Those of you here in the audience and people who are joining us virtually. With the election less than three weeks away, it is important to remember it is essential to preserving our democratic republic that we have secure elections in which every citizen who is eligible to vote is to cast a ballot. We want a process in which when it is over everyone agrees, even the candidates who lost and their supporters that we had a fair and honest election. How do we do that . That is the question today. It begs the question, are comprehensive election audits a way to achieve that goal . In depth audits of elections are almost nonexistent yet indepth financial and accounting audits are standard practice. Heritage has published a new study explaining this issue available online. It is called best practices and standards for election audits. I encourage you to read it or download it. Today we have three experts with us to discuss this very important question. The honorable senator paul that in cour
Welcome to the Dole Institute of politics. Discussion groups are made possible by the newmans own foundation and we would like to thank the dall simons family fund. Todays program will be live streamed and available on our youtube channel. We are excited that cspan is recording this session. You can access all past Dole Institute by accessing our youtube channel. After the program, we will have time for audience estrogens. If you have a question, raise your hand. For virtual viewers, please send your questions. Please ask just one brief question. The institutes mission is to foster civil discussion around difficult topics. Please phrase your questions with this in mind and asked just one brief question. Please turn off your cell phones. Please join me in welcoming jerry. [applause] i am thinking, did i turn off my cell phone . [laughter] it is nice to have you all here. We are going to talk about Political Polarization, the subject that hangs over every conversation in washington and e
Security advisor Jake Sullivan. We are honored to have such distinguished array of guests from the cabinet foreign ambassadors from all of the world, Foreign Policy experts and most importantly, are georgetown students who have committed to Global Service and represent our best hope to bring new ideas to support peaceful and prosperous future. For our guests who are just visiting, the school of Foreign Service is the Oldest School of National Affairs in the United States. It was founded 1919 five years before the creation of the u. S. Foreign service. It was created in the aftermath of world war i and a devon devastating pandemic the spanish flu. Our founder summed up the core mission of the school and he said unprepared as we were for war, we are resolved never to be unprepared for peace. For a century, this school has prepared generations of leaders to analyze the world and to serve the world. More than a century since the founding, we have found ourselves in another time of great un
We start with the president who has just wrapped up an important speech in minneapolis on the urgent need to address gun violence across the country. And its important because it was his first gun policy speech delivered to americans from outside of the echo chamber of washington, d. C. In attendance for his remarks and round table discussion were local Law Enforcement and elect ed officials as well as the lone survivor to a shooting in the area. And his message was simple. Voters must tell their members of congress that they do not believe the nras deception on gun safety and their ridiculous suggestion that the president is coming to take your guns. Tell them theres no legislation to eliminate all guns. Theres no legislation being proposed to subvert the Second Amendment. Tell them specifically what were talking about. His speech echoed a super bowl commercial that pointed out the rank hypocrisy of men like the nras Wayne Lapierre who at one time was a vocal supporter of background c
Is the freedom to connect like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder . Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play