Readers. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is john allen, president of the Brookings Institution and it is my sincere pleasure to welcome you to todays event celebrating andre perrys release of his new book know your price, valuing black lives, across brookingss roughly 104 year history brookings has taken powerful positions on issues of race, equality and civil rights. These issues stand at the top of brookings qualities and i have made this president ial priority, certainly for the institution. Brookings not only made an obligation to study these issues but it is also the responsibility of the organization as well, to examine the intersection of race and policy not just because we are an organization deeply committed to the public good but also because we are an organization based in washington dc, the nations capital. As much as washington is a city of politics it is also a city of great diversity, of the roughly 700,000 residents the call the city home, one need only wa
Presidency over the past 3 and a half years. He is making it very partisan, he came out a few hours ago talking about the democratic mayors not doing enough and how important the National Guard is and i think hes making it a partisan issue where i think in the past a president reach out and try to be compassionate and to bring people together instead of divide them, so i think thats thats been something we have seen with both the pandemic and with the recent protests. How did your book come about . Whats the genesis of it . I had seen a couple of books about the white house. Ive always been fascinated on what happened behind the scenes on Inauguration Day. Thats a dramatic day in our history when one family moves in and another family looks out and the public is looking at is west front of the capital, the swearingin ceremony that we all we all watch, but really behind the scenes theres control chaos at the white house and then the last inauguration i was just fascinated by the obamas
Department officials, john and awardwinning author, shelby steele. At first, heres a portion of the 2013 interview with George Schultz freed secretary of state during the Reagan Administration he talked about his book issues on my mind. And the issues on my mind, you write that when it comes to terrorism, this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved and if we truly believe in our Democratic Values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend that. Passive measures are unlikely to suffice. Needs of our active defense must be considered and given the necessary political support. Estate if you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say okay, but a terrorist attack happened. Then we find out who did it. And then we try them in the u. S. Court. And we find them guilty. Then they go to jail. What has that accomplished. A certain deterrence but in the meantime, tara stark has taken place. In the terrorist act like 911 can kill a lot of people. So if you know something is co
Institutional scholars with regard to president ial powers and the author of the equally excellent previous book with those constitution of the original executive the professor of law at harvard as you are aware during the high profile extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during the key early. In the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the presidency and venues like the atlantic and the terror presidency. His latest book out also highly recommended is in half the shadow also the subject for one of the last inperson Public Events we had at cato before the lockdown. Thank you for coming back so soon even if virtually. I am also a great admirer of your previous book but if you will forgive me for saying so its one of the most misleadingly titled books in recent memory. It makes the case the original design the framers had for the presidency, that office had very little in the way of Emergency Powers and no rightful claim t
To the coronavirus pandemic. Congressman paloma hello. Im congressman Frank Pallone from new jersey. Nation mournsr the loss of 100,000 americans to the coronavirus. Its a Staggering Number and grim milestone. Citizens across our nation continue to grieve loved ones, oftentimes from a distance. Its a reminder that we must come together to combat this terrible virus so we can save lives and protect communities in the weeks and months ahead. This National Emergency requires every aspect of government to work together. We must reduce the spread of the virus so we can confidently begin to reopen our economy and get more than 40 million americans who lost their jobs as a result of this pandemic back to work. The only way we can through that is through a coordinated National Strategy, a strategy that requires we increased testing and invest resources into contact tracing. We cannot fight the pandemic if we dont know who has it and where it is being spread, and that requires a National Strate