Suspending programming in person through april that we have a virtual programming go to Commonwealth Club. Org that is updated regularly you can watch while sheltering in place. This is to address the impact of covid19 on our society also part of the future of democracy theories with that Zuckerberg Initiative and then others will follow that example. Im thrilled to be talking to two experts with the effect of covid19 and the effect it is having around the us and around the world the correspondent for the atlantic and has written for the magazine since the seventies. He and his wife deb are the authors of the 100,000mile journey thank you for being her here. And the director of foreign and defense policy studies at aei in washington dc a career defense policy and with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Usa Department and the National Security council. It is a great pleasure spirit thank you to being here and also to the audience for joining us if youre watching on yo
Good evening, everybody. My name is katie willard, and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, id like to go over a few announcements. Announcements. Please type in your cellphones and other boys making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight, so you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Second, during the questionandanswer portion and in the interest of our video and audio recording if you could come up to the microphone over here and it is right here by the pillar that way we can all hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. Lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against something solid, our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. The founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. H
Sheltering in place. Addressing the impacts of cove in 19. Its also part of the future of democracy series with Additional Support from the initiative. And a collaborative local center and donor. We hope others will support their examples. I am thrilled to be talking about two experts on a lot of things including the effects of covid19 and the effect it is having. Here in u. S. And around the world. He has written for that magazine since the late 1970s. He takes the human approach to some of the most pressing issues. The authors of the recent beth bestseller. James, thank you so much for being here. He is the director of policy. They had have a impressive career. It has taken her to the International Institute for strategic studies in london. I remember her from in the bay area. In the National Security council. Thank you so much for your time. Its a great pleasure. Thanks to being here. Thank you for joining us. We do want to answer your questions as part of this conversation. You can
[applause] all right, thank you cpac. Im sorry the agenda is so lackluster this year. Were going to hold until later in the program. How about mike pompeo . Doing okay . More importantly, how about my mom . She doing okay . Jared, its going to come as a complete surprise to you that cpac is a bit of a family affair, you know somethingabout this . Thats why we had a hard time getting a quorum in the white house is because everyone is coming to cpac. You could have had a Cabinet Meeting here and cut out the middleman. It was that we had john senior backstage, laura trump , laura brad were on the stage a few minutes ago. Did you guys enjoy hearing from brad pascal . There was a genesis moment in the trump for president effort. You were there at the beginning of all this. I think everybody would love to know what it was like at the beginning when Donald Trumpsaid i think im going to do this. That was one of the more interesting parts of my relationships , i have to say for the whole family
All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspect