Objectivity. Welcome the like to cspan and public radio audiences. Follow the action on twitter npclunch. Introduce our to head table. I would ask each to stand briefly as your name is announced. From your right, kevin, a Committee Member for the vietnam war commemoration. Marcus, a documentary film maker. Washingtonppe, a correspondent for ganett. Secretary of the the air force and a member of the National Press club. Thomas burr, senior washington correspondent for the Salt Lake City tribune and the chairman of board of the National Press club. Jim michaels, military reporter for usa today. Bill ingram, director of the Army National guard. The podium. R donna, a reporter for usa today. The organizer of todays lunch on the Speakers Committee and the 2009 president of the National Press club. Skipping over the speaker momentarily, rachel oswald, a at National Journal news wire. Brigadier general james whitham. Mary french of army magazine. Chief Master Sergeant mitch enlisted advisor t
Supports our nonprofit operations. Cspan holid sale going on right now. Scan the code at the rht to start shopping now at a cspanshop. Org. Georgetown institute of politics and Public Service in washington dc. [applause] look at this. Welcome. I cant thank you enough for taking some of your evening to join us for this conversation. We were formed 7 years ago here on campus. One of the Biggest Challenges facing our democracy today is polarization. We want to put people from different perspectives together, to have hard conversations, sometimes to find Common Ground, oftentimes not, but to see if we can at least find common motivation to see if we have better understanding of different positions before we step on the field ourselves. Sometimes, you find Common Ground. Sometimes, it makes you a better advocate for your own side if you understand where the other side its coming from that side is coming from. I spent most of my career after georgetown as a knuckle brawler in the political a
Former Vice President mike pence talked about the direction of the conservative movement at the Georgetown Institute of politics and Public Service and washington, d. C. This. Welcome. I cant thank you enough for taking some of your evening to join us for this conversation. We were formed 7 years ago here on campus. One of the Biggest Challenges facing our democracy today is polarization. We want to put people from different perspectives together, to have hard conversations, sometimes to find Common Ground, oftentimes not, but to see if we can at least find common of the different positions before we stepped out onto the field ourselves. Sometimes you find Common Ground, but sometimes it makes you a better advocate for your own side if you can understand where the other side is coming from. From. I spent most of my career after georgetown as a knuckle brawler in the political arena on the democratic side. I wrote press releases attacking tonights speaker. [applause] the guy he beat for
Look at this. Welcome. I cant thank you enough for taking some of your evening to join us for this conversation. We were formed 7 years ago here on campus. One of the Biggest Challenges facing our democracy today is polarization. We want to put people from different perspectives together, to have hard conversations, sometimes to find Common Ground, oftentimes not, but to see if we can at least find common motivation to see if we have better understanding of different positions before we step on the field ourselves. Sometimes, you find Common Ground. Sometimes, it makes you a better advocate for your own side if you understand where the other side its coming from that side is coming from. I spent most of my career after georgetown as a knuckle brawler in the political arena on the democratic side. I wrote press releases attacking tonights speaker. [applause] the guy he beat for Vice President in 2016 officiated my wedding. But i was so excited when he accepted our invitation to come ton
Of the conservative movement at Georgetown University in washington dc. Look at this. Welcome, i cant thank you all enough for taking some of your evening to join us tonight for this conversation. I want to thank our partners at the Young Americans foundation for helping us with this together. For those of you who are new to the institute and new to politics, we are here on campus founded about 7. 5 years ago to do two things. Pull back the curtain on washington a little bit for all of you. Show you the good, bad and ugly how the system works by putting on the same people who run it. Number two, if you believe as i do that one of the Biggest Challenges is our democracy today and hyper polarization. We want to put people from different perspectives together to have the hard conversations. Sometimes to find Common Ground, oftentimes not but at least find common motivation to see if we can have a better understanding of the different positions before we step out onto the field ourselves.