Ideas. Having been born and raised in the amazing city and now raising my own family down the street i feel incredible by proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan. Anybody else feel that way . [cheers and applause] thank you. Makes me prouder to be part of the fantastic chicago idea team who works each and every day to challenge our city and the world beyond, to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about deep curiosity and pursuing connectivity, so in that spirit because who doesnt love a good friday night ice breaker, i would like for you to take a moment to turn to a person that you dont know and introduce yourself and share why you are here tonight and share what youre most trusted source of political news might be. [laughter] might be a little bit of oxymoron. I will give you 60 seconds. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. All right. Its tough for me to try to get the room back, you guys. If i can, everyone. If i can get eve
[applause]. Good evening. How is everybody feeling great. Happy friday. Just making sure you guys are paying attention. Well welcome, i am the new executive director chicago ideas. Having been born and raised in this amazing city, and now raising my own family just down the street. I feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan anybody else for that way. Thank you. It makes me w even prouder to be part of this ideas team. Each and every day, to challenge her city in the world beyond to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about curiosity and pursuing connectivity. So in the spirit, because it is like a good friday night icebreaker i would like you to take a moment to turn to a person they do not know and introduce yourself and share wire here tonight and share what your most trusted source of political lives might be. [laughter]. Might be a little bit of a run. Ill give you 60 seconds. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. Is going to
We are going to have more of a dialogue and if you have questions we will engage up for the last 30 minutes. The first is a think many of you saw jon on 60 minutes this past sunday. Is there anything on the cutting floor of 60 minutes youd like to apprise . I think i went pretty well. 60 minutes folks it was her second case on 60 minutes in the last year both of them having to do with espionage. One chinese and one russian but a good indication both of the kind of the tv we are seeing these days but also the level of interest in the media which is very different from the last time i is on the National Security division when this is really a counterterrorism job and it was 95 counterterrorism post9 11 al qaeda responsibility. This is a big shift over the last 10 or 12 years. One of the questions we all have the nsc has been quite active in the china prosecution. Youve done your china initiative. What do you see as the goal of nst in that space and what do you consider success in that sp
And most importantly, i want to thank all of you for taking time out of saturday to have this conversation. This is your hour and a half and i will leave the vast bulk of the time for your questions, your comments, your suggestions. I want to open with just a couple of minutes of context and things that i see happening in washington and then i will turn it over entirely to you. The way that we will do that is that there are microphones on either side of the room. And rather than having me picking and choosing within the audience, please just line up behind the microphones if you in fact have a question or a comment. I will ask you to be brief in your questions or observations and i will be brief in my responses because we probably will have lots of people who want to be heard. Other thing i want to say is just so you know, we agreed to allow cspan to record this town hall meeting. I had no doubt whatsoever that we could show the country the kind of thoughtful and respectful civil dialo
Oklahoma congresswoman kendra horn held a town hall meeting with constituents at the northwest Oklahoma City library. She took questions on the cost of Prescription Drugs, health care reform, border security, investment in Public Education and the impeachment inquiry. Color guard, post your colors. Color guard, honor your colors. Please join she in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Color guard, retreat. Color guard, dismissed. Audience, be seated. Thank you very much. Can we give our girl scouts a warm round of applause . [ applause ] so these young women are senior girl scouts which means they are in high school and they represent a few different troops that are working on learning how to interact with the world, to travel, to they do a lot of Different Things, but to explore the world and then to support younger girls, brin