Ambassador kelly kraft. Kelly craft. Doing a job amid a pandemic, which has created a bigger challenge. We will talk about the challenges the United States faces along with priorities for the United States and the western world. We will start with our relationship with china, and how the United States negotiates with a country that refuses to be transparent. Transparency would undermine the chinese government, so how do we deal with a country like that with so many important issues to address . We will talk about the roles of the World Health Organization and the pandemic, and the impact of covid19 on vulnerable relations, refugee camps, and in developing countries . This occurs while we have crises in venezuela and syria. We will talk to her about that. One of the things that has made the job more difficult is she talks about diplomacy u. N. Face, like a you ambassador has to do it. Welcome. Ambassador craft thank you for having me. What a nice change of pace, being teleconferencing w
Before i introduced the amazing eve ewing. We have to think the organizers of this event they been doing 70 fantastic events like this. Theyre having a 50 off sale on our website. You can actually go to haymarket books. Org this is critical. It required reading in its 50 off right now. And what else i get to do besides read and turn off the netflix. They have other events lined up coming up this week. Check out their website for the full schedule. Haymarket books. Org. At 7 00 p. M. Eastern there will be a special homemade poetry reading. And then next tuesday may 19 at 5 00 p. M. Eastern there is an event about abolish eyes. It is not just a slogan immigrant justice with authors and activists. These are great events such act them out. Im also really excited to plug a new venture that weve been working on. Its a partnership with fax 32 fox 32 and my fox chicago. They help students in chicagoland who do not had access to online digital curriculum. They can tune in and see the occasional
To shelter. [laughter] how many nonfictions have you written . I dont count. Probably four or five. The first one was a jeffrey epstein, filthy rich which is now i think it just dropped the video today it is a fourpart like on the 20th of the month or Something Like that. And Erin Hernandez did that and then this when i have a jon lennon coming out in the year which is really interesting. This was connected to a house that jon and yoko owned. Theres actually a bridge between these two houses. So who used to live in your house . Nobody famous. It is a disgustingly big house. They were here for a while and he held on for a while after she was killed. Host another Famous Family why did you choose to write about the kennedys . Guest it seemed to me this was the Great American family story. Their family such it is its the american crown in my opinion. What i wanted to do is write about the whole family there plenty stories about jfk and robert et cetera. But in the same way with the crowd t
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People we are privileged to represent. Mr. President , i yield the floor and i would note the absence of quorum. Mr. President , its thursday, one of my favorite times in the week it has its time i get to come down on the senate floor and recognize an extraordinary alaskan and we refer to as the alaskan of the week. Now, memorial day is fast approaching, certainly one of the most sacred days in our nation throughout the year. And this weeks alaskan of the week, sharon along, its a day that is a particularly profound day. Sharon long is a gold star mother who lives in anchorage, and she remembers her son grant fraser every day of the year. But for her and her family, and for so many people who knew grant who served with grant, memorial day is a day when his memory is p particularly honore. Mr. President , before i hit into her story as well as the remarkable story of her son, grant, let me talk livid about whats going on in alaska right now, as we and our country continue to face the ch