Good morning i am jane harmon. President and ceo of the Wilson Center. Happy to be speaking to a packed crowd and to welcome secretary Rex Tillerson back to the Wilson Center. As you know mr. Secretary, the Wilson Center has a tradition of honoring business and political leaders who follow our 20th president s victim, that would be woodrow wilson. To quote enable the world, live with greater vision, a finer spirit of hope and achievement. The Center Honors you in 2010. And you wanted us by attending our event in dallas in 2014 where richard fisher, outgoing chairman of the received our Public Service award. You and i said together. We are delighted to welcome you back this morning to talk about the future of us relations with europe and to take some questions from me and some of you in the audience. Since we only have 50 minutes of your time, those here today submitted questions on arrival and we elected a few at random which i will put to secretary. Your predecessors and most recently
For several afterwards. A conversational and u. S. Criminal justice mass incarceration rehabilitation programs and recommendations for reform. Speakers included former convict whos now an attorney from the Georgetown University professor who is the author of the book unusually cool which compares the criminal Justice System with other countries. This event was hosted by new america. Good afternoon, everyone. I am the executive Vice President at new america. Welcome to new america for those of you that are here for the first time. I am delighted that we are having a very important conversation this afternoon about punishment in the u. S. For those of you that may be unfamiliar with that particular criminal Justice System, you learn quickly i think the criminal Justice System is criminal in some of the ways that the place justice. We add new america are working even though our society has left if i change we are working for thriving families, individuals and communities to have the time,
I am the executive Vice President at new america. Welcome to new america for those of you that are here for the first time. I am delighted that we are having a very important conversation this afternoon about punishment in the u. S. For those of you that may be unfamiliar with that particular criminal Justice System, you learn quickly i think the criminal Justice System is criminal in some of the ways that the place justice. We add new america are working even though our society has left if i change we are working for thriving families, individuals and communities to have the time, stability and opportunity necessary to plead productive lives. We need highquality education for all. We work for equal representation and politics and we do that by telling stories about what is happening and what is possible and by generating big and bold ideas to solutions but i think that you will see that today. The criminal Justice System is in dire need of change. It was originally intended to be used
I am the executive Vice President at new america. Welcome to new america for those of you that are here for the first time. I am delighted that we are having a very important conversation this afternoon about punishment in the u. S. For those of you that may be unfamiliar with that particular criminal Justice System, you learn quickly i think the criminal Justice System is criminal in some of the ways that the place justice. We add new america are working even though our society has left if i change we are working for thriving families, individuals and communities to have the time, stability and opportunity necessary to plead productive lives. We need highquality education for all. We work for equal representation and politics and we do that by telling stories about what is happening and what is possible and by generating big and bold ideas to solutions but i think that you will see that today. The criminal Justice System is in dire need of change. It was originally intended to be used
[ is distinct conversations ]. And live here this morning on c spann span 3, a discussion about transparency and oversight at the food and Drug Administration. Well be hearing from dr. Scott gottlieb starting off the conference. Introductions under way. Efforts to pass and implement the food safety modernization act, focus on medical devices, especially the potential of using the unique device identifier to improve monitoring devices throughout the product lifecycle. We have successfully worked on products 10 to courage innovation particularly around antibiotics and 10 to sure appropriate use of them. We focused on drug safety and transparency in the supply chain and especially on the safety of compounded drugs. Among other things, pew submitted transparency to the task force back in 2010 if the. They touch on some of the topics well be discussing today. Reading the background papers for todays meet regular mind med of a meeting we convened in a room directly above of us here a few yea