She is the senior attorney with the group defenders of wildlife on this earth day, talking conservation efforts. Guest thank you for having me. Host how would you describe your group . Guest defenders of wildlife is a nonprofit organization. Our mission is to conserve native animals and plants in their native habitats, so we are laser focused on protecting biodiversity. Host what does biodiversity mean . Guest biodiversity means the amazing range and number of species we have on this planet. We are in a situation where we are losing species faster than we can even describe them. So, absolutely, we need to protect all the precious parts of our ecosystem in order to thrive as one species on a healthy planet. Host we hear a lot of species, their engagement, but is a particular one people may not know about that you would highlight . Guest i would like to bring up the north Atlantic White whale, a species of whale that is only found in the waters of the United States and canada. We are few
Okay. Thank you, everyone. Good afternoon. Welcome to everyone here as well as our audience online. For those online, welcome to the eighth csis Strategic Forum on korea. Am my name is victor cha, Senior Vice President for asia and korea chair at csis, a professor at georgetown. And it is indeed my distinct privilege to introduce our keynote speaker, senator chris van hollen. Senator vann. Hollen was elected to the u. S. Senate representing the great state of maryland in november 2016. He previously served in the house of representatives representing marylands eighth congressional district. He truly serves as chairman of the Senate Foreign relations subcommittee on east asia, the pacific, and International Cybersecurity policy. Senator van hollen has been a tireless advocate of a strong u. S. Korea alliance initial on theni korea caucus. Innocent he is cosponsored important legislation condemning north korean human rights abuses and imposing sanctions and banking restrictions on north
Candidate forum. This is your voice, your future. Good evening and welcome to your voice, your future, maryland u. S. Senate Candidate Forum. In preparing this forum, both campaigns are good to know opening statements. The debate topics include the economy, the budget, foreign affairs, crime and, Law Enforcement education at reproductive rights. All questions are directed to both candidates they have one minute to answer 30 seconds for rebuttals. A quick test to determine who gets the first question and who goes first in closing statements. You can see the coin flip on foxbaltimore. Com. Joining me my colleague at fox 45, mackenzie frost, the baltimore sun, jeff burger, and the university of baltimore schaefer centers dean. They are the panel will ask the questions this evening. Allow me to introduce the candidates. Prince georges county executive angela alsobrooks, and congressman from the Fifth District of maryland, david truman. Thank you both for being here. Wonderful. Candidates,
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c
Then we would understand the burden we p put on the backs of small businesses. A couple things you would see in my bill not our plan is immediate expensing that accelerates the path of more Resources Available immediately for small businesses. The secondo say thing you would do is cut taxes. We did that in 2017. 2017. In 2017 that was one01 of the three wee believe this at the point and you can watch it in full cspan. Org. We take you live now to a forum looking at the use Korea Alliance. It is being hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies you will hear from secretary of state Antony Blinken and maryland senator chris van hollen. You are watching live coverage on cspan2. The cree Foundation Fred kempe is here dash that weve had this conference and its always been for me to highlight and is always been very important probably never as important as it is this year when you think that everything that is going on. Weve got, well, we dont really know whats going on in c