Welcome to csis, and thank you for braving todays weather. It is great to see all of the interest in world war i. For those who have not been here before, our project is focused on history that also provides insights into contemporary affairs. We are delighted to cohost todays vent with the world war i centennial commission, and the csis center, and thank you dan fundy for your support. When we think about, when historians think about what are the most important events in world history, and world war i usually comes out at number one, and americans tend to be fixated on the other wars like the civil war and world war ii, but this is the most important, and we are here today to try to provide some additional awareness, and so 100 years ago to this very day, Woodrow Wilson appeared before a joint session of congress here in washington to deliver his 14 points speech. Wilson had been a proare fes sor at princeton and president of the institution, and he drew upon the academic colleagues t
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That remains particularly skewed. By race. And by wealth. A source of inequity that has a Ripple Effect on families and communities and ultimately on our nation and that is our criminal Justice System. This is not a new topic i know that sometimes folks discover these things like it just happened. There is a long history of inequity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure we had video taping of interrogations because there were some problems there we set up racial profiling laws to prevent the coined of bias in traffic stops that too many people experience. Since my First Campaign i talked about in too many cases the criminal Justice System becomes a pipeline from underfunded schools to crowded jails what has changed though is that in recent years the eyes of more americans have been opened to this truth. Partly because of cameras. Partly because of tragedy. Partly because the statistics cannot be ignored. We can
Longer than ever before and that is why our prison population is so high. As republican senator, and president ial candidate ran paul, has said, and to his credit he is consistent on this issue, imprisoning nonviolent offenders for long periods of time does not make it safer, africanamericans and latinos make up 30 of our population and make up 60 of our inmates. After the string of statistics the president shifted gears talking about widespread reforms from everything from sentencing guidelines for nonviolent crimes as well as reforms in communities and more jobs for young people and reform in prison so people have a chance of reenry back into the real world a need for change from the president s perspective. Thank you john. Well, the president s day got started early with the announcement of a Nuclear Agreement with iran. It took 17 days of negotiations and months of diplomacy to reach the deal, stopping iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon for at least 10 years according to the pre
Remains particularly skued by race and by wealth. All right. Weve got some technical glitches going on right there. That was president obamas speaking there he is again at the Naacp Convention. Our bruce gordon is there live but right now lets see if we have the president again. Yes, we do. Lets listen in. applause . Now, this is not this is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happened. laughter . Theres a long history of inn equity will the nim cell until Justice System in america. Yes when i was in a state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure that we had video taping of interrogations because there were some problems there. We set up racial profiling laws to prevent the kind of bias in traffic stops that too many people experienceed. Since my First Campaign ive talked about how too many cases are criminal Justice System ends up being a pipeline from under funded inadequate schools to overcrowded jails. Clap. What has changed in recen