Introduce and moderate second panel. Let me begin by introducing myself briefly. My name is bill galston. Am a senior fellow here at brookings and delighted to be a small cog in the institution. People,o introduce two bell, for working tirelessly to bring about, and also, our president , john allen, for letting his vast experience and moral authority to our enterprise this morning, and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Introduce the question this way. Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard, and i think we will hear three different kinds of answers to that question, and it is useful to keep them separate. The first have to do with service as an avenue of personal growth, the expansion, the deepening of character. Actualond has to do with good done for others, service and the roof cents. Sense. He root wheree third, and this is the work of John Richland and bridgeland and john dilulio begins, what are t
Officials talk about efforts to prosecute hate crimes. This is one hour 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, a monarch introduce our next speaker, United States special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, elan carr. Special envoy car advises the secretary of state and is responsible for directing u. S. Policies and programs aimed at countering antisemitism all across the world. Special envoy car has served as a special District Attorney in los angeles as an offers in the u. S. Reserve, as an International President of the jewish vote early alpha epsilon phi, and on the National Council of the american israel of luck affairs committee. Special envoy carr is also the proud son of iraqis jewish parents who fled persecution in iraq. Please join in extending a warm welcome to special envoy carr. [applause] welcome thank you so much. What a pleasure it is to see not only great friends in the room but to partners in our mutual and most urgent struggle. I want to b
Importance for this group because you just called for the impeachment of donald trump. [cheers and applause] i read the Mueller Report debate came up. I went into the afternoon and into the night and into the next morning. When i got to the end, i did not stick my finger in the air and ask about politics. I did not hesitate. I read it. I knew what it said and i concluded, first, that this is a man who is broken the law, and you should be impeached. And i said so on that very day. [applause] i come to you at a moment of great crisis insa this country,a crisis at the time when americans working better and better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top, while it leaves everyone else behind. The central question of my life work has been, whats happening to working families in america . Why is the road getting so much rockier and so much steeper . And for families of color, even rockier and even steeper . And answer is, its no accident. Race lies right at the heart of this iss
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