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this is about two hours. good evening and welcome to our program, and perfect union: has america lost its moral center? my name is david gibson. i am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. we are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at c-span at this event tonight. so look sharp. try to behave. cell phones on mute. but do feel free to tweet the event as you like. maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems he s more involved another matters. we began to conceive of this program shortly after mr. trump was elected last november on the famous campaign slogan make america great again. and of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we were betting in the course of one year he would not in fact have achieved his goal, an achievement that would have made this evening s disc
caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] \ next a discussion about morality and the united states. mediahe focus on the news and voter decision-making. this is two hours. good evening and welcome to our program, and perfect union: has america lost its moral center? my name is david gibson. i am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. we are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at c-span at this event tonight. so look sharp. try to behave. cell phones on mute. but do feel free to tweet the event as you like. maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems he s more involved another matters. we began to conceive of this program shortly after mr. trump was elected last november on the famous campaign slogan make america great again. and of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this progra
at the carnegie endowment for international peace in our asia program. welcome to our event called weighing bad options. past diplomacy with north korea and alliance options today. the significant interest we see in today s event, of course, is attributable to the quality and reputation of our speakers and our panelists. it is also a topic that is foremost in the minds of policymakers in embassies in washington. what kinds of realistic diplomatic options do we have to prevent a nuclear catastrophe with north korea and how do we evaluate these options. today as japanese citizens unfortunately grow accustomed to missile warning sirens and text messages. it s worth remembering that a decade ago this month the second phase actions and the six-party talks were jointly decided for implementing north korean denuclearization in exchange for diplomatic normalization and economic cooperation. this included dismantlement or disablement of north korean nuclear facilities, among other ste
sec. tillerson: well, our my view, and i think it is the collective view within the u.s. government as well, is, as china has risen over the last 20-plus years now to take its rightful place as an economic power in the world, moving hundreds of millions of their people out of poverty into middleclass status, india, too, has been rising. and i commented on this again in the remarks. and as we watch how these two very large nations are taking their rightful place in the global economy, they ve gone about it in different ways. and i touched on that. and i think that s why the u.s. now sees this as an important point in thinking about the next century of our relationships. we re going to have important relationships with china. we ll never have the same relationship with china, a non-democratic society, that we can have with a major democracy. so i think what has evolved, and i would have to let the indian government speak for themselves, but i think as india has gone through p