In common . Guest beater, its always great to be with you. What, donald trump and Winston Churchill have a lot in common. Now on first blush when you look at both when you would think that to be the case. One was 56 and left a drink, the other is a 63 teetotaler. One famously nap in his pajamas almost every afternoon. The other would appear barely sleeps. One begin their career by introducing harris, the other by opposing them. One was this great, soaring, compelling or door. The other a rather crude but very effective tweeter, nonetheless. So on the surface they seem to be profoundly different, but heater, soon as you start to drill deeper as it did in my book trump and churchill, you find that the men had remarkable similarities. Both love their country. Both plain speakers in clear thinkers. Both alpha males. Both had an acrimonious relationship with the media. Both endured massive battles with the establishment in their own Political Party. Both had predecessors that were considere
Thats a word for the in crowd to show their part of thesmart crowd. Brother robbie and i we dont believe in smartness in this isolation, we believe that wisdom in its deepest level and the smartness is tied to richness with no acumen to donald trump who believes hes the smartest and richest in the room, its a sign of his spiritualvacuum he and emptiness that hes a symptom of a society that has idolized smartness and richness. We wont even talk about obama, obama dropped 172,000 bombs his last year, he got the Nobel Peace Prize ties twice as many drone strikes. He got 506 he won the Nobel Peace Prize so what happens is this practical hide what your substance is when it comes to morality and spirituality. This is what breaks through ideology, not just rightwing leftwing cynicism. This substance is always deeper than any political ideology so what im trying to say in this introduction is we are in catastrophic times. Ideological catastrophe, nuclear catastrophe, war catastrophe of the fil
Into the and i demonic young dictate dictator could not be more timely. The book provides insight into who kim jong un is, what makes him tick and what to tell up at night. The book has earned wide praise from among the leading thinkers and former policy practitionersdealing with north korean issues and were fortunate that they will for the next hour with us down what we need to know about how north korea operates , who jung pak who kim jong un is and what is going on in north korea so welcome them to this conversation. They both areformer intelligence analysts who represent the best of their previous professions. They each were tremendous colleagues while in government and they are tremendous friends now. In addition to being deeply informed , kind and deadly smart, they are also a ton of fun so before i turn it over to jung and sue, we are collecting many questions from members of the audience and welcome you to send more. Do so by sending an email to events at brookings. Edu or via
You to our event with the assistant secretary of defense for into security affairs. We have been fortunate to engage him on several aspects of our policy research over the past decade and while he is serving in the Administration Since 2017 and randy thank you for your service to our country an Important Role you play in the administration. Randall shriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense i President Donald Trump on january 82018 previously having served as Deputy Assistant secretary for Pacific Affairs under which portfolio he covered china taiwan hong kong and australia all the easy stuff. Earlier he held the role of chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state from 2,122,003 and served as an activeduty nato Intelligence Officer deployed in operation Desert Shield and desert storm. Beyond his government career randy has been a leading thinker on wings of issues in u. S. China relationships over two decades and a robust voice on the future of that relationship asking
this rain in eastern areas will slowly tend to peter out and we will get some sunshine coming through and we could generate some showers all the way through yorkshire to the west midlands and into the west country. there will be some warm sunshine for many parts of the country and temperatures on the whole very similar to what we had today, but it may well be a bit warmer in scotland particularly in the east because we will see more sunshine. this area of low pressure is storm nino and it could bring more rain into italy and perhaps more rain into italy and perhaps more flooding, dominated by high pressure although there is this stripe of cloud in from the atlantic. i think on saturday looks quite cloudy for much of scotland and northern ireland, not much rain at all and most of the cloud quite thin and high. more on the way of sunshine for england and wales, that a fair weather cloud, one in the sunshine, temperatures 20 or 21, holding at 16 or 17 for scotland and northern i