrictions and it is wonderful to be here, to see you, and see our colleagues and friends. The topic, as you know, is United States, china and europes different visions of the International Order. And we have a group here that is ideally suited for that, a multisyllabic title. First moderating the event is ryan hoss, who has recently and splendidly been named the director of the john thorton chinacentric here. He china center here. He is a major figure in the china relations. Sitting next to him is susan thorton, a senior fello