As a panel discussion, questions, expertise. We would like to thank the city of charlottesville during question and answer portion we ask you please wait for a microphone to be brought to you so you may be recorded. Stay tuned. And i want to introduce a wonderful panel of authors. Ottet these are some of the top reporters that delve into politics and we have a panel for you today. I want to start with our friend frank sasso, the power of question to open doors, uncover solutions and to spark change, hes a former White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau chief and is now the director of the school of mediao Public Affairs at George Washington university and has interviewed dozens of leaders including five u. S. President s. I believe it might be sick with this one. Wi [laughter] of is also the creator of planet for it. Nd lets give him a round of applause. [applause]. Tallness next, the author of the death of expertise, professionaa of National Security at the the Naval College an
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Blue argent to lower the cost of safety. Nd increase he purchased the Washington Post. I met with him earlier today at the Economic Club in new york. Here is that conversation. What is it that amazon wants to be . There are a couple of answers to that. Probably the biggest one, perhaps the best way to answer that question is that the thing that connects everything that oneon does is our number conviction and idea and philosophy and principle which is Customer Obsession as opposed to competitor obsession. And so, we are always focused on the customer working backwards from the customers needs and developing new skills internally so we can satisfy what we perceive to be future customer needs. We have a whole working backwards process that starts with the customer needs and works backwards. That is really it seems like we are in a bunch of different businesses. We have Amazon Web Services just completely different from our amazon prime business or Amazon Marketplace or Amazon Studios and
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