Once again, if i could have your attention, please. Is the mike working . The mike is working. Itname is Sherry Mueller and is my privilege to service as president of the Public Diplomacy council and to welcome each of you in this room to the First Monday Forum, a monthly event that Public Diplomacy council cohosts with a Public Diplomacy alumni association. And the university of southern annenberg annual center for leadership, communication, and policy. Also, just to correct, i saw the president here, it is the Public Diplomacy association of america. We got it, i promise. All three organizations are really pleased to cohost our special guest, dr. Vivian walker, who will be introduced by one of our board members,. Botch in a few minutes peter kovach in a few minutes. We are very grateful to George Washington university, they are renovating the normal room that we work with and i appreciate the patience of all of you. We are grateful to the Elliott School and Anthony Desantis who is he
Professor here at the school and director of partnerships for international strategies. This is the program here but partners directly with universities and researchers and state suits across asia. And since 1994, weve had extensive work with universities and research. And in Government Agencies and ngos in vietnam. Would love to be able to also bring the voices of the region here. To washington. This week is devoted to waging peace in vietnam. It is especially acknowledge the partnership with the institute of policy studies. And their associates fellow ron carver. [applause]. We will hear from him in a moment. Today at many locations around the nation news capital, the service of veterans to our country is recognized with gratitude. We also remember that november 11th, 1st marked the day the gun fell silent you wrote. And what is known then as the great war and was supposed to be a war end all wars. And it jet succeeding generations, men and women have been enrolled in military servic
Student loan safety net. Under the plan which was first announced an august, federal loan borrowers would see a long lower monthly payment, have an easier path to forgiveness and unpaid interest would not be added to a borrowers loan balance. The plan would also reduce payments to zero dollars for borrowers who make less than 30,000 a year. And right now, there are about 8. 5 million federal Student Loan Borrowers already enrolled in a number of repayment plants. This proposal is a path towards a single simplified option. But, it is still unclear when the new plan will be up and running. It has to go through a 30day Public Comment period, and the administration will consider feedback before the plan is finalized. This is all taken shape as Biden Student loan Debt Cancellation plan remains stalled, awaiting the Supreme Court decision. Moral arguments for their case are slated for the end of her. Coming up on the second hour of ayman, some Backroom Deals, with the Kevin Mccarthy agreed t
continues to grow, house republicans refused of office. then, are worse that the week, we re putting the two craziest conspiracy theories against each other to see which gop controversy is truly more outrageous. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. started. we begin this hour with breaking news. today, we learn more classified materials have been found in president biden s delaware residents, white house lawyer richard sober uncovered these documents on thursday. in a box that was initially discovered by the presidents personal lawyer s the day before. bringing the total number of batches of records found 23. now from breaking route news, we want to go to some backroom deals. his exchange for that coveted gavel newly elected speaker of the house kevin mccarthy similarly made a deal with the devil. but will the american people ever find out the details? the beginning of the week, mccarthy managed to get his caucus in line and narrowly passed a rules package for the 118th