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Steve welcome to todays Bob Schieffer series, conversation on covid19 societal instability, where are we heading. I want to offer special thanks to the foundation that supports this series, as well as the Schieffer School of communications at tcu. Several staff here at csis have worked hard to pull this together. Emma, among the foremost of the staff, made this possible. We also have travis hopkins, Clifford Johnson special thanks to them. Lastly, we are thrilled we can bring this collection of great talent and Close Friends together today for this conversation, and that Susan Glasser of the new yorker kindly agreed to host today. Susan, thank you, and over to you. Susan thank you so much, steve, and to everyone who is joining us on this incredible allstar panel of experts we have with us today. I cannot think of a group that as a citizen, and not just as an observer, im hoping you can help us provide, if not definitive answers, at least some thoughts on what the path ahead looks like,
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Communications. Several staff here have worked really hard to pull this together. Emma colebrand among the foremost who have made this to believe. He was Travis Hopkins and clifford johnson, special thanks to them. And lastly, were just thrilled that we could bring this collection of great talent and Close Friends together for this conversation, and Susan Glasser has agreed to host for today. So susan, thank you so much. And over to you. Well, thank you so much, steve. And thank you not only to everyone who is joining us, but to this incredible allstar panel of experts that we have with us today. I cant think of a group that in my as a citizen and not just as an observeobserver, i hope y help provide us somedy fintive answers, recognizing were in a world where we couldnt have predicted what we would be talking about this week, even two weeks ago. No one will hold you to it, but i want to thank the panelists in advance for their expertise and insights today. Let me do a quick introducti
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