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I am happy to welcome you to todays policy lab on very important topics, addressing violent extremism in the United States. Our policy lab theory is designed to give an opportunity to hear directly from rand experts about todays policy issues. I am pleased to see so many folks have joined our webinar. And seeing so many folks watching and listening on sees than one and cspan radio, both broadcasting live. For those who are joining on zoom, we will have time at the end of the presentation for a short q a. If you have questions, post them in the q a forum on zoom, not in the chat. However, you can check the chat with additional information. We posted links relevant to todays information. Finally, quote captioning is enabled. You can display it by selecting the option in the menu at the bottom of the window. We are recording this session and will make it Available Online at a later date. I think we are ready to get going. I will tell you a little more about hours acres tom hom is an rind
Militarily military members as the basis for their work. This was hosted by the rand corporation. I think we can go ahead and get started. First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is deanna lee. I am part of the Digital Communications team here at rand, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, Global Research organization that tackles the Worlds Toughest problems. I am very happy to welcome you to todays policy lab on a very important topic, addressing violent extremism in the United States. Our policy lab series is designed to give an opportunity to hear directly from rand experts about todays most important policy issues. I am really pleased to see so many folks have joined our zoom webinar. I want to welcome folks watching and listening on cspan one and cspan radio, both broadcasting live. For those who have joined on zoom, have you house rules. We will have time at the end of the presentation for a short q a session. If you do have questions, please post those in the q a forum on zoom, not
I am happy to welcome you to todays policy lab on very important topics, addressing violent extremism in the United States. Our policy lab theory is designed to give an opportunity to hear directly from rand experts about todays policy issues. I am pleased to see so many folks have joined our webinar. And seeing so many folks watching and listening on sees than one and cspan radio, both broadcasting live. For those who are joining on zoom, we will have time at the end of the presentation for a short q a. If you have questions, post them in the q a forum on zoom, not in the chat. However, you can check the chat with additional information. We posted links relevant to todays information. Finally, quote captioning is enabled. You can display it by selecting the option in the menu at the bottom of the window. We are recording this session and will make it Available Online at a later date. I think we are ready to get going. I will tell you a little more about hours acres tom hom is an rind
Coming up, behavioral scientists from the Rand Corporation will talk about violent realism in u. S. We will have live coverage when it gets underway shortly, here on cspan. I am happy to welcome you to todays policy lab on very important topics, addressing violent extremism in the United States. Our policy lab theory is designed to give an opportunity to hear directly from rand experts about todays policy issues. I am pleased to see so many folks have joined our webinar. And seeing so many folks watching and listening on sees than one and cspan radio, both broadcasting live. For those who are joining on zoom, we will have time at the end of the presentation for a short q a. If you have questions, post them in the q a forum on zoom, not in the chat. However, you can check the chat with additional information. We posted links relevant to todays information. Finally, quote captioning is enabled. You can display it by selecting the option in the menu at the bottom of the window. We are rec