Spirit welcome to the policy briefing a serious bid im tom gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution. Its at Stanford University and one of the most preeminent research centers. For more than a century homage and has been dedicated to generating policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, National Security and democratic governance. The assimilation of our work has led to sin of vacant impacts on important Public Policy initiatives here and around the world. We begin to take steps that will lead us of the crisis i hope you find value in these important discussions as we look forward to ways to mitigate potential effects that the coronavirus has had on the u. S. And on the world. As a reminder, we will be taking audience questions and encourage you to submit yours using the button at the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from larry dimon, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Larrys advised the world bank, un, state department and other governmental and nongovernmental