Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Because of the covid19 pandemic, the board of supervisors and legislative chamber are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting locally. [inaudible] clerk each speaker will be allowed to speak. Comments or statements during the meeting are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Again, thats 1454836716, then press pound, pounce. You will hear the meeting discussions but will be muted, in listening mode. When Public Comment comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comments in the following ways. Email myself at erica. Major sfgof. Org. Thats erica. Major sfgov. Org. Lastly, the director of the office of civic engagement, adrian pond, has applied a spanish interpreter on item 1 to assist speakers in
Welcome to the Hudson Institute im senior fellow and we are here to talk today about today in america and hightech warfare chris is a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee the senior policy advisor for senator john mccain and previously held other positions in government right now the chief Strategy Officer for those for the military and department of Homeland Security we can talk about that as a go through the interview but they give for being with us today. Its great to be here. What led you to do this book obviously this is something you have encountered over the years as a policy advisor but what is the genesis to lead you to sit down and write the entire book . Its a great question i ask myself constantly why did i get into this . Basically its two things. Both of these are a product and thinking about the stuff on a daytoday basis with the growing realization that we decided a fundamental problem to be underappreciated that we were losing competitive advan
Public who wish to address the board. My mistake. Open up for Public Comment on this item. To the amended minutes that were recirculated from may 19. Members of the public who are watching this meeting via sfg tv who wish to address the board call 8888086929 and press 9961164. All right. We will wait a moment to see if there are members of the public who wish to address the board with respect to the amended minutes of may 19. Director borden, put yourself on mute. All right. Moderator is telling us there are no callers. Seeing of no callers s the floor closed officially . Yes, madam chair t moderator will close Public Comment for the minutes. And there is still a roll call vote on the minutes . A yes, madam chair. Director borden. Aye. Director brinkman . Dr. Brinkman, unmute. Aye. Dr. Eaken . Aye. Heminger. And that is approved by unanimous approval. Item 5, communication. Before i get into the extensive directions here, i just wanted to say a few words because we are coming together
Locally. [inaudible] clerk each speaker will be allowed to speak. Comments or statements during the meeting are available by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The access code is 1454836716. Again, thats 1454836716, then press pound, pounce. You will hear the meeting discussions but will be muted, in listening mode. When Public Comment comes up, dial starthree to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comments in the following ways. Email myself at erica. Major sfgof. Org. Thats erica. Major sfgov. Org. Lastly, the director of the office of civic engagement, adrian pond, has applied a spanish interpreter on item 1 to assist speakers in their native language with our Public Comment. Lets have arturo consenza interpret the public remarks. [speaking spanish language]. Interpreter thats everything. Thank you. Chair peskin gracias, arturo.
Listen to richard haas the prolific author and academically came out with another book entitled the world. A brief history and 300 pages its departure but i want to start because only after you turned and manuscript the world was confronted by the covidien pandemic and since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts that you tackle in the book. I just want to ask you out right what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Thank you for doing this also thank you to everyone on this call we hope everybody is well and safe as we get through this one day at a time its like groundhog day. With the pandemic tells us first and foremost is that the world matters and that is obvious were member of the council on Foreign Relations the world matters and what happens around the world doesnt stay there now its a small city in china where the virus broke out spread through china and then to the United States and elsewhere around the world, 9 11 it was