Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome alix fraser, the honorable richard gephardt, farrow candace, eli frazier, anatole and nicole tisdale. [applause] just waiting on one more here. Mic challenges. While were waiting, its a pleasure to be with you, audience, but for me personally, its a true privilege to be with this panel, an Incredible Group of people, many of whom i get to work with on a regular basis on the council for responsible social media. As ive sat here these last few days and listened to these conversations and grappled with the core of what were trying to do and understand, ive come to one central question, can our democracy survive if something isnt changed in our information environment . And of course at the core of that is social media, which is what were here to talk about today, technology. And its become the dominant form of communication. Its becoming the predominant way in which people get their information and news, particularly for young people. And what has this
Foundation and Institute Center on civility in democracy. In america today, the very fabric of our nation is being torn apart. We have never felt more divided. And we are too fixated on our differences. Hes black, hes white. He grew up in the city, and hes a farm boy from utah. Hes a democrat, and hes a republican. On paper, we could not be more different. And yet we are both dads. We both love college basketball. We both have really stylish haircuts. And we are both proud americans. We disagree passionately on lots of issues. But we are friends. And we respect each other. Politics is important. But it should not define us or destroy our relationships. His name is spencer cox. And his name is wes moore. And we approve this message. Please welcome to the stage, chairman of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute, mr. Fred ryan. [applause] mr. Ryan good morning. Welcome to the reagan institute. We are delighted today to be joined by governor cox
In America Today the fabric of our nation would never felt more divided. And we are too fixated on our differences. Hes black, hes white. He grew up in the city, and hes a farm boy from utah. Hes a democrat, and hes a republican. On paper, we could not be more different. And yet we are both dads. We both love college basketball. We both have really stylish haircuts. And we are both proud americans. We disagree passionately on lots of issues. But we are friends. And we respect each other. Politics is important. But it should not define us or destroy our relationships. His name is spencer cox. And his name is wes moore. And we approve this message. Please welcome to the stage, chairman of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute, mr. Fred ryan. [applause] mr. Ryan good morning. Welcome to the reagan institute. We are delighted today to be joined by governor cox and first lady abby cox. Thank you for joining us this morning. Each year the chair of
Ill see you back here next saturday at 8 00 a. M. Eastern summer cottage starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas on Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stopped short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the state Department Said investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information this followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if israel were to carry out an allout offensive in that city, the increased Military Operation in rafah has put ceasefire for Hostage Talks on pause to us officials told cnn all of this follows a Turning Point in us, israel relations this we
Internationally were creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. Ill be sure to tune in next saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for that champions for change, onehour special and thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a Whitfield Smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the State Department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. This followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if isra