Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the center. [applause] i am Jeffrey Rosen the president of this institution. This is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [cheering] cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is only institution in america, chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. That was very well done. [applause] i was thrilled to my friends and colleagues susan who is head of cspan came just a few months ago and said we have a great new book on the president , lets launch at the Constitution Center. Were here to do it and its an honor to welcome back the great founder of cspan brian lamb. Americas
Anything yet. We do a lot here at the Historical Society. We provide great programs. Educational workshops. We run National History day in massachusetts. We convene academic seminars and mount exhibitions been but more than anything, what we do is hold an amazing collection of almost 14 million items. We provided to historians and researchers for free. In our holdings, we have the equivalent of 2 and a half president ial libraries. We have the papers of john adams, John Quincy Adams and the personal papers of Thomas Jefferson. Thats important to mention because we have a very special program that has a very special connection. Tonight, we will hear about the publication, the president s and which noted historians rank them on a variety of categories. And if theres anything we like talking about more than president s, its historians talking about president s. So this is on brand for us. As we do with most of our public programs, we have pulled together a small display in the room with t
Local spending from exploration of production dropped by a whopping 10 6 in twirch and is increased by 22 this year. Altogether this amounts to more than 300 billion dollars in lost investment to this industry. Yesterday, [inaudible] some of the focus was reporting high in numbers. Especially between 2015 through 2020. Recently in new deli we have figures rarng between 1 trillion are to 2 trillion are within this period. This track is not to continue in unprecedented in the history of the oil industry. We have never had this in investment for three consecutive years in our history. This is a frightening situation when you consider that it must be according to our oil outlook and must have 10 trillion in Oil Related Investment is required n to to meet future oil demand and the industry must not be able to emit this level of investment. These factors are the reasons decided it was time to take action and that action were there for the industry. And let me say also for the first time, we
Plans to remember that event today. On this anniversary, a debate about gun violence and what to do about it. Were interested in hearing from you. How to best reduce acts of gun violence. If you are a gun owner. If you do not own a gun, 2027488001. If you want to put your thoughts on how the best way to reduce gun violence can occur, you can put those thoughts on facebook and twitter. Patch talks about the remembrances that will take place in sandy hook today. It has been for years since the gunman took the lives of those 20 innocent children. Four years. Today, the town will hold a somber, silent reminder for 15 minutes, the time the shootings took place. The superintendent said that the will bees of silence for Department Staff and the schools themselves. Abc news looks at the efforts made by the Obama Administration since that shooting at sandy hook. Mr. Obama has made little federal progress towards what he repeatedly described as common law. The outgoing president has knowledge on
If not by phone, you can weigh in via social media. Again this was an interview with npr airing this morning and was posted last night at their website. Here is the headline us that theminds u. S. Intelligence officials concluded that hackers working for russia packed into the dean sees Computer Network the d cs Computer Network. With the question of russias ultimate motivation for the hack becoming increasingly divisive, the president was careful not to endorse the cia assessment reported by npr and other outlets that assessed russias goal was to electronic. To elect trump. Well get to it in a couple of minutes. We will move on and talk about some of the other reporting. Here is the New York Times headline. So, with all of that, we will hear from the president now. I think there is no doubt that when any Foreign Government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publ