Derek chauvin, the fired Minneapolis Police officer accused of killing george floyd. Prosecutors also charging three other former Police Officers with aiding and abetting in seconddegree murder. Radical dem Minnesota Attorney general keith ellison, who is now overseeing the floyd case, thanked americans for their, as he put it, patience as they awaited these new charges. Heres ellison announcing the charges just a few moments ago. This is going to take months, and i dont know how many, but it is better to make sure that we have a solid case, fully investigated, researched before we go to trial than to rush it. We dont and so it will take a while, and i cant set a deadline on that. Lou the charges ellison brought today were not unexpected, and the video taken of the brutallal act will obviously be central to the prosecutions case. Central to all of the mayhem and violence over the past week, the past week and a half, and its been driven in part by ugly ideological forces and powerful pa
The korean and vietnam wars and argues that covert participation helps to keep wars contained. The Woodrow Wilson Center Hosted this onehour event. Its a great pleasure today to welcome back austin carson. He also has the distinction of being a title a stetitle a scholar. He is just written a new book, secret wars covert conflict in international politics. It will be available for purchase after todays talk. Dr. Carson is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of chicago. He has published widely already. He is published in the journal of politics and security studies. He has launched on his second book project already. It analyzes the role of Sensitive Information and secrecy and international organizations. He received his phd from ohio state in 2013. As i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title a program here at the institute in 22 2013. With that, i will turn the floor over to austin. Thank you. Thanks also to a
He has just written a new book, secret wars covert conflict in international politics. It will be available for purchase after todays talk. Dr. Carson is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of chicago. He has published widely already. He is published in the journal of politics and security studies. He has launched on his second book project already. It analyzes the role of Sensitive Information and secrecy in international organizations. He received his phd from ohio state in 2013. As i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title a program here at the institute in 2013. With that, i will turn the floor over to austin. Thank you. Thanks also to all of you for coming. Its great to be back here at the Wilson Center. I really appreciate the institute that support the Cold War International history project. And a shout out to victoria and sydney for all youve done to make it possible. I want to start my talk about this b
It brings unemployment claims down to 22 million in the past four weeks and that essentially wipes out all the jobs created sin the financial crisis we know the dapta was going to be bad and will continue to be bad because this is reflecting periods that arent april, and we know april will be even worse. Right these are daunting historic we look at them, we must think about what was happening, say, in 1930, 1931. We realize that the system may hold, may not hold i think were in a stronger position than then because they didnt have a social safety net, but these kinds of layoffs, theyre extraordinary. And we are at a loss for words for them obviously, all these people are now in some way or another getting compensated this week. But i think its not enough, and i keep thinking that the longer we dont have and its not opening or closing america the longer we dont have faith in being with each other, youre going to have to keep seeing these numbers. I have to tell you, i was hoping i never
The a watch Katie Mcfarland with her book revolution trump, washington, and we the people stop sunday night 9 00 p. M. Eastern on after words on booktv. The u. S. Chief Technology Officer talked about Artificial Intelligence and competition from china, hosted by the Hudson Institute this is about 50 minutes. [inaudible background conversations] [inaudible background conversations] welcome everyone to our meeting on ai and advanced Quantum Information Sciences, quantum computing etc. Im pleased to have an opportunity to welcome michael kratsios, who has a thoroughly intimidating title of chief Technology Officer of the United States. I think weve come to the right place to engage this important subject. The administration has ttaken a very energetic position in trying to advance the stateoftheart and above the applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Quantum Information Sciences to our nondefense applications, there is a parallel effort of substantial scale in the department of d