It is my pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker. He is a distinguished fellow. 70th secretary of state. A great friend to the jennings people chinese people. Mr. Mike pompeo. Prior to historians service at the state department as a top diplomat, mr. Pompeo served as the director of the Central Intelligence agency. Before that he served four terms in congress. Before he started his Public Service, mr. Pompeo was a Business Leader in manufacturing, aviation and service industries. He graduated first in his class at west point 1986. And served in the u. S. Army patrolling the berlin wall. After the cold war was over, he graduated from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the harvard law review. He worked as an attorney at williams and connelly immediately following harvard. Ladies and gentlemen, i give you mr. Secretary, mike pompeo. [applause] good morning everyone. Its great to be with you all, be with somebody remarkable distinguished scholars to talk about an important subj
Those of you here in the audience and people who are joining us virtually. With the election less than three weeks away, it is important to remember it is essential to preserving our democratic republic that we have secure elections in which every citizen who is eligible to vote is to cast a ballot. We want a process in which when it is over everyone agrees, even the candidates who lost and their supporters that we had a fair and honest election. How do we do that . That is the question today. It begs the question, are comprehensive election audits a way to achieve that goal . In depth audits of elections are almost nonexistent yet indepth financial and accounting audits are standard practice. Heritage has published a new study explaining this issue available online. It is called best practices and standards for election audits. I encourage you to read it or download it. Today we have three experts with us to discuss this very important question. The honorable senator paul that in cour
Welcome to the Dole Institute of politics. Discussion groups are made possible by the newmans own foundation and we would like to thank the dall simons family fund. Todays program will be live streamed and available on our youtube channel. We are excited that cspan is recording this session. You can access all past Dole Institute by accessing our youtube channel. After the program, we will have time for audience estrogens. If you have a question, raise your hand. For virtual viewers, please send your questions. Please ask just one brief question. The institutes mission is to foster civil discussion around difficult topics. Please phrase your questions with this in mind and asked just one brief question. Please turn off your cell phones. Please join me in welcoming jerry. [applause] i am thinking, did i turn off my cell phone . [laughter] it is nice to have you all here. We are going to talk about Political Polarization, the subject that hangs over every conversation in washington and e
Security advisor Jake Sullivan. We are honored to have such distinguished array of guests from the cabinet foreign ambassadors from all of the world, Foreign Policy experts and most importantly, are georgetown students who have committed to Global Service and represent our best hope to bring new ideas to support peaceful and prosperous future. For our guests who are just visiting, the school of Foreign Service is the Oldest School of National Affairs in the United States. It was founded 1919 five years before the creation of the u. S. Foreign service. It was created in the aftermath of world war i and a devon devastating pandemic the spanish flu. Our founder summed up the core mission of the school and he said unprepared as we were for war, we are resolved never to be unprepared for peace. For a century, this school has prepared generations of leaders to analyze the world and to serve the world. More than a century since the founding, we have found ourselves in another time of great un
Supports our nonprofit operations. Cspan holid sale going on right now. Scan the code at the rht to start shopping now at a cspanshop. Org. Georgetown institute of politics and Public Service in washington dc. [applause] look at this. Welcome. I cant thank you enough for taking some of your evening to join us for this conversation. We were formed 7 years ago here on campus. One of the Biggest Challenges facing our democracy today is polarization. We want to put people from different perspectives together, to have hard conversations, sometimes to find Common Ground, oftentimes not, but to see if we can at least find common motivation to see if we have better understanding of different positions before we step on the field ourselves. Sometimes, you find Common Ground. Sometimes, it makes you a better advocate for your own side if you understand where the other side its coming from that side is coming from. I spent most of my career after georgetown as a knuckle brawler in the political a