Trump saw the quarter in the air, he said hey, thats how much i paid in taxes last year, and it went downhill from there. Because of the pandemic, theres no opening hand shake, no physical contact. The candidates remained socially distant. It was like date night with melania. Biden faced an unusual challenge. How do you diebate a pathologicl liar. Its like debating a parrot. The parrots going to repeat the same things and then take a dump on the New York Times. Their views on the integrity of the election, biden is for it, trump is against. It was a good debate. The candidates had a product thproducttive giveandtake, no, it was terrible. Id call it a nightmare, but at some point during a nightmare you get some sleep is. We were talking about whether to move to vancouver or montreal. If you missed the debate tonight, basically did went like this. Vote now. Make sure you in fact let people know. He doesnt want to answer the question. Im not going to answer the question, because why would
Includes nighthawks, doctor kings refrigerator, dreamer, facing a good thing and Middle Passage for which he won the National Book award in 25 years ago now. 1990. Wow. In 2002 he received the arthur letters award in literature from the American Academy of arts and letters. In the format tonight will beam remarks by Clifford Thompson and a conversation by doctor johnson and mr. Thompson and then we have time for your questions. Without further ado, help me welcome Clifford Thompson. [applause] thank you, thank you all for coming. And thanks to the library for hosting this, its great to appear with doctor johnson. I thought what i would do is read the first few pages of the introduction to my book what it is and then lay out the way the rest of the book is set up. Put on my old man specs so i can see. This is from the introduction. I am a black man, brooklynbased, 54 years old as i write this, for many years as i can remember there has been at the core of my being making me who i am or
Without further ado im going to introduce these folks who you all probably already know. To my left is the founder of mb long and associate an International Legal and Advisory Firm from 200709 she served as the first woman confirmed by the senate as assistant secretary of defense for International Affairs and the chair of nate es high level groups. She has previously served as the Principal Deputy secretary of defense, and she was the deputy secretary of defense for counter narco. Next we have michael durand, a senior fellow here at Hudson Institute. He specializes in middle east Security Issues and during the administration of president george w. Bush he served as senior director in the National Security council. To the left is retired Brigadier General mark kimmet of the u. S. Army, served as secretary of state for Political Military Affairs 0809 and prior to that, the deputy secretary of defense 20062008 and last but not least, a fellow here at Hudson Institute as well. His Research
U. S. Troops. This comes to us from the Hudson Institute in washington d. C. Live coverage this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Can everybody hear me . Ok. My name is ali rogin im with the pbs news hour covering Foreign Affairs and as a journalist, i want to say im grateful to the Hudson Institute for convening this panel to discuss what is a rapidly developing, as we all know, situation on the syrianTurkish Border. Without further ado im going to introduce thfoo yo all probably already know. To my left is the founder of mb long and associate an International Legal and Advisory Firm from 20072009 she served as the first woman confirmed by the senate as assistant secretary of defense for International Affairs and the chair of nate es high level groups. She has previously served as the Principal Deputy secretary of defense, and she was the deputy secretary of defense for counter narco. Next we have michael durand, a senior fellow here at Hudson Institute. He
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Good morning. Can everybody hear me . Ok. My name is ali rogin. Im with the pbs news hour covering Foreign Affairs and as a journalist, i want to say im grateful to the Hudson Institute for convening this panel to discuss what is a rapidly developing, as we all know, situation on the syrianTurkish Border. Without further ado im going to introduce these folks who you all probably already know. To my left is the founder of mb long and associate an International Legal and Advisory Firm from 20072009 she served as the first woman confirmed by the senate as assistant secretary of defense for International Affairs and the chair of natos high level groups. She has previously served as the Principal Deputy secretary of defense, and she was the deputy secretary of defense for counter narco. Next, we have michael durand, a senior fellow here at Hudson Institute. He specializes in middle east Security Issues and during the administration of president george