Good morning. Welcomed to the Heritage Foundation in our auditorium. We also welcome those joining us on our heritage. Org website and the cspan network this morning. For those inhouse we ask that you check to be sure our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those watching online you are always welcome to send questions or comments emailing speaker heritage. Org and we will post todays program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference as well. Welcoming our guests and introducing our program is our active Vice President for research and recently served heritage as Vice President of policy studies and director of davis institute. The Founding Editor of index over Economic Freedom which has become a signature heritage publication from 2002 to 2005, he served in the george w. Bush administration as assistant secretary of state for International Organization affairs. Please join me in welcoming dr. Kim holm. Kim. Thank you. Three minutes. Good morning, everyo
Published book, a cold war of global history. Im from George Washington university and im the cochair of the washington History Center along with christian arneson of the policy program. The seminar for those of you who dont know is a collaborative effort of the national History Center which is part of the American Historical Association and Woodrow Wilson enters nationalcenter for scholars. We meet on monday afternoon at 4 pm though today for our fall lunch , we made an exception and it shows a beautiful friday afternoon to get this started. So normally we meet on monday afternoons, market down, 4 pm. If you have gotten the schedule already, we can go to the washington history seminars website and national History Center and download a copy of all the talks all season. I think our programming this fall is particularly exciting. Seminars like this dont happen by themselves. On the logistics front, peter stecker of the Wilson Center and amanda perry work behindthescenes to ensure that t
And what the u. S. Could do to have a greater influence on the north Korean People. This hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. Is one of the highest ranking officials to ever to defect. As a former deputy pastor to the United Kingdom, he wanted his family to be free. It is where we have the opportunity to hear from someone with such unique insight into the most repressive regime into the world and one now threatening us with Nuclear Weapons. Thank you for speaking before this committee today. I wanted to acknowledge that it takes courage for you to do this. I met with you in august and soul along with mr. And mr. Snyder and barra. Your observations and recommendations to the committee will not only help them form u. S. Policy, but its my hope that your message including how we can peacefully denuclearize the Korean Peninsula will reach the ears of every north korean still suffering. As i know you agree its crucial we get information to North Koreans so they can better understand the sel
At 8 30, well get u. S. Housing starts and Building Permits for the month of july. Then talks begin between the United States, canada and mexico, get underway in washington with the first round of negotiations beginning at 9 30 this morning. And later in the day, the fomc will release minutes from its july 20 to 26 policy meeting at 2 00 eastern time this afternoon. But in the meantime, the fallout continues from the remarkable News Conference President Trump had here in new york yesterday, where he once again appeared to change his view on who was really to blame for the riots in charlottesville. And this as part of an attempt to refocus on infrastructure. Joining us from washington, bloombergs Senior Executive editor for International Economics and government. So marty, welcome back. I think its fair to say this was an extraordinary News Conference. I really want to focus on the fact that this was all to really focus on infrastructure. That was why he was there, we thought why he cam
We are back on track for the presentation. We are turning to the historical presentation scheduled today on the 52 years of the Voting Rights act. President johnson signed the Voting Rights act of 1965 into law 52 years ago this month on august 6, 1965. It is widely considered to be one of the most significant and successful pieces of civil rights legislation ever enacted and has been used to combat varied Voter Suppression tactics, particularly targeting communities of color and limited englishproficient voters. I am especially proud to highlight the commissions role in the creation of that land mark legislation. In the years leading to the passage of the Voting Rights act, the Commission Held a number of hearings and issued reports. In march 1965, president johnson called for new voting legislation embodying the recommendations of the civil rights commission. In state of carolina versus kasenbek, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of the 1965 Voting Right