[applause] [applause] oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause] way to go.
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[applause] [cheers and applause] c oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her Family Members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause
I remain grateful to the Frankfurt School for this honorary doctorate andograe to thank the professors and minister for overwhelmingly kind words. The audience today, students, faculty and many others. As the professor described, i began my career as an academic and i greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak to those who were committed to thinking deeply and whose ideas shape policy. And that is the caseere. The frank further school has, ford on putting ideas into practice such as partnership with the United Nations environment and i understand this is also an institution that very much rooted here in germany is internationally oriented as well with students from five continents and nearly 100 countries. Im enormously honoro receive this and i also believe this is a fitting placesp a topic aligned with the schools global orientation in cuttingedge work, namely the Transatlantic Alliance. Since the start of the biden administration, the transatlanticlliance has delivered for the Amer
Her remarks are about half an hour. I remain grateful to the Frankfurt School for awarding me this honorary doctorate and todays program and i would like to thank the professors and minister for overwhelmingly kind words. Thank you to all of you in the audience today, students, faculty and many others. As the professor described, i began my career as an academic and i greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak to those who were committed to thinking deeply and whose ideas shape policy. And that is the case here. The frank further school has, for decades, focused on putting ideas into practice such as through your partnership with the United Nations environment program. And i understand this is also an institution that very much rooted here in germany is internationally oriented as well with students from five continents and nearly 100 countries. So im enormously honored to receive this degree. And i also believe this is a fitting place to speak about a topic aligned with the schools e