Reading well. Good afternoon, i Michelle Easton president of the center for conservative women. I want to thank you all for coming and welcome you to october, conservative Womans Network lunch, cwm, a special thank you as well to the heritage foundation, bridget was a collation for the relation they have been putting on this monthly luncheon with outstanding conservative women for almost 20 years and its a real pleasure to come here once a month. Today am pleased to introduce the october speaker, karen swallow prior. She will be discussing her new book, pull it appear, it is a little one but a good one, it is called on reading well, finding the good life through great literature. In her book she tweeted a number of great books of western literature and explores in each one a single virtue like justice, faith, love and the result, i tell you in a test personally, that you understand the virtues better and you want to practice them in a better way. She is professor of english at Liberty
Contributors of this report will talk on u. S. Approach to Counter China based on this report. So now introductions. This is picture i took. The rise of china and its attitude towards the world, challenged by chinas ambition. Vice president mike pence spoke at Hudson Institute, and this is very important, and said beijing government approach using Political Economic and military tools as propaganda to advance its interest and benefit its interest in the United States. So given that the United States need to win the competition, cooperation will arise in likeminded countries is key because historically number of Political Partners has been a deciding factor in the geopolitical struggle. For example, the wild, wild west the winning side comprise but the losing side was composed of just four. During the u. S. Soviet cold war, 54 versus 26 eric so these facts indicate that the number of supporters correlate to the likelihood of winning the competition. Therefore, maintaining improving coll
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many of my colleagues have responded to what i think is a great moral test and challenge of our time. some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter of a key putin ally was preplanned. a murder investigation is now under way after she died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and also considered an architect of the ukraine invasion and often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen has more. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stan