Good afternoon and my name, susan poser. Im the president of hofstra university, and i welcome you once again to hofstra and this very interesting president ial conference this plenary executive policymaking in the Obama Administration will focus on evaluating the nature and success the obama team and its policy ideas from different perspectives from a former cabinet member, from journalists as. We continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. I will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. They dont really begin to scratch the surface of their bios, as you might imagine. The honorable jacob lue, who served as a 76th secretary of the treasury, as white house chief of staff as the director of the office of managed mint and budget, actually a position that he had previously held in the second term of the Clinton Administration and as deputy secretary of state for management and resources i welcome secretary lew. Peter baker who
There is a good deal of complicated scheduling going on in the senate, which is particularly busy right now. So we may or may not be joined by Ranking Member, kennedy, i see as other obligations. But ive been cleared by his team to proceed with the hearing, if you can make it here i will give him the chance to make an Opening Statement at a convenient juncture. But, in the meantime, the witnesses are ready and im cleared to proceed. So we will go forward. Two weeks ago, in a speech to the american law institute, chief justice, roberts, said he wanted to assure people he was committed to making certain that the Supreme Court would adhere to the highest standards of conduct, more important, the chief justice acknowledged the court has more to do, that justices are continuing to look at things they can do to give practical effect to that ethics commitment, and that he is confident that there are ways to do that. Ways to do more. The chief justice is right. There are plenty of ways. The co
And thank you all for attending. And please join us for many more events today. Iall right. Good afternoon and my name, susan poser. Im the president of hofstra university, and i welcome you once again to hofstra and this very interesting president ial conference this plenary executive policymaking in the Obama Administration will focus on evaluating the nature and success the obama team and its policy ideas from different perspectives from a former cabinet member, from journalists as. We continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. I will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. They dont really begin to scratch the surface of their bios, as you might imagine. The honorable jacob lue, who served as a 76th secretary of the treasury, as white house chief of staff as the director of the office of managed mint and budget, actually a position that he had previously held in the second term of the Clinton Administration and as depu
Once again to hofstra and this very interesting president ial conference this plenary executive policymaking in the Obama Administration will focus on evaluating the nature and success the obama team and its policy ideas from different perspectives from a former cabinet member, from journalists as. We continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. I will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. They dont really begin to scratch the surface of their bios, as you might imagine. The honorable jacob lue, who served as a 76th secretary of the treasury, as white house chief of staff as the director of the office of managed mint and budget, actually a position that he had previously held in the second term of the Clinton Administration and as deputy secretary of state for management and resources i welcome secretary lew. Peter baker who is working very hard for us today. Ie is the chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times
Is up next the art of the deal by joe biden at Michael Smerconish and philadelphia. Did President Biden just snuck or President Trump with regard to the debates . By now, you know, the candidates reached an agreement this week, they will debate outside the framework of the commission on president ial debates. Theyll square off twice first in june, then in september, potentially with a Vice President ial debate inbetween, it seemed quick and organic, but i have my doubts two weeks ago, cofounder and cochair of the commission on president ial debates Frank Fahrenkopf was my guest here. I asked him if hed heard from either campaign other than the criticism that we just heard from the Trump Campaign with regard to trying to move the bates earlier in which we think weve answered as best we can, we can answer it. Weve had no contact with either campaign, which is not unusual cycle, where you normally dont have contact with pressed republican and democrat and other people who may be able to b