Thanks for joining us, welcome to another wonderful session at the southern festival of books on behalf of humanitys tennessee be want to thank some of the festival sponsors including the Metro National arts commission, ingram content group, tennessee arcs commission Vanderbilt University and burnett books. If youre watching today on facebook live, or on youtube and you have questions for the authors during the session, you will need to switch over either to the festivals app which you can download in the app store on whatever device youre using, or you go to their website which is hum tn. Org sf be southern festival of books. And then there is a chapter where you can ask questions for the authors at the end of todays session. We want to mention that parnassus is our beloved bookseller for the southern festival of books. And your purchases of the books being debuted this weekend at the festival help keep this festival free. Youll be able to find a link straight to their online store in
Businesses and residents on their part. San franciscos Little Saigon is getting blasted. 104. As he supervisor with the department of public works. He is leaving a crew of 20 through a power blast of parts of market street, spraying down intersections, Power Washing sidewalks for gum and human waste. Do a real deep cleaning beginning at the beginning of the clock. And not missing one inch of the whoa block from one corner going down to the next one. It is a sixmonth Pilot Program to deep clean the corridors. They said something had to be done because Small Businesses were complaining with a drop in traffic and tourists. It translates directly into dollars for the merchants. People dont want to walk through filth. He owns the golden lotus restaurant. He pitched in this morning sweeping streets. He believes cleaner streets will be a boost for business. All the people say, oh, good. The city insists for the streets on stay clean, businesses and residents have to do their part with upkeep.
To have a discussion on such an important and wide ranging issues, we have assembled a Real Dream Team of diplomats with experience in the region. Im going to introduce them briefly. And trust me, introducing them in a time efficient manner requires a lot of distillation incredible accomplishments across decades of u. S. Foreign service. Im going to start on my left, your right with ambassador gerald federstein who a veteran in the u. S. Foreign service. Now retired. He was ambassador to yemen in the Obama Administration. Principal Death Penalty for near of state eastern affairs. Deputy chief of mission in pakistan as well as senior posts departments Counter Terrorism bureau. Hes Senior Vice President of the middle east institute which is a leading think tank in washington. Immediately to his right is ambassador patrick faros, who is president and executive director of the u. S. Qatar business council. He has a 35year Foreign Service career with many distinguished post including his u.
President trump is back in the United States after his thanksgiving day visit to afghanistan. Air force one landed in florida, where the president is ending the holiday weekend. He spent several hours with u. S. Troops and had a brief meeting with afghanistans president. Heres his speech to the troops. President trump you having a good time, everybody . What do you say to the troops. President trump we love them. We say happy thanksgiving. Thank you very much. It is great to be in afghanistan with our troops. And we had a wonderful thanksgiving lunch. It was abbreviated a little bit but we served lunch and had lunch. And these are great people and it is also wonderful to be with the president of afghanistan. President ghani, thank you very much. It is an honor. We have had tremendous success in the past few months with our military. Isis has been very, very badly hit, very severely hit, and we had albaghdadi down in a different part of the world, we took him out. The father of isis, th
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