The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi
Congress where i played a role in the founding of the Homeland Security department. I call myself one of its grand mothers. One of its grandfathers that would be thad allen, or i think hes one of the grandfathers, im not sure, is on the call with me and the rest of you children are the successors and i think that it is really wonderful today that we are having i guess hes been phone now, a lot of zoom issues, with chris and a panel organized by meg king who heads our science, technology and Innovation Program and a number of a rest of you on the phone. The topic is whats critical, evolving the security playbook for managing ones, zeros and everything in between. While its not as much fun to see you all or some of you on line, chris is on the phone, its not as much fun to see you in person. If any group could make a conversation interesting its our science, technology and information program. Today were joined by the nations chief risk officer chris krebs, director of the department of
Foreign policy series. Mead, senior fellow at hudson institute. It is my pleasure to be joined by antony blinken, the chief Foreign Policy advisor for the biden for President Campaign and former deputy secretary of state and deputy of National Secretary National Security adviser. During his career, mr. Antony Blinken Antony blinken mr. Antony blinken has held a number of distinguished government positions. He was National Security adviser to Vice President biden during the administration but also served as the senate staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the National Security Council Staff during the Clinton Administration. During his time at the state department mr. Blinken played an instrument to world the diplomatic effort to counter ice is pretty worked on the global refugee crisis and rebalance of asia. L role in the dipl efforts to counter and he rebounds asia tony its good to see u thank yo for joining us today think its going to be an i
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A lot to get to and discuss, everybody. Right now, though, a quick check on the markets because theyre higher across the board. The bottom right of the screen and come off the highs, the dow above 27,000 for the First Time Since june 10th on an intraday basis. S p 500 less than 5 from its alltime highs up nearly 50 from the march lows. 28 members of that index hitting a new 52week or alltime high and a cramer favorite stock, mccormick. The nasdaq is negative again there is a lot to discuss. Joe, we are off the highs. You can address that but also this the vaccines plural getting all the attention as they should. It only concerns, you know, all of humanity. But did Goldman Sachs numbers have anything to do with the earlier market strength . I think most of the early gains that we witnessed this morning you can credit to the vaccine optimism i do think, brian, that the Strong Performance from financials in the last couple of days, whether it be jpmorgan or a Goldman Sachs this morning, t