Werent really going to have an instore event this week but then we heard ruths book was coming out so we decided we had to have it. [applause] so thank you very much for bearing with us. I am Bradley Graham the cone are of politics and prose along with my wife lissa muscatine. Thank you so much for coming. We were very excited when we learned after last years clematis hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court that ruth marcus was writing a book on the subject because we knew that if anyone could deliver an indepth behindthescenes account of what happened and also put the whole drama into a grand and political context it would be roof. She hasnt disappointed. Her new look supreme ambition is fastpaced and makes for a really compelling read. In the acknowledge mens rev calls this a book shes been preparing to ride for her entire career and indeed she brought to it a wealth of knowledge and experience, educated in history at yale and harvard ruth went right into
That job, too. Has that occurred to you, that you could do the job, and would you have any interest in running for president at some point in my life . Sec. Pompeo i try to answer this consistently. I have never been able to predict what my next gig will be. Would you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . So you became our 70th United States secretary of state in april of 2018. You are happy with the job . Is it as much fun as you thought it was going to be . Sec. Pompeo every day. [laughter] david so what are the most significant Foreign Policy issues of concern to you . What do you think are the Biggest Challenges we have in ou
Policy issue you want to discuss this morning. If you cannot get through on phone lines, try social media. Twitter cs[apanwj. Facebook. Com . . Cspan and you can send an email. Heres the front page of the Chattanooga Times free press. Nightmare for our city is what they say about the shooting by mohammed abulazeez. The Washington Times leads with that story. Down lower on the front page is a story about congress and what they did. Congress guts no child left behind system. Both chambers of congress have voted to scrap much of the bush Era Education plan, meaning the government will continue to shift billions of dollars to states but well cut her loose and many of the Strings Attached to funding that is a little bit about what happened in congress this week. And the president was in oklahoma, and heres the article in the wall street journal. Rivals team up for justice revamped. One president obama praise conservatives charles and david koch for their efforts laughter rippled through the
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For example, the judicial system seems dysfunctional people wandered attention have to wait to be seen. Now, our colleagues in the un have been doing a fabulous job in terms of trying as best they can to document the toll on the civilians. The numbers are stark and horrifying. The latest numbers indicate, 7,000 have been killed since the conflict began. And that number does include the victims. In terms of the number of people injured almost 17,000. Hard to believe some 2. 3 Million People have been uprooted since the conflict began in april 2014 this is an important number because he year ago ukraine had virtually no displaced people. Now ukraine is in the top ten countries in the world with the largest number of displaced people. Amid all of this peoples livelihoods have been affected has industry and commerce is choked and access to supply and markets are being cut off. We are reporting finding ourselves in the situation at checkpoints frontline. People are forced to wait hours and