Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. And it is such a delight for me to be able to talk with my colleague and very good friend phil rucker and i am going to start out by telling you a story i am going to tell this story and so why isnt phil telling this story . Because hes too much of a gentleman to tell this story because it makes me look really bad. Election night 2016. Phil had been out with trump quite a bit and he kept saying, you know, somethings going on out there. And i had written a story over the weekend saying, well, theres this little tiny eye of a needle that donald trump could get through. You know, michigan and parts of it. But i didnt really believe it. So its Election Night. I am supposed to be writing the lead off for the Washington Post. The next day. It is 830 a Election Night and i am 80 inches. Its into america elect its first woman president. So phil shows up at my office and he says karen, did you see what just happened in florida . And i said, ph
Is allowing anyone to purchase a firearm who is prohibited under current law or regulations. I want that to be very clear. I want it to be very clear right after the bat so that no one misinterprets this as some effort to let people own firearms who would normally be prohibited. This legislation is needed because a very disturbing trend has occurred in the past decade share the glory with someoneade else and we think theres good in legislation and every piece of legislation has hat the Veterans Administrations relying are way back if the 1970s. That predates even the National Instant criminal background check system and is way, way long before the Supreme Court held the Second Amendment to be a fundamental, constitutional right. These regulations grant limited authority to determine incompetence only in the context of financial matters. The regulation reads like this. Quote, rating agencies have Sole Authority to make an official determination of competence or incompetence for the purp
At the atlantic council. It is my pleasure to host all of you in our distinguished guest for our panel of conversation today. We pride ourselves on the relationships that we have built with russia independence and voices and Civil Society. We believe that it is our role as a non partisan organization working in a bipartisan way of washington and elsewhere and as our realizization that it is rooted for our friends and colleagues. Last year, we hosted many events that brought together washington, analyst thinkers and policymakers together with russians dependent voices. We also heard from boris daughter who spoke about her fathers assassination of the role of propaganda thats played and atmosphere of environment and hate in russia today. We are also regularly see and honored to host the event here. One of the most prominent independent thinkers of voices and russia today. This is not the first time that we have met our friends from medusa where we were speaking earlier that all of us rea
Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright took part in this conversation. This is just over an hour. Its great to be here. Thanks to the institute of peace. I think everybody here probably knows these panelists so im going to be very brief and you have them in your program as well. Well start with secretary Madeleine Albright who served under president bill clinton as secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 following four years as u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Shes the founder and chair of Albright Stonebridge group, a global strategy firm, and a professor of diplomacy at georgetown university. Admiral james staveredes, dean of the school of law and diplomacy at tufts university. He served as commander of southern and european commands and as nato Supreme Commander europe. Admiral staveredes is the chair of the board of directors of u. S. Naval institute. Frederick kemp, my fellow ute. Frederick kemp has served since 2007 as president and chief executive of the Atlantic Counc
Something based on Sustainable Farming and animal care. This is ultimately cheaper than anything you could buy. But i cannot tell you what im really eating or where it came from. Im not just talking about the sandwich. Lookn, what does food like, cage free, grass fed, and products behind the story . Think about it. Eating is a vital element for human survival. Aware of what be we are putting in our mouth . The question is what are we eating . Better yet, what lies are we being fed . Lets go behind the scenes to find out. First, we need to start out with where the chicken on our sandwich came from. Put to animals in a small pen and would have this essentially. Learned that there was a large over 7000, and 30,00090,000, and some there were well over 200,000. I cannot help but wonder, with animals inined to this space, how are they staying healthy equity answer is in a meiotic read we raise livestock without the use of antibiotics, and it would result in suffering, illness, and death of t