Announcer next, a look at the Iran Nuclear Deal. Robert malley, a former Obama Administration official who negotiation good sheet the deal took part in this event hosted by the National Iranian american council. This is one hour and 10 minutes. Hello, everybody. Hey. Such a fantastic crowd. You are also young, it is freaking me out. Seriously. You are so young. It is terrifying. Hi. I go by holly. I cover Foreign Policy for politico here and im pleased to welcome everyone here for what i hope will be a fruitful discussion. Let me introduce our panelist. I doubt i can possibly do justice to their accomplishments. Is the Vice President for policy at the International Crisis group. He previously served in the Obama Administration as a special assistant to the president , Senior Adviser to the president and the white house grenade or for the middle east, north africa, and the gulf region. When i covered portrait Foreign Policy, i managed to obtain his right at a address early on. For the l
U. S. House candidates, one running in michigans 11th district the other in californias 39th district. They talk about their reasons for running for office and outreach efforts to Muslim Americans, latinos and millenials. This is about an hour 50 minutes. If i can have everyones attention. Were going to go into our sort of next panel, next discussion. Unfortunately, one of the congressional candidates that we had texted me about 3 00 a. M. , a picture of himself on a plane. He was going to be taking the red eye from california to here to be with us, and then taking the flight right away back. Unfortunately, his airplane had mechanical problems. He was unable to make his connection in chicago. But we have two of Young American congressional candidates. We are going to have a discussion about political activism. Theyre going to talk about their campaign. We will then break down to a discussion of political activism. How were active in your local communities and how we can sort of learn f
On tactical Public Private innovation collaboration, a number of the public and private sector issues on cybersecurity. Want to also echo frank and thank our sponsors for this event, north rup grumened, and Marcus Edwards who has been our sort of partner in getting this organizes for the past few months. In addition to his day job, hes also a doctor of engineering student here at George Washington university. I dont know how he finds time to do both of those things, but thanks, marcus for all of your work on this todays conference. Ill briefly introduce the panel that we have before us, and then well go right into a discussion with some time at the end of the 50 minutes for audience questions. First, immediately to my left, your right, scott aaronson, executive director for security and Business Continuity at the Edison Electric institute. Hes been there since 2009, working in a variety of roles before getting his current position. Before that, worked on the hill for congressman lantos
Well discuss what it means for the now shattered caliphate. Lou and nfl commissioner, dashing any hopes that they would take any okdz act of any kind, nfl players and owners, meeting to discuss the claim shameful insults. Notion has changed. We did not ask for that. No, we spend today talking about the issues that are players have our players have been trying to bring attention to about issues in the communities, to make our communities better. Lou only thing that nfl has done in last 24 hours is en doargs a bill on criminal justice reform. Nfl is endorsing legislation on criminal justice reform. Well have a full report on controversy that driving down ratings, merchandise sales, seat sales, you name it, driving a league through the mud inspired we a commissioner and a handful of who want to make a political statement. Or top story, President Trump about to deliver a major policy speech on tax reform at the Heritage Foundation annual president s club meeting, president will address con
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