Meeting in San Francisco. Half. An hour and a thomas good morning, everyone. I think it is about time to start now. My name is thomas tacoma i am a , doctoral student. I am the chair of this mornings panel, the Electoral College, time to reevaluate . Thank you for coming out at 8 00 a. M. On saturday. Thank you also to the Claremont Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question please bring it to the , microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning
Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the claremont institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. I will be defending the Electoral College. And equally important, when we are talking about a major change, discussing the dangers of any really a common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seems to me that there are certain advantages to the Electoral College, which have been stated by it
Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Thanks for joining us on this weather alert day. A few School Closures we are learning about in maryland. Frederick, howard and anne arundel schools will close three hours early. Montgomery schools will close two and a half hours early. Charles and Prince Georges County schools will close two hours early. Afternoon and evening activities including the board of education meeting are canceled. In virginia, Prince William county schools are closing three hours early. Arlington and alexandria city will close two hours early. Falls church city schools are on an Early Release schedule and day care will close at 4 00 p. M. There. A lot of other districts canceled classes because of the extreme cold. The early dismissals and cancellations are closing in the bottom of the screen and theyre in the nbc washington app. Lets head causing these delays and Early Releases. Along the periphery we have the wintry weather and this is going to be causing a real headache fo
[speaking in foreign language]. Translator colleagues, good morning. We begin our Traditional Press conference by Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. The highlights of last years efforts. Please be brief in your questions so that we can take as many questions as possible. We have press conference in russian. But you will have some translation into foreign languages. And the broadcast is available on our website and social media. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Hope you had a good holiday season. Welcome to the new year. Very grateful to you for taking part in our annual press conference. I dont think i should spend a lot of time on my introductory remarks. Just recently, the president gave a big end of the year press conference. And just a few days ago, president putin met with the editors in chief of russian news agency. S in chief of russis agency. You are well familiar with the president s comments, including foreign policy. I will say briefly that once again, we have to say
Upcoming and there is event information on the second page. They reference the mayoral transition and they talk about the booming economy and all of the opportunities for the new wave of development. Who is going to attend the conference . Who is going to represent san franciscans when they go into the room with all these developers and realtors and people who are concerned about our housing and finance forecast . Please support the item 48 to appoint an interim mayor, we need someone who is not running for mayor in june. Someone who has does not have any kind of interest in running the city. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, my name is denise and i have lived in district 5 for 30 years. I want to you ask you to appoint an interim mayor, one that is currently not sitting on the board, one that is currently not running for mayor, so we can have a fair election. Clerk thank you for your comments. I live in district 5 over 20 years. This situation we