Stain whos join us this morning it is my pleasure to introduce and welcome before us today ambassador william detailer junior. Ambassador taylor within the world Foreign Policy National Security hes very wellknown and his reputation long proceeds, ive had the pleasure of working and knowing my friend build a good 30 years. Heres one of the benefits that our country face few months ago that bill taylor faced given his subpoena and testimony led to the fact, that the nation at large got to see the magnificent Public Servant and that is why we are bringing him here today, because he has served the country superbly across his career he graduated from west point, he was the Cadet Company commander he served in the at numb he served in vietnam, he stayed an extra six months. Served in vietnam for 18 months when he could have left after 12. He served in a Rifle Company and then commanded, served in a rifle platoon and then commanded a company. He received a bronze star and an air medal for va
My internship at nbc this upcoming summer. [applause] ive always been ambitious, but i was lucky to have women in my life that looked like me and achieved great things, and one of those great women that i looked up to the most, our current mayor, my godmother, london breed. She wasnt changed much, by the way. To this day, she is still the same wise, inspiring, and supportive person that she was when i was a child. I know all too well the impact that mayor breed has had on myself, and i am extremely excited to see all the wonderful things that she will do for the city, and for that, i say thank you. [applause] and now, please join me in welcoming father paul fitzgerald, president of the university of San Francisco, to deliver todays invocation. [applause] thank you, kayla, and thank you all for being here today as we honor and congratulate and thank our mayor, london breed. Mayor breed completed a masters in Public Education Public Administration at the university of San Francisco back
The u. S. Good morning, my name is nancy lindborg. I am the president and ceo here at the us institute of peace im delighted to welcome you here for a very important conversation to prevent violence in a fragile world. Our speakers here today i want to extend a special welcome to mark green we are honored to have them here today and a very warm welcome to Madeleine Albright whos been a fierce champion of democracy for years and a good friend. Many thanks to the National Endowment for democracy that makes todays event possible with your generous support and our good friends and partners in the george w. Bush institute. Its wonderful to have them cohost the event with us today. Usip was founded thirtyfive years ago, funded by congress nonpartisan National Institute dedicated to the notion that peace is practical and possible. We firmly believe todays complex foreignpolicy challenges require partnership across the aisle. We were just talking about this. Last Year Congress asked us to host
Panel with a quote from the 19th century philosopher, but im going to do it here because i think it is relevant. He said that, you know, life is best understood backwards, but you need to live it forwards. And i think what were going to try to do here today is to try to understand trumps north korea policy backwards and think about some of the things that have happened in order to understand how were going to be living it forward and whats coming in the coming year. And i think thats really important because for several reasons. One, this is one of the most the Biggest International issues of our time and at stake right now in whether the approach is effective or not is not just whether we address the north Korean Nuclear threat but also a chance of reconciliation between north and south korea and the efforts to stop the threat of Nuclear Weapons are also at stake. In addition i think its a critical window into understanding how President Trump conducts Foreign Policy. This is his sign
About them of whether or not from a technical and compliance perspective, if they thought that was feasible and what they highlighted is it is feasible but only if done in certain ways. The concern that they had is that on the 496, theres a section thats called park 2 where you actually list the independent expenditures and you do those in aggregate disclosure style. If you do a 10,000 mailing, one line item in part 2 says, june 1st, mass mailing. Cost 10,000. Thats one line item. What the treasurers flagged for us was that its not feasible to do separate line items in part 2 for each of the separate costs. Its not feasible to say june 1 printing of the mail, 400. June one, design of the mailers. That would not be feasible because that schedule is populated from information in that file and that information also feeds into a schedule on the form 460. The preelection statement. By requiring filers to enter into into the file that would produce that breakdown, that would disrupt their 46