Spirit welcome to the policy briefing a serious bid im tom gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution. Its at Stanford University and one of the most preeminent research centers. For more than a century homage and has been dedicated to generating policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, National Security and democratic governance. The assimilation of our work has led to sin of vacant impacts on important Public Policy initiatives here and around the world. We begin to take steps that will lead us of the crisis i hope you find value in these important discussions as we look forward to ways to mitigate potential effects that the coronavirus has had on the u. S. And on the world. As a reminder, we will be taking audience questions and encourage you to submit yours using the button at the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from larry dimon, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Larrys advised the world bank, un, state department and other governmental and nongovernmental
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I talk to you about what john gave to this community. I say this all the time. We have to fight for our local newspaper, for local journalism. When we lament losing our Hardware Store or our bakery or things that are in bit parts of the community our local newspaper is just as important. John mcnamara reported on the things we care about turkey cared about our kids, our local teams and obviously in his book he celebrates that i talking about there is Nothing Better than a local basketball game which i agree with 100 . I also want to thank everyone for coming here. I think andrea hasnt shown tremendous bravery in what she has done for us, not only has she lost her soulmate, but she has had the courage to step forward and stand up against the nra. She has been subjected to horrible things throughout the process, but she was brave enough to stand there and say we need to talk about these issues, these kind of violent things happening in our communities are not partisan. It is a thing for
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