Please welcome, james fallow, karl rove, jeff flake and bret stephens. [applause] hi there and welcome. I am and i run the political at usc. I used to be at strategist with political campaigns where i made some acquaintance with karl rove. Let me introduce this panel starting at the other end. James fallow, a longtime writer at the atlantic. He and his wife just traveled across america and produced a Remarkable Book called our towns. 1000 mile journey into the heart of america. Senator jeff flake. Author of the conscience of a conservative who didnt run for reelection in 2018 amid the trump storm in the gop. Karl rove, chief strategist for george w. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Served in the white house. Writes a column for the wall street journal and has written a fascinating book about the 1996 president ial campaign between William Mckinley and 1896. Did i say 1996 . Bret stephens, columnist for the New York Times. His book, entitled america in retreat. Which now seems quite prophetic. He
Aspen. Crews are calling it the freeman fire. Homes in the area received pre evacuation warning, but no word if those became mandatory. Still not clear how the fire started. Lets send it over to katie with the fire danger. Unfortunately, we are not in the clear. Very gusty wind for eagle county. Most of the high country is under a high wind watc very gusty wind today, primarily coming in from the southwest. Dust and Higher Elevation of 240 50 Miles Per Hour will not help firefighting efforts today. The aware any little spark can start a fire. Dry and warm conditions, unseasonably warm temperatures. Here are current wind gusts, still saying pretty calm this about 61 Miles Per Hour. Taking a look across the state, we are going to be seeing these pickup throughout much of the tomorrow will also be breezy. Currently it is dealing very pleasant, 64 in castle rock in parker, it is going to be a warm one and i will have your extended forecast coming up. New developments after some of the shot
Should prove its innovation and for this reason were proposing the by the end of the year creation of European Defense fund to actively stimulate research and innovation in this area. The lisbon treaty allows memberstates to, who wish to do so to make the capacity a further structure and high time to a veil ourselves of this ability. [applause] president , the final point which i wish to touch upon has to do with our collective responsibility and im calling on all of the european institutions and each of the memberstates to assume more responsibility. We need to do away with old spats where which could lead to failure because we can not survive without working together. Europe needs to be better explained and ive asked the commissioners over the coming weeks to visit National Parliaments in order to discuss the European Union and the commissioners have gone to National Parliaments more than 350 times and i would like for them to do that more now. Europe can only be built if it is under
We showed it today to introduce you to cspan cities tour. For five years, we have traveled to cities across the u. S. To explore their literary and historic sites. You can watch more of our visit that cspan. Org cities tour. That is grand rapids. And the grand river which divides the city. And in many ways, defines the city. There is a good chance that most people over the course of any given day will see or interact with a piece of french are made in grand rapids. We were the first city to ever receive a grant from the endowment to be used specifically to commission an original work of art for a civic site. This weekend, the cspan cities tour will explore the literary life and history of red rapids, michigan. That is on book tv on cspan2. The author of the book, thin ice will talk about that the book people who grew up in grand methods grand rapids. Then we will hear how Richard Smith works and his newest biography on gerald for. An author gordon enters talks about the life of attorne
Forgiveness, who does not identify jesus christ as his lord and savior but says hes a christian. If we are in the Public Square advocating for someone like that, what good are we as christians to say we believe in scripture when scripture tells us we should not be advocating for a person like that. This election is ultimately, either way weve got someone we dont want. I realize some of you decided hes better than her. That is fine. Some say he could be cyrus letting us back into the holy land. Between the lesser two evils, god has never asked his people to choose the evil. He has done it for them. He didnt ask the israelites to open the gates, he open the gates. He did not ask the people to do that. I dont think we should be doing that. History, i am sure of it would show us there are people who told those in babylon its just a statue. We dont remember them, we remember the man who refused to bow. I believe in a god and a last day and a savior and i believe on the winning team. I belie