Listen on the free cspan radio app. Now, utah republican senator mitt romney takes part in a Georgetown University ritual conversation on American Leadership during times of crisis, specifically the coronavirus pandemic. He criticizes the governments initial response to the pandemic, saying he thought the world was surprised at the u. S. Efforts. From earlier this week, this is over one hour. Good evening and thank you for joining tonights virtual form hosted by the to do politics and public services, commonly referred to as geopolitics. The school ofin Public Policy and the school of business. At georgetown, ive had the opportunity to attend many geopolitics fellow discussions and events. Im also part of a team launching a new student organization, the mcchord refugee and policy organization. Our guest tonight, senator mitt romney. It is a tremendous honor to introduce him. Shipg up, growing up or saved his leadership saves dealer picks and helped the economy of my state. Republicanth
How are you guys . Good. Its a three day weekend and no rain. A beautiful view over San Francisco this morning with partly sunny and cloudy conditions. We are starting out with the little bit of fog in the north bay valley locations reporting low visibility and temperatures this morning a few degrees warmer than where we started yesterday and in any case a cool start with temperatures in the 30s and 40s and for the afternoon slightly warmer and are partly cloudy skies mid to upper 50s expected for the bay area. When i come back a look at whats going on currently as well as your afternoon highs in the rest of the weekend including the extended forecast. Happening today, San Francisco International Airport begins to screen passengers coming from china for a new and deadly virus. Sfo is one of three airports during Health Checks. Elissa harrington his life for us at the International Terminal at sfo this morning. The reason they are doing Health Checks is because it is one of the airports
Georgetown university hosted this 90 minute event. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of our partnership with the night First Amendment institute of columbia. Startedus have projects by the Knight Foundation and now have other supporters as well. I want to pick up with the notion of the marketplace of ideas. I think that is what a lot of people think the internet was going to be, some people of believe it really is. Kara do you believe socialmedia is performing effectively as the market place of ideas . Kara no, i dont, all i read about is how it doesnt. It is a cesspool. Sanford i sort of knew what your answer would he. Kara it is not completely a cesspool, it is just the way it has evolved has created dust she brought up the idea of the Public Square present everybody thinks that twitter is a Public Square, or facebook is a Public Square, or reddit, or any of these sites. The fact of the matter is that both of them are Public Squares owned and to the benefit of millionaires. So
Notion of the marketplace of ideas. I think that is what a lot of people think the internet was going to be, some people of believe it really is. Kara do you believe socialmedia is performing effectively as the market place of ideas . I want to pick up with the notion of the marketplace of ideas. I think that is what a lot of people think the internet was going to be, some people of believe it really is. Kara do you believe socialmedia is performing effectively as the market place of ideas . Kara no, i dont, all i read about is how it doesnt. Has evolved has created dust she brought up the idea of the Public Square present everybody thinks that twitter is a Public Square, or facebook is a Public Square, or reddit, or any of these sites. The fact of the matter is that both of them are Public Squares owned and to the benefit of millionaires. So it is not a Public Squares. We have deemed them the rights of a Public Square but they arent taking the responsibilities of any public space. The
Not be more proud to be hosting this symposium. Before we begin the next much has been said about our former president and to decision to come georgetown, to enter the school of Foreign Service, the only school he applied to as a high school student, in part because he wanted to expand his horizons and get a more global view. Have a conversation about his global vision, we thought it would be fun for a few minutes to reflect on bill clinton and his time at georgetown. Enjoy this walk down memory lane. We will continue the conversation afterward. Clip] we were just on the verge of the movement for racial equality. 2000 people have gathered at the nations capital. There was a lot of political and cultural movement. We were involved. It was an intellectually fascinating time. You have the deep fissures that began to emerge with the vietnam war, the civil rights movement. To be a student in washington, d. C. At that time left you with the notion that youve got to do something. Torched on i