Thank you, everyone, very much for joining us today. Why dont we get started. I am paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the National Interest. Were pleased to see such a big group in the middle of august in washington. The traffic led me to think that the city was a little bit depopulated, but attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise and we appreciate all of you taking the time to come and be with us. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the prev
Applause] netroots back to lets hear it [applause] the shelves earlier i heard somebody saying trust black women. I am here today to ask you to think about where we are as a country. Around of us are walking dazed and confused, saying the serenity prayer daily. Know what you can change. The far right wing knows what they can change. Changedst week, they the party of the governor of west virginia. If you think that does not matter, consider this. They now have enough governorship to rewrite the u. S. Constitution if they can get their state legislatures to go along. 38. Three quarters. Read your constitution. Im here to say one thing we can change and control is the destiny of our families and two runs most of our states. See, when we run in the usrit of those who inspired to get onto the battlefield in and mirit of jfk and rfk mlk in the spirit of hugo chavez, we win. Those leaders, yes. They were on fire for civil rights. There were also on fire for expanding opportunity and ending po
If youre 50 years old or older, 027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, facebook, facebook. Com cspan and twitter. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Our question for you this morning why are hate groups on the rise. You can start calling in now. We split our phone lines up by age for this discussion as you do call in, some of President Trumps comments from yesterday condemning specific white supremacist groups and the racism they represent. President trump racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the kkk, neonazis, white supremists and other hate groups that are repugnance to everything we hold here as americans. Host White Supremacists were a growing threat three months before the violence that took place in charlottesville, virginia and the f. B. I. And Homeland Security issued a notice in a may 10 bulletin the racial supremacy groups were responsible for 49 homicide and 26 attacks from 000 to 2016. We can show this
Ground zero for this past weekends violence. With so much focus on what the president did and didnt say and that statement yesterday, we want to get your thoughts on that debate over the president s words. Tost the first thing i want point out is that i think the president was correct in saying all violence in any shape or form, any of this mob rule mentality has to be called out for what it is and has to be stopped in its tracks. If it doesnt we will get further down the rabbit hole. The fact that he didnt pick out one specific group supposing blackt picked out the lives matter groups that were protesting on the other side, equally violent, i was therefore four hours getting pepper spray by both groups. There was plenty of violence to go around. Host given the background over the battle of the monuments, how did this happen in charlottesville . Becausehe battle began it was an issue brought up after ,he shooting in South Carolina the church there, after that one of our city counselor