It to such a pleasure to speak about your book try washington and we the people. Im going to get into the idea of revolution, you say in the book america has been through divisive. Before some followers that we are living through today, with the hindsight of history, we can see them as inflection points, the transitional period between old system that is broken down in anyone with information, are we at an inflection point, absolutely, we are right in the middle of it, to the best example, in 2016 the republican primary, it was a real civil war and the Republican Party that the establishment of republicans represented by jeb bush and others did not get the nomination, did not get the support of the other people, those revolutionary donald trump, the democrats are going to the same thing right now, theyre having a civil war in their party, is it going to be the traditional democrats, is it going to be some outsider, socialist, i think that is indicative and the fact that it just doesnt
Regional power and president xi jinpings leadership. Good morning. My name is bruce jones. Im the Vice President and the director for Foreign Policy here at brookington. Its my pleasure to welcome you this morning. I see lots of old friends in the audience and several new ones and its a pleasure to invite you to our event with the assistant secretary of defense for endopacific affairs, randall shriver. Weve been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of policy research over the past decade, and while hes been serving in the Administration Since 2017, and randy, thank you for your service to our country and the Important Role you play in this administration. Randall shriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense by President Donald Trump on january 8th, 2018. Previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for east asian and pacific affairs, under which portfolio he covered china, tie won, hong kong and australia, all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief
It looks like we are complete. We start this segment in the summer of 1921, and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned earlier. Millions are threatened with starvation and disease. Most of them, as you will see in a moment, i will have a map up, were situated in the volga river valley. The soviet government led by Vladimir Lenin is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so it is forced to allow an appeal to go out for foreign assistance and at that time, on that day, in the summer of 1921, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that of course is the man you see here. That is Herbert Hoover, as chairman of the American Relief administration, the a. R. A. As george nash told us, since 1919 the a. R. A. Is a private relief organization, relief agency. But i would say really, at least for this part of the hoover humanitarian story, we should say it is quasiprivate. Hoover is the secretary of co
Homeland security adviser to president obama. At this event hosted by the Texas Tribune festival. Thank you, evan. I thank all of you for being here. This is at the university of texas. A couple of quick reminders. This will be 60 minutes total but we are going to leave plenty of time for questions. We already know some of you have some questions you want to ask our, no kidding, allstar panel here. Secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard some very interesting ring tones. We would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember to silence your phones. If you do want to take pictures, take videos, et cetera, and tweet them, yes, tribfest19 is how youll do that. Well take questions at the end. The microphone will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the microphone, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priess, chief operating officer of lawfare. I worked in counterterror at cia both
And huge policy fight with the bureaucrats saying, oh, we cant say economic aggression, but when you are reading the report you understand why. Watch book tv every weekend on cspan 2. Next, remarks by the libyan Prime Minister on the relations of his country and the u. S. He spoke to the John Hopkins School of advanced international studies. It is about an hour and 20 minutes. Welcome, mr. Chairman to the house of international studies. Im daniel seuer, i am pleased to welcome you to the Global Leader in the study and practice of international relations. Mr. Prime minister, i first saw libya in september of 2011 when i made my way to benghazi and tripoli. The early days of the revolution, and unguarded in your two most important cities. Despite the molecular violence, spirits were high after i returned to International Carter center. And shortly thereafter, libya democracy has changed and you will give us a glimpse of what happened behind the scenes and deepening our understanding of l