Rolling in. I want to spend most of our time talking about policy, but we are in such strange times. I thought we could ask some questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Lets start with the broader context. You have got decades of experience at the u. N. You worked in the u. S. Previously, in conflict zones. Looking back in those errors, what has changed since when you started out . Amb. Pierce wow, that is a big question. Not much has changed, actually. That sounds a bit dull and it sounds like diplomats are stuck in the last century. But fundamentally, diplomacy is about human relations. It is about influencing people and explaining your point of view. Stayedkills have unchanged since the ancient greeks. How you do that can change, obviously, and we are seeing in the covid crisis a lot more work being done through other means. But fundamentally, it has been ou about understanding the other side. It is about explaining that to your own sid
Liz cheney. All coming. E you a very big moment. I want to thank congress for answering my call to pass this critical funding. The bill includes, as you probably know, 320 billion to refill the Paycheck Protection Program helping keep millions and millions of American Workers on the payroll. Great for Small Businesses and the workers. 30 billion to the paycheck protection funds will be reserved for small Financial Institutions including those minority and distressed communities. Extend vital relief to africanamericans and has panic american Small Business owners and their employees. 30 billion of the paycheck protection funds. That is really having to do very much with extending vital relief to thousands of africanamerican and hispanic American People and people in this country that are so great but have been so badly hurt. They are great people that have been badly hurt. Injurylion to Economic Disaster program. To small provide loans businesses and farms. Very important farms. 75 bill
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integration and they trash the populist opposition. donald trump is a populist and populism can be a very dangerous tool to ride the anger, not provide the answer. and that s the problem. the larger problem is a populist racist no nothing movement that is fundamentally inconsistent with democracy. but that was all wishful thinking from supply chain nightmares to food and fuel shortages to pointless wars, massive refugee crises. the wheels are slowly coming off. the globalization train. now, the media hate to report on this, but one of the big stories playing out over the summer is the rise of the free movement. i m talking about normal people around the world who are pushing back on the globalist agenda that s essentially dominated our politics since the 1990s. now, too often we re told that it s americans. they re the only ones who have concerns about globalization and what it means for our culture and our economy and our way of life. but around the world, working
Democracy in chains. Ive made no secret of just how important i think this book is, in my humble opinion. [inaudible] we are doing our best, okay . Turn up the airconditioning back there . Okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics, some of you might know i was on the Durham City Council for eight years in the previous lifetime. [applause] and it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent, and understand where theyre coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows, i think, that our understanding of what is called at sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right, has been very limited, and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. I think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read this book, understand it. And i think will