Margaret thank you to all of you for joining us tonight, to our dedicated staff here at George Washington university. To our media partner, cbs news and sirius xm and our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in a series by the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agreed to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two video, the genesis of the senate project came from two u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but looked for Common Ground. Youll be hearing from senator tom daschle in a moment with more on their relationship and what it meant for the senate as an institution and for our country and all of us. I also have the privilege of collaborating with senators kennedy a
And making sure the process works. Senator rubio when people know each other it makes it harder to hate each other. We are an organization together, a Prayer Breakfast but you have disagreement but you like them as a person. You just dont know how they voted or bumper stickers and know them as a father, mother, neighbor, someone who did you favor and that is always important. In the senate that happens. Committees are smaller and you have to make a point of seeking it. I dont know if we are going to get back that everyone lives in washington and goes on vacations. Are you but you need to have that level of cooperation and know each other. You may not agree on 910 things but agree on things you have common interest on. The most coveted thing is a bipartisan cosponsor and makes the bill more attractive and easier to pass. In my case, there was a time when senator cardin were passing so many bills together. They would call me cardin and rubio. And that happens and citizens will tell you,
Margaret thank you to all of you for joining us tonight, to our dedicated staff here at George Washington university. To our media partner, cbs news and sirius xm and our incredible production team. Thanks for helping the Bipartisan Policy Center sponsor this wonderful debate. Its the fourth in a series by the senate project. Tonight promises to be an interesting and informative discussion on some of the most Critical Issues facing our country and our world. We are honored that senator chris coons and senator marco rubio agreed to participate in this important program. Thanks to both of them. As you saw in those two video, the genesis of the senate project came from two u. S. Senators who had very different points of view but looked for Common Ground. Youll be hearing from senator tom daschle in a moment with more on their relationship and what it meant for the senate as an institution and for our country and all of us. I also have the privilege of collaborating with senators kennedy a
Successful career. According to his official biography on the commerce website, he has restructured over 400 billion in assets in virtually every industry in the American Economy, from insurance to oil and gas to trucking, banking, restaurants, real estate, and pretty much everything in between. Hes been a chairman or lead director of more than 100 Companies Operating in more than 20 Different Countries around the world with bipartisan support on february 27th of this year, wilbur ross became the 39th United States secretary of commerce. Secretary ross, welcome here to dentons. Well, nafta 2. 0 is the name of our event today. A topic about which of course all three countries are incredibly engaged in. Want to hear your comments in round four about whats going on. Why dont i leave that open. Round four started today. Highly anticipated. How are the renegotiations going in your view . I have asked my associated to hand out to you a little one sheet of paper. This shows the topics that ar
If you are here in the room, raise your hand and we will get you a microphone. If you are listening on the thenrence, just press star one. If you are listening or watching on the web classed webcast, click the ask a question but very with us is randall stephenson, the chairman and ceo of at t, david mcafee, at t general counsel, and a partner and our lead trial counsel for at t and time warner. Randall . Thank you and good evening. I appreciate everybody coming on short notice. What you are going to hear it are comments from our legal team. I want to make a few points. Obviously, we are surprised to be here. Candidly, i am a bit troubled. Jeff and i entered into this deal with decades of clear legal president demonstrating how this merger would be evaluated. When we announced this deal, the best legal minds in this country agreed that this transaction would be approved since our company do not compete. But, here we are. The government has filed a it stretches the very reach of antitrus