From the Hudson Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good day and welcome to the Hudson Institute and thank you for showing up for this panel on Multilateral Institutions. Indispensable or irrelevant to global peace and prosperity. I will be the moderator. Am Liselotte Odgaard i put together this panel which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. It is talked about a lot although there are not that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. I mentioned to come up for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of the since to two nations and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises the is does that make institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions . And p
That. And what the chairmans objectivesr we ought to know that. How many members of the press the chairman is spying on and how many other american citizens. Its a concern and i would hope the gentleman would work with us to stop this and not allow the chairman to use his power whether its members of the press, members of congress or legal people across this country. And i would yield. Mr. Hoyer the gentleman yield . Mr. Scalise i yield. Mr. Hoyer we do know by the fact that the president has abused his power and the gentleman does not want to speak about that. The facts were testified to in the committee. The gentleman, like the president , seeks to distract i reject out of hand that either mr. Schiff or the committee spied on anybody. Did they pursue discovery so they could get the facts and the truth . They did. I dont know im not a member of the committee, not a member of the Intelligence Committee and im not privy to all the information that may be available, but i reject again ou
Because we are going to have to handle all of you when you come in. So the second show of hands i want to see is how many of you are registered to vote as a democrat . Ok, thats a good sign. We have new democrats every four years here. We want to make sure you have an opportunity to register as a democrat. It just makes it so much easier no matter who youre supporting that well be ready for you on caucus night. We have three of the campus democrats, copresident s out here tonight. Olver, ali, they were holding clipboards. Heres al irving in the front. And nat all the way in the back. If you are registered as a democrat, it just makes everything go so much better. If you can register on the way out, well sob excited to see you back, many of you on february 3. Without further ado, i wanted to do a quick introduce of someone who were very excited to welcome back to i nell. Hes been here three grinnell. Hes been here three times. It was a group of 20 students who were interested in meeting
Because we have a pretty full program. On behalf of myself, if my cochair, kevin were also, thank you all for your your support and for your being here today to honor three phenomenal women for your their service for your our country and for your their contributions to National Security. We all know that with more women at the top, and more women at the table, better policies made. It fosters global democracy gender equality, and peace. That is our goal here and that is what we do best. I would like to acknowledge our diplomatic colleagues who are here, both americans who have served abroad, ambassador nurses will as foreign ambassadors who are here today. Could we get all of the ambassadors and the deputy chief of admissions just to stay on for your a second. [applause] you all have been critical from our mission from the beginning and we really appreciate your support. I would also like to thank current and former Board Members including our founder and president meredith at ellis wh
This morning it is more widespread w that we the of yesterday. A lot warmer over areas of Half Moon Bay. As we get into the afternoon, l low 80s. Lets start out with the current temperatures outside our doors right now. A lot of 50s and 60s out there. 53 right now in santa rosa. With all of the cloud cover you can see over the Golden Gate Bridge. Upper 50s San Francisco. Low 60s in oakland. San jose at 61. There is a look at the 24hour temperature change. Were a few degrees cooler in livermore. Warmer over napa. Half moon bay 9 degrees warmer. The winds are on shore. There is a look at the cloud cover along the coastline this morning. Partly cloudy over areas like santa cruz. Weve got partly sunny skies over portions of the north bay. Fairfield breeze is the 0 Miles Per Hour. And many its continuing to cool off. 54 degrees right now in novato. Upper 50s to brentwood. We go 66w 80s expected in concord. W scattered showers as we get back to work on monday. Details on the extended forecas