All right. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. Welcome. I my name is Amanda Woodword and im the dean of the division of social sciences here at the university of chicago. Im just delighted to be here with this group of faculty for this event. This evening is continuing a yearlong series of events at the university of chicago commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first controlled selfsustaining Nuclear Chain reaction which happened just over there. Over the past five months, there have been events across campus xh commemorating the breakthrough and exploring the experiments long term impact, and the events have presented u opportunities to engage scientists, artists and policy makers and the public around a set of events that grew from that original event 75 years ago. This evenings discussion im particularly delighted because it brings in social science in just the way it should be. Our panelists will be introduced in a moment. Each is a scholar and International Relation
202 7488000 four democrats. 202 7488001 for independents. And if you want to tweak your thoughts you can do so at cspanwj. You can write to us at facebook. Com cspan. The president is set to momentarily make a statement. We will go to the president when he makes a statement. The New York Times has a short summary of what to expect. That they will leave it in place with most of a runs infrastructure. Much of it will be disassembled and put into storage. Iran is likely to fight the fact site the fact as evidence that it never gave into wests demands that it dismantle critical facilities. They now have 60 days to approve or reject the deal and those critics have already complained that the deal being discussed it only delay the day that iran would have the opportunity to build a Nuclear Weapon. If you go to the website of bloomberg news, they do have an analysis piece looking at congress. We will show a little bit more of that. Under legislation it was mitch mcconnell. It will be a hard s
A lot of flury of activity. Sources telling the fox business network, that President Trump himself is personally involved in the health care pitch as you talked about. He mitt with senator rand paul. He spoke with another conservative i guess you could say is opponent of current iteration. Senator mike lee. Spoke to him about the Health Care Bill. Mike lee expressed his concern. What you see, President Trump, mike President Trump, inviting senators james langford, ben sasse, to a dinner to talk about this. The white house is pulling out all the stops. They see this as a key part of their legislative agenda. They would like to get this done to move to tax cuts and they consider this very important and the president who was kind of in the background. President kind of little bit in the background on this issue last couple days is now carrying the torch. I think what the conservatives will have to ask themselves is this. Do they want to let the president of the United States, on a key leg
This week the communicators goes to the university of michigan near detroit where Car Companies are using and it test site called mcity to tryout new technology. Carmakers art spearman did with technology that allows cars to talk to each other and talk to roads and traffic lights so there will be fewer traffic accidents. We spoke with a transportation analyst who studies this technology and with the director of the university of michigans Mobility Transformation Center. Host Debra Bezzina where are we right now . Guest we are at the university of michigan in what we call mcity. Mcity was built specifically to test, develop connected and Automated Vehicles. Host and this is a store in your background. Guest this is a storefront. Basically you can create different scenarios for connected and Automated Vehicles and trying to target the ones are difficult. You want to test and be able to repeat so when you are out on the street its hard to be able to repeat consistently so if youre behind
Accusing the Obama Administration of illegally blocking the keystone xl pipeline. Should trade guilds trump washingtons attempt to combat Climate Change . We will speak with lori wallach. Then to north korea. This act is a profoundly destabilizing for Regional Security and seriously undermines International Nonproliferation efforts. I condemn it unequivocally. Amy the International Community condemns north korea for conducting its Fourth Nuclear test, though the u. S. Says north korea failed to conduct a Hydrogen Bomb test as claimed. We will get the latest and also talk about Nuclear Politics worldwide. Then to the fort dix five. It gives us all hope, my family, me, my brothers. I have been taking care of my family since 15, taking care of six nieces and nephews, my mother, my father, my three brothers in prison. It has been hard, but that is not the hard part. The hardest part is having three innocent brothers in prison for no reason at all. Amy three muslim brothers from new jersey