All right, friends, we are reconvening. We have a speaker. Get going. A quick reminder. We are going to be on television. When you have a question, go up to the mike, say your name and school and keep your question concise. Its my distinct pleasure to get to introduce philippe reines, who is an american political consultant, a Senior Advisor to Hillary Clinton when she became secretary of state in 2010. In 2010 promoted to secretary of state for strategic communications. Hes worked for a number of political campaigns and holds a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science from Columbia University school of general studies. Here we have an example of what you have you can do with a Political Science bachelors grieve degree. Im going to hand over the mike phone to him and im looking forward too a great presentation. Good morning, thank you for having me. Thank you julia and ann and kevin. I didnt know this was on tv any more than you did until a few minutes ago so hello out there. I wan
Heres the situation in florida right now. Nearly seven Million People dont have power, streets are still flooded, and the islands of the keys are cut off so we dont really know whats happening there. But actually, its not as bad as it could be. Which suggests our Forecasting Technology is good, but not perfect. Warnings of total catastrophe dont seem to have panned out. The same isnt true, however, for several caribbean islands. The locals say the response has been slow, there has been looting, theres no food, no drinking water, many parts are without power. It is truly miserable. So whats irma doing now . The storm has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm and is heading north towards the state of georgia. It is daylight in miami now, people have had some hours to get used to what has happened. How bad is it . am staggered by how quickly this city is returning to normal. Yesterday, this street was a raging torrent, a river of storm surging floodwaters running through the financial distr
Administration claims and threats as quote, hysterics and ridiculous. Kevin cork is at the white house tonight. Reporter proportional, thats the word Obama Administration officials are using to describe the potential u. S. Response to russias hacking activities. Said to include email leaks, including another 1200 today posted by the website wikileaks, targeting the american political system and most notably Hillary Clintons campaign. Democratic Party Leadership and the clinton state department. John kerry said the russians should and ultimately will pay for what they have done saying the u. S. , quote, will and can respond in ways that we choose to at the time of our choice. Experts say that could include economic sanctions or other punitive actions designed to deter other bad actors from mimicking moscow. White house officials said echoed the threat. That kind of proportional response that the president would consider is not necessarily the kind of response that we would announce in a
Administration claims and threats as quote, hysterics and ridiculous. Kevin cork is at the white house tonight. Reporter proportional, thats the word Obama Administration officials are using to describe the potential u. S. Response to russias hacking activities. Said to include email leaks, including another 1200 today posted by the website wikileaks, targeting the american political system and most notably Hillary Clintons campaign. Democratic Party Leadership and the clinton state department. John kerry said the russians should and ultimately will pay for what they have done saying the u. S. , quote, will and can respond in ways that we choose to at the time of our choice. Experts say that could include economic sanctions or other punitive actions designed to deter other bad actors from mimicking moscow. White house officials said echoed the threat. That kind of proportional response that the president would consider is not necessarily the kind of response that we would announce in a
Administration claims and threats as quote, hysterics and ridiculous. Kevin cork is at the white house tonight. Reporter proportional, thats the word Obama Administration officials are using to describe the potential u. S. Response to russias hacking activities. Said to include email leaks, including another 1200 today posted by the website wikileaks, targeting the american political system and most notably Hillary Clintons campaign. Democratic Party Leadership and the clinton state department. John kerry said the russians should and ultimately will pay for what they have done saying the u. S. , quote, will and can respond in ways that we choose to at the time of our choice. Experts say that could include economic sanctions or other punitive actions designed to deter other bad actors from mimicking moscow. White house officials said echoed the threat. That kind of proportional response that the president would consider is not necessarily the kind of response that we would announce in a