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Our privilege to host conversations like this that bring remarkable people who do remarkable things and sometimes are Difficult Conversations to this stage. Tonight what youll hear is as i said that front row seat on history. Being a woman of color at this time and in this place is something that is too rare and that we need to be thinking about on a lot of different levels. So i know your thoughts will be challenged with that and probably in places you be regaled by some of the stories along the way. It is a pleasure and a privilege for me as well to introduce to you a very special student who is going to introduce professor thompson and bring out the panel. She is a a junior. She is our journalism major. She is done remarkable things here at gw and beyond, and schepens be president of the Gw Association of black journalists. Lauryn hill is in her prime of her life i would like to say here at gw. Shes a assistant editor of the ace multicultural magazine. She interned last summer and s
For more than 40 years has been a leading voice in Foreign Policy as a journalist, a diplomat and as president of the academy. We look forward in having you here. He has just made his trip to the human. Me introduce the two reporters, Susan Glasser is with a best gifts with us and host of the Global Political. She spent four years living in russia. International diplomacy and Thenew York Times covered east and the covered east asia Southeast Asia and the white house. I think you are up first with questions. Is after thehis super bowl of diplomacy. He talked a lot about sovereignty and he went after four countries in particular a lot of republicans in particular believe that their israel benefit in sounding tough , that you get people to get on board some of your priorities in this case, isolating north korea further and perhaps persuade him iranians to reopen the nuclear deal. Venezuelans to open up a lot of their system to more democracy. Do you think that being tough, will get ust ma
Democracy. When we can look our brothers and sisters in the eyes, black, latino, young, women, so sameday registration, getting out there and thinking about what were passing legislatively , racial inequality. We must be on the forefront. Really being there on the ground. The black lives Matter Movement is a movement afoot, a Climate Change movement afoot. They can register. They are registering people to vote, but we have to commit to them that we are going to deliver for them, not just take that vote. Thank you very much. Thank you. [laughter] [applause] Robert Weissman has led Public Citizen since 2009. As well as anate expert on a wide variety of issues. The floor is yours. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Thank you to the committee for your leadership, and thank you for your stamina. Solve itsll not greatest problems if we dont rescue our democracy, severe inequality, catastrophic climate get there ifll not we dont deal with the democratic def
Them. Brendan Benjamin Netanyahu says it will lead to a Nuclear Armed middle east. Investors are bracing for a market to drop at the open after fridays jobs report. Employers added 126,000 workers in march less than the most pessimistic free throws in Bloomberg Survey of economists. An outside review is slamming Rolling Stones story about a gang rape at the university of virginia. It is calling the story a failure that failed to follow basic journalistic practice. It unraveled and Rolling Stone retracted it. The review said it may have spread the idea many women invent rape allegations. The editors and author will not be fired. In california Governor Brown is defending his order for mandatory water cutbacks. The drought is in its fourth year and brown has ordered towns and cities to reduce consumption by 25 . He tells abc news it is not just a california problem. Governor brown the weather that is in california will show up am other parts of the world. I can tell you from california th