Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 i used to tell the students on the advice of counsel i will not answer that. I talk to Justice Brandeis on campus every day. That should not make you nervous. When i tell you hes talking back to me that should make you nervous. When questions emerge as to the constitutionality of the search of a cell phone i am confident Justice Brandeis with would not ask what James Madison thought about the use of a cell phone. I am equally confident with regard to what jeffrey said with regard to business business, i think it is important the power of big business in 1905 was not because they were providing substantial amounts of money to fund campaign, the power of big business came because they were paying off ledgislators through patronage. That was the means by which big business, there was enormous business, the names mentioned today are museums in new york, melon, guggenheim, enormous concentration of wealth which we are once again re
Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
To solve him on this one. Right now, we are gonna shift over to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit. We have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the extreme right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four Different Countries egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador. She was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and thugs portfolio and she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the deputy chief in baghdad and ankara. At the end, doctor vaez was on the International Crisis group where he previously served as
Hello, everybody. I we good to go . My name is mark tercek, until recently i i was ceo of the Nature Conservancy. Im really delighted to be here to be the moderator of todays discussion. We have great panel to my left is monica de bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics. To her left is daniel zarin, director programs at the climate and landuse alliance, and then on the screen is my good friend peter seligmann, the cofounder and ceo of and new ngo focused on a lot of issues that will be discussing today. It is also well known as the founder and longtime ceo of Conservation International where he continues to the chairman. Our topic today is the Global Impact of the amazon rain forest. You been reading about in the news you can of course so many issues. First of all whats really happening, its hard to tell on the basis of the news, how much of this is due to illegal logging or industrial agriculture or bad government policy or is Climate Change itself i