Earlier this month, former president jimmy carter in vermont senator, Bernie Sanders talked about human rights. Also American Leadership in the world and the trump administration. Hosted by the Carter Center, this is just under one hour. Maybe this is our nations great transition. We are living in a difficult time as we have been hearing that the less three days. They from all over the world we have human rights activists from 31 countries in every region that have come together to consult and say what do we do in these difficult times . , we breathe and push Forward Together . It is our honor and privilege to have with us tonight two of americas most admired leaders. [applause] their conversations about how te withstand for human rights of the world. How does america, as imperfect as it is when it comes to human rights, bring back human rightsa to the centerpiece of our lives . I would like to start with you, president carter question. If you could summarize what you have heard today,
Good afternoon, everyone. My name is jennifer, im a curator here in the Smithsonians National air and space museum, and i want to welcome all of you and send a quick thank you to our sponsor boeing. Im hoping all of you are excited as i am. As somebody who watches a lot of things on its about space, Jeffrey Kluger is a familiar face to me, certainly. He is the editor at large for Time Magazine, and hes also a local. Hes also the author of multiple books on topics on everything from narcissism to polio to siblings. Notably for today, at least in the context of this museum, hes the author of two books that well bring up, i think, other the course of this time. First, lost moon which he published in 1994 which is the story of apollo 13, of course, the inspiration for that movie. And today hell be not only talking about his new book, but also signing the book afterwards just outside the gallery if youre so interested. The book is apollo 8 the thrilling story of the First Mission to the moo
Want to recognize the members here now. Peter roskam from illinois. Erik paulsen from minnesota. Did i say that right . Minnesota . And tom reed from new york. With that, i will yield five minutes to the gentleman from the state up north from ohio, mr. Levin. Youre still bitter about some of the back and forth between our two states. Judy chu and ron kind. Earl was here part of the time. So dr. Miller, welcome. As i read your report, your testimony and also the executive summary, i was just struck by the thoroughness of the work you do. A lot of the issues are controversial. I remember when we first talked about controlling payments to physicians. And the heck that we received and how much controversy there was. And you thought the sky was falling and it would never work out for physicians. And i mention that because i really think your report, and it has areas where there are differences of opinion your report shows how successful this has been, this program that is in some respects a
Want to recognize the members here now. Peter roskam from illinois. Erik paulsen from minnesota. Did i say that right . Minnesota . And tom reed from new york. With that, i will yield five minutes to the gentleman from the state up north from ohio, mr. Levin. Youre still bitter about some of the back and forth between our two states. Judy chu and ron kind. Earl was here part of the time. So dr. Miller, welcome. As i read your report, your testimony and also the executive summary, i was just struck by the thoroughness of the work you do. A lot of the issues are controversial. I remember when we first talked about controlling payments to physicians. And the heck that we received and how much controversy there was. And you thought the sky was falling and it would never work out for physicians. And i mention that because i really think your report, and it has areas where there are differences of opinion your report shows how successful this has been, this program that is in some respects a
In this event. I was going to add a special welcome to be here today. Michael who is the under secretary for defense policy. As some of you may know its great to see him back in town. So im going to say a few words before we let our experts loose. I want to say why this is important and why we are doing this. This is a big summer of exercises in europe. Nato will conduct a number of exercises as well. This is in response to russia that continues to be assertive in and around europe as well. It includes with military power. A recuring is a special interest to security community. You can tell us about growing capabilitie capabilities. It has given us clues to russias ability to rapidly mobilizing and integrating ground air and sea power. It has also given us a wind about the use of key capabilities including the yaus of Ballistic Missiles and nuclear weapons. This is important not only for us here in washington but also nato and other allied capitals for us to all keep an eye on. This pr