Spirit welcome to the policy briefing a serious bid im tom gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution. Its at Stanford University and one of the most preeminent research centers. For more than a century homage and has been dedicated to generating policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, National Security and democratic governance. The assimilation of our work has led to sin of vacant impacts on important Public Policy initiatives here and around the world. We begin to take steps that will lead us of the crisis i hope you find value in these important discussions as we look forward to ways to mitigate potential effects that the coronavirus has had on the u. S. And on the world. As a reminder, we will be taking audience questions and encourage you to submit yours using the button at the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from larry dimon, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Larrys advised the world bank, un, state department and other governmental and nongovernmental
Schultz, he talks about his book, issues on my mind. In the measures onio mind you talk when it comes to terrorism, we must think of moral involved if we must think of way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Means of more active defense and deterrence must be considered given the political support. If you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen, then we find out who did it and we try them in the u. S. Courts and end lease appeal they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrence but in the meantime terrorist act is taking place and terrorist act like 9 11 can kill a lot of people. If you know something is coming at you, stop it from happening. In other words, prevention. I think when i first said that in 1984 it was controversial but after 9 11 people said, of course, we should be trying to stop that from happening and so trying to prevent things is very important and we do it a great deal in the country. I think theres be
This is a different world were facing. The pandemic has taken tens of thousands of americans and infected more than 1. 5 million and infected every single one. It focuses early on the security to the past few months. Including the nominee [inaudible] it is very different than my time in chairman. Those of you that are there in person and we do not we have previously provided guidance to reiterate care. The recommended social distancing. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] before he turned to the intervention i appreciate [inaudible] in the role with Energy Innovation including nuclear and Energy Efficiency renewable. We help create. That experience with the responsibilities and the decisions. Having full view of the department and everyone during this covert pandemic. [inaudible] non[inaudible] there will be situations that are uniquely situated during this pandemic. We thank you for that thank you, madam chairman and we want to thank you for holding this hearing and mr. Menendez nomin
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The time to tune into this event today. Im so sorry we cant be together in person, although a very much hope it will be sometime soon. But in the meantime, its nice to connect this way. And stay tuned. The Manhattan Institute is putting together a ton of virtual content theyll be rolling out over the next few months so look at your in boxes for information about those events coming to you shortly. In the interim im so priced to welcome my guest, Douglas Murray to our event this afternoon. Douglas is a journalist and im sure many of you, if not all, have read his work on the pages of the wall street journal, National Review or the spectator 0 where he is an associate editor and his 2019 book the madness of crowds and is with news person at the manhattan instate, i think in early 2018, and that was just after the publication of this book the straight death of europe. Douglas is in Formidable Political critic and while he is an observer of owl things uk and u. S. , im not sure he knew the