Jennet conant who was the granddaughter of administrative tractor the Manhattan Project and one of our nations leading scientists of the 20th century century pages the author of New York Times bestseller the regulars and tuxedo park a wall street tycoon and the secret palace of science that changed the course of world war ii. She will be speaking tonight about her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us jennet. Said thank you. I also want to thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. Alas its virtually but im going to do my best. My first doom presentation so they are with me everyone. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking right now should have had a lot of wine but anyway here we go. Im going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. He once observed manic case only stumble across the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happene
John the program is entitled the origins of the militaryindustrial complex and features dr. Daniel ellis, who is this years staff fellow, a prestigious position. He has been using items to investigate the origins of the militaryindustrial complex through wartime and immediate postwar, meaning postworld war ii, evolution between Scientific Research, industry and National Defense. Dan has advised congress on defense issues. I was a colleague of his at crs for several years. Dan did things in connection with things i knew, a whole range of things, defense production act, appropriations, military construction, and he does many more things at crs. He holds a phd in Political Science from George Washington university. And at crs, as many of you know, he is the author of many reports on defense, trade and security. , this project is the latest example of the work undertaken by staff fellows showcasing their knowledge and passion of their areas of expertise. This is funded by a gift left by th
I would like to thank you all for joining us for tonights tribute to Justice Ginsburg. These past few days have been painful and hard, and i, like you, have been heartbroken. Justice ginsburg was a giant in the law, a champion of justice ad equality, and she was also treasured member of the Georgetown Law Community for many years, beginning with her husband martys joining the faculty. She was remarkably generous with her time. I will never forget walking into on so many occasions. Every year she spoke to our first year class. Walking with her out onto the stage, looking out at hundreds of students, many of them wearing notorious rbg tshirts and seeing their faces light up and uploading ecstatically as , eventered the room though her Security Team always told us that she would leave right after her talk, she always stayed to talk to students and since friday, i have received so many photos from our students of the selfies they took with her. Notes about what a wonderful memory it was. I
Tweets. Next, white house chief of staff mark meadows sits down for a conversation with tony perkins, president of the Family Research council as part of the 2020 values voter summit. This is 20 minutes. You were in some of those early value voter meetings. Attended and i had like many of the people tuned in tonight, literally are activists wanting to make sure that their values are heard at washington, d. C. Aboutr us, it was more making sure we were not silent, and so 15 years seems like just yesterday, but there is probably no more impactful gathering of conservative christian values that we get to hear, whether it is in the administration or capitol hill. You get a lot of energy, a lot of headlines, and a lot of press. I remember having a conversation with you after one of those gatherings. That you areing being led more directly into the arena, and not long after that, you were elected to congress. Know, it was not the thing that i ever had on my bucket list. I never wanted to be
Pelosi helping a little bit. She was sounding a little more optimistic on stimulus in the united states, the s p trading down by 0. 9 . Tech is underperforming a little bit, but we saw a lot of call buying yesterday. The pound is recently is reasonably well bid. Big day tomorrow, as Boris Johnson speaks to ursula von der leyen. We are expecting a u. K. Briefing after the eu briefing this afternoon. Crude off of its earlier lows. Now down only 4 . Alix part of that may be, as nancy pelosi speaking earlier, says the trump diagnosis changes the dynamic in the stimulus talk. Stephanie kelly joins us from Aberdeen Standard Life investments, their senior political economist. How does it change the dynamic in stimulus talks . Stephanie it is kind of tricky because if you look at the nature of these negotiations, it hasnt is been republicans debating with the democrats. It is much more around President Trumps desire to get fiscal stimulus, and certainly in light , this diagnosis could shift th