North korea expert, scholar and author for the sister, dr. Sungyoon lee. His bio is on the website, but i do want highlight that outside of his Academic Work research. Chair dr. Lee has been an Expert Witness for us congressional. Hearings on north korea policy, including the Otto Warmbier versus dprk trial this evening. We have a unique opportunity to hear his insights about country that keeps us awake, continues to present challenging policy problems for the region and beyond and. As if that werent difficult enough to try to the pathology of secretive kim that leads it joining dr. Lee is our very own Emma Whitmyer easy Society Policy institute officer, Program Officer will interview dr. Lee and then conduct a q a with the audience. Emma was previously a fellow with the south Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Now we get the program underway, which is why you are here. I want to first thank dr. Lee for taking time to speak here. We are delighted for this opportunity to host you for w
Welcome to our audience on c span to the 2023 annual James Madison lecture. This year to bedelivered as dr burnett said by the distinguished historian hw brands, a lecture with the uh antiquarian but eerily relevantle, founding partisans hamilton madison jefferson, adams and the brawling birth of american politics. By the way, heres a, an advanced copy of the book um which will be in bookstores soon, i believe, which promises to be a provocative read. Professor brands is the jack s blanton, senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin, which is his doctoral alma mater is the author of over 30 books, two of which have been finalists for the pulitzer prize. And in discussing my introduction, he, he said hed be happy with a brief biography. So im not going to recite all 30 of those titles uh to you, but heres a sampling of them. The money man. Andrew jackson, the age of gold, the First American tr the strange death of american liberalism. What america owes the world. Lone
Thank you for joining us today under webinar. My name is Wayne Winegarden and im a senior fellow at the Research Institute and im pleased to say we have a bestsellingea author carol roth the just published a new book called the war on Small Business available today on line at your favorite bookseller and having read it i cannot praise it enough. He raises some important issues why Small Businesses are so important in the assaults thats being waged before the pandemic end during a pandemic. Its a Small Business that will lead to a prosperous future. Id like to start discussing whats wrong and why are we at the heart of our economy so carol in your opinion why was this so important to get into . That when i talk to people about how many big businesses versus Small Businesses there in the country most people dont have a good sense of the scope. They think they are millions of big business is but its actually the reverse. We have somewhere between 10 and 15,000 Large Businesses in this cou
Wont last too long. Just today, though, it looks like were all set for sunshine and warmer temps here. Teeny bit of fog, but less than yesterday. Most of it is south 40s 50s on the temps and were all set to go. Looks like almost wall to wall sun, except maybe down towards parts of the san mateo coast and santa cruz. 60s, 70s and 80s. All right, 4 00 in the morning. My goodness. What are we doing here . Oh my goodness, its early. Steve. Yeah, i know, i saw cones back. Oh yes, people are out there. There are some roadwork here and there. Not a lot, but some. Lets go right to the bay bridge toll plaza. Show you that traffic is moving well, but steve referenced a little bit of roadwork here and there, and traffic is going to be affected in some areas. Not a lot. This is a look at the san mateo bridge and that traffic looks pretty good. So for the most part were off to a nice start. Its 401. Lets go back to the desk. Thank you sal new this morning. Police in fremont are urging drivers to av
Get to ultimately decide. The seven justices on the California Supreme Court will settle that debate. Ahead of the hearing today, an uber spokesperson warned in a statement that a change to prop 22 would affect, quote, millions of californians who would see Major Service reductions and Cost Increases or lose ridesharing and food delivery entirely. We are confident that the Supreme Court will listen to the will of california voters and uphold prop 22, end quote i dont believe it was okay for the voters to experts say the California Supreme Court could split the difference. It could be something in between. Perhaps the California Supreme Court will take out the most controversial parts of the legislation, and let the rest of it stand. One of the most controversial parts of prop 22 was cutting gig workers out of the states Workers Compensation program, limiting their protections if they get hurt on the job, the california state Supreme Court must issue a decision on this in the next 90 da