She is patricks daughter and tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. I would like to thank sage publications. Sage in the publishing world is present eminent Publishing House and publish the title we run out of my organization. And they are the principal cosponsor of this lecture, having given just generous funding. So thank you to them. And thank you to the willard staff and to my staff at the American Academy. They have been terrific in getting all this started. We are going to have a brief time for question and answer after ambassador talk. It is going to be brief. There will only have time for several questions. And i would ask you to keep your questions to the point, do your level best not to make mini lecture of your own or position statements. Please wait for a microphone to come to you. We are very pleased to know that cspan is covering this today and we have our inhouse tech staff so wait to be able to be heard before you speak. I welco
We do that. So were in a strange and unprecedented situation in this country. We have a president who apparently or evidently reached out to a foreign leader to ask that foreign leader to investigate one of his domestic political rivals, which is another way of saying that the president of the United States asked a Foreign Government to interfere in an election and possibly subordinated American National security interests to his own personal needs and desires. My question to you is, is that an Impeachable Offense . Well, first let me say how pleased i am to be here this afternoon. Its a busy day. The Program Opening with the arts is something i was very excited about because and ill get to your question. Im just here, so its fine. The fact is that ive tried to avoid the situation were in now because it was very divisive for the country. This administration has done irreparable damage not irreparable. Lets hope its reparable. But we must repair and we must heal. For me, relating that t
Ms. Power is the recipient of the American Academy of political and social science 2019 Daniel Patrick monaghan prize. This is 90 minutes. Im the executive director of the American Academy of political and social science. Its my pleasure to welcome all of your to our seventh annual Daniel Patrick monaghan lecture. Briefly, were really pleased to see such a full house as always. Were happy to be joined by folk who s who worked with senator monaghan. Mora is pat monaghans daughter and a tremendous supporter of our organization and this initiative from the beginning. Id also like to thank sage publications. Sage in the publishing world is probably the preeminent Publishing House concerned with the social sciences. They also publish the annals of the American Academy. Theyre also the principal cosponsor of this lecture, having given us generous funding to support this enterprise so thank you to them. Also a quick thank you to the willard staff and to my staff at the American Academy. Theyv
Experienced an exceptionally long commute on friday Public Transportation employees are staging a mass strike paralyzing the city. Some resorted to personal calls taxis and either as creating traffic jams in and around the capital. At any changes at all i usually take a tram in the metro. He didnt consider it neither will working. So i had to take a new to me new to it took forty minutes for it to arrive. I had to share the right and it took me an hour and a half to get here instead of thirty minutes. Weve called me news. Others turn to alternativive meansns of transportation such speeches and rented bikes many for the first time. Its because of the strike ive never used this app until today itss a good solution otherwise i wouldnt be inside at school. So im glad that i can use of. But it was a struggle to even find an available bike during rush hour. I was very lucky to find one i thought id have to walk this morning. And even electric im very pleased. Todays your lucky to live close
A place where people understand and listen to us theyre happy to learn that we have some backing and. Its a nice new Prime Minister decepticon tech has been in power just a week and qantas center Left Coalition Government Supports a more humane approach than the hardline closed ports policy of the previous interior minister Matteo Salvini but ministers insist that does not mean its only now has an open door policy. I believe is a big misunderstanding about the safe port given to ocean viking it was assigned to ports simply because the e. U. Stuck to our request to take the majority of the microbes it must be clear that already is to ensure that those who arrive in italy or redistributed to other European Countries. Hasnt stopped salvini from criticizing. Redistributions in europe are just words because i am still waiting for the other European Countries to take a few 1000 of those they have already promised to. Take so this is a surrender obviously one of qantas promises to europe was