Strategist and a nonresident scholar at the institute for world politics. He recently served in the white house as Deputy Assistant and strategist to president donald trump. And also as Vice President for National Security support and professor of strategy under regular warfare at the institute for world politics. He has also served as the chairman of the threat group of guest instructor at the United States Army Special Operations command at fort bragg. And an associate fellow at the special operations university. He received a doctrine at the university of budapest and is the author of the New York Times bestseller defeating jihad the winnable war. Please help me to introduce dr. Sebastian gorka. Dr. Gorka i like to thank john as well, jim, and especially at former for making the whole series possible and for giving me my official heritage type. I do like my salmon tie. It is raspberry. Im going to talk for 25 or 30 minutes and then we will have a q a session from the podium. It will
Ladies and gentlemen, i am proud to present the 32nd governor of the state of south dakota accompanied here in phoenix by the first lady of south dakota. The chairman of the western governors association, the honorable dennis dugard. Thank you, jim. Thank you, christine. Christine, you have a good voice. Jim, well. Lets move on. [laughter] let me join jim in welcoming you all to phoenix. I am pleased to see so many western governors here. We have a Great Program planned, and im delighted we can share this time together. Over the next two days we will have visits with Top Administration officials including the secretary of labor, the secretary of transportation, u. S. Forest service chief who will be visiting with us momentarily. And although he was not able to stay for todays activities, we visited with the secretary of agriculture. We will hear to other keynote speakers. The president of the arizona cardinals, and john ratzenberger. Most of you know john as the famous cliff clavin fro
You want the right to an abortion, the right to die, anything that is good and true and beautiful is in there. Kutcher is the cofounder of an Organization Called thorn defenders of children. He testified before the Senate Foreign relations committee. Ashton it is an honor to be here. As a young man brought up in the Public School system. I pledged my allegiance to that flag every single day, and the honor, maybe one of the greatest honors of my life today, is to be here and leverage the work s that i have done as testimony that may in some way benefit this nation that i love. I would like to start by saying thank you to chairman corker for your leadership in this endeavor and to the senator. Your leadership has been extraordinary. I would like to say thank you to the rest of the committee that has supported this effort. This is a bipartisan effort, and in a country that is riddled with bipartisan separation on so many things, slavery seems to come up as one of these issues. Hat we can
Was the suicide room, and when i mentioned that to the publisher she said, that is just a terrific title, and then she said, are you trying to put us out of business . And i said, id read that book, and she said, thats really not the right title for this book, and we sat and batted it around and there is something about this phrase. I was worried because it would it would come across as judgmental in some way or people would see it as almost bitterly ironic, and that wasnt the intention. Its a much simpler meaning which comes down to and this is what i got comfortable with finally. If you read the book and if you get to know these people inside the book and hear their stories, youll have a better sense. If you say this ubiquitous phrase, thank you for your service youll have a much clearer idea of who we are thanking and what youre thanking them for. And so that seemed to be a good title at that point. Brian how many of the people youre writing about in this book were in the first book
Cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies, and is brought to you today by your paper satellite provider. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] host in your code of ethics statement you write i am not an objective news reporter. Im in opinion columnist. Walt right. Host what does that mean . Walt i am like a movie reviewer. They are not objective. You dont look at the movie reviewer to read an objective business story about the studio. You go to read someones opinion about whether this is a good movie. Whether this actor did a good job or a bad job. Whether aaron sorkin did a good job writing it or david finch er did a good job directing it. I know people who avidly read a reviewer and then do exactly the opposite because they know they are going to disagree. I know other people who swear by this book reviewer, this television reviewer and follow their advice. That is what i have done most of my career. I am also a commentator. When