Talked about the White House Administration and Economic Opportunities and u. S. Cities. This event is about 90 minutes. Good afternoon, everybody. Im going to gavel the 86th winter meeting into session. Good afternoon, and welcome to the 86th winter meeting of mayors. Im michigan great mayor of new orleans conference of mayors. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] before we start, we can start on a moment of levity. The mayor of vancouver is here, she wants us to know that today is 161st birthday of vancouver. You can welcome them and give them a round of applause for birthday but new orleans will celebrate 300th in a couple of weeks so celebrate for us too. Happy birthday madam mayor. [ applause ] it is migrate honor to introduce the Conference Leadership hospitals diaz, Vice President the benjamin from north carolina. Second Vladimir Putin rochester that i have in the meeting. Ceo and director tom cochran. Great leader, tom, thank you so much. We also have with us in the audience our
This subCommittee Hearing is called to order. I want to welcome everyone to this mornings military personnel subCommittee Hearing. The purpose of todays hearing is to receive testimony from the department of defense and the services regarding efforts they have taken to investigate and hold Senior Leaders accountable for misconduct and to understand what programs and policies are in place to prevent misconduct. Our military enjoys the highest confidence rating by far of any End Institution in american society. This well deserved reputation has been earned through the service and sacrifice of millions of brave men and women. One byproduct of this reputation is that the military and its leaders are held to a much higher standard than almost any other institution. And i know that you wouldnt have it any other way. When the misconduct involves Senior Leaders the ramifications are even greater. While one incident of senior misconduct is to ensure that all Senior Leaders uphold the highest st
Important conversation with people who are both on the front lines of history and to make history, because of what they do and of who they are. And reallylace here, our privilege, at smpa to host conversations like this that bring remarkable people who do remarkable things and sometimes very Difficult Conversations to this stage. Tonight, what you will 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, something we need to be thinking about on a lot of different levels. I know your thoughts will be challenged with that, and probably in places you will 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 was going to introduce professor thompson and bring out the panel. She is a junior. She is a journalism major. She has done remarkable things here at gw and beyond. She happens to be president of the Gw Associa
Good afternoon. Its wonderful to be here, ceo of the organization for international investment. I have a little over 200 companies into these are all firms that have made a deliberate decision to invest in the United States and employee americans here across the country almost 7 million americans get a paycheck. Companies like japanbased leota, german, switzerlandbased nestle and burger king. These companies have a lot to do with the daytoday existence of the trains you take to work in the morning or the cars that you drive and even your after dinner drinks as well. In the u. S. Workforce i think that we are almost to the point it is difficult to talk with her is a u. S. Firm or a foreign fi firm. Youve heard that distinguished career and he has a lot to offer so lets go ahead and get into it. Mr. Ambassador, todays conference is entitled to the treats dont matter. What type of magnitude and importance of the u. S. Eu relationship. Thank you for the invitation. Trade is the ultimate dr
Real substantive dialogue on the issue of race in america. Lets get further into the subject on dialogue. I see a sign in the audience right there on the front row. It says black lives matter. Very plain and reasonable thats that the clarion call of all the arches in rallies and protests that have taken place ever since Michael Brown was killed this summer and yet just this morning i watched a Major Network interview a police chief and that police chief kept saying black people still want us in their neighborhoods. They keep calling us and they want us there. They dont seem to get the point that its not that black people dont want them there its just that they dont want them shooting unarmed black man. Question what can the media do to finally get that and report that . Anybody . Thats something that the white house had to deal with because here you have a black president who has taken the forefront talking about trayvon and things of that nature. When the situations have happened with