Mr. Axelrod admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. Dad flew that for about two years during the war. But my grandfather also served in world war i and i
Recent hours is something we can use going forward. But even if that takes place there is a huge amount of work to be done just the significant has been our focus on diversity equity and inclusion. Looking at Racial Injustice in the United States and around the world. So we can help come through this pandemic and look at how we look at the future and look at the real challenges we have had historically in our country. This park is being live streamed, it is on the record. And we are delighted to have politicos own chorizo welts who will be joining us to moderate todays panel. She has extensive background in journalism. Welcome teresa. She is with politico for several months and before that it was stateline covering state issues in the area of Human Services and welfare has worked for the tribune and a number of other publications. Shes part of a team that was awarded the kennedy price for journalism in chicago and investigation into murdered children there. She has dedicated her life t
Ther, president and ceo for partnership for Public Services center for president ial transition. Why is a successful president ial transition so important . Safety isabout our the ultimate answer here. When you think about it, our democratic system envisions transfers of power when you have election so you have accountable government. That means that a new team has to figure out how to take charge immediately on january 20 in an effective way. Its a big task. When you think about our government you are looking at trillions of dollars, 4 million of people 4 million people, hundreds of operating units, and historically president s have aborted 4000 political appointees. Its a massive underage have appointed 400 political employees. Its a massive undertaking. The world is such a dangerous place that there is not a lot of time on the other postosted january 20 january 20 to do your learning curve, you have to be on top of it right away and have plans in place and work well together. That i
Today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messerschmit, so the british loaned us spitfires. But my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. He was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said, i remember what got me in the service. It was when i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i board the trains in his small town. He said, there was such a sense of pride, there was such a sense of duty and patriotism that it was infectious. That is in addition to obviously watching his father, that really spurred him to join the military and then i grew up as an air force brat and loved my time in the military famili
What do you think is going to be one of the major issues that the Incoming Biden Administration may face . Kyle one thing the Biden Administration early on will figure out what they have to do with is they are inheriting at least a google antitrust lawsuit from the doj. And, you know, there is speculation about how politically motivated it may have been, but nevertheless the actual text of this thing is fairly narrow and fairly focused on issues that democrats have raised as well about the market power of google. They will have to decide, okay almost certainly they will continue to litigate this, but do we want to expand this . Do we want to try and rope in some state attorneys general who are also investigating google . The trump doj has the support of a group of ags, but they are all republicans. Democrats are looking at this stuff too. How expensive do we want to go on antitrust . Host do you think it will be more expensive than under a Trump Administration . Kyle that is the expect