Good morning, yall. Thank you for coming out to the perhaps most timely and serious and important of the sessions youll hear at the seventh Texas Tribune festival. By this i mean the deadly serious topic of President Trump and his views on professional athletes. [laughter] hold on. My bad. Im sorry. Trump and National Security. Evan was unclear when we spoke. I just checked twitter and thought im happy to say that this paneled board bid the lbj school of public afirefighters here at the university of texas. Thank you to dean evans for that sponsorship. Im dutybound to remind the audience our sponsors, we love them but they dont get to choose which what question is ask or what answers the panelists offer. We at that time caveat out of the way, let me tell you who i am. Your host and moderator, professor bobby chessny from ut austin. The cofounder of the nations leading source for online commentary from experts on National Security law issues and also cohost of the creatively named Natio
If we really believed and were going to live this record programmed to go live to the Heritage Foundation this afternoon. A quick reminder you can watch the rest of the Program Online on cspan. Org. This type center for strategic and budgetary assessment in the search bar. Live now to the Heritage Foundation for the future of the every Nuclear Agreement. This is cspan2. Will post a program in the heritage homepage following todays presentation as well. Leaving our discussion as jim phillips, Senior Research fellow for middle Eastern Affairs in douglas and Sarah Allison center for Foreign Policy studies. If the veteran foreignpolicy specialists who has written widely on the middle east and issues of International Terrorism since coming to the Heritage Foundation in 1979. He has authored dozens of papers on iran on its Nuclear Program, use of terrorism and testified before congress on Irans Nuclear program and other middle east security issues. Please join me in welcoming jim phillips. W
Item 4 approval of the minutes mr. Chairman a member of the public that wishes to address you patrick. Good afternoon. Good afternoon director nolan im patrick those minutes are met indicated that ms. Bloomer refused last meeting to distribute any turn out ive requested even though i see director ramos cringing his e e neck to see the handout on the overhead display the monitor. As i testified you cant have 2 millions bused stops the muni bus zones which the october analysis showed 2 pointed 7 messenger percent of the shuttles were blocking suggesting 32 thousand obviously the sheer blockage of the shuttle buses have an adverse impact on the vulnerable pedestrians but more troubling ms. Bloomer wrongly constituent my testimony at the end of these minutes not the body of minutes where they belong Sunshine Task force xhuvent rules the testimony belongs in the body of the minutes not at the end and sunshine section 67 dot 16 states written testimony shall if more than one and 50 words be
Add the sunshine ordnance has made comments to that effect in the board agrees to move the section that will be fine. A i. I. The is have it. Ladies and gentlemen, were going to move the agenda around and go to immediately to item 11 and back to the Court Reporting directors report so actually mr. Chairman before we move on im required to announce agenda no closed session that communication having been directed to call item lovingly immediately item 11 is supporting the revisions to the Pilot Program limiting it to one year requiring a 6 month and cap the loading sown eurozone for more efficient zoning and this monitoring the air quality at the individual locates and a study on the possible impacts of the commuter shuts off and others factors on the displacement directors staff has asked the board to consider an amendment to the resolution it is the resolve clause that states resolve that the director of transportation will commission a study on the shuttle and others displacement they
Warren buffett says it is obscuring the greatness. It is an Election Year and candidates cant stop speaking about the countrys problem which only they can solve. As a result of the negative drum beat Many Americans believe their children will not live as well as they do. Thats dead wrong. Those born today are the luckiest crop in history. At least in terms of your weekend reading time it goes deep into politics. Surprising for me. Again, quoting him about the Current Business environment, whats unique in this cycle is the difficult relationship between business and government. The worst i have ever seen, end quote. Wow. He goes on to write Technology Productivity and globalization have been driving forces during in business if you dont lead these changes you get fired. In politics if you dont fight them you cant get elected. Immelt says most government policile is antigrowth, end quote. These perpetual roadblocks perpetuate a cycle of slow growth, poor job creation, populism, low produ