Once again, if i could have your attention, please. Is the mike working . The mike is working. Itname is Sherry Mueller and is my privilege to service as president of the Public Diplomacy council and to welcome each of you in this room to the First Monday Forum, a monthly event that Public Diplomacy council cohosts with a Public Diplomacy alumni association. And the university of southern annenberg annual center for leadership, communication, and policy. Also, just to correct, i saw the president here, it is the Public Diplomacy association of america. We got it, i promise. All three organizations are really pleased to cohost our special guest, dr. Vivian walker, who will be introduced by one of our board members,. Botch in a few minutes peter kovach in a few minutes. We are very grateful to George Washington university, they are renovating the normal room that we work with and i appreciate the patience of all of you. We are grateful to the Elliott School and Anthony Desantis who is he
The two largest economieses prepare for high level trade talks. Adam silver is standing his ground refusing to apologize for a general managers tweet about a protest in hong kong but will his decision backfire on the global brand . Tracking space. Nasa confirming a group of astronauts are expected to fly past earth at incredible speeds. We will talk to astrophysicist Neil Degrasse tyson about this looming phenomenon this hour. Connell wow. Now were talking. Fox Business Team coverage of this market selloff. Edward lawrence, busy day as usual following trade in d. C. Gerri willis on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with all the back and forth and blake burman at the white house as well. Edward, on that trade beat, the trade restrictions seemed to help the market or hurt the market. Lets start with you. Reporter it help the market turn down a little bit further. Today and tomorrow or today and yesterday, two days of deputy level talks concluded and the real talks will happen thur
Were honored to have them here today. A special welcome to our commissioners of the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy, chairman farar, vice chairman bill hible and commissioner ann weidner. Today, as you know, under the auspices of the Advisory Commission weve called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, the newly formed gpa. And where it fits into state departments vision for Public Diplomacy Going Forward in the 21st century. And as vivian walker, executive director, it is my honor to open this event. Before i turn the mic over to my colleague for opening comments, i just want to tell you a little bit about how things are going to go today. Mr. Farar will give us brief comments and well turn it over to our principal speakers. Theyll speak in a tagteam formation. At the end of their presentation well be happy to take your questions and comments. Please hold your questions and comments until they have finished their presentation. For the moderated q a session, the
Commissioners of the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy, vice chairman bill hippel and commissioner weidner. Today we know under the offices of the Advisory Commission we called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the gpa, and state department, and the executive director, it is my honor to open this event. And for opening comments, i want to tell you how things will go today. And to principal speakers, they speak to the tagteam formation and at the end of their formation we will take your questions and comments. Please hold your questions and comments until they finish their presentation. For the moderated q and day session there will be a microphone. Please speak into the microphone, and your questions and answers are part of the transcript that will be part of public record. It is important to capture your question so we can reflect them accurately. It is my great pleasure to turn it over to the chairman. Thank you for the audience being here. The president of Public Di
Coalition negotiations a new Israeli Government and the Israeli Supreme Court and the Israeli Government will have important decisions to make about the extent to which israel today welcomes criticism of its human rights policies and particularly with regards to palestinians now the reason im asking this question is because i think. The the lower courts have interpreted the charges against you in a very broad political way essentially youve been found guilty of war can you guess the state of israel for simply saying that business businesses that operate in the all clear by the west bank how being too entrenched occupation just when did it become controversial to say that thats absolutely right and 2017 the Israeli Knesset passed a law that bans entry to those who call for boycotts of israel of course the outlawed self is problematic it essentially imposes a political litmus test who can enter it. Israel but what the court has done in this decision is interpretive valid law to call to i